Comparison

Boardsesh vs Boulder Rest

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

Head to head
About

Boardsesh

This app connects to various LED climbing boards via Bluetooth to light up holds on your wall. Browse and filter thousands of community-created climbs, build a queue, and track your progress. It supports group sessions for climbing with friends, whether in the same gym or remotely.

Highlights
  • Connects to LED climbing boards
  • Lights up holds on the wall
  • Browse and filter community climbs
  • Build and manage a climb queue
  • Track climbing attempts and sends
  • Supports group climbing sessions
Features
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Climb on Kilter, Tension, MoonBoard and more, plus your spray wall. Keep your climbs, shared queue and logbook in one app. YOUR BOARDS. ONE APP. Boardsesh works with Kilter, Tension, MoonBoard, Woods, Decoy, Touchstone, Grasshopper and So iLL. Switch between supported boards and keep your climbing history together. YOUR SPRAY WALL, TOO A home wall, or a spray wall at your gym? Photograph it and Boardsesh suggests holds from the photo. Fix what it missed, then set climbs, queue them and log sends in the same logbook as your other boards. No LEDs needed: the holds are highlighted on your photo. Share the wall by link and your crew can set on it too. Stripped the wall? Reset it with a new photo, and the old wall is archived with its climbs and sends. Swap a single hold and any climb that used it is flagged. BOARD HISTORY Share a board and you lose track of the last climb fast, and someone always wipes it by accident. See climbs lit through Boardsesh on that board: the climb name, who lit it, who set it, grade and angle, and recent sends. SESSIONS WITH YOUR CREW Start a session and you and your crew can share one queue everyone can drive. Anyone can light the next climb on the wall. When you're done you get a recap and tracking: sends and attempts, grade spread, your hardest send, and progress over time. CONTROL FROM YOUR LOCK SCREEN (iOS 17+) iOS Live Activities tell you what climb is on from your lock screen, and allow you to change it without leaving your lock screen. BUILD A WORKOUT Pick Volume, Pyramid, Ladder or Grade Focus, set a target grade and warm-up, preview the climbs, then push them to the wall one at a time. TRACK YOUR CLIMBING Record sends, flashes and attempts, get a recap with duration, grade spread and your hardest send, and watch your sends and grades climb on the Progress tab. BRING YOUR HISTORY WITH YOU Save your session to Apple Health, and import your past Kilter and Tension logbook from Aurora Climbing. FIND MORE TO CLIMB Follow your crew and setters, search climbers, and pin playlists from Discover. Supported boards: Kilter, Tension, MoonBoard (2010, 2016, 2024, Masters 2017, Masters 2019), Woods (12x12, 8x10), Decoy, Touchstone, Grasshopper and So iLL. Plus spray walls: any wall you can photograph. Boardsesh is a community effort that works with these boards and is not affiliated with or endorsed by any board manufacturer.

About

Boulder Rest

Features
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Boulder Rest helps you rest between attempts when you board climb. When you're working a hard boulder — on a board, a spray wall, or your gym's hardest line — the rest between attempts is part of the training. Boulder Rest makes it effortless to rest at least as long as you planned, then reset with a single tap and get back on the wall. REST IN ONE TAP • Start a session, then tap Short or Long after each attempt — the timer counts up, so you always know you've rested enough. • Elapsed time and your target at a glance, with a ring that fills as you recover. CONTROL IT WITHOUT LEAVING YOUR BOARD APP • A Live Activity puts your rest time visible while using other board climbing apps. • Reset to a Short or Long rest right from there — no app-switching mid-session. KNOW YOUR SESSIONS • Every session is saved with your rest count, total rest time, and target. • Tap a session to see each rest — requested vs. actually achieved — plus a chart of your rests over time, so you can tell whether you're really resting enough. MAKE IT YOURS • Set your own Short and Long rest durations. • Optional notification when your rest is up. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account, no sign-in, no tracking. Everything stays on your device and syncs only between your iPhone and (optionally) your Apple Watch. Rest smart, send harder & get strong!

Screenshots

Boardsesh4 screens
Boulder Rest3 screens

Verdict

The call

Boardsesh and Boulder Rest are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Boardsesh versus Boulder Rest: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBoardseshBoulder Rest
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (28 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews76.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings28 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS16.4 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size94 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMarco de JonghOlivier Bohrer

In-app purchases

None

Boardsesh

No in-app purchases

None

Boulder Rest

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Boardsesh free?
Boardsesh is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Boulder Rest free?
Boulder Rest is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Boardsesh or Boulder Rest have ads?
Neither Boardsesh nor Boulder Rest shows ads.

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