Vertical vs Climb
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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
Climb
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Log your climbs. Reflect with an AI coach. ClimbLog is an app that tracks your gym and outdoor climbing by grade, visualizes your condition trends, and helps you reflect on each session through conversation with an AI coach — so every session informs the next. **Simple Logging** Just enter the number of sends and attempts per grade. Quick to log, easy to keep up. Track gym and outdoor sessions separately, and monitor your lead and boulder performance independently. **Automatic Condition Tracking** Weather, temperature, and humidity are pulled automatically via GPS. Body weight, body fat percentage, and sleep data sync from Apple HealthKit. Build a record of how your performance relates to your physical condition over time. **Stats & Trend Analysis** View monthly and annual send counts, send rates, and your highest grade progression in charts. Analyze trends over weekly, monthly, 3-month, and 6-month windows — covering both short-term fluctuations and long-term growth. **AI Coaching (Pro)** After each session, your AI coach reflects on your climbing with you in a conversational format. Based on your logged data, it helps you dig into key moves, set goals, and identify focus areas for next time. • Choose from GPT-4o, Claude, or Gemini • Voice input and voice response supported • Send photos or videos for form analysis • Personalized based on your profile (experience, goals, injury notes, etc.) **First Aid Coach (Pro)** When you get injured while climbing, the AI guides you through initial response from an emergency medicine perspective. Provides triage guidance, first aid steps, and advice on where to seek care. One-tap calling to local emergency services (119 / 911 / 112, etc.) based on your current location. **AI Insights** A rule-based analysis engine automatically identifies climbing trends, strengths, and weaknesses from your log data. Provides multi-dimensional feedback including grade distribution, send rate trends, and sentiment analysis of your session comments. **Climbing Glossary** A comprehensive glossary covering 20+ categories including moves, holds, wall types, training concepts, and mental skills. **Key Features** • Log climbing grades (gym / outdoor, lead / boulder) • Record send styles (onsight, flash, redpoint, project) • Auto-capture weather, weight, and sleep data • Monthly and annual stats charts • Growth trend visualization • AI coach conversation sessions (Pro) • First Aid Coach (Pro) • Climbing glossary • Full Japanese and English support • iCloud sync **Plans** Standard — Logging, stats, and rule-based AI insights Pro — Everything in Standard, plus AI coaching, First Aid Coach, and advanced analytics **Free Trial** Free-trial and Offer Code eligibility is shown on the purchase screen or in the App Store. **Subscription** Payment will be charged to your App Store account. Subscriptions renew automatically. Unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, your subscription will automatically renew. You can manage or cancel your subscription in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Vertical at Free against Climb's $0.99. Vertical also leads on iOS requirement (15.6 vs 26.2). Climb's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On update cadence, in-app purchases 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
Vertical is free to download; Climb costs $0.99 up front. Vertical sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $8.99 per month and Climb sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Vertical ships an update every 8 days, Climb every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Vertical | Climb |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $0.99 |
| Rating | 2.7 (47 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 23.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 47 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days — better | Every 10 days |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 26.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 150 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Vertical-Life srl | Makoto Kawashita |
In-app purchases
Vertical
- Premium (1 Month)$8.991 Month
Climb
- ClimbLog 月額プラン3 Months trial$0.991 Month
- ClimbLog Pro 月額プラン$1.991 Month
- ClimbLog 年額プラン3 Months trial$9.991 Year
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- ClimbLog Pro 年額プラン$19.991 Year









