Escalada Cronos vs Bouldering Plan
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Escalada Cronos
Read full descriptionHide full description
Con Escalada Cronos puedes programar fácilmente tus entrenamientos: define el número de repeticiones, el tiempo de cada serie y los descansos entre series. Ideal para mantener el ritmo y enfocarte al 100% en mejorar tu rendimiento en el muro. ¡Entrena sin distracciones!
Bouldering Plan
Read full descriptionHide full description
I'm Frank Blokdijk, a boulderer and coach. I hated every training app I tried, so I made this one. Build a session from 260 exercises, each with its sets, rest and injury risk. Put your sessions into a plan that runs for weeks, and log what you did. Training information should be free, so building, planning, logging and testing cost nothing. You need a free account: Sign in with Apple or email. SESSIONS Pick exercises for your warm-up, strength work, climbing and mobility, or let the builder fill a session for the time you have. Every exercise also shows its minutes and how hard it is. Change one exercise's rounds, reps, work time, rest or minutes for today only, put strength exercises together as a superset, or add exercises of your own. The catalog runs from warm-ups to the campus board: limit boulders, 4x4s, max hangs and repeaters, density bouldering, weighted pull-ups, antagonist and mobility work, and easy climbing for a Base period. PLANS Build a plan week by week in training periods: Base, Strength, Power, Power Endurance, Endurance, Performance and Deload. Copy a week, save templates, add the plan to your calendar, or plan for someone you coach. Today's session sits at the top of Home with a Start button. When a plan ends, a wrap-up shows what you did and how your tests moved. COMMUNITY Share your plans and exercises on the Community tab, and add and rate what other climbers shared. Your dates and logbook stay yours. LOGBOOK, TRENDS AND TESTS - Log every boulder as a flash, a send or an attempt, with its grade, wall angle, goes and a note. Rate the session from 1 to 10. - Share a session as a story card or sticker, and save sessions to Apple Health. - Trends: grade history, grade pyramid, send rate by wall angle and training load per week. - Tests: max hangs on a 20 mm edge in half crimp and open hand, a two-rep max pull-up, a max hang for time and bodyweight, plus tests of your own. - Widgets for today's session, your week and your trends. Export your logbook as CSV or JSON. PRO - Guided sessions. Press Start and put the phone down. Work and rest are counted down with beeps, rounds and sets ticked off, and attempts wait for you to tap Done. Log each boulder from the timer and see it on your Lock Screen. - Plan generator. Pick the period, the weeks, your days and how long your sessions are. It builds every session from coaching rules, keeps hard finger days apart and plans in lighter weeks. - Workload. Each session's training load from its minutes and how hard it was, this week against your usual range, and your finger load on its own. - €4.99 a month, €29.99 a year (the first 7 days free) or €79.99 once. Everything in the free app stays free. COACHES - Write a plan for each climber or send one to a squad. It shows up in their app, and when you change it, it changes there. - See their logbook, tests, Workload and the check-in they send before training. Finger pain goes to the top of your screen. - One on one or squads, adults or youth. Under 16, a parent says yes first, and youth squads keep a height record so a growth spurt shows. - Free for up to five climbers, who join with a code and use the free app. Coach at bloksessions.com/coach or in this app's coach view. WHO IT'S FOR Boulderers who train on purpose and want to train in periods instead of climbing hard all year. It won't teach you to climb. You make the plan; it keeps the plan, your training load and your record in one place. Your training stays on your phone until you switch on backup. No ads and no trackers. I make Blok Sessions on my own, so questions come straight to me: hello@bloksessions.com Terms of use (Apple's standard EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy policy: https://bloksessions.com/privacy
Screenshots
Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Escalada Cronos at none against Bouldering Plan's 3. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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
Both are free to download. Bouldering Plan sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Escalada Cronos asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Escalada Cronos | Bouldering Plan |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | — | Every 3 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 35 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Miguel Cabezas Gonzalo | Frank Blokdijk |
In-app purchases
Escalada Cronos
No in-app purchases
Bouldering Plan
- Blok Sessions Pro Monthly$3.991 Month
- Blok Sessions Pro Yearly7 Days trial$24.991 Year
- Blok Sessions Pro Lifetime$69.99
Questions
Is Escalada Cronos free?
Is Bouldering Plan free?
Do Escalada Cronos or Bouldering Plan have ads?
Other comparisons















