Observed arrival · 2026-10-14
Trace: Climbing
A bouldering app for analyzing filmed climbs, tracking technique over time, scanning routes, and generating body-specific beta.
- For
- Boulderers reviewing filmed climbing attempts
- Worth noticing
- The page says tracking stops below 55% confidence and shows a sample finding of nine foot resets across eight moves.
Field notes
Trace's described workflow starts with a phone recording or imported climb, then uses Apple's Vision pose model to map fifteen joints and derive center-of-mass paths and joint angles. Its analysis section shows example findings with a frozen frame and a one-sentence correction; the library groups attempts by route and tracks progress against a climber's own history. Route Scan is also described as reading route colors and grades from a wall photo, though the extract does not show the app running.
Observed signals
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Editorial observations of this landing page, not a rating.
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