Climbing & Partners: Cactux

Cactux App

About this app

Cactux is the climbing app built in Mexico: community guidebooks, offline walking navigation to the boulder, and the partners to go climbing with.

Download a guidebook before you leave and use all of it at the crag with no signal. Walk to the block along the real approach trail, not a straight line. And if you have a Wear OS watch, wear it.

AT THE CRAG

• Offline navigation — Follow the approach trail to a boulder or a route. Works with no data and no coverage.
• Wear OS watch — Send a sector to your wrist and move around the area without pulling out your phone. Navigate, mark points and record trails from the watch, with no signal.
• Topos — Photos of the wall with the lines drawn on them, plus grades, quality and the beta.
• Sector maps — Boulders and sport routes colored by grade, with parking, trails and your own saved points.
• Your own points — Save the car, the water, the shade, where there's signal. They stay on the map for next time.
• Offline mode — Download the guidebook, photos and map tiles. It all lives on your phone.

CREATE AND CORRECT, OFFLINE TOO

• Create sectors, routes, boulders and topos at the crag with no signal. They upload themselves once you're back.
• Suggest routes, boulders and trails on a guidebook that isn't yours — offline too.
• Record trails by walking them, with the GPS in your phone or your watch.

GRADES THE WAY YOU READ THEM

• Convert between V-scale, Font, YDS and French. Pick your system and the whole app follows it — without touching what the first ascensionist wrote.

PARTNERS

• Find climbers — A map of climbers near you, with their grades, goals and availability.
• Sessions — Propose a quick outing, rock or gym, and get it confirmed.
• Trips — Plan longer ones: invitations, join requests, shared expenses, gear lists, carpooling and the forecast for the destination.
• Follow climbers and see what they're sending.
• Messaging — One inbox for all of it.

ALSO

• Log your ascents on boulders and on rope, rate quality and suggest a grade.
• Events — Festivals, comps and meet-ups from the community.
• News and videos from the climbing world.
• In English and Spanish.

Develop routes or write guidebooks? Publish yours at cactux.app and share it with the community.

Cactux started in Guadalcázar and keeps growing: El Salto, Cañón de San Lorenzo, Sierra del Sarnoso and more. Missing your area? Get in touch.

What’s new

If you write guidebooks, you can now create multipitch routes from your phone: each pitch with its own name, grade, length, bolts and crux, and its own line drawn on the photo.

Also: move a topo into a zone, reorder your guide's sectors and trails, and add deep water solo, ice, via ferrata or aid to your Compas profile.

And you can now report the content itself — a comment, a photo, a video or a guidebook — not just the person behind it.