Introduction

What Chalky is and what it does.

Welcome to Chalky

Chalky is a mobile climbing journal. You log a session, add the climbs you did, and it keeps the lot: grades, attempts, notes, photos. Gym bouldering and long trad days go in the same place.

Why Chalky?

Offline-First Design

Chalky works without an internet connection, so you can log a climb at a crag with no reception at all. Everything syncs on its own once you're back in range.

Built for Climbers

Every climbing session is different. Chalky supports:

Bouldering — Track your V-grades and flash rates (indoor or outdoor)
Sport climbing — Log redpoints, onsights and projects (indoor or outdoor)
Trad climbing — Record your gear-protected sends
Ice, mixed, aid, free solo, scrambling — Specialty disciplines for the full range of climbing

For roped sessions you choose a rope style per route (lead, top rope, or auto belay). Top rope isn't a discipline on its own.

Statistics

Once you have a few months of sessions logged, Chalky can show you:

Grade pyramids showing your send distribution
Success rate tracking by discipline
Session frequency and duration trends
Personal bests and milestone tracking

Getting Started

The rest of this guide covers:

Creating Sessions — How to log a climbing session
Logging Routes — Recording individual climbs with grades and attempts
Viewing Statistics — Reading what your log adds up to

Start with creating your first session.