Kilter Board™ Climbing App

i would give 0 stars if I could. a middle schooler can vibe code an app better than this

They somehow built an app that's even worse than the old app that everyone hated, but reluctantly used. Remarkable feat.

work in progress, hoping it gets back to what the old app could do (or better!) can anybody tell me how to leave a comment or otherwise write notes on a problem I've tried but haven't sent yet? that's a hugely important feature for projects.

this app sucks

create account, verify email yet login says wrong username/password. and then it says login page expired, click to reload, this app sucks

the search is sooo painfully slow and it can show my recent climbs accurately but not reflect that in my logbook? now it only shows the grade the problem was set at when selecting problems not the grade of the angle the board is at ...

it's coming along keep up the good work

LITERALLY WONT OPEN BTW GREAT JOB GUYS

doesn't work....🤷?

it doesnt work, cant open old account cant make new one, it doesnt send the email..

Blank black screen at startup. Uninstall and clear cache does not solve this.

Miss the layout and ux of the old app. It provided a better overview imo.

Doesn't load. White screen

can't even register.

doesn't work at all. black screen. Huawei P30 pro

Neither iteration of this app is or was good. The filter and sort don't really work. Group functions didn't work before and don't now.

The previous app was quite bad, but it worked. This new one is even worse. It takes forever to load the boulders, you cannot see what's currently displayed or the latest boulders shown... I think this great wall deserves a decent app After the latest update from 01/09/2026 I cannot even open the app. Black screen...

10/10 can't even create an account. would recommend to anybody who wants grey hair.

You can't discard the filters if you set some. Showing a desired problem takes too long. The app UI isn't intuitive. You don't have a list of your own set boulders (you need to filter by your name). You can't search a boulder by holds (a git project allows this and should be integrated). Using it anyway cause we have no choice but there are so many improvements to be developed. Please continue to upgrade this. edit (sept 26): improving but still slow

It's got a lot of work left but has potential. I understand that they were forced to release the app early because AURA shut down the old app. I hope the bad reviews do not deter them from working on the app. I personally like the new UI but the app is quite slow and unstable and also missing some really nice features like recently displayed. For those who are trying to get their old account back from my understanding you can email Kilter directly and they may be able to help you.

Unusable

are you testing this app? the password recovery doesn't work

my account is deleted? or at least I can't sign in, and password reset is broken........ made new account, ALL OF MY LOGBOOK IS GONE.

the old app was better and for dear god take away that awful "7b+-7c+" .... you decide a grade that's it! not maybe this maybe that between ... between those two it's just 7c

it barely works

Absolutely rubbish! How did they copy an existing app and make it worse!? Infrequent updates and next to no quality of life improvements since they hastily pushed it live a number of months ago. So poor and spoils the Kilter experience. Also, the Kilter classics that have been chosen are some of the very worst problems I have ever climbed on the board. Whoever chose them obviously has very limited experience of climbing this board as there are hundreds of better problems to choose from.

no me puedo conectar

old ones better

the new app is still buggy, does not register all the inputs and filters are not working properly

would be helpful to be able to see when a climb was set and any notes from the setter, e.g. "no matching" or "open feet," etc.

can't even get the system to let me log in. haven't been to this gym in a while, try using the kilter to do some benchmarks and can't. I was looking at one for home wall, won't be doing that now for sure.

Best thing about the kilterboard is "routes", except it's implemented terribly. Timing/pacing is terrible. 0.1x way too slow, 0.2x too fast. No way to set it to stop at end of route, so it blanks and loops while 1/2way. Can't edit comments. Shame. Kilterboard could be great, but poor implementation kind of makes it suck.

stuck on an infinite loading screen

Doesn't accept downgrading apparently

I've applied a filter and there is no way I can remove it

The app does not work. I try to log in and I just get a spinning wheel.

app does not work

Can't even login

App doesn't get pass the loading screen. Email verification links are dead.

Not the yellow from the egg. Where are all the fun boulders from the old App?

Bugged to hell. The app barely works half the time, the design is super confusing. I have no clue why the switched from the old version which was easy and smooth.

