Coach DM vs Bouldering Plan
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side β with what reviewers say about each.
Coach DM
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Coach DM is your trilingual training partner β built by a certified coach (CrossFit L3, NASM) to take you from your very first rep to real performance. FIND YOUR PROGRAM IN 30 SECONDS Answer 4 quick questions and Coach DM picks the right program for your goal, level and schedule. TRAIN WITH STRUCTURE β’ 13 in-app programs coached with my voice: strength, hypertrophy, glutes, core, fat loss, Cross-training, Hyrox, running, football and more β’ Guided Workout Player: my coaching cues at the right moment, auto load set after set, tempo counted out loud, voice debrief at the end β’ WOD engine: EMOM, AMRAP, For Time, RFT with live scoring AI FORM ANALYSIS β our signature β’ Film your squat, jump, bar path or running posture β’ Get instant biomechanical feedback from on-device motion tracking β’ Train smarter and reduce your risk of injury NUTRITION MADE SIMPLE β’ Log meals in seconds and track calories and macros β’ Snap a photo of your plate β AI estimates calories and macros for you β’ Coach-designed recipes with full macros YOUR COACH, IN YOUR POCKET β’ Chat with Coach AI anytime about programming, technique and nutrition β’ Personal coaching: messaging, check-ins, custom calories, macros and meal plans set by your coach FOR COACHES β Grow Your Business β’ Coach DM isnβt just for athletes. Itβs a complete tool for coaches and fitness professionals: β’ Full client management (profiles, goals, progress & history) β’ Built-in scheduling and appointment management with automatic reminders β’ Create and send personalized programs and training courses β’ Calculate, track and adjust nutrition macros for each client β’ Secure in-app messaging with your clients β’ Advanced tracking tools and automated reports FITS YOUR LIFE β’ Syncs with Apple Health, native calendar and smart workout reminders β’ Available in English, French and Dutch Power Β· Transform Β· Excel. ββββββββββββ Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Terms of Sale: https://coachdm.be/conditions.html Privacy Policy: https://coachdm.be/privacy.html Coach DM Premium is an auto-renewing subscription. You are charged on purchase confirmation, then at each renewal, unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage and cancel in your Apple account settings.
Bouldering Plan
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Build a bouldering session from more than 270 exercises, put your sessions into a plan that runs for weeks, and log what you did. Building, planning, logging and testing are free. Pro adds guided sessions, Workload and a plan generator. You can start without an account, and your training stays on your phone. A free account (Sign in with Apple, Google or email) backs it up and opens the web planner, coaching and sharing. SESSIONS Pick exercises for your warm-up, strength work, climbing and mobility, or let the builder fill a session for the time you have. The catalog runs from warm-ups to max hangs, 4x4s and the campus board. If an exercise isn't there, make it from the search box, or pair two into a superset. PLANS Build a plan week by week in training periods: Base, Strength, Power, Power Endurance, Endurance, Performance and Deload. Copy a week, save templates, add the plan to your calendar, or plan for someone you coach. Today opens on today's session with a Start button. When a plan ends, a wrap-up shows what you did and how your tests moved. COMMUNITY Share your plans and exercises with other climbers, and add and rate what they shared. Your dates and logbook stay yours. LOGBOOK, PROGRESS AND TESTS - Log every boulder as a flash, a send or an attempt, with its grade, wall angle, goes and a note. A session you did earlier goes in on one screen. Rate how hard it was from 1 to 10. - Share a session as a story card or sticker, and save sessions to Apple Health. - Progress: your bests, grade history, grade pyramid, send rate by wall angle and training load per week. - Tests: max hangs on a 20 mm edge in half crimp and open hand, a two-rep max pull-up, a max hang for time and bodyweight, plus tests of your own. Weights in kg or lb. - Widgets for today's session, your week and your trends. Export your logbook as CSV or JSON. PRO - Guided sessions. Press Start and put the phone down. Work and rest are counted down with beeps, rounds and sets ticked off, and attempts wait for you to tap Done. Log each boulder from the timer and see it on your Lock Screen. - Plan generator. Pick the period, the weeks, your days and how long your sessions are. It builds every session from coaching rules, keeps hard finger days apart and plans in lighter weeks. Every Monday it looks at how your last week went. Two rough weeks in a row bring the light week forward, an exercise you skipped two weeks running is swapped, and after a good week the weights go up. - Workload. Each session's training load from its minutes and how hard it was, this week against your usual range, and your finger load on its own. - β¬4.99 a month, β¬29.99 a year (the first month free) or β¬79.99 once. Everything in the free app stays free. COACHES - Write a plan for each climber or send one to a squad. It shows up in their app, and when you change it, it changes there. - See their logbook, tests, Workload and the check-in they send before training. Finger pain goes to the top of your screen. - One on one or squads, adults or youth. Under 16, a parent says yes first, and youth squads keep a height record so a growth spurt shows. - Free for up to five climbers, who join with a code and use the free app. Coach at bloksessions.com/coach or in this app's coach view. WHO IT'S FOR Boulderers who want to train in periods instead of climbing hard all year. It won't teach you to climb. You make the plan; it keeps the plan, your training load and your record in one place. No ads and no trackers. With an account, nothing leaves your phone until you switch on backup. I'm Frank Blokdijk, a boulderer and coach. I hated every training app I tried, so I made this one. I run it on my own, and questions come straight to me: hello@bloksessions.com Terms of use (Apple's standard EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy policy: https://bloksessions.com/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is device support: Coach DM at 3 against Bouldering Plan's 1. Coach DM also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Coach DM sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $12.99 per month and Bouldering Plan sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Coach DM ships an update every 5 days, Bouldering Plan every 3 days. Both last shipped on November 10, 2026.
| Parameter | Coach DM | Bouldering Plan |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days | Every 3 days β better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod β better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 β better | 17.0 |
| Further details β not scored | ||
| Size | 22 MB | 42 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mohamed Doudouh | Frank Blokdijk |
In-app purchases
Coach DM
- Coach DM Premium β 1 mois$12.991 Month
- Coach DM Premium β 1 an$129.001 Year
Bouldering Plan
- Blok Sessions Pro Monthly$3.991 Month
- Blok Sessions Pro Yearly1 Month trial$24.991 Year
- Blok Sessions Pro Lifetime$69.99
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