Boulder Challenge
Create and share your boulders
$2.99
2.4.0for iPhone, iPad and more
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About Boulder Challenge
App to create and share your own boulder problems on every climbing wall / spray wall / training wall / system wall / chaos wall / boulder block by simply taking a picture and easily specifying the definition as detailed as you like.
- No additional costs like many other apps. Create as many walls and boulders as you like
- Search for locations / boulder walls that have already been added or add them yourself
- Suitable for all artificial boulder walls and also for saving the beta of your outdoor projects
- Take a picture of the wall area you want, select an image that is already stored in the app or from the gallery of your smartphone
- Define the start and end of your boulder
- Define hand and foot holds (optionally separately and explicitly for left / right if desired)
- Optionally define fixed hold sequences by specifying numbering
- Various ways of displaying the markers
- Smoothly fade out markings to be able to see details "behind" the markings
- General descriptive text for a boulder and also possible per hold
- Optional specification of the wall angle
- Specification of difficulty in Fontainebleau / Hueco V scale or without
- Mark boulders that have been resetted to see directly that they are no longer on the wall
- Edit, delete and clone boulders
- Rate and comment boulders
- Submission of individual difficulty ratings with graphical display of the difficulty distribution per boulder
- Search for boulders by name, creator, difficulty from / to, rating, climbed, favorite, wall angle, resetted
- Sorting of boulders by created on, climbed on, name, difficulty, number of ascents, popularity
- Random boulder selection in a certain difficulty range for e.g. warm-up
- Lists for your favorite and already climbed boulders
- Share boulders outside of the app as an image, direct link and QR code
- Display of news per location / boulder wall
- Display of the difficulty distribution per location / boulder wall
- Display of the locals per location / boulder wall
- "Bulletin board" per location / boulder wall
- Share locations / boulder walls outside of the app as direct link and QR code
- Follow other users and see what they've been up to in your personal news feed
- Get score points for your created boulders, climbed boulders or e. g. if one of your boulders has been rated well by others
- Optional private profile if your activities should not be visible to others
- Send and receive private messages
- Automatically kept logbook to easily display your activities for a period of your choice
- Export of all your created and climbed boulders in Microsoft Excel format for further individual evaluation
Have fun!
- No additional costs like many other apps. Create as many walls and boulders as you like
- Search for locations / boulder walls that have already been added or add them yourself
- Suitable for all artificial boulder walls and also for saving the beta of your outdoor projects
- Take a picture of the wall area you want, select an image that is already stored in the app or from the gallery of your smartphone
- Define the start and end of your boulder
- Define hand and foot holds (optionally separately and explicitly for left / right if desired)
- Optionally define fixed hold sequences by specifying numbering
- Various ways of displaying the markers
- Smoothly fade out markings to be able to see details "behind" the markings
- General descriptive text for a boulder and also possible per hold
- Optional specification of the wall angle
- Specification of difficulty in Fontainebleau / Hueco V scale or without
- Mark boulders that have been resetted to see directly that they are no longer on the wall
- Edit, delete and clone boulders
- Rate and comment boulders
- Submission of individual difficulty ratings with graphical display of the difficulty distribution per boulder
- Search for boulders by name, creator, difficulty from / to, rating, climbed, favorite, wall angle, resetted
- Sorting of boulders by created on, climbed on, name, difficulty, number of ascents, popularity
- Random boulder selection in a certain difficulty range for e.g. warm-up
- Lists for your favorite and already climbed boulders
- Share boulders outside of the app as an image, direct link and QR code
- Display of news per location / boulder wall
- Display of the difficulty distribution per location / boulder wall
- Display of the locals per location / boulder wall
- "Bulletin board" per location / boulder wall
- Share locations / boulder walls outside of the app as direct link and QR code
- Follow other users and see what they've been up to in your personal news feed
- Get score points for your created boulders, climbed boulders or e. g. if one of your boulders has been rated well by others
- Optional private profile if your activities should not be visible to others
- Send and receive private messages
- Automatically kept logbook to easily display your activities for a period of your choice
- Export of all your created and climbed boulders in Microsoft Excel format for further individual evaluation
Have fun!
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What's New in the Latest Version 2.4.0
Last updated on Oct 20, 2022
Old Versions
Auto complete for "where to find" and "wall angle" in boulder editor
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Version History
2.4.0
Oct 20, 2022
Auto complete for "where to find" and "wall angle" in boulder editor
2.3.0
Aug 24, 2022
Logbook: Automatically filled when you create boulders or mark them as climbed. This allows you to easily display what you have done in an individual period of time. You can also export all your boulders as an Excel file to create your own evaluations.
