Comparison

Canyon Guide vs Cordada

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

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Canyon Guide

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Canyon Guide - Your Ultimate Canyoning Companion Discover, plan and record your canyon descents with the most complete app. Canyon Guide gives you access to an extensive canyon database with detailed information, real-time GPS tracking, interactive maps, flow reports and an active canyoneering community. KEY FEATURES REAL-TIME GPS TRACKING • Record your descents with GPS • Differentiate between phases: approach, descent and return • Live tracking: see where other groups are in real-time to avoid waiting • Route deviation alerts SEARCH AND EXPLORATION • Find canyons near you with geolocation • Explore canyons on interactive map • Filter by difficulty, duration, region, cars needed and more • Advanced rating filters (Plus) • List or map view according to your preference DETAILED INFORMATION • Difficulty levels (vertical, aquatic, commitment) • Topography and route diagrams • Download GPX routes • Required equipment • Approach, descent and return times • Rappels, jumps and obstacles • Recommended seasons and water flow • GPS coordinates and points of interest FLOW REPORTS • Real-time water condition reports • Rate flow from 1 to 5 with photos • Check recent reports before your descent • Link flows to your recorded descents • Plan better based on current conditions INTERACTIVE MAPS • Visualize canyons on the map • Parking, entry and exit points • Color-coded legend by difficulty • Cars needed information • GPX route overlay STATISTICS AND ACHIEVEMENTS • Unlock achievements based on your activity • 5 achievement levels: Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum, Diamond • Track your progress and compete with the community • Statistics with graphs about your descents • Check your position in the global ranking PERSONAL PROFILE • Log your completed activity with comments • Add companions to your descents • Multiple logs of the same canyon • Mark canyons as pending • Save your favorites • View your statistics and achievements • Follow other canyoneers • Search through your activity COMMUNITY & NOTIFICATIONS • Push and in-app notifications • Share your activity on social media • See the most active canyoneers • Discover what canyons others are doing • Build your companion network CANYON GUIDE PLUS Take your experience to the next level: • Ad-free experience • Advanced rating filters • Unlimited offline downloads • Monthly or annual subscription FEATURES • Quick and advanced search • Share canyons with friends • Intuitive and modern Material Design interface • Available in 6 languages IMPORTANT Canyon Guide is an information tool. Canyoning is a high-risk sport. Make sure you have adequate training, experience and equipment before attempting any descent. Download Canyon Guide and start your next adventure!

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Cordada

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Cordada tells you when the rock grips. This isn't another climbing guidebook. It's an instrument: it cross-references which way each wall actually faces — worked out from the terrain — with the sun and shade on it at that hour, the last few days of rain against how porous its rock type is, humidity, wind and the dew point. The result is the Friction Score, hour by hour, sector by sector. You'll know whether the early start is worth it, whether the wall will be dry on Saturday, and what time the sun comes off it. THE CATALOG · Hundreds of thousands of routes, across tens of thousands of sectors in 80 countries. · Community topos, with the lines drawn over the real photo. · Each sector's grades drawn as a mountain range, with the routes you've done. · Search by route, crag, town or grade, or browse the guidebook by region. · Grades in French, YDS, UIAA, UK and Font. · Route missing? Add it and it goes straight in. THE CONDITIONS · Friction Score, and it tells you why: "Wall in the shade · cool rock, grips", "Rained 6h ago · rock still 40% wet, poor grip". · Where to go?: the best crags near you for the conditions. · Season calendar for every crag, and its closures if it has any. · Geological map of Spain (IGME). YOUR CREW · Meetup board: post a plan or join someone else's, with the Friction Score for its spot at its hour. · Cordada Match: find a belay partner in your area, by swiping. · My crew: share your live location only with the people you choose. · Belay endorsements: what your partners say about how you belay. YOUR GYM · Nearly 4,000 climbing gyms on the map, with directions to the door. · Join yours: once three of you are in, your room opens. Missing? Suggest it. YOUR LOGBOOK · Log every attempt and every send, with a photo and the conditions of the moment. · Grade pyramid, consolidated grade and a send card to share. AWAY FROM THE ROCK · Log finger, pulling, endurance, power or cardio sessions, with your effort. · Hangboard and interval timer, with voice. · Finger, pull-up and core tests, to see how you change. · Gym mode: every attempt at the gym goes to your Logbook with one tap. ON YOUR WRIST · Log attempts from your Apple Watch, at the gym and on rock, with the route from the list. · The timer on your watch, and record your approach from the moment you leave the car. AT THE WALL · Augmented reality for the approach and the sun's path. · Approach trails: GPS breadcrumbs left by the community. · Download a whole crag to use it with no signal. FREE, PREMIUM AND PRO Free forever: the map, the catalog, the Friction Score right now, augmented reality, your logbook, the whole social side in your own area, sessions, timers, tests and the Apple Watch for logging. We don't paywall the community. Premium (€4.99/month or €39.99/year, one week free) adds the hour-by-hour and next-days Friction Score, Where to go?, whole crags offline, your stats and what you log as charts, travel mode for Match and the board, and the crag on your Apple Watch: map, topos, approach and Friction Score on your watch face. Pro (€9.99/month or €99.99/year) adds Suggestions for every week: ideas for what to work on for the grade you're after, around your days and your time, based on what you log and your tests. Plus what holds you back for your grade, how you recover from your watch's heart rate, and today's session on your Apple Watch. They are general suggestions, not medical advice. Prices vary by country. On Fridays the full Friction Score belongs to everyone. MADE BY A CLIMBER Cordada is made by one person, in Spain, with no investors. If something breaks, write to us from the app: it gets fixed. Climbing carries a risk of serious injury and death. Cordada gives you guidance; the decision and the judgment on the mountain are yours. Always check knot, rope end and belay device. Terms of Use: https://cordada.eu/terminos Privacy Policy: https://cordada.eu/privacidad

Screenshots

Canyon Guide4 screens
Cordada4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Canyon Guide at none against Cordada's 2. Canyon Guide also leads on iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.6). Cordada's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 3 days vs weekly). On price 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. Cordada sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Canyon Guide asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Canyon Guide ships an update weekly, Cordada every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 2 level
Canyon Guide versus Cordada: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCanyon GuideCordada
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 3 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS15.6 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size61 MB55 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAlberto Ortega MayoralPAVEL VOJCIECH KADZIOLULA

In-app purchases

None

Canyon Guide

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Cordada

Subscriptions2
  • Premium mensual7 Days trial$3.991 Month
  • Premium anual7 Days trial$34.991 Year

Questions

Is Canyon Guide free?
Canyon Guide is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Cordada free?
Cordada is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Canyon Guide or Cordada have ads?
Canyon Guide shows ads; Cordada does not.
Which is updated more often, Canyon Guide or Cordada?
Canyon Guide ships an update weekly, and Cordada every 3 days. Most recently, Canyon Guide was updated on October 17, 2026 and Cordada on October 15, 2026.

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