Comparison

Boardsesh vs Get a Grip

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

Get a Grip

This app guides your daily finger training routines, connecting to a Bluetooth force gauge to accurately time holds based on your actual finger strength. It allows for custom routines and tracks every repetition, even incorporating climbing gym sessions as training.

Highlights
  • Bluetooth force gauge integration
  • Customizable daily training routines
  • Automatic hold timing based on force
  • Repetition and set tracking
  • Lock Screen Live Activity
  • Offline mode with plain timer
Features
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Get a Grip runs your daily finger training. Build your routine once and it greets you every time you open the app, one tap from pulling. The app connects to your Bluetooth force gauge, tares it, counts you in, and times every hold from what your fingers actually do. Chalk up or shake out mid-set and the clock stops with you: it only runs while you hold your target load. Works with the Tindeq Progressor and the Frez Dyno, with experimental support for several other BLE gauges and crane scales. Left the gauge at home? Every routine also runs as a plain timer. There is no exercise library to curate. A grip is just an edge depth, which fingers, and a position, written straight on the set. Prescribe 25% of max once and every grip resolves to its own target load, per hand, from the maxes you have measured. Choose pounds or kilograms in Settings. The rest countdown starts when you actually let go of the edge, and if the next set is on a different grip, the rest screen says so before you get there. Benchmarks keeps each grip's max and critical force together. The critical force test is 24 all-out pulls in four minutes and finds the load each hand can sustain. A Live Activity keeps the countdown and the target on your Lock Screen for the whole session. Every rep is recorded. A day of climbing at the gym counts as training too, because it is. No account, no analytics, no ads. Your data stays on your iPhone and in your own iCloud, nowhere else. The whole app works in English and French. Get a Grip is an independent app, not made by, affiliated with, or endorsed by Tindeq or any other gauge maker.

Screenshots

Boardsesh4 screens
Get a Grip4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Get a Grip at 5.0 against Boardsesh's 4.6. Get a Grip also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 weeks). Boardsesh's advantage is ratings volume (29 vs 4) and iOS requirement (16.4 vs 26.0). 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

Get a Grip holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Boardsesh has 29 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Boardsesh ships an update every 2 weeks, Get a Grip every 3 days. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Boardsesh versus Get a Grip: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBoardseshGet a Grip
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (29 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews76.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings29 — better4
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS16.4 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size94 MB10 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMarco de JonghNuri Bruner

Customer experience

Boardsesh

All ratings28 ratings
Positive92.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative7.1%
Written reviews13 reviews
Positive76.9%
Neutral7.7%
Negative15.4%

Get a Grip

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Boardsesh

No in-app purchases

None

Get a Grip

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Boardsesh free?
Boardsesh is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Get a Grip free?
Get a Grip is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Boardsesh or Get a Grip?
Get a Grip is rated higher. Boardsesh averages 4.6 out of 5 from 29 ratings, while Get a Grip averages 5.0 from 4 ratings.
Do Boardsesh or Get a Grip have ads?
Neither Boardsesh nor Get a Grip shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Boardsesh or Get a Grip?
Boardsesh ships an update every 2 weeks, and Get a Grip every 3 days. Most recently, Boardsesh was updated on October 24, 2026 and Get a Grip on October 24, 2026.

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