Comparison

Ascend vs Boulder Log

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

Head to head
About

Ascend

Log your climbing sessions, track project progress, and analyze your performance over time. This app helps you train smarter by providing insights into your technique and strength, all with an offline-first design.

Highlights
  • Log climbing sessions with grades and attempts
  • Track project progress
  • Offline-first design
  • Analyze technique and strength
  • View progress over time
Features
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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.

About

Boulder Log

Easily track your bouldering sessions with this intuitive log. Record climbs with essential details or add more depth with notes and attempts. Review your progress, view grade breakdowns, and celebrate milestones.

Highlights
  • Log bouldering sessions live or manually
  • Track sends, flashes, attempts, and projects
  • Save grades, notes, and tags
  • Support for V-scale and Font scale
  • Review session history and best grades
  • View progress and grade breakdowns
  • Earn climbing milestones
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Boulder Log is a free, flexible climbing journal for logging bouldering sessions, tracking progress, and saving the moments you want to remember. Use it however you like. Record every attempt, tag, and note, or keep things simple with just a grade and result. Log during your session at the gym or add everything later. The private Gallery gives you a place to build a visual history of your climbing. Save photos and videos, add optional details like grades, gyms, notes, and tags, and connect memories to the sessions or climbs they came from. Boulder Log supports both V-scale and Font scale. Use Boulder Log to: • Log live bouldering sessions • Add sessions manually after climbing • Save private climbing photos and videos • Add grades, gyms, notes, and tags to your memories • Build a visual history of the climbs and moments you want to remember • Track sends, flashes, attempts, and projects • Save grades, attempts, notes, and tags • Review session history and best grades • See progress, grade breakdowns, send rates, and tag trends • Earn simple climbing milestones • View and share session recaps • Choose between V-scale and Font scale Whether you care about every attempt or just want somewhere to remember the climbs and moments that mattered, Boulder Log gives you a clean place to keep it all.

Screenshots

Ascend4 screens
Boulder Log4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Boulder Log at 100% against Ascend's 0%. Boulder Log also leads on rating (4.7 vs 1.0) and update cadence (every 11 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Boulder Log holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Boulder Log has 7 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Ascend's written reviews are positive against 100% of Boulder Log's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Ascend ships an update every 3 weeks, Boulder Log every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and September 27, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Ascend versus Boulder Log: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAscendBoulder Log
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.0 (1 ratings)4.7 (7 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings17 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 11 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.415.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size59 MB10 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperAndy TruongMAXWELL WILLIAM LEMASTERS

Customer experience

Ascend

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Boulder Log

All ratings7 ratings
Positive85.7%
Neutral14.3%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Ascend

No in-app purchases

None

Boulder Log

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Ascend free?
Ascend is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Boulder Log free?
Boulder Log is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Ascend or Boulder Log?
Boulder Log is rated higher. Ascend averages 1.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Boulder Log averages 4.7 from 7 ratings.
Do Ascend or Boulder Log have ads?
Neither Ascend nor Boulder Log shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Ascend or Boulder Log?
Ascend ships an update every 3 weeks, and Boulder Log every 11 days. Most recently, Ascend was updated on October 9, 2026 and Boulder Log on September 27, 2026.

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