Pebble

Pebble Climbing

About this app

Pebble's goal is to make you a better climber.

By tracking both your indoor and outdoor climbing as well as any climbing-specific workouts, Pebble can begin to understand your current climbing ability.

Once you log your sends and complete workouts, Pebble will begin recommending certain climbs to you. You can get recommendations based on a specific gym, guide, or even location.

The more everyone adds to Pebble, the smarter it will become. Soon it will be able to recommend climbs based on your favorite climbing style. Or, if you want to get better at your weaknesses, Pebble will make recommendations for getting stronger at those as well.

Features include:
• Follow your friends in the FEED to see their sends and media or your gym to see when a new area has been reset or if any events are happening soon.
• Find climbs for your next trip in the OUTDOOR GUIDEBOOK or give back by adding climbs that you've sent to the guidebook through the app in a wiki-style.
• Track your nightly sessions at the local CLIMBING GYM if they've joined Pebble or even if they haven't.
• Find climbing-specific WORKOUTS & CIRCUITS that other users have created to do specifically at your gym, your local crag, or at home.
• Get RECOMMENDATIONS based on your current climbing ability and what climbs you need to send to reach the next grade.
• ANALYZE your climbing and training using our charts to see your progress and plan your next sessions.
• SCHEDULE workouts and sessions and track your successful completion automatically.

Ratings and reviews

My gym does a good job of loading routes into the app. I really enjoy the ability to see my progress with the pyramids. There is still a lag when logging sends. It can take up to 15 seconds and sometimes it does not count it as part of the session and you have to click twice. If this was fixed I would give it 5 stars. For dev, I am using an S23. Update: Amazing response from developer, sends are logging much faster now. Other problems are being investigated.

I like the idea, but the UI needs some work. Sends and tries take 10+ seconds on my phone to register (if at all). My phone is pretty old though, so maybe most people don't have this problem. Scrolling is very finicky too because of competing swipe actions. I try to go down the page of climbs but it brings up an "extra attribute" menu. This should be moved to a button, or a horizontal swipe instead of on a swipe up.

I really want to like this app. It's easy to log sends and keep track of what you've climbed. But the app is constrained by a few things: The app is only useful if the gym keeps it updated. I've climbed a number of routes that aren't in the database, which defeats the point. Also the app is slow. Sometimes it takes 20-30 seconds to log a single send, nevermind tries. Third, there's no wiki way for users to add pictures or update routes if they're incorrect. Good start, but more work is needed.

What's new

- bug fixes