Rip my app apart! I built Whoop + Strava for climbers.
I'm a competitive climber and coach of 10 years, and I just spent 300 hours building a free app to help climbers know when to push or when to rest so they don't overtrain and get injured.
After coaching hundreds of athletes V3 to V12, I noticed one common trend with athletes reaching out to me: their load management sucked, and they kept getting hurt instead of progressing.
Instead of building a training app like Lattice, I wanted to build an app that helps climbers do the one thing they care about most, climb more. This comes through effective load management and helping climbers know when to hold back.
New research shows that 77% of climbers get injured, and overtraining is one of the top causes. My app aims to reduce overtraining injuries by providing data driven readiness scores, and flags overtraining before it gets bad.
POGO helps climbers know when to push hard, or when to rest, so they don't overtrain.
It's free on the app store, and I need your feedback to make it better.
What I'd genuinely love help with:
- Is tracking easy enough to do for every climb.
- Does the readiness score match your felt sense on a given day, or is it off?
- What's missing that would make this actually useful to you?
Rip it apart. With your help, I can make this app more useful for climbers and save some pulleys in the process.
Download here: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pogo-rock-climbing-readiness/id6756195343
Gunnar
Climber Injury Research: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjsem-2026-003239