So many problems I don't know where to start. 1 star for me finally being able to make a new account and use the app.. that's about it. Can you please spend some money to get the app at least back to what it was? This is somehow a huge downgrade of the old app.... not sure how that happened.

unable to even login after registering

Maybe it's buggy cz the interface is new, but it feels like someone took a perfectly well-working Toyota Hilux and said "a Suzuki Wagon R can do the same, this is a good upgrade". The app reloads every time you open it and it's painfully slow

Pros: + graphics + only verified, option - lost all my data. Cons: - missing filtering options of the older app - missing infos vs angle, very useful for sanity check - missing boulder specific logbook to check attempts over time - double grades, please compute some weighted average or similar. - chart in the logbook does not update. Missing data bars and y-axis scale is wrong. 17/06/2026 I cannot log repeats thus my daily logbook is not accurate. i cannot see the log history of attempts.

If I could give it zero Stars I would. Why will it not show me any of the climbs? I tried to uninstall the app. nothing works. I miss climbing on the kilter board. Please make an app that works

App doesnt even work for me. It wont send verification emails so I cant even log in.

What a disappointment this app is. Big step back when it comes to UI and UX

Clearly made by someone who doesn't know anything about app development. Or climbing.

Garbage. Backgrounding the app causes it to lose your climb so you can't log it. This feels like a highschool project and not an $8M+ company.

I'll focus on one issue: the search is painfully clunky. The climb list re-fetches and blanks out with every few keystrokes, constantly interrupting the experience with a loading spinner. Suggesting to prefetch large batch of climbs for the active filters, display the first page immediately, then filter that full cached list locally as the user types — instant results, no round trips, no flickering. Only fall back to a server query for very open-ended filters with huge result sets

really poor user experience

What was wrong with the last app/developer?? Broken, reeks of "new management wants to change things up"

swipe to type doesn't work at all, my app doesn't show the same climbs as the apps on my friends' phones even with the same exact search settings

Have given it a bit since the app dropped before trying, but unfortunately it's still terrible. Can't log climbs unless successful, can't see comments from other climbers, clunky changing climbs.

password reset function appears not to work. warming up it looks like they used AI to populate v0s. you can't log attempts without marking it as a send? have y'all ever heard of working a project over multiple sessions?

this new change is awful. I can no longer search and filter for climbs in a meaningful way

Can't even log in, first the login button didn't even work, then it said my account is gone, try to make it again, already in use. Try forget password, no email came. Broken software.

Says my username and/or password is incorrect. Clicked forgot password and never received an email. Tried creating a new account with a new email, said that email is already in use. I just created the email before trying to register.

how did they manage to make it that much worse...

Seriously? who are your devs? They should be ashamed of themselves. No migration from the old app so we can keep our data ? that's BASIC software engineering practice. this feels vibe coded to the max with 0 care to your user based. it's also still a buggy mess. Feels like a UI wrapper on top of your old backend. infuriating. DO BETTER.

can't even get the verification email to sign in. what was wrong with the old app compared to this

I can't create an account, it errors out on the email validation step.

fix it pls

Vibe coded dumpster fire. How could you consider to publish such a piece of randomness. Nothing really works in it, bad UX everywhere.

useless, this is complete dogwater and makes the board functionally useless. IDC what is going on between u and aurora but this is nuts. get a grip (pun intended IG I'm so pissed idk)

Doesn't link with my old account. I created new account still not want to login 😫👎

Old app experience with easily accesible filters etc was much better.

no history or recent boulders, please, add this function!

This app is so bad I refuse to kilter. Its pure laziness that Kilter refuses to just pay someone competent to design their app.

Absolutely horrible experience. Problems don't show up the same on different phones and searching/filtering climbs is completely broken.

The app is very slow. Somehow not all routes are shown to everyone at the same board, probably syncing issues with the server. This is super annoying as not all climbers can log the routes, which is super frustrating.

took you at least 3 years(?!?!?) to develop this trash that somehow regressed from Aurora's app... how? Claude could do better in a day. design is whack, performance is horrible. seems like you spent 3 years picking fonts and colors just for it to look like AXE bodyspray the app, and 1 week on the code, well done.

It was horrible at the beginning, but I have contacted the Kilter board team, and they fixed the problem with the wall at my gym, so finally I am back climbing again. Thanks a lot team! It works great now. cheers!!

The new app is a bit slower to react compared to the old app. Adjusting the grade range on a slider is very annoying setting the specific range was better, or make the slider larger. removing features such as randomize is also a big loss. A nice improvement would be adding a feature when logging a climb, wether or not it should be/become a verified climb. Verified climbs is a nice feature. Pressed the back button by accident when setting a climb and it was deleted without a promp.

