Climbers already log
routes at your gym.
Not because you signed anything. Climbers log what they climb, and what they climb is your walls — so your routes, your grades and your colours are already in here, described by whoever got there first.
This page is about what changes when you take the keys. You are not adopting a system from zero. You are taking over something already running, and correcting it.
Commercial gyms, university and college walls, community walls — and the routesetters who actually run them.
Setting notes belong on the photo.
Every route description you’ve ever written in text is a worse version of pointing at the wall. In Craggle a setter photographs the route on their phone, and that photo is what every climber sees when they look it up — next to the grade, the set date, who set it, and where it sits on your floorplan.
It happens standing in front of the route, while the set is still in their head. That is the part most route databases get wrong, and it is the part your setters will actually keep doing.
Marking up the photo itself. Tap the start holds, circle the crux, flag the bit everyone gets wrong — drawn straight onto the image, so a climber does not waste a burn guessing. It is the next piece of this and it is being built. We would rather label it than let you find out.
And the climber chooses how much they want. Each note is marked for what it is, so beta sits behind a tap — an onsight stays an onsight, and they can see that two beta notes exist without reading them. Rules are never hidden: if the arete is off, everyone sees “Arete off” whether they asked for beta or not.
What you actually get.
Seven things, all of them working today.
Floorplans your members can tap
Upload up to five floorplans per venue and drop a marker on each route. Members pick a climb by tapping where it is on the wall instead of scrolling a list of colours and grades.
Route management that holds up
Status, grade, colour, rating system, climb types, and up to three images per route. CSV bulk import for a full reset, and bulk retire for when you strip a wall — because stripping is as routine as setting, and doing it one route at a time is how a tool stops getting used.
Every setter gets their own login
Invite setters and admins by email, each with their own account and their own name against the routes they set. Revoke it the day someone leaves. Nobody is sharing one password taped inside a locker.
Notes from the person who set it
Every route carries notes from your setter — the intended sequence, what it is training, the bit everyone gets wrong. Written on a phone in front of the wall while the set is still in their head, and read by climbers standing under it. Drawing those notes onto the photo itself is the next piece, and is not here yet.
Mystery Routes, for when a set goes up
Publish a route with the grade hidden. Climbers log a guess when they top it, and nobody sees a number until your setter reveals it — at which point you get what the room actually thought it was. A new set becomes something people talk about.
Not everyone on your walls is a member
A member roster you can invite people into, plus login codes for signing someone up at the desk. And a session can carry people who have no account at all — the friend who got dragged along on a day pass still gets their climbs logged, under their own name, on the same session as everyone they came with.
Your inventory comes back out
Export every route to CSV whenever you want, analytics included, retired routes optional. You are handing your wall to software from a small company — you should be able to walk away with your data, and you can.
See what is actually being climbed
Which routes get attempts, which get sent, which nobody touches. Route-level reporting from real logged climbs rather than a members survey — and because climbers log inside a session, every one of those climbs happened on a particular night, with particular people.
Message the people on your walls
Send to members, or to anyone who has climbed at your venue in the last 90 days. Categories, priorities, and delivery tracking, straight into the app they already have open.
An admin portal, on the web
Venue details and media, floorplans, routes, route reports, climb types, members, staff, messaging, and billing — from a browser, not a phone.
Craggle knows who came in together.
Every other climbing app models a climber logging alone. Craggle models the session — a group of people who turned up at your gym at the same time and climbed together for two hours, including the guests who don’t have accounts.
That’s a different shape of data than a send log. It tells you which nights your walls are busy with groups rather than individuals, which routes a whole group ends up cycling through, and how many first-time guests came through as somebody’s plus-one.
It also means a member bringing a friend is already a tracked, re-marketable event rather than an anonymous day pass.
What we haven’t built yet.
You will get pitched gym engagement platforms with challenge engines and branded campaigns. Craggle does not have those. They’re on the roadmap and they are a natural extension of sessions and leaderboards, but they don’t exist today and we’re not going to sell them to you.
- Gym-run challenges and comps
- Branded campaigns
- Member achievement badges
And the other straight answer, before you ask: we are early. Craggle is live and in the App Store; what is always in beta is the next set of features, which a standing group of beta climbers runs a version ahead of everyone else. We are not going to quote you a member count, because the honest number is small and you would rightly discount everything we said after it. What being early buys you is a product still being shaped by the first few walls on it, and the person who wrote the code answering your email.
What Craggle is right now is a very good route and setter tool with a live line to the climbers using it, from a small team that will answer your email the same day. If that’s useful to you, a trial costs you nothing and there’s nothing to sign — find out on your own wall before you take our word for any of it.
Try it on your wall first.
Tell us about your wall and we’ll set you up with a free trial — your routes, your floorplans, your climbers, at no cost, for long enough that you form a real opinion rather than a first impression.
- No cost, and no card
- Nothing to sign — no contract, no purchase order, no IT review
- You don’t need anyone’s approval to ask us about it
- We load your existing route list if you have one
- A real person stays close to you the whole way through
Work at a wall rather than run one? Ask anyway. Plenty of the best trials start with a setter who wanted to try something — and it’s a much better conversation to have with your manager once you’ve got a working route list and a few weeks of real usage behind you, instead of a pitch deck.
Premium Venue access, free for 6 months.
Separate from a trial, and a bigger commitment on both sides. We partner with community-focused walls — the ones already running youth programs, events, comps, and outreach. You get the tooling free while we’re early; we get walls whose feedback is worth building around. It’s a longer application, so if you just want to try Craggle, start with a trial instead.