Kilter Board 4+

Amazing training tool.

By far the best training board out there.

Only couple of things that the app would benefit from:

Edit boulders after you’ve set them.

Remove the requirement to grade and star a Boulder after you’ve sent it. Every Boulder seems to get 2 stars anyway, so doesn’t seem to work and grades tend to be soft.

Facility to search for setters. If I go into setters on OIS to filter boulders, there is no search option, I just have to trawl through thousands of names to try and find them.

Great board system, app needs re-writing

The Kilter board system itself is great. Great fun to climb on, super useful as a training tool also. The biggest let down is the app, which is an awful user experience, and really needs a fundamental overhaul. It could do with a proper UX designer looking at the usability and workflow 🙏🏼 There are too many holes in the workflow to mention. Pro board system, amateur app.

Edit* - downgrading to a 1-Star for the canned response.

You say to submit suggestions to your 'support' email but you know you don't respond to them in any case. So your standard response speaks volumes about your approach to this I'm afraid.

Moreover, my review above was actually self-explanatory had you cared to read it properly. I wasn't offering any suggestions for incremental improvements. I said the app needs a fundamental overhaul - that was your feedback.

Make an API available, and you'll see plenty of 'suggestions' about how this app could be done better.

The Kilterboard experience is let down by the current app associated with it unfortunately.

There is a very clear disconnect between Kilter's product/brand and how this app currently represents it.

Hopefully Kilter can make their own version in future.

Developer Response ,

You're welcome to email your constructive suggestions to support@auroraclimbing.com

Good but have sane defaults

You should have “sane defaults”.

I am reluctant to log ascents because it is tedious to have to select manually all three mandatory fields (tries, star, grade).

It should default to current consensus grade, NA/unset for stars, and NA/unset or flash for the tries. If I don’t know, care or have an opinion about a field, me arbitrarily choosing something is just adding noise to my and your data.

I feel like I am in no place yet to register a vote on some grades when I’m still getting into the board, but I have to, so I’m systematically breaking the data.

I like to roll through a collection of easier problems to warm up, but I also like to log them so I can always be doing new stuff. Make the tick entry a little faster with sane defaults so I can do this without breaking the flow of my sessions.

I think it will also improve the quality quantity of your star, tries, grades data too.