Distance Remaining vs Climbing Pins
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Distance Remaining
Calculate the straight-line and driving distances to your destination, along with the direction. Easily set destinations via search or map tap, and track your progress in real-time. Useful for navigation, golf, and finding your parked car.
- Real-time distance and direction display
- Destination search by address or landmark
- Long-press map to set destination
- Save and bookmark destinations
- Integrated compass
- Switchable distance units (meters, yards, feet, miles)
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This app will display the straight-line distance, driving distance, and direction from your current location to your destination. Set your destination by using the destination search function, or by long tapping on your destination on the map. The distance remaining to your destination & its direction will be displayed in real time on the map. • Use the app to navigate to where you want to go. • Convenient for finding the distance to & direction of the hole and hazards on the golf course. • Record the location of your car in large parking lots so you can find your car again easily. ● Primary features - Destination search Search by addresses, landmarks, train stations, nearby stores, facilities, buildings, & more. - Switch between maps Switch between Apple Maps, Hybrid, & Satellite. - Save your destinations Open the details screen in the destination balloon, add memos & addresses, and save! - Bookmarks Display your saved destinations in your bookmarks. - Compass Check the direction to your destination with the compass function. - Switch between distance units Switch between meters, yards, feet, & miles.
Climbing Pins
This app allows climbers to upload photos and automatically tag them with location, climb, and area names. Discover nearby climbs on a map, track approaches, and get directions. Search for climbs, areas, or users and filter results by quality and difficulty.
- Automatic location tagging for climbing photos
- Tag photos with climb and area names
- Discover nearby climbs and areas on a map
- Track approaches and drop parking pins
- Get driving directions
- Search climbs, areas, and users
- Filter search results by quality and difficulty
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Upload climbing photos to automatically drop location markers Tag photos with climb and area names Home Explore climb and area photos within 100, 10, or 1 km Map Find nearby climbs and get additional climb and area info Track approaches and drop parking pins Get driving directions Help keep markers accurate by tapping to select then tapping and dragging to suggest location corrections Search Search by climb, area, city or user Filter by quality, difficulty, alphabetically, and recently added Add Upload images with location info from camera and photo roll
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Climbing Pins at 5.0 against Distance Remaining's 3.6. Climbing Pins also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 6 months). On price, ratings volume, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Climbing Pins holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 12 and 6 respectively.
Distance Remaining ships an update every 6 months, Climbing Pins every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Distance Remaining | Climbing Pins |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.6 (12 ratings) | 5.0 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 19.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 12 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 14.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 32 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Hideshi Otsuru | Ben Spannuth |
Customer experience
Distance Remaining
Climbing Pins
In-app purchases
Distance Remaining
No in-app purchases
Climbing Pins
No in-app purchases
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