KAYA alternative
A KAYA alternative for climbers who want more than beta
KAYA is built around beta videos and your gym's community. RoxClimbs is built around your climbing journey: the logbook, the projects, the goals, the training, and what they add up to.
Free. Your data is yours: export or delete anytime.
The short version
KAYA is made for the gym scene: beta videos for your gym's sets, board apps, a feed of friends, with the full toolkit in KAYA PRO at $59.99 a year. RoxClimbs answers a different question: how is my climbing going. One free account holds your ascents, projects, goals and training, and a weekly review reads all of it. If you want your climbing to add up to something over years, start here.
Your journey, not your feed.
RoxClimbs has no feed and no followers. It keeps your history: every send, every attempt, every session, indoor and outdoor kept strictly separate. Projects build from your attempts, goals move when you send, and badges mark your own milestones. The person you compare yourself to is you, last season.
Training that closes the loop.
A calendar, a card library with cited sources, and your own custom cards. The weekly review compares what you planned with what you did and climbed, so the training points at your actual week, not at a template.
How is my climbing actually going?
Once your logbook holds about 25 climbs, the Performance view reads what you could likely flash today, a projected redpoint, and five signals showing how your climbing is built. The weekly coach review turns that into plain language: what you planned, what you did, what moved. Bring your own Claude API key and the coach becomes a chat grounded in your own data.
It follows you.
RoxClimbs runs in any browser, installs to your home screen, and is not tied to any gym. Switch gyms, climb outside, travel: your whole history comes along, indoor and outdoor kept apart, exportable and deletable any time. It is yours.
At a glance
RoxClimbs vs KAYA
| RoxClimbs | KAYA | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free tier; PRO $9.99 a month or $59.99 a year |
| Beta videos for gym sets | No | Yes, their core feature |
| Community feed | None, by design | Yes, follow friends and gyms |
| Logbook | Outdoor, indoor and board, kept separate | Gym-centred logging |
| Outdoor logbook sync | theCrag sync, Mountain Project import, spreadsheet | Not their focus |
| Projects | Build automatically from attempts | Not their focus |
| Goals moved by real climbing | Yes | Not their focus |
| Performance analysis | Flash and redpoint read from your logbook, opens at about 25 climbs | Not their focus |
| Training calendar and weekly review | Yes; personal coach chat with your own Claude API key | Training tools in PRO |
Checked August 2026.
Which should you pick?
Pick the tool that fits your climbing.
Pick KAYA if:
you want beta videos and your gym's community.
Pick RoxClimbs if:
you want one free place where your whole climbing journey lives, gym and crag, with training, goals and projects that run off your real logbook.
Switching is not starting over.
Your climbing history can come with you.
No KAYA importer exists, and this page will not pretend one does. Your outdoor history comes in through theCrag or Mountain Project, or any spreadsheet. Gym climbing starts fresh with session logging that takes seconds: grades, tries, done.
Other comparisons: Lattice · Crimpd · TopLogger.
See the climbing tracker for the broader logbook view.
FAQ
Questions climbers ask
Is RoxClimbs really free?
Yes, free. No card, no trial clock. If that ever changes, existing users will hear it from us first.
Does RoxClimbs have beta videos?
No. RoxClimbs tracks your climbing and drives your training; it does not host videos of problems. If beta videos are the point for you, KAYA is the tool for that job.
Can my friends see my climbing?
There is no feed. You choose what leaves the app: share a badge, a sent project or a workout card when you want to, nothing is public by default.
Does it work outside the gym?
Yes. Outdoor syncs from theCrag or imports from Mountain Project; indoor logs in seconds; the app keeps them strictly separate.
Start with the climbing you already do.
Create your free accountFree. Your data is yours: export or delete anytime.
RoxClimbs is an independent project and is not affiliated with or endorsed by KAYA. Comparison details and prices checked August 2026. Spotted something out of date? Tell us via the contact page and we will fix it.