The best bouldering training apps, and what each one is for

We make Blok Sessions, one of the apps on this list. Every price and feature below comes from the app's own App Store page or website, checked on 2 October 2026. App Store prices are the US ones. Ours are in euros.

First, what do you want the app to do?

Training apps for climbers do four jobs, and none of them does all four well.

1. Plan your training: which sessions go in which week, and what's in each session.
2. Run a workout: tell you what to do and time the hangs and rests.
3. Log your climbing: what you sent, at what grade, how often.
4. Run a board: light up problems on a MoonBoard, Kilter or Tension board.

The apps, side by side

App	Its main job	Runs on	Price
Blok Sessions	Planning your own weeks and sessions	iPhone, any browser	Free. Pro €4.99 a month, €29.99 a year or €79.99 once
Crimpd	Ready-made workouts with timers	iPhone, Android	Free. Crimpd+ $12.99 a month or $59.99 a year
Lattice	A plan written and adjusted for you	iPhone, Android	Needs a paid training plan
Boulder Trainer	A hangboard timer for your board	iPhone, Apple Watch	Free. Pro $17.99 a year or $39.99 once
Grippy	Workouts for Beastmaker hangboards	iPhone, Android	Free
Redpoint	Logging climbs from an Apple Watch	iPhone, Apple Watch	Free. Pro $5.99 a month or $29.99 a year
The board's own app	Problems on that board	iPhone, Android	Depends on the board

If you want to plan your own training

We built Blok Sessions for this. You pick exercises for the warm-up, strength, climbing and mobility from a catalog of 260, each with its minutes, intensity and an injury-risk rating. Then you put sessions into the weeks of a training period, such as Strength or Deload, and tick them off. The builder, the plans, the logbook, benchmark tests and trends are free.

Pro adds a timer that runs every exercise in a session, a generator that builds a block from your goal and your week, and training load. It's €4.99 a month, €29.99 a year (7 days free first) or €79.99 once.

If you want someone else to write the plan

The Lattice app holds Lattice's training plans, with your sessions in a calendar. It's free to download and you need a training plan subscription to use it. Crimpd+ is the cheaper route to a plan: the paid tier of Crimpd adds training plans to its workout library.

Blok Sessions has no coach in it. Its generator works from fixed rules and you edit the result. If you want a person or a model deciding your sessions, pick one of the two above.

If you want workouts and timers

Crimpd is the obvious place to start. Its workouts were written by Tom Randall and Ollie Torr, the timers are built in, and the free library is big enough to train from.

For hangboard work on its own, Boulder Trainer knows 90 hangboards by name, talks you through the hangs and rests, and runs from an Apple Watch. Grippy does the same job for Beastmaker boards.

If you want to log your climbing

Redpoint tracks a session from an Apple Watch, so you don't type anything between attempts. Blok Sessions logs each boulder by hand, with the grade, whether you flashed or sent it, and how many goes it took. That gives you a grade pyramid and a send rate, but it won't record a climb for you.

If you train on a board

Use the board's own app, because the problems, the grades and the lights are in it. Plan the board session wherever you plan the rest of your week, then climb it in the board's app.

Where Blok Sessions is the wrong pick

• You want an Android app. The planner works in a browser on Android, and the timer there is Pro, but there's no Android app.
• You want an AI coach or video analysis. It has neither.
• You want your watch to log climbs for you.
• You'd rather be handed every session than choose it. Planning without a coach shows what choosing it yourself involves.