No longer recognizes my login, won't send me a reset link either

garbage. can't even create an account.

Lost my user from my previous app. Register experience terrible with delete button that does not work. UX of the app quite poor

I really hope that in the next update the sliderbar for selecting grades is ditched in favor of the two fields the old app had (i.e. min grade and max grade) using the slider is super annoying! Despite that,Nice upgrade and new features ! Fix the slider and it'll be 5*

Works but less well than the previous app

Broken

ranges for the grades is a horrible idea

Does not work as intended, climbs do not load, endless loading circles.

Somehow they made the app worse than the previous iteration.

editing my knee jerk 1 star review to say thanks to Kilter for rolling with the punches and getting this done. aside from all of the drama with the initial switchover from the other app, I can already tell this one is going to improve upon the stagnant and outdated previous app.

old one seemed better but can you add french/uiaa grading too? not only V? as european were used to different grading system like it was im old app

appreciate the app improvements! is there a way to make the logbook only tally completed climbs? rather than showing the number of climbs for a particular grade attempted?

Downgrade from previous app. The worst feature, personally, are the slash grade on the boulders. I liked the kilterboard for it's "I'm climbing an outdoor project" kind of feelings, but since there are no slash grades outside, that feeling is almost lost. Pushing through the grades is not the same, in my opinion

doesnt work

The new version is a major downgrade. You can’t see which climbs you’ve already done when scrolling, which breaks the core experience. Filters are unreliable and often don’t work, and you can’t combine them properly. Worse, historical data wasn’t transferred, so climbing history is lost without warning. The logbook is also broken, with the histogram not updating correctly. Overall, unstable and poorly executed.

"Better experience". Where?

garbage - half baked and frustrating to use.

I cannot log in despite registering new account and confirming email and trying multiple times over several days. fix asap pls

unbelievable how you still don't have profile data import. what do you do professionally...?

Just took the original app and made it worse without actually improving anything

This app needs improvement. When you make a playlist it should automatically suggest the board you're on, or it messes up the whole list if you choose wrong or don't know. Every time you close your phone or go to another app you have to go to the map, find the gym etc., and refresh the page because it doesn't remember your settings automatically. It should remember what gym and board you used last. Otherwise it is ok. The layout is better than the last app, and the attempt counter is nice

Not much to say to be honest

works horribly. lost all my old routes and lists. it was a nightmare to sign up.

completely unnecessary app. the old one was way better.

Really awful, guys. When you pick a climb from your log it picks a completely different climb so you have to manually search it. Searching climbs sucks because it refreshes about 15 times while you try to search. App is also incredibly slow. Very disappointing.

I understand that the migration to the new app wasn't planned and there was not much time. BUT you are selling a very expensive product to thousands of customers worldwide! A great part of the user experience of your boards is within this app. And this app is right now so terrible that it is close to unusable. Go and pay some really good developers to get this working asap! For now the old app kinda does its job for me...

Thanks for making a app under your own authority. It is missing some key features like "quick log", record individual attempts without sending, and something to show what climbs you have already done while looking at the list of climbs. I'm looking forward to the changes as I'm sure these have already been noted from the other app. I'll change my rating then!

This app and especially the transition to it is just a spit to the face to kilter users.

playlists don't work - the create button does nothing. They deleted all your old saved playlists and draft climbs also it only shows V grades, the old app showed multiple grading systems

The old kilter app was bad. Somehow, they managed to make this one worse. Tons of bugs, tons of features missing. Kilter makes the worst business decisions in the history of climbing.

Very dysfunctional. The filters for climbs don't actually filter what you want. Nothing feels intuitive. sometimes when I click something it works other times it seems to do nothing. Crazy you could spend thousands on a wall and get handed this steaming pile. I thought the old app sucked but man would I love that back. CRG Hadley also stinks btw.

Extremely unintuitive. The whole layout is very strange and difficult to use, some features don't work (like saving playlists etc), obviously annoying to have lost all the previous data too and having to jump through hoops to get it back. A massive downgrade over the previous app. I also don't like that climbs are now given a range like V3 to V5, it makes no sense for single climbs and makes it hard to gauge for warmups etc.

The app can't even address the LEDs correctly. The most basic function of this app does not work.

