Ascend vs ClimberKit

Reach new heights with Ascend, a modern logbook designed for climbers of all levels. Track your sessions, log problems, manage projects, and view your progress over time. Train smarter with session logs, and insights that help you improve technique and strength. Features: • Log climbing sessions with grades, attempts, and sends • Track project progress and attempts • Offline-first design — works anywhere • Lightweight, fast, and built specifically for climbers Ascend does not require an internet connection and does not use personal health data.

I started building ClimberKit because I was tired of my projects disappearing into hundreds of unsorted videos in my camera roll. ClimberKit is a place to record climbs with as little or as much detail as you want - grades, moves, skin quality, custom tags - and turn them into a clearer picture of your progress. I've always felt that there's a ton of value in analysis: rewatching attempts to study tricky moves, or sitting at the gym with a friend working through the beta together. Grades help, but they vary wildly from gym to gym (sometimes even within the same gym!), and I wanted something that let me actually measure progression. Sharing your climbs matters a lot too, whether that's with a big audience or just with your friends and family. Today, ClimberKit lets you export your routes and sessions with multi-view video and stats overlays, and there'll be more tools coming soon that I can't wait to share. This started as something I wanted for myself. As I've built it, I've kept sanding down the rough edges and adding the features I'd want to see - but I'm excited to finally share it with the climbing community and keep making it more useful for all of us. - Kyle