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New Areas Added to Rockfax Digital Gear News

The latest version of Rockfax Digital brings even more great areas to your iPhone as well as adding some useability improvements. (Android Version available in Autumn 2016).

Kalymnos

Kalymnos on the Rockfax App

This amazing island is on most climbers' holiday destination tick list for the great sport climbing it offers in a wonderful mediterranean climate. Chris Craggs has put together a full guide which covers a staggering 2,601 routes across the island making it the most extensive guide currently available. It covers all the crags including the northern bays, the Vathy Valley, around Pothia and Telendos as well as the main areas above Massouri and Arginonta.

The App version is now available via the Crags tab > Downloads - download the free App now. Kalymnos is available as a single book bundle for £14.99 or as 17 individual bundles.

Bolt Fund Donations - We are working together with The Send (who produce an alternative App for the island) to pool our resources and make a single donation from the proceeds to the Rescue Team on the island. They carry out some bolting work in addition to their role as the rescue service and are always in need of financial support.

North Wales Winter

North Wales Winter on the Rockfax App

With the weather cooling down we could get a winter climbing season after all. If so then the North Wales Winter bundle on the App could be all you need. It covers the best and most reliable venues for winter climbing in North Wales including the classic gullies of the Trinity Face ( Clogwyn y Garnedd and the rarely-formed but absolutely essential ice climbs of Cascade and Central Icefall Direct on Craig y Rhaeadr in the Llanberis Pass. Also covered are the major ice lines of Devils Kitchen (Cwm Idwal) - (Clogwyn y Geifr), the modern mixed climbs of Clogwyn Du Ymhen Y Glyder and the huge cliff of Ysgolion Duon (Black Ladders) which rivals anything in Scotland and is home to long and committing adventures that give a full and tiring day out.

This App version has all you need to find and assess the best routes whenever they are in 'nick'. It is now available via the Crags tab > Downloads - download the free App now. North Wales Winter is available as a single bundle for £4.99.

Haute Provence

Haute Provence on the Rockfax App

In answer to the question 'where is the best sport climbing in the world?', you would be hard pushed to beat the set of crags in the Rockfax France : Haute Provence book. Céüse and Buoux have few peers, add to that Saint Léger, Orpierre, Baume Rousse, Ubrieux, Saint Julien and Les Dentelles plus another few minor crags and you have a set to match anything on offer elsewhere.

This has all been added to the Rockfax App and is now available via the Crags tab > Downloads - download the free App now. Haute Provence is available as a single bundle for £19.99 or 11 smaller bundles.

Bolt Funds - We have no formal relationship with any of the areas covered but welcome approaches from local climbers.

The North Face of the Eiger

This is not really a full guide since it only covers one route, but it is the famous The 1938 Route (ED2) and it is free to so check it out via the Crags tab > Downloads.


App Version 1.2 – 5 February 2016

itunes app store download logo Since the start of the year we have added nearly 10,000 routes to the App on Mallorca, Kalymnos, Rjukan, Haute Provence, North Wales Winter and the Eiger. It now has access to 28,589 routes on 580 crags. Next up is Côte d'Azur and Languedoc Roussillon in France.

Main Additions in Version 1.2

+ Crags and bundles now appear under the country where they are located
+ Opening an offline map will zoom in to show you current crag
+ Crags now include more detailed grade breakdown summaries

Current Areas Covered

Ariege, Catalunya*, Clwyd Limestone, Costa Blanca, Dolomites, Dorset (Sport and Trad), Dorset Bouldering, Eastern Grit, Eiger*, Gower Sport Climbing, Haute Provence, Kalymnos*, Lofoten*, Mallorca, Northern Limestone, North Wales Climbs, North Wales Winter, Peak Limestone, Pembroke, Rjukan*, West Country Climbs
* App-only areas

In preparation

Cote d'Azur, Languedoc Roussillon, El Chorro, Western Grit, Northern England


For more information rockfax.com



17 Feb, 2016
Looking forward to the Android release. Are there any thoughts on discounts for those who already own the books themselves?
17 Feb, 2016
Hi Matt It is impossible for us to know who owns a book so we we will never be able to offer discounts for books that have already been purchased. Even for future purchases it currently isn't possible to offer in-App purchase discounts via the Apple App Store, however there are so many requests by developers for this to be added (and I think it is possible via Android) that I anticipate it may be possible some time soon. Alan
18 Feb, 2016
The way to do it is to create two packages: com.appname.fullPriceMallorca com.appname.freePriceMallorca Both packages will have same content, only difference is in price. In app then person click to buy Mallorca app will check if person already owns a book (scan, code etc.). If he does app will get him com.appname.freePriceMallorca. If not app will offer com.appname.fullPriceMallorca. In that way developer is not breaking any rules and it is reasonably easy to implement and support in future. Another common way of doing that is to sell in app coins. Then someone buys your book they get a code providing coins as well. Equal to the among of book price in app. But there's an exploit allowing user to spend coins on something else. You will have no control. I never used this method myself, but I seen a lot of apps passing Apple Nazi with it.
18 Feb, 2016
As far as we are aware, this is not allowed by Apple. They are incredibly protective of the App environment and I can't imagine them allowing products to be 'free' in-App where codes may be being sold elsewhere. I am sure there are Apps that do this, but we also know of Apps that have been thrown out of the App Store for a practice like this. When you also consider that we have over 500 packages now which take ages to compile and upload, plus the increase in book price (surprisingly significant) of including a unique code, it doesn't seem worth it at present. Especially since we anticipate a proper solution to the problem sometime in the future. I don't know about this but I suspect it would make it extremely difficult to attribute payments to specific products which is required for us to properly reimburse our authors. There is also the more fundamental point that, as far as we are concerned, these are different products which have effort and money associated with producing them. We are happy to offer discounts but the 'book with free App' option is not ever likely to be on offer. Alan
18 Feb, 2016
I would argue that it is same product with different ways you are selling and delivering it. But at same time understand that if you are able to charge twice for same content you will do it as long as it generates any profit. I would to.
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