2.2.0
Jun 28, 2022
- Search filter und sort order will now be saved and restored for each location and list
- New sort option for boulders regarding the date of your ascent
- Display of the date of your own ascents
- More minor optimizations
- New sort option for boulders regarding the date of your ascent
- Display of the date of your own ascents
- More minor optimizations
2.1.0
May 13, 2022
- Sharing a boulder by picture now contains more info about the boulder, so that you can use that images when you don't have internet connection at your wall as well ;)
- Bugfixes
- Bugfixes
2.0.0
Mar 23, 2022
Version 2.0! A lot of your feedback has been implemented...
- Thumbnails of the boulders directly in all lists
- All functionality for a boulder are now directly available everywhere. This means that a boulder no longer has to be called up separately in order to mark it as climbed, save it as a favorite, rate it, comment it, edit it, etc.
- Within the boulder detail view, you can navigate to the previous/next boulder without having to return to the overview list first
- Statistics of available boulders per difficulty for each location
- Boulder grades in different colors
- Countless other small improvements
- Thumbnails of the boulders directly in all lists
- All functionality for a boulder are now directly available everywhere. This means that a boulder no longer has to be called up separately in order to mark it as climbed, save it as a favorite, rate it, comment it, edit it, etc.
- Within the boulder detail view, you can navigate to the previous/next boulder without having to return to the overview list first
- Statistics of available boulders per difficulty for each location
- Boulder grades in different colors
- Countless other small improvements
1.15.1
Mar 24, 2021
Tiny bugfix regarding display of help text after registration.
1.15
Mar 17, 2021
- Share boulders as image, link or QR-code
- Share locations as link or QR-code
- Location owners have the same rights to modify boulders (edit/delete) as the creator of a boulder in that location
- Share locations as link or QR-code
- Location owners have the same rights to modify boulders (edit/delete) as the creator of a boulder in that location
1.14.1
Feb 22, 2021
- Filtering and sorting in all boulder lists were improved and enhanced
- Existing boulders can be cloned (eg to create variations or to add a boulder with different wall angles)
- Lots of other small improvements
- Existing boulders can be cloned (eg to create variations or to add a boulder with different wall angles)
- Lots of other small improvements
1.13
Jan 7, 2021
- Search boulders by a grade range
- Add website url to location
- Add YouTube link in boulder comments
- Fixed issue regarding selecting pictures from gallery for iOS 14
- Many small optimizations
- Add website url to location
- Add YouTube link in boulder comments
- Fixed issue regarding selecting pictures from gallery for iOS 14
- Many small optimizations
1.12
Dec 8, 2020
Bugfix: Assigning a template picture while editing an existing boulder showed up an error message while saving the changed boulder.
Some smaller improvements.
Some smaller improvements.
1.11.1
Oct 27, 2020
Bugfix regarding the scaling of the boulder markers in the enhanced boulder preview from the last update.
1.11
Oct 24, 2020
Now you can easily navigate through the boulder list in the preview of the boulders to see all the pictures directly there.
1.10
Sep 15, 2020
- Now you can add reusable template pictures to your wall/location. So beside taking a picture or selecting it from your phones gallery you can add template pictures to your location which are also available for all users. E.g. it's easy to ask others to define some boulders for you ;)
- The boulders search now includes the wall angle and location
- The boulders search now includes the wall angle and location
1.9
May 12, 2020
- Beside the option to smoothly fade out the markers of the allowed hand and foot holds to look "behind" the markers, you can fade out the boulder image as well which can give you a much better overview of the specified markers on very colorful walls
- Now you can resize every marker to a different size instead of having a single size for all markers of a boulder definition
- Small optimizations and fixes
- Now you can resize every marker to a different size instead of having a single size for all markers of a boulder definition
- Small optimizations and fixes
1.8
Apr 8, 2020
- In all boulder lists you can now see directly whether you have already climbed a boulder (green tick) and do not have to open the boulder first
- You can mark a boulder as no longer existing (in all boulder lists and in the info about the boulder)
- For the locations you have created, boulders can mark as no longer existing by a date (until) in the location info. This makes it easy to mark all outdated boulders up to a certain date after resetting your wall
- You can mark a boulder as no longer existing (in all boulder lists and in the info about the boulder)
- For the locations you have created, boulders can mark as no longer existing by a date (until) in the location info. This makes it easy to mark all outdated boulders up to a certain date after resetting your wall
1.7
Jan 29, 2020
By popular request, the markings for the boulder definitions can now also be displayed as simple circles. So you can switch between crosses, boxes and circles in the view according to your preference, whereby the last selection is of course saved as your personal standard.
