Chalky: Climbing Journal
Bouldering, sport & trad log
Only for iPhone
Free · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
iPhone
Three taps to log a climb, even with no signal at the crag. Ten disciplines, ten grade systems, and a logbook you can export any time. No gym lock-in, no ads.
Chalky is a climbing journal that works wherever you climb. Create sessions, log attempts, track projects, capture media and review stats, all in one place. Everything saves to your phone first and syncs once connected, with no reception required.
LOG AS YOU GO: Start a session, log climbs, and refine when you're done. Include grades, attempts, sends, hold types, media, notes and more. Fill in what you care about and skip the rest. Quick-log records a climb in three taps, allowing you to stay in the moment.
SEE YOURSELF IMPROVE: Climbing stats that include grade pyramids, climbing progression, send and attempt rates. Wall-angle and style splits show what you've been avoiding. View your whole climbing history, or just one session at a time. Unlock achievements when you hit a milestone.
SET GOALS AND WORK YOUR PROJECTS: Pick a challenge and track every attempt and high point until you succeed. Set climbing goals to motivate you along the way.
EVERY DISCIPLINE, EVERY GRADE SYSTEM: Bouldering and sport, indoors and out. Trad, ice, mixed, aid, free solo and scrambling. Roped climbs record whether you led it, top-roped or ran it on auto belay, and sends record how it went: onsight, flash, redpoint, pinkpoint, clean, hangdog or solo. Grades in V-Scale, Font, French, YDS, Ewbank, UIAA, British trad, Water Ice, M-scale or aid. Set your default per discipline and Chalky remembers.
LEARN AS YOU GO: Not sure what a pinkpoint is, or what counts as a flash? There's a reference built in explaining 50+ terms, holds and techniques.
RELIVE THE SESSION: Every finished session becomes a story: your climbs, your photos and videos, your notes, and the weather you actually climbed in. Attach media straight from the session or from your library.
SHARE YOUR SENDS: When a session is worth showing, build a share card and post it wherever you like. Want to show off a sick send? Add your climbing buddies to share your photos and clips with them. No feed, no follower counts, nobody you didn't invite.
BRING YOUR HISTORY WITH YOU: Import years of logged ascents from theCrag via CSV so you're not starting from scratch. Export everything back out to CSV whenever you like. It's your data.
MAKE IT YOURS: Customise the look with light and dark themes, eight accent colours and three typefaces.
PRIVATE BY DEFAULT: No ads, nothing sold, no third-party tracking. Product analytics are anonymous, hosted in the EU, and there's an off switch in Settings.
I built Chalky for my own climbing: local gyms around Brisbane and the Sunshine Coast, and outdoor climbing around the Glass House Mountains. Every app I tried fell over on something basic. One couldn't capture video. Another didn't have the stats I wanted. Most needed reception I couldn't count on, and a few felt built for the gym rather than the climber. So I made the one I wanted to use. If it helps you learn something from each session, it's doing its job.
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Trying Chalky
• You can use the journal without an account now. Log sessions, climbs, photos and clips as a guest.
• Make an account later, with email, Apple or Google, and everything you logged comes with you.
Sharing with friends
• Sharing a clip right after filming used to fail with no clear reason. The app now says when a video is still backing up, and uploads start as soon as the video finishes preparing instead of the next time you open the app.
• Your own photos and clips on How Friends See You open in the full viewer now: edit the caption, stop sharing, download, trim. Before, you had to dig the same clip out of its session to change anything.
• Shared photos and clips are grouped by the day you shared them, on your page and on a friend's.
• Fixed an issue when setting your name while adding a friend. It saved, but the page didn't update to show the new name.
• Thumbnails fill their tiles instead of displaying in a vertical strip.
Session share card
• The card preview is bigger. The controls panel can be dragged up to view all controls or collapsed to focus on the share card.
Posting
• Creating a post no longer errors and leaves the media row empty.
• Hold a photo or clip in the strip to watch it full screen before you pick it. Two burns on the same climb look identical at thumbnail size.
Around the app
• The "Preparing video" line at the top of the journal is no longer cut off.
• Route cards are a line shorter: the wall and the climb's style now share one line.
• Mood emojis sit at the end of your note instead of on its own row on the session card.
The developer, Bryce Walton, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Location
- Contact Info
- User Content
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Bryce Walton
- Size
- 45.8 MB
- Category
- Health & Fitness
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - iPod touch
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 Bryce Walton
