Vertical-Life Climbing アプリのレビュー

Clunky and frustrating

Vague network error messages, even though all other apps work fine. Really annoying UX that loses your place when you go back, requiring you to start over from the home page and re-find what you were looking at.

Confusing

The app seems to be focused on climbing social media. It's easy to see recent climbs of some dirt bagger who's climbing a lot. But good luck if you want to find someplace to climb, or to log a climb. the website is better.

Choss

Browser version is much better

Cool but horrible UI

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. 😂

Needs Private Mode

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

Great app could be better

This app makes it so much easier for me to track my progress at my gym and to see which problems I have done and which I have yet to do. The only thing preventing this from being a five star review is that I can’t sort problems by location. Whenever I send a problem, I have to scroll through problems of certain grade or color until I find the one in the correct location. It would save so much time if I could sort by location to identify all V_ problems in a particular location. One other great feature would be if rankings were done for bouldering in addition to lead climbing, but that would just be a bonus.

Not helpful, too difficult to navigate or track progress

As you can see from the reviews this app 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.

Good idea, poorly executed

The whole concept behind the app is cool, but the UI is horrible. The app 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 the app (which has not been updated in a month!), and re-download the app 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.

Downloads don’t stay downloaded

I downloaded this app 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.

Great app for keeping track of climbs

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

It won’t let me login

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 this app looks really cool and hope it helps my training but confused to what else to do?

Gyms

I downloaded this app 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?

Good idea. Terrible app.

This app 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 this app.

Sad

I thought this app 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 this app 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.

Cool idea in theory

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. :/

Poor quality

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

I can’t login

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

Please give me my guidebook back

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.

Unusable bad

The UI is so insanely bad. Even finding how to enter climbs is a huge chore, and doesn’t work right. The app needs a ground up rebuild to be usable.

Poor UX/UI

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.

Decent

Like many said navigation of the app is extremely unintuitive. I just downloaded the app and the app 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.

Not worth using in USA

The app has potential but just feels clunky and unfinished. Very few spots and gyms available the app just has no purpose.

Just not working. Also very confusing

Login isn’t working. Tech support page isn’t loading. Not clear what can be done. Can I record which routes I did?

Fine for the gym

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.

Potential held back by bad design

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.

Completely free and no ads!

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

Cool insights

Climbing log gives some cool insights

Poor:(

I bought a guidebook that supposedly came w a digital copy thru this app. The code didn’t work. After many emails back and forth and a reset of my code... it still didn’t work. And they just dropped the email correspondence. Pretty bummed about the customer service.

Has potential

I agree with others, the app 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.

The ad campaign is sick, the app is sickening

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

This app looks cool...

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 the app 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.

Useless in North America

Nothing on North American climbing. I would expect better when you get an American climber to back you.

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