1.6
Jan 28, 2020
Boulder editor:
- You can lock the position of the markers to prevent accidentally move them while editing
- Up to three numbers can be assigned to a single marker, instead of only one number as previous. So now you can define sequences with using the same hold more than once more easily
Bugfix:
- App crashed on devices with iOS prior to version 13
- You can lock the position of the markers to prevent accidentally move them while editing
- Up to three numbers can be assigned to a single marker, instead of only one number as previous. So now you can define sequences with using the same hold more than once more easily
Bugfix:
- App crashed on devices with iOS prior to version 13
1.5
Dec 28, 2019
Enhancements of the boulder editor:
- Change the size of the definition markers to better match the picture resolution
- Optionally add numbers to defintion markers for a better overview or to define circular boulders
Fix for iOS from version 13.2 onwards (wrong orientation for taken pictures)
- Change the size of the definition markers to better match the picture resolution
- Optionally add numbers to defintion markers for a better overview or to define circular boulders
Fix for iOS from version 13.2 onwards (wrong orientation for taken pictures)
1.4
Dec 5, 2019
- Added an additional type of boulder markers in boulder view (now you can switch between the cross and a box which doesn't hide the hold behind the marker as much as the cross does)
- You can temporarily hide all markers except start and end holds in boulder view to get a better orientation where the boulder starts/ends
- Optimized touch behaviour in boulder view
- Added filter option to your score card and to the activities of other climbers
- Bugfix regarding displayed indicator in main menu when you receive new private messages
- Bugfixes regarding list of private messages
- In location news the location name is not displayed anymore (because it's the same for all news for one location ;)
- Compiled against iOS 13
- Minor optimizations and fixes
- You can temporarily hide all markers except start and end holds in boulder view to get a better orientation where the boulder starts/ends
- Optimized touch behaviour in boulder view
- Added filter option to your score card and to the activities of other climbers
- Bugfix regarding displayed indicator in main menu when you receive new private messages
- Bugfixes regarding list of private messages
- In location news the location name is not displayed anymore (because it's the same for all news for one location ;)
- Compiled against iOS 13
- Minor optimizations and fixes
1.3.1
Oct 7, 2019
- Boulder rate filter is now based on an exact specification and no longer on a minimum specification
- Bugfixes
- Bugfixes
1.3
Sep 27, 2019
- Beside name and difficulty boulders can be filterd by climber and star rating
- Optionally you can specify one location as your default location and you will be redirected to this location when you start the app (see option in info tab of each location)
- If no default locations specified you will be redirected to the news tab on your profile page instead
- If there are new news or scores available the corresponding tab on your profile page is highlighted
- There is an additional tab for every location showing news corresponding to this location
- All users are initially shown on the community page
- All links are green colored to easily see that this is a link you can follow
- Added a loading indicator on all pages which are initially loading data
- Display of private messages refactored
- The main menu includes links to the social media pages of the Boulder Challenge app
- More small improvements to make the app more user friendly
- Performance and bugfixes
- Update of used libraries
- Optionally you can specify one location as your default location and you will be redirected to this location when you start the app (see option in info tab of each location)
- If no default locations specified you will be redirected to the news tab on your profile page instead
- If there are new news or scores available the corresponding tab on your profile page is highlighted
- There is an additional tab for every location showing news corresponding to this location
- All users are initially shown on the community page
- All links are green colored to easily see that this is a link you can follow
- Added a loading indicator on all pages which are initially loading data
- Display of private messages refactored
- The main menu includes links to the social media pages of the Boulder Challenge app
- More small improvements to make the app more user friendly
- Performance and bugfixes
- Update of used libraries
1.2
Aug 31, 2019
Each location now has a public "bulletin board" that can be used to ask for climbing partners, lost or found posts and whatever.
1.1.2
Aug 14, 2019
- Small enhancements regarding the user interface
- Bugfixes
Thanks for all the responses :)
- Bugfixes
Thanks for all the responses :)
1.1.1
Aug 13, 2019
Minor usability improvements
1.1
Jul 23, 2019
- Now you can fade in/out the markers in the boulder definitions to see small holds behind the markers
- You can use private messages to communicate directly with other users for initial contact, arrangements, etc. When the bulletin board is introduced at the locations soon, you can also answer to climbing partner requests and so on
- You can use private messages to communicate directly with other users for initial contact, arrangements, etc. When the bulletin board is introduced at the locations soon, you can also answer to climbing partner requests and so on
Boulder Challenge FAQ
Click here to learn how to download Boulder Challenge in restricted country or region.
Check the following list to see the minimum requirements of Boulder Challenge.
iPhone
Requires iOS 10.3 or later.
iPad
Requires iPadOS 10.3 or later.
iPod touch
Requires iOS 10.3 or later.
Boulder Challenge supports English, German
