Vertical-Life Climbing Reviews

by Climber4jc

I agree with others, VerticalLifeClimbing is not easy to use or find routes. Very poor database. I'm living in Kenya and wasn't too surprised that it had no routes. When I checked the Red River Gorge in Kentucky, low and behold, no routes. That is crazy since it's a huge internationally known climbing spot. Well, maybe it's better elsewhere. P.S. make it easier to add your own climbing areas to build the community.

by Gnjgvgjv

Difficult to use and has probably less than 5% of the climbs mountain project has. And that's being generous. Maybe you guys should focus more on you product and less on your ad campaign. I would be embarrassed to have released an app with such a small amount of areas. You guys have a good idea, just poorly executed

by Oohrah

Confused weak UI/UX, poor performance and lousy stability. Older versions were much more stable

by Yamaimodesu

From yesterday... when I push Facebook login , it says Unexpected error when authenticating with identity provider.

by Mupchurchie

With the latest app update, I no longer have access to the topos and the digital download I paid for. Very disappointed and feel stolen from. Please reinstate the Yosemite Valley topos.

by ZegoBonBons

I thought VerticalLifeClimbing was going to be cool after looking at it immediately. After trying to create an account, it said my email was used already. I’m not sure how that could be.
It wouldn’t let me sign in through Facebook.
And email verification doesn’t work.
Had I been able to create an account VerticalLifeClimbing may have been cool for my trip to Europe.
But currently it’s a waste of storage space on my phone if I can’t login.
Also,
Please update America’s climbing scene on the map.
It’s pretty disgusting.

by YetAnotherJason

It clearly has a lot of features and functionality that could be leveraged in really interesting ways. However it’s incredibly frustrating to use because the design and navigation are horrendous. I hope the developers invest in some good designers and do some user research on the main workflows.

by Trentosky

I keep trying to login and I keep getting error even though I set up and register on the website? I login in to zlagboard just really would to us VerticalLifeClimbing looks really cool and hope it helps my training but confused to what else to do?

by Helchung

Was hoping this would be similar to Nuke training app but for climbing. Unfortunately cannot input to vlag. It's grayed out on the profile page and when click on "zlags" the purple buttons aren't responsive. Not the most intuitive interface. :/

by Tobiasthe785763

So incredibly difficult to navigate. I have to scroll through every boulder at my crag to tick something lol. Changing from font to hueco scale doesn’t do anything. Way way way too difficult to figure anything out.
Also I was told there’s a guidebook uploaded to it but I literally can’t find it. 😂

by Ansinpants

VerticalLifeClimbing might be decent In Europe or other places that you have a wide selection of local gyms to look at, but in the USA it’s terrible. You guys should add places in other continents so people all around the world can enjoy VerticalLifeClimbing.

by Lancer__13

I downloaded VerticalLifeClimbing and purchased a premium subscription so that I could download different areas for use when I don’t have service. It worked great the first day I didn’t have service. The second day, after not changing any download settings, descriptions of routes started to disappear, photos of routes and approaches were no longer loading. It’s sad when downloaded data can’t stay downloaded when you need it most.

by JSwivers

But that's about it. It's difficult to navigate to find specific areas and it is far from comprehensive. To top it off, you have to pay to use the topos. I don't mind paying, but VerticalLifeClimbing was advertised misleadingly.

I thought I'd check it out, but I will no doubt be sticking to Mountain Project. It may not look as nice, but it covers a much broader scope and is easier to use.

by Kadelman

As you can see from the reviews VerticalLifeClimbing is probably not worth your time. I think I would be able to track my progress more easily just by writing down what I’ve done in my notes app. In theory, having all the routes automatically uploaded by my gym would make it more convenient, but you can’t find anything, you can’t search ANYTHING at your gym so it takes absolutely forever to navigate and add progress, you can’t easily track what you have and haven’t done, it’s just not helpful as a training tool and I feel like I’m wasting my time at the gym scrolling and swiping to search for my climbs to add them.

by Fancy Bear 32456

Please add a private mode to VerticalLifeClimbing.
Not everyone wants to share their sends but do want to log ascents. I assumed this would be a function and am disappointed.

by MetalCowHorse

Like many said navigation of VerticalLifeClimbing is extremely unintuitive. I just downloaded VerticalLifeClimbing and VerticalLifeClimbing tutorial was very short and didn’t cover much, but a good app shouldn’t need a tutorial.

One thing that sticks out to me is the headers of the page just kind of blend in, it took me 15 minutes to find the list of Boulders in my gym because when I clicked “topos” I did not even see there was a header that said “Boulders” that I had to switch to.

The training programs although a little quirky sometimes due to the automation are pretty awesome, it’s nice on a day I need a little more motivation to just be told what to climb and when.

I’ve been waiting for a mountain project replacement, mountain project could be soooo much better, but getting people to do the initial switch will be tough.

Good luck.

by Geocacher13

The whole concept behind VerticalLifeClimbing is cool, but the UI is horrible. VerticalLifeClimbing is filled with bugs, and is so hard to use. Other apps like KAYA have really got their stuff figured out. Their UI is very easy to use and looks good. Not the case for Vertical life.
Also, the customer support is pretty bad. Their responses are slow, and when I submit bug reports they tell me to sign in and out, update VerticalLifeClimbing (which has not been updated in a month!), and re-download VerticalLifeClimbing if. This is not how you treat bugs! You fix them and push an update.
Hopefully the devs can get their stuff figured out and actually make this a decent app.

by Kay708

My indoor gym just added this, and it’s nice for tracking routes I’ve done. It will be much better if more people actually start using it and adding comments.

As for outside climbs - mountain project is still the go-to app.

by Climberkayrock

I would love the ability to sort or filter by route setter.

by Konduite123

I downloaded VerticalLifeClimbing to start a training plan, and purchased the premium subscription to do so. When I went to start my training plan, it said that my gym was not found. Is there a way to bypass this or add a new gym?

by HoboJoe13

Developers need a designer to fix the user flow. Poor functionality and unsure of certain features. Very poor refresh rates as well. Love to climb, love to track my climbs, just needs a robust update.

by Annabal Kasparski

Completely free for indoor gym climbing and I don't see any ads!

by Jibril Heath

Climbing log gives some cool insights