Boardsesh vs Soffri
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
Soffri
This app creates personalized ultra-marathon training plans based on your race distance, date, and weekly availability. It grades every run against the plan's requirements and adapts the schedule if you miss workouts or add tune-up races. Train with friends, track progress, and sync runs automatically from your watch or by uploading files.
- Personalized race plans
- Run grading and scoring
- Adaptive training schedule
- Crew and challenge features
- Automatic run syncing
- FIT/GPX file uploads
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Most training apps hand you a plan and wish you luck. Soffri ("you suffer" in Italian) tells you whether you actually followed it. BUILD A PLAN AROUND YOUR RACE Your distance, your date, your week. 50K to 200 miles, with elevation and time-on-feet built in, because an ultra is not a long marathon. EVERY RUN, GRADED Your runs sync in and get scored against what the plan actually asked for: distance, elevation, and effort. No participation trophies here. Just an honest read on whether you are on track or kidding yourself. THE PLAN ADAPTS Miss a week and the plan reckons with it instead of pretending. Add a tune-up race and the weeks around it reshape. TRAIN WITH YOUR PEOPLE Build a crew, run challenges, and see each other's work. No race booked? Crews and challenges need no plan at all. YOUR RUNS, HOWEVER THEY ARRIVE Connect a watch and runs land automatically, or upload a FIT or GPX file. Works with Apple Health: Apple Watch and Garmin runs sync automatically. ON YOUR HOME SCREEN Widgets for today's run, this week and this month. The plan is in front of you before you open the app, and so is the grade when you get back. Go get your suffer on.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Soffri at 5.0 against Boardsesh's 4.6. Soffri also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 77%) and update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 weeks). Boardsesh's advantage is ratings volume (29 vs 4). 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Soffri 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. Written reviews point the same way: 77% of Boardsesh's written reviews are positive against 100% of Soffri's.
Boardsesh ships an update every 2 weeks, Soffri every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Boardsesh | Soffri |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (29 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 76.9% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 29 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 94 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Marco de Jongh | Andrew Allgaier |
Customer experience
Boardsesh
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In-app purchases
Boardsesh
No in-app purchases
Soffri
No in-app purchases









