Climbly vs Piton Climbing
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Climbly
This app helps climbers track their ascents, analyze their progress, and improve their performance. It offers detailed logging of routes, boulders, and attempts, with visualizations of climbing trends. Focuses on individual progress without social distractions.
- Log every route, boulder, and attempt
- Track progress and visualize sends over time
- Analyze training patterns and grade trends
- Detailed session history
- Advanced performance statistics
- No social feed, focus on individual data
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Track your climbing and bouldering sessions, see your progress, and connect with other climbers. Climbly brings your logbook, training, and climbing community together in one place. Log your climbing sessions Record routes, boulder problems, and attempts. Add grades, styles, notes, and outcomes so you can return to your session history and learn from each climb. Follow your progress Review your climbing history, explore your statistics, and follow your progress toward your target grade. Keep your goals in view as you complete climbing and training sessions. Make training part of your routine Organize your workouts and climbing sessions around the goals that matter to you. Connect with other climbers Find other climbers and stay connected with your climbing community. Climbly Pro Get access to advanced statistics and detailed session history with Climbly Pro. Monthly and yearly subscription options are available. Whether you are starting out, working on a project, or building a more consistent routine, Climbly helps you keep your climbing journey in view. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Piton Climbing
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Piton is a climbing tracker for Apple Watch and iPhone. It answers two questions: how is my training going, and am I getting closer to sending the things I care about? Capture Start a session on the watch and climb. The altimeter, motion, and heart rate do the logging. Forgot the watch? The phone can capture a session on its own. Heights come from the barometer, and pressure moves with HVAC, doors, or a storm rolling in, so vert is close, not foot for foot. Falls count Most trackers zero out a failed attempt. Piton records the height you actually reached, because on a project the high point on attempt seven is the data that matters. A transparent detector When auto-detect marks a lap you can see why, replay the raw sensor trace, and tune the thresholds per gym. Two gyms never behave the same, and the detector should not pretend they do. One screen Today, Week, Month, Lifetime. Each window answers a different question about your training arc. No feed, no leaderboards, no streaks. Harness or wrist Harness mount with a chest strap, or wrist with optical heart rate. Pick per session. Bouldering too V-grades, sends, attempts, hardest send. Rope and boulder sessions sit side by side. AI that stays on the device Coach's Notes and Ask Piton run on Apple Intelligence, on the phone. No account, no API key, no server. The voice is observational: it tells you what happened, never what to do next session. Requires a device with Apple Intelligence; everything else works without it. Private by default No accounts. No analytics. No ads. Your data stays on your devices. Privacy policy: fieldnotes.cc/piton/privacy Climbing is dangerous. Piton is a logging tool, not a coach and not a safety system. The first screen of the app says exactly that.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Piton Climbing at none against Climbly's 2. Piton Climbing also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs weekly). Climbly's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads and device support 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. Climbly sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Piton Climbing asks for nothing beyond the download.
Climbly ships an update weekly, Piton Climbing every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Climbly | Piton Climbing |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 35 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Natan Smogor | JEFFREY PHILIP SCHWERDTFEGER |
In-app purchases
Climbly
- Climbly Pro Monthly14 Days trial$5.991 Month
- Climbly Pro Yearly14 Days trial$44.991 Year
Piton Climbing
No in-app purchases








