Flashd vs Bouldering Plan
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
Flashd
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Flashd is the bouldering and climbing tracker built for real sessions. Log every route with your grade, attempts, and whether you topped, flashed, or failed, then review your stats when the session ends. TWO TRACKING MODES Pick the flow that fits your session. Timed mode runs a built-in timer for every route so you can see exactly how long each send takes. Quick mode lets you tap to log routes without a timer, perfect for fast sessions or when you just want the count. SESSION STATISTICS After every session, see your topped percentage, flash rate, total points, and highest grade. Track your improvement across sessions with French (4A to 9A) and Hueco (V0 to V17) grading systems. CUSTOM GRADING SYSTEMS Climbing at a gym with its own colour or grade names? Create a custom grading system for your gym or yourself. Each custom grade maps to a French or Hueco equivalent, so your points and stats stay consistent no matter where you climb. SCAN ROUTES WITH AI Snap a photo of the wall and Flashd detects the routes for you, with grades and hold colours. Tweak anything the AI got wrong, then save the routes for your whole gym to log in one tap. EARBUD TRACKING Use your earbud buttons to log routes phone-free. Control your entire bouldering session without touching your phone. (Timed mode) ACHIEVEMENTS Unlock achievements as you climb. Hit milestones for sessions, flashes, grades, and more. GYM LOCATIONS Find nearby climbing gyms and attach sessions to a location so your history stays organised. RANKINGS Compare your grades, points, and flash rates with friends and climbers at your gym. See where you stand on the leaderboard. CLIMB WITH FRIENDS Add friends, share sessions, and see how your climbing stacks up. Free to download. Get on the wall. Terms of Use: https://www.flashd.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://www.flashd.app/privacy EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Bouldering Plan
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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. - โฌ4.99 a month, โฌ29.99 a year (the first 7 days free) or โฌ79.99 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
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Bouldering Plan at none against Flashd's shown. Bouldering Plan also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 9 days). Flashd's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. Flashd sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $0.99 per month and Bouldering Plan sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Flashd ships an update every 9 days, Bouldering Plan every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Flashd | Bouldering Plan |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days | Every 3 days โ better |
| Ads | Yes | No โ better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod โ better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 โ better | 17.0 |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 29 MB | 35 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Francazi Digital e.U. | Frank Blokdijk |
In-app purchases
Flashd
- Flashd Pro$0.991 Month
Bouldering Plan
- Blok Sessions Pro Monthly$3.991 Month
- Blok Sessions Pro Yearly7 Days trial$24.991 Year
- Blok Sessions Pro Lifetime$69.99
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