Climbing apps for Apple Watch

Features that these apps should have

For these apps to be useful for climbers, they must have activity monitoring. GPS is also a plus, but not essential, for those who are going to climb in the mountains. They should also have examples of the exercises so that, if you are a beginner, you can learn how to do them correctly without risk of falls or injuries.

A good feature of these apps is that they have open user communities with which you can share your achievements and accomplishments. With these types of communities, you can motivate yourself to keep improving and reaching new goals, and you can share your progress with whoever you want.

Apps for reviews of climbing walls

Among the different types of climbing apps, there are two different types. One of them has reviews of different routes and climbing walls so you can see the level and difficulty of each one, but reviewed by climbers of your same or similar level.

MyClimb – Community of climbers

MyClimb is a climbing training app. You can find a training plan or workout to help you structure your climbing, hangboarding, bodyweight and strength sessions, and it has several difficulty levels so you can use it whether you are just starting out or are an expert climber.

You can also use MyClimb to track your indoor and outdoor climbing at any gym or outdoor venue. You can log all types of climbing, on any difficulty rating system. Plus, it offers a hangboard workout creator, so you can create, time, and save all your hangboard workouts.

KAYA

Track climbs from anywhere, anytime. With over 200 gyms and over a thousand outdoor destinations, climbing at your home gym or a local gym is just a few clicks away. Explore each climb by checking the feed to see if you’ve finally landed a climb or if it was just a one-time attempt.

Thanks to its community, you will be able to see the progress and attempts of the users closest to you, as well as your friends and acquaintances. You will be able to compete against climbers from all over the world who will help motivate you to continue improving and reaching new goals.

Vertical-Life Klettern – Climbing Reviews

Climb outside, train inside , and use one tool to get all the information, inspiration, and motivation you need. It has detailed digital climbing guides, with over 133,000 routes and boulders. Routes created and shared by local authors and editors ensure that climbing topos are continuously updated and accurate.

It also has indoor topos, rankings and circuits. You can train more efficiently and improve your climbing thanks to the personal training option found within the app. Get closer to your projects with personalized plans by professional trainers, adapted to your level and interests, adjusted to the routes and boulders of your gym.

ClimbingAway

Climbing Away gives you access to over 7,000 climbing schools  around the world with the most up-to-date information, precise locations, photos, and all of it frequently updated by the international climbing community. It allows you to find the closest climbing schools around you, allows you to organize climbing trips and find reference guides for your area.

It has an annual subscription that will automatically renew in your iTunes account after the free trial offered by the app. You can sync all your devices to the same account so you can have all the information at hand from any device, at any time and place.

27 crags

Discover rock climbing topos made by local climbers. 27 Crags connects climbers from all over the world to share their best knowledge of climbing spots. You can discover sport, traditional and bouldering areas on the world map, browse topos and plan your next climbing trip, download topos and use them offline, but this feature is only available with the premium version.

You can use the GPS function in the app and find your way to the boulders with ease. You can keep track of your achievements with a checklist, and you can also plan your climbs with a to-do list, create your own maps and share your knowledge about your favourite climbing gyms and publish them as Premium.

Apps to control your workouts

In addition to tutorial apps, there are also other types of applications that help you monitor your workouts and keep records so you can see how your progress is going and all the activity you have done in the last few months or weeks.

Workout App (including Apple Watch)

In a rather hidden way, Apple offers us the possibility of choosing between a total of 61 activities that do not normally appear in the Workout app. That is, we have running, walking, swimming, cycling, elliptical or climbing. There is a simple way to add these workouts too, and even make them always appear on the Apple Watch.

1. Open the Workout app on your Apple Watch.
2. Start a new training of the ‘Other’ type and with a ‘Free’ objective
3. Do the normal workout or wait a couple of minutes otherwise it won’t be registered as a workout.
4. It is important here, in the summary that they give us of the training, before clicking ‘OK’ you must click ‘Name’.
5. Choose one of the many activities that Apple Watch shows you in the list.
6. Save the activity by pressing ‘Ok’.
7. Training ends

Redpoint: bouldering and climbing

This is the best app to record your bouldering and climbing sessions automatically. Redpoint gives you detailed insight and advice on your climbs. You can use your Apple Watch as a fitness tracker during your bouldering or climbing sessions. Your workouts will be saved in iHealthKit and you can view them in both the Health and Workout apps.

After each session, you’ll see detailed information about your climbs: total elevation, your heart rate, duration, maximum altitude on climbs, climbing speed, route difficulty, and most importantly, Redpoint will give you personalized training tips based on this data, as well as create a custom training plan for you to achieve your next climbing goals. Thanks to an advanced artificial intelligence engine, we are able to classify your movements while climbing directly on your Apple Watch. We also use the barometer on your watch to measure the altitude climbed. You can monitor the difficulty of the routes you do directly from your Apple Watch.

CRIMPD

With this app you can follow workouts created by world-class climbers and coaches, such as Tom Randall and Ollie Torr. Each workout is designed to help climbers improve their endurance, strength and power, and their conditioning and mobility.

Interactive workouts take you step-by-step through the exercises in each workout. The built-in timer is designed specifically for climbing workouts, such as hangboarding and interval circuits. You’ll be able to track the workouts you’ve completed with the click of a button, and you can view your progress using Crimpd’s built-in analytics.

FIT climbing training

FIT climbing offers you apps to plan your sport climbing and bouldering training. There is a standard and a pro variant for progressive training for all levels. Get started now to become a stronger and more well-rounded climber.

You can plan and follow your own workouts with 3D demonstration videos so you can learn how to do the exercises correctly. You can get high intensity intervals based on different heart rate zones and it has more than 1000 exercises and workouts that adapt depending on your progression.

Ascend Climbing Tracker

It allows you to log a climb and this app makes it very simple and intuitive. You can track your personal bests effortlessly and continue to see your improvements with Ascend’s progress reports. You can see the number of climbs completed and falls, the number of indoor and outdoor climbs. You can also see the difficulty of send climbs versus falls and the difficulty of indoor and outdoor climbs.

An application worth considering, as it is one of the most complete that you can find in the App Store. Its simple interface allows you to use it without any problems or complications and everything is well recorded and saved so that you can easily follow your progress.

Which are our favorites?

Among the review apps, 27 Crags stands out . A simple app that has a large community of climbers from all over the world with whom you can share your progress. Its interface is simple and you can add your own routes so that everyone can see and follow them.

Among the monitoring apps, Redpoint is the app that stands out above the rest. It has everything you would expect from an app and has a very well-integrated interface designed for the Apple Watch, which is a great advantage. It is one of the most downloaded and the most used by climbers of all levels.