Comparison

Vertical vs goio

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

Head to head
About

Vertical

This app serves as a comprehensive guide for both outdoor and indoor climbing. Log your ascents, discover new routes and crags worldwide, and access gym topos. It also offers personalized training plans and community features to connect with other climbers.

Highlights
  • Outdoor and indoor climbing route discovery
  • Digital climbing guidebooks
  • Logbook for climbs and memories
  • Personalized training plans
  • Gym and global climbing challenges
  • Community features and friend connections
Features
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Built by Climbers for Climbers: Vertical-Life is Your Climbing Guide for Outdoor and Indoor Climbing. Keep a log of your climbs and favorite memories, access local beta, and dream about your next adventure. Start exploring new climbing spots and get inspired! CLIMB OUTDOOR: Find sport climbing, bouldering and multi-pitch routes. Hundreds of digital climbing guidebooks available online and offline. Discover routes and boulders, featured on a worldwide map. Authored by local experts, our crags and climbing topos are continuously updated. We support local developers with a portion of our revenue. CLIMB INDOOR: Follow your home gym. Enjoy free access to gym topos and view rankings. Get updates on new routes, log your ascents and connect with climbers in your area. GET PERSONALIZED TRAINING: Enjoy customized training plans by professional coaches. Tailored to your level, our plans align with your gym's routes and boulders. Also, explore our free, single-day workouts to spice up your gym sessions. JOIN CHALLENGES & COMPETITIONS: Gym and global challenges are the perfect motivation boost. Move up the ranking ladder, reach new goals, unlock achievements, and win exciting prizes! FIND FRIENDS & COMMUNITY: Join a global network of climbers. Follow friends, share your successes, encourage your peers, and climb as a team for your local gym. ACCESS FROM THE WEB: Find your synced logbook and profile on https://www.vertical-life.info. Discover daily climbing news and a community-built route database with millions of ascents and insightful comments on Vertical-Life Web. GET MORE WITH PREMIUM: Premium unlocks all outdoor content in the app and gives you the digital convenience of having topos, additional beta, training plans, parking navigation and digital maps, in your pocket, online and offline. - All guidebooks available on your phone - Millions of ascents and comments for the best beta - GPS navigation to crags - Detailed map, with precise topos and route information Learn more: https://www.vertical-life.info/premium Terms of Use: https://www.vertical-life.info/en/pages/legal

About

goio

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Fitness apps are built for athletes. The rest of us get spreadsheets disguised as motivation — streaks, splits, and personal bests that turn every walk into homework. So we built something different. Outdoor fitness, reimagined. Your GPS path is a blade. Run, walk, or cycle a loop, and you instantly slice that territory off the map and claim it as your own. Every street becomes contested ground. Every shortcut, a tactical advantage. Every workout, a mission. • Slice & claim — your exact route paints the map • Defend your turf — rivals can take it back • Climb the leaderboard — locally, then globally • Zero spreadsheets — just a board, a blade, and a block to conquer We built goio for the people who don't want another tracker. The casual movers, the after-work walkers, the "I should really go outside" crowd. The ones who need a reason, not another metric. Because your neighbourhood isn't a backdrop for the grind. It's the board. Stop tracking. Start conquering. Try goio and claim your first territory today.

Screenshots

Vertical4 screens
goio4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: goio at none against Vertical's 4. goio also leads on ads (none vs shown). On price, device support and iOS requirement 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. Vertical sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. goio asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Vertical versus goio: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVerticalgoio
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.7 (47 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews23.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings47 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 8 days—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.615.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size150 MB36 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperVertical-Life srlFLORIAN ANDREAS SCHLECHTER

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Vertical

Subscriptions4
  • Outdoor (1 Month)$4.991 Month
  • Training (1 Month)$4.991 Month
  • Premium (1 Month)$8.991 Month
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  • Friends (1 Month)$14.991 Month
None

goio

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Vertical free?
Vertical is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is goio free?
goio is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Vertical or goio have ads?
Vertical shows ads; goio does not.

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