Comparison

Zlagboard vs BoulderBot

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

Head to head
About

Zlagboard

This app enhances climbing training by automating hang-time and pull-up counts when used with a compatible physical hangboard. It offers free workouts, personalized pro plans designed by professional climbers, and level assessments to track progress and choose suitable training programs. Users can also engage in hang-time competitions with friends.

Highlights
  • Automated hang-time and pull-up tracking
  • Free quick training sessions
  • Individualized pro training plans
  • Level assessment for strength and stamina
  • Hang-time competitions with friends
  • Progress measurement
Features
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The Zlagboard is more than an average hangboard for climbers. Paired with this app, it allows for efficient training by automating hang-time and pull-up count. Workouts: Workouts are free, quick training sessions that you can do whenever you feel you have some extra energy. Pro plans: Pro plans are individualized training programs designed by professional climbers. They address a wide range of training needs, consisting of a variety of exercises. The programs typically span several months and collectively contain hundreds of exercises. Pro plans are designed by world class coaches like Ingo Filzwieser. Unlock all pro plans for one fixed fee. Level Assessment: You can measure your strength and stamina with level assessment, which will help you choose the training programs that fit your performance goals. You can also use this feature to measure your progress. Competition: Start a hang-time competition with your friends! It's up to you to choose the hang edges. The results will leave no doubt as to who can hang the longest! New compatible board: Mammut Diamond Finger Please note that this app works only with the corresponding physical boards.

About

BoulderBot

Generate and track bouldering routes on your home climbing wall. Features procedural generation for infinite climb variations, manual creation, and progress logging. Supports various wall types and works offline.

Highlights
  • Procedural climb generation
  • Manual climb creation
  • Progress tracking and logging
  • Wall setup wizard
  • Offline functionality
  • Search and filter problems
Features
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BoulderBot is your personal bouldering Spray Wall setter, tracker and organizer. Challenge yourself and find new inspiration by using the experimental Procedural Generation algorithms, quickly creating an infinite number of new climbs on your wall! You can customize parameters like Difficulty and Length to create problems suited to your needs. The generation algorithms are experimental and under active development, but even if they don't produce perfect results, you can immediately edit the generated problems in a few seconds (which is also a great way to improve your setting skills). You can also easily create your own custom problems from scratch. Problems can be saved for tracking your progress and logging ascents, and functionality like searching, filtering and sorting is available to find problems for your training sessions. ADDING YOUR WALL An interactive wizard procedure will allow you to add your wall in the application, guiding you in specifying all required information (this procedure will take around 5 to 10 minutes): - An image of the wall (specific instructions are given to ensure the best generation results) - Attributes like height and angle - The position of the holds on your wall, and their relative difficulty rating This procedure needs to be performed only when you add a new wall or reset the current one. Once a wall is added, all other functionality (like generating problems, or creating them manually) is immediate and takes no extra set up time. An in-app help system is also available if you have any doubt about the application. The application supports Home Climbing Walls, Spray Walls, Woodys, and Training Boards. The generation algorithms work only on generally flat walls which can be pictured in a single image; highly featured walls with many different angles, corners and roof sections are not supported at the moment. NO MANDATORY INTERNET CONNECTIVITY The Application can work completely offline: you can choose to use the App without an account, making the image you select and the Boulder problems you create all stored on your device's internal storage. PROBLEM RULES The boulder problems should be climbed by starting with both hands on green "Start" holds (either one hand per hold if there are two holds, or with both hands matching the single hold). Blue "Hold" holds can be used with both hands and feet, while yellow "Foot" holds cannot be touched by hands. The problem is considered complete once you hold for a couple of seconds onto the red "End" holds (either one hand per hold if there are two holds, or with both hands matching the single hold). DISCLAIMER Climbing is an inherently dangerous activity. Climbs shown in the App are random in nature, there is no guarantee about their safety, quality or correctness, please always judge the safety of the climbs before attempting them.

Screenshots

Zlagboard4 screens
BoulderBot4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: BoulderBot at 75% against Zlagboard's 15%. BoulderBot also leads on rating (4.4 vs 3.0) and monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). Zlagboard's advantage is update cadence (every 9 days vs every 2 months) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 14.1). On price, ads, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Zlagboard sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and BoulderBot sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

BoulderBot holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: BoulderBot has 11 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 15% of Zlagboard's written reviews are positive against 75% of BoulderBot's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Zlagboard ships an update every 9 days, BoulderBot every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Zlagboard versus BoulderBot: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterZlagboardBoulderBot
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (2 ratings)4.4 (11 ratings) — better
Positive reviews14.7% of reviews75.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings211 — better
Update frequencyEvery 9 days — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS10.0 — better14.1
Further details — not scored
Size78 MB68 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperVertical-Life srlLuca Dellana

Customer experience

Zlagboard

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews34 reviews
Positive14.7%
Neutral20.6%
Negative64.7%

BoulderBot

All ratings11 ratings
Positive81.8%
Neutral0.0%
Negative18.2%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Zlagboard

One-time10
  • Patxi Usobiaga Medium Plan$4.99
  • Patxi Usobiaga Advanced Plan$4.99
  • Patxi Usobiaga Pro Plan$4.99
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  • Zlagboard Sensor$4.99
  • AthleteByChoice Medium Plan - Zlagboard Pro$4.99
  • AthleteByChoice Advanced Plan - Zlagboard Pro$4.99
  • GimmeKraft! Basic training schedule - ZB Pro$4.99
  • GimmeKraft! Basic+ training schedule - ZB Pro$4.99
  • GimmeKraft! Advanced training schedule - ZB Pro$4.99
  • GimmeKraft! Advanced+ training schedule - ZB Pro$4.99
3 purchases

BoulderBot

One-time3
  • BoulderBot Pro Pass - 3 Months$7.99
  • BoulderBot Pro Pass - 1 Year$17.99
  • BoulderBot Pro$27.99

Questions

Is Zlagboard free?
Zlagboard is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is BoulderBot free?
BoulderBot is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Zlagboard or BoulderBot?
BoulderBot is rated higher. Zlagboard averages 3.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while BoulderBot averages 4.4 from 11 ratings.
Do Zlagboard or BoulderBot have ads?
Neither Zlagboard nor BoulderBot shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Zlagboard or BoulderBot?
Zlagboard ships an update every 9 days, and BoulderBot every 2 months. Most recently, Zlagboard was updated on October 17, 2026 and BoulderBot on October 15, 2026.

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