Topout vs Boulder Log
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Topout
Track your climbing sessions, analyze your progress with detailed insights, and plan your training cycles. This app focuses exclusively on climbing progression, offering a private and offline experience.
- Log bouldering and rope sessions
- Track grade trends and volume
- Analyze progress with detailed insights
- Plan training mesocycles
- Offline data storage
- No account or cloud sync
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Topout is a climbing training tracker built by one developer, for climbers serious about progression. This app is modeled after the exact training plans and setup that I used for my own progress. LOG EVERY SESSION You can track your bouldering and rope sections with flexible widgets. You can track exercises, warm-ups, and stretches. You can use timers, notes, track your body weight, record how you feel, etc... UNDERSTAND YOUR PROGRESS The insights tab has graphs and trends for your volume, RPE, training mix, muscle group, mobility, your rest days, how you feel, etc.. PLAN LIKE A COACH Plan months or weeks in advance using my advanced meso cycle planner. YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS Everything lives on your device. No account. No cloud sync. No analytics. No data collection of any kind. Your training history is private and always available offline. BUILT WITH CARE Topout is built by me alone. I'm a climber who wanted to build a training tool to replace all of the spreadsheets and general tracking software I've used over the years.
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.
- 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.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Boulder Log at every 11 days against Topout's every 3 weeks. On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Topout against 5.0 for Boulder Log. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 8 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Topout ships an update every 3 weeks, Boulder Log every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Topout | Boulder Log |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (6 ratings) | 5.0 (8 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 6 | 8 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 11 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 95 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Jeordin Callister | MAXWELL WILLIAM LEMASTERS |
Customer experience
Topout
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In-app purchases
Topout
No in-app purchases
Boulder Log
No in-app purchases









