Comparison

BelayConnect vs Span

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

BelayConnect

Connect with local climbers to find a belay partner. Easily arrange climbing sessions at your gym and improve your performance. Currently focused on South Florida gyms.

Highlights
  • Find belay partners
  • Connect with local climbers
  • Arrange climbing sessions
  • Discover gym partners
  • Improve climbing performance
Features
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Never Climb Alone Again! Belay Connect makes finding a belay partner as easy as checking your phone. Connect with climbers at your local gym and get ready to send! Currently only available for gyms in South Florida.

About

Span

Features
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Span turns a video of your climbing into something you can actually read. Point it at the wall, or import a climb you have already filmed. Span finds your body in every frame and draws it back as a moving skeleton — where your weight sits, where your hands and feet have been, how straight your arms are through the crux. WHAT YOU SEE • A live skeleton over the camera, and burned into what you record • The path your centre of mass took through the whole climb, drawn on the climb itself • Arms-straight percentage, left-right balance, how direct your line was • A stick-figure animation driven by your own movement MEASURED, NOT GUESSED Tell Span your height and wingspan once and it gains a ruler. From then on it reads heights in metres instead of body lengths, and works out your arm, leg and torso lengths from your own climbing. The estimates sharpen as you record more. EVERYTHING STAYS ON YOUR PHONE There is no account, no server and no upload. Pose detection runs on the device. Your climbs, your measurements and your video never leave it unless you share a file yourself. Span is a feedback tool for technique. It is not a medical or diagnostic device, and its measurements are estimates from a single camera.

Screenshots

BelayConnect4 screens
Span4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Span at none against BelayConnect's shown. Span also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 5 days) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On price, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

BelayConnect ships an update every 5 days, Span daily. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
BelayConnect versus Span: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBelayConnectSpan
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 daysDaily — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supported—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB59 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperBelay Connect LLCRavi Singh

In-app purchases

None

BelayConnect

No in-app purchases

None

Span

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is BelayConnect free?
BelayConnect is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Span free?
Span is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do BelayConnect or Span have ads?
BelayConnect shows ads; Span does not.
Which is updated more often, BelayConnect or Span?
BelayConnect ships an update every 5 days, and Span daily. Most recently, BelayConnect was updated on October 8, 2026 and Span on October 2, 2026.

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