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.

A redesigned interface, new brand colors and refreshed screens in light and dark mode go with you on every outing.

YOUR CLIMBING DAY

• Home — Plans, events, tickets, recent ascents, saved climbs and today's news in one place.
• Profile and Compas — Your identity and climbing logbook, with a separate editor for partner photos, availability and visibility.

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.
• Areas and sector maps — Boulders and routes colored by grade on one map, with sections, 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 whole areas and guidebooks, with photos, topos and map tiles. It all lives on your phone.

CREATE AND CORRECT, OFFLINE TOO

• Create sectors, routes, boulders, photos 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, and say whether they are approach, between-climbs or descent trails.
• Organize areas with mixed content and import climbs from a spreadsheet.

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, with replies, reactions, stickers and voice notes.

ALSO

• Log your ascents — offline too — rate quality and suggest a grade.
• Community — Photos, videos and notes from climbers who've been there, per climb, sector or whole guidebook.
• Events — Festivals, comps and meet-ups from the community, with tickets on your phone and in Google Wallet.
• News and videos from the climbing world.
• In English and Spanish.

Develop routes or write guidebooks? Create and edit climbs, photos and topos from your phone, organize areas and import climbs from a spreadsheet. Publish your guidebook 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

• Messages: your messages appear instantly, with delivery status and retry.
• Send photos from the gallery or camera with the new “+” panel, next to stickers.
• Forward and delete messages; tag group members with @.
• Guide comments: tag other people and reply inside a thread.
• Comment notifications open the conversation on the climb's page.
• Darth Grader: work out a route's grade by sections, when creating it or suggesting a grade.