App guide

How to use Beeboard, from your first climb to running your own wall.

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1. Sign up and profile

Open the web app and create an account with your email, or sign in with Google. The iPhone app, in closed beta, also offers Sign in with Apple. Launch is planned for early 2027.

Setting up your profile

  • 1. Choose a username: 3–30 letters, numbers, _ or -
  • 2. Add a profile photo (optional)
  • 3. Enter your name

2. Find or create your gym

Everything in Beeboard is organised under gyms. A "gym" can be a commercial facility, a home wall, or any climbing setup. Tap Climb on the home screen to get started.

By code

Ask a member for the 6-character gym code and enter it under Find Gym → By Code.

Search

Search by gym name, city or country. Private gyms show a lock; you join them with their code.

Map

Public gyms are on a map. Tap a marker to add the gym to your gyms.

Creating a gym: tap Create New Gym, give it a name and a photo, and tap the map to set its location. You become its admin. The gym gets a 6-character code that you can share.

3. Your first climb

Select a gym, choose a wall, and you're on the climb screen. This is where you spend most of your time.

The climb screen

The wall photo shows your current problem with holds highlighted by colour:

Start
Hands and feet
Hands only
Feet only
Finish

Logging your climb

After a go, tap Attempt or Ascent at the bottom of the climb screen:

Attempt
You tried but didn't finish.
Ascent
You sent it. Give your grade opinion and a comment if you like. The first person to send a problem at an angle gets the first ascent, and sets its grade there.
Repeat
Once you have sent a problem, the ascent button logs a repeat instead.

Navigating problems

Swipe left or right on the wall photo to move between problems, or open the problem list to search and filter. Each problem has a grade per wall angle; the same problem is usually harder when the wall is steeper.

4. Sessions and logging

A session starts when you open a gym's walls, and is saved once you log your first climb. It records your ascents, attempts and repeats with their times. You can show a session timer from the climb screen's menu.

Session manager

  • - View all activities in your current session
  • - Add notes and tags to your session
  • - See session statistics, such as the grades you climbed
  • - Edit or delete individual activities

Training log

The Training Log tab on your profile is a calendar of your climbing days. Tap a day to see its sessions.

5. Circuits and training

Circuits are timed sequences of problems, with rests in between if you want them. Good for endurance and power endurance.

Building a circuit

  • 1. In the climb screen's menu, choose Switch to Circuit mode
  • 2. Choose Add new circuit and give it a name
  • 3. Add problems in the order you want to climb them, and rests between them
  • 4. Give each block its duration
  • 5. Save. As with problems, the first ascent sets the grade

Playing a circuit: select a circuit and press play. The blocks come up in order, each with a timer, and a speed setting (0.5× to 2×) scales the durations. On a wall with LEDs, the holds light up for each block in turn.

6. Feed and achievements

Tap Feed on the home screen to see what the people you follow have climbed.

Follow climbers

Find people under Discover Climbers, by name or username. Follow them to see their climbing in your feed.

Likes and comments

Your climbing shows up in your followers' feeds. They can like it and comment.

Achievements

Badges for things like first ascents, circuit ascents and climbing every week. They show on your profile.

Wall owners and admins

7. For wall owners

Setting up a wall: the hold map, problems, LEDs, Jam Sessions and running the gym.

7a. Hold mapping

Before you create problems, mark where the holds are. You do this once per wall. The wall photo is added when you create the wall.

  1. 1. In the list of walls, tap the gear icon next to the wall to open the hold editor
  2. 2. Tap each hold on the photo
  3. 3. On iPhone you can use Auto-Detect Holds from the menu instead, then adjust what it found
  4. 4. With LEDs: give each hold the number of the LED behind it (its position along the chain)

7b. Creating problems

In the climb screen's menu, choose Add new problem.

  1. 1. Name the problem and add an optional description
  2. 2. Tap holds on the wall photo to select them
  3. 3. Give each hold its role: start (green), hands and feet (blue), hands only (purple), feet only (yellow) or finish (red)
  4. 4. Add tags: grips (crimp, jug, sloper), style (dynamic, static), rules (campus, set-feet)
  5. 5. Save. Anyone signed in can now see it and try it

There is no grade to set. The first person to send the problem at an angle sets its grade there.

7c. Connecting LEDs

After installing the hardware (see the installation guide), connect the app to your controller.

  1. 1. Power on the wall and stand near it
  2. 2. Open the hold editor (the gear icon next to the wall) and tap the pencil icon in its bottom bar to open the wall settings
  3. 3. Turn on LED Wall, and under LED Connection Type choose Bluetooth
  4. 4. Tap Scan for Devices and pick your controller. It shows up as Beeboard-BLE
  5. 5. Save with the save icon at the top

Phones talk to the controller directly, so you need to be near the wall. The lights need no internet or gym WiFi. Up to four phones can be connected at once. Once connected, the light-up button (the bulb) on the climb screen lights the selected problem's holds.

The lights never need WiFi. The WiFi option under LED Connection Type is for older walls that use a separate LED server.

7d. Jam Sessions

A Jam Session is one queue of problems that everyone at the wall shares, like a playlist for the wall.

How it works

  1. 1. On the climb screen, add a problem to the queue with Add to jam
  2. 2. The queue is in the Jam tab of the problem list. Everyone at the wall sees it change as it happens
  3. 3. Anyone can add items. Only the person who added an item, or an admin, can remove it
  4. 4. Tap an item to select it on the climb screen, then light it up with the light-up button
  5. 5. The History tab shows what has been lit up, and by whom

Anyone with the wall open in the app sees the queue. Lighting it up takes a Bluetooth connection to the wall, and up to four phones can be connected at once.

7e. Managing your gym

As a gym admin you manage the gym from its settings.

  • - Gym code. Share the 6-character code to invite climbers. You can make a new one if the old one has spread too far.
  • - Admins. Choose other members as admins under Select Admin Users.
  • - Public or private. A public gym is on the map and anyone can join. A private gym is not on the map, and people need the code to join. Private does not make the gym's content secret.
  • - Numbers. Each gym's card shows its walls, problems, climbers and counts of ascents, repeats and attempts. Members see them too.

Try it

The web app is open to try. The iPhone app is in closed beta; launch is planned for early 2027.

Open the web app