Guides

How to use Broken Crimp, one task at a time.

• Map your first climb from a photo

  Take a photo of the wall and set your moves straight on it.

  

• Add holds to your climb

  Name what you are holding, attach a close-up or a voice note to it, and keep the moves you already set.

  

• No photo? Map a climb on a blank wall

  Build the wall from holds instead of a photo, then set your moves on them.

  

• Mark sections and write on the wall

  Split a long climb into parts, and write words on the rock like where to start.

  

• Pin a hand or foot

  Keep a limb on its hold when the climber moves away from it.

  

• Move several limbs at once

  Set a double dyno or a hand and foot going together as one move.

  

• Adjust the body, add body moves and let go

  Move or turn the climber on a move, set its pose by hand, mark a layback or a dyno, and take a hand or foot off the wall on purpose.

  

• Learn a sequence for a redpoint

  Set your beta, go over it in your head, and keep the details beside it.

  

• Rearrange a beta in the advanced editor

  See every move as a list, and reorder, change or remove them.

  

• Change what you see with Layers

  Fade the photo, hide the labels, go full screen and fix the wall photo.

  

• Compare two betas

  Watch two betas on the same wall, kept in step.

  

• Share a climb with someone

  Send a whole climb as a file that opens in their own app.

  

• Make a PDF or a video of your beta

  Print a page per move, or save the figure climbing the sequence.

  

• Back up and move your climbs

  Keep everything in one file, and move it between devices.

  

• Organise your climbs

  Find a climb, change its details and its picture, and delete the ones you are done with.

  

• Change the settings

  Theme and language, vibration, the first-time guides and tips, how a beta builds itself, and your backups.

  

• Use Broken Crimp on a computer

  The web version runs in your browser, with no install and no account. Your climbs stay in that browser, so keep a backup.

  

• Use Broken Crimp on an iPhone

  The web version runs in Safari, with no install and no account.