Even ignore porting the data, still way worse than the previous version. Have to constantly reset the list that's already sorted etc

it's a much soother/faster app than the previous one and also the appearance is nicer. Some functionality is missing as other users have mentioned but it looks like it's going in the right direction 🤞

downloaded the new app. it sent me a code to activate and it didn't work. so I had to sign up "again" and now it says my email is in use so I'm stuck in oblivion. I tried emailing and that didn't work.

The older version was better. The new UI is not the best. Connection with the board is not working straightforward. Routes are shown with wrong colors. The quality of the routes are not good. Less amount of routes than before. The grading of the routes is terrible. My account for the old app was erased without any notice. The entire thing feels like a dirty AI hack to get the app running and filling the database quickly. Was there any need to get away from the old app and database? 👎

id give it zero stars if I could. grade ranges are dumb, lack of filtering options is absurd. ux is terrible

No idea why they didn't just update the existing app. I've lost all my previous data from the old app.

why is there grade ranges??? app is laggy all the people who set stuff set the same climbs just 2 holds to the right or left genuinely makes me not want to climb kilter when I go to the gym

This must be one of the worst app updates of all time. lost all data, new UX/UI is trash. great job

nice, I guess no one even tried to test this so called app. you can't switch to another app on phone and get back to current boulder. can't find option to show grades in 6,7a-bc.. only V-grading, maybe I'm blind but the apps vibes are so that it doesn't exist. filter accidentally saved from previous, but you can not apply it until tweek the grades a bit. ie I had for example v8-v11 applied and lots of v4 in the list, filter worked only after changing grades.

I understand that this app is a rushed replacement for the old one. looking forward to seeing it improve over time and staying on the board.

the app is just bad. it feels and looks like the kilter board makers really don't care about their customers and it shows. it lacks a lot of features and for this to be the official board app, I would really not recommend buying a kilter in 2026

New app, new accounts, new problems, no notice. I opened the old app the other day and suddenly nothing worked. I would've expected some sort of message telling me to go to the new app. The app seems to work well, but the UI is a little confusing sometimes. The buttons aren't always clear as there is apparently a "no text allowed" design :/ The problem searching only lets me type a few characters before it kicks me out of the keyboard, which sucks. It looks like new accounts? Annoying

Grotesque bad UI, no search filter, all progress lost. At least it's faster ... No really, bring back search filter. Totally unusable ...

Shocking regression from the previous one, which was not perfect, but usable. Several features were removed and routes that were not migrated. A clear case of rush to ship a less than usable product.

you still can't connect with multiple people, and in fact climbing with a group and wanting to each put something up is even more clunky than it was previously. I like the new checkmark/benchmarks like the moon board and overall the app looks cleaner, which it dearly needed, but it did nothing to fix the problems the other app had, the features everyone knew were missing, and also wiped everyone's data and stats for no reason.

Feels like we've lost a lot of functionality from the old version. For starters, there is no way to log an attempt without completing the problem, which was really useful for multi-session projects. Also, please add the ability to see in the list which climbs have been logged already! And let us filter for climbs that have/haven't been completed/attempted... I wouldn't mind the switch if it were on par with the other app, it's a shame

needs fixing. go back to the old way, no range for grades make it V5 rather than V4-V6), port logbooks and ticks from previous database

can't create playlists, Bluetooth connection issues. will re-review once updated

really easy to set climbs, but everytime I try to post a climb of mine it disappears. it's not in draft or published. it's gone 😭

I cannot believe how bad this app is. I can't log a single climb after trying over a dozen times. There's a button to report a problem, and of course even that doesn't work. And of course the biggest. Why did they need a new app in the first place, and why make it so much worse?

The usability of this app is absolutely terrible. having to manually select which gym you're climbing at every time you open the app is horrible. you should be able to set up your home gym one time and be able to not touch it again. there are so many issues with this app it would take pages and pages to cover them all. very bad business practices were being carried out by kilter for them to end up in this situation.

Barely functional, just as slow as old app but worse in almost every way. Personal favourite features gone (random sort and french grades). The grade range is too wide and does not make sense.

I understand this is new & rushed, but, I've made new climbs (to try contribute to the sparse poor selection as per starting again) & 1. the number of logged ascents changes each time I've logged on, as in, it goes down sometimes.. Twice now ascents logged has gone down by a chunk (e.g 13 to 6). Is data being lost repeatedly? 2. When making a route, *once a hold is lit on the board* there's no way to delete it other than restart the whole thing. I hope you get yourselves on track.

There was nothing wrong with the app, now I can't login and I can't get to my saved climbs, etc.