Pinnacle Climb Log

The app works great on my Apple Watch Series 3. You start a session and tap the route difficulty after your climb to log it. Heart rate is tracked and workouts/calories are credited to your Apple Health data if you want. Super simple, but there is room for improvement. Sometimes I’m so exhausted after a climb that I forget to log the route. It would be very useful if the app could detect when I stop descending and give me a vibration to remind me to log the route. Even better, the app could take the approach that the Ski Tracks app uses to track skiing - it auto detects when you’re going up and down, logging metrics like vertical descent, descent rate, descent time, etc so you can get a nice overview of each of your runs. If that model was adopted, you would be able to see how you are progressing on a particular route over time (ie, am I climbing it quicker, how high did I climb on failed attempts, etc). Overall, would recommend 5/5 and I’m excited to see how this develops.

Just started climbing a couple months ago, and the thought of keeping a log book for the gym sounded tedious. The tie-in with the watch to provide an idea for activity, combined with the ability to log sessions, is amazing. One thing I’d like to see is being able to switch from bouldering to top-roping, as my gym has autobelays that make switching from bouldering to top-roping extremely quick. In between sets of boulder problems, I usually get in a nice easy route like a 5.7/5.8. It’s certainly helped my endurance, and would be nice to be able to log that without having to end and begin sessions. Even without that, it’s still a 5-Star app!

Good app - I started using it and it feels good. However a couple of improvements would be good: 1. There is now easy way to mark if I was successful in flashing or on-sight or failed a climber from the widget. I need to end the workout and then add notes to it and mark the individual climbs. It would be good as I come down I could mark the climb somehow. 2 the app track timing overall but it doesn’t track time of the climb itself making difficult to understand how much endurance workout have you actually accomplished in lead or top roping - ideally I would like to tap the widget at the beginning of the climb and at the end of the climb and separate rest time from climbing time 3. It would be good if this app would be compatible with other sport watches and heart rate monitors outside the Apple Watch. I use Garmin and their heart rate monitor which records on the apple health but not on your app. Keep up the excellent work and let me know if I am missing something related to this feedback- Best

I tried a few other climbing apps, and this one is by far my favorite. Please keep the app simple and don’t add unnecessary features that will bloat the experience! I actually don’t think I need to know my total vertical feet climbed - especially for bouldering. If you did add it, I’d like the option to turn it off because it’s just not accurate enough to be useful and I feel like it clutters things up. Some sort of “score” that estimates my skill level would be really cool to see on a graph over time.

Love this app but what I would love more is if it asked you before you completed a session. My boyfriend and I have both accidentally finished a session before we meant to and it’s a pain to edit it manually for each climb afterwards. Also, if there was a way to prompt you if you haven’t added a climb in a while that would be great. I frequently forget to finish a session and then have to stop it a few days later when I climb again messing up the data. Otherwise, I love this app. Having it on the widget screen is really really helpful.