By Nick Wilder
Site Landlord
From The Bubble
Oct 28, 2011
| After thousands of hours of coding (mostly by MP user Sam Vanderhyden), thousands of hours of testing by about 100 volunteers, and weeks of review by Apple, and it's finally alive!
Get it here
We're pretty psyched - we got a lot of great features built in and it is more powerful than we first hoped. When you first actually use the app at the rock (or trying to find the rock, and using the GPS mapping system), it all clicks that this is a pretty big game-changer.
We hope you enjoy it, and welcome feedback as always!
Before you ask, YES, Android will be coming later this fall. | 
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By Mostafa
From Las Vegas, NV
Oct 28, 2011
| Just installed it and subscribed looks great! Thanks for the hard work. |
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By CaptainMo
Administrator
Oct 28, 2011
| Badass... Awesome work all! The fact that it's free is way way way awesome!
Edit: Oh wait - u guys want $5 per year... hum... obviously a lot of work but i guess u don't have to buy a guide book maybe if ur gonna travel... |
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By T.J. Esposito
From San Diego, CA
Oct 28, 2011
| Awesome... but is there a plan for a native iPad version? (Don't have an iPhone only an iPad so for cragging it's clearer to just take screenshots of MP pages to get full-size photos). |
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By Ty Morrison-Heath
From Bozeman, MT
Oct 28, 2011
| You haul your iPad to the crag? The fact that you can download routes without a wi-fi connection is what makes it so awesome to me! Hope we can add photos via our phones in a couple of releases...I think a lot more of the routes would have pictures if it were more frictionless. |
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By Mostafa
From Las Vegas, NV
Oct 28, 2011
| Morgan Patterson wrote: Badass... Awesome work all! The fact that it's free is way way way awesome! Edit: Oh wait - u guys want $5 per year... hum... obviously a lot of work but i guess u don't have to buy a guide book maybe if ur gonna travel...
The $5 allows you to install all the locations, routes etc onto your smartphone...and if you cancel your subscription you just dont get the updates but you do retain all your installed data right? |
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By Nick Wilder
Site Landlord
From The Bubble
Oct 28, 2011
| Mostafa wrote: The $5 allows you to install all the locations, routes etc onto your smartphone...and if you cancel your subscription you just dont get the updates but you do retain all your installed data right?
No. If you cancel, the app will warn you for a while, then eventually not allow access to routes and areas that you have downloaded. Note that no personal information is lost.
The app is a shitload of work, it has no ads, and supplying all the data costs us real money. If you don't find this worth $5/year, that's okay with us - please use the site for free and we're still friends... |
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By Zach Wilson
From Aurora, CO
Oct 28, 2011
| Awesome, just downloaded it on the new iPhone 4S. Works like a charm so far.
One note: When downloading routes onto the phone, it would be nice to have an option to download the whole state instead of having to download each individual area. But definitely not a big deal. Thanks a lot for putting this together. |
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By CaptainMo
Administrator
Oct 28, 2011
| Nick Wilder wrote: No. If you cancel, the app will warn you for a while, then eventually not allow access to routes and areas that you have downloaded.
I would pay the $5 if I could retain the info... or like a $5 for the Eastern States, $5 for SW, $5 for NW, etc. And then to update the info you'd pay a yearly subscription...
But otherwise yes we're still friends and a proud MP user! |
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By Peter Franzen
Administrator
From Phoenix, AZ
Oct 28, 2011
| This is really outstanding guys! Having a pitch-by-pitch breakdown of long trad routes in Red Rocks right there on my phone is fantastic. |
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By coop
From Glenwood Springs, CO
Oct 28, 2011
| Any news on the droid version? |
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By Steve86
Oct 28, 2011
| Great work. Downloaded and subscribed. $5/yr for unlimited offline access to the MP database is a great deal. I wish had this during my CO trip this summer. |
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By longroper
From Spokane Valley
Oct 28, 2011
| I'm with Morgan on this one. Revoking a users ability to access already downloaded data if they don't keep a current data subscription is a deal breaker for me.
I understand that supplying data costs money, but does it cost anything more once a user already has the data? And if not why not just let them retain access to the already downloaded info? |
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By Andy Laakmann
Site Landlord
From Bend, OR
Oct 28, 2011
| longroper wrote: I'm with Morgan on this one. Revoking a users ability to access already downloaded data if they don't keep a current data subscription is a deal breaker for me. I understand that supplying data costs money, but does it cost anything more once a user already has the data? And if not why not just let them retain access to the already downloaded info?
I think Nick covered that with... "shitload of work". Allowing clean offline access to the vast amounts of data available on MP is a far more complex task than appears. And this work will continue forever into the future. Any good software, app or website, is a constant effort... good software is never one and done.
But fear not, the site is free and always will be. |
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By Phill T
Oct 28, 2011
| wooT! insta-subscribed! been waiting a while for this, good job guys! only app I've ever paid for |
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By Zach Wilson
From Aurora, CO
Oct 28, 2011
| The "search my areas" function seems to crash a lot and is pretty slow on my iPhone 4S.
Should there be a new sticky thread for bugs and suggestions for the app? |
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By kirra
Oct 28, 2011
| Phill T wrote: wooT! insta-subscribed! been waiting a while for this, good job guys! only app I've ever paid for
now this may be worth getting an iPhone for ('s' of course) |
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By Cory
From Boise, ID
Oct 28, 2011
| Stoked! Downloaded and subscribed! Thanks for all the hard work, this app is saweet! Totally worth $5/year! |
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By Mike Crandall
From Superior, CO
Oct 28, 2011
| Downloaded! Subscribed! So far so good!
Would love to see a tablet version. Contact me if you want help developing it! |
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By T.J. Esposito
From San Diego, CA
Oct 28, 2011
| Ty Morrison-Heath wrote: You haul your iPad to the crag? The fact that you can download routes without a wi-fi connection is what makes it so awesome to me! Hope we can add photos via our phones in a couple of releases...I think a lot more of the routes would have pictures if it were more frictionless.
Only for places that I don't have a guide for and that have short approaches, real cragging not backcountry stuff. |
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By Simon Hatfield
From Los Angeles, CA
Oct 28, 2011
| Does the app work for Ipod Touch? If so, what functionality is compromised? |
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By Nick Wilder
Site Landlord
From The Bubble
Oct 28, 2011
| Simon Hatfield wrote: Does the app work for Ipod Touch? If so, what functionality is compromised?
Definitely the mapping (no GPS), and that might be it, but try it out and tell us! It comes with the Grand Teton area and routes installed, so you can test it without committing five bucks. |
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By SCherry
From San Diego, CA
Oct 28, 2011
| Just downloaded and purchased. Strong work gents!
I second the comment you should give an option to download an entire state.
Can't wait to test it out this weekend. |
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By Alex Cobbs
From Santa Fe, NM
Oct 28, 2011
| Simon Hatfield wrote: Does the app work for Ipod Touch? If so, what functionality is compromised?
Simon, yes it works. Just downloaded the app on mine, gen. 4 touch.
Still tossing the idea of subscribing, but I think $5/yr. is a steal for the wealth of info. |
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By Spencer Anderson
From Fort Collins, CO
Oct 28, 2011
| Have a gen. 4 touch and downloaded the app. Won't let me subscribe (says problem with connecting to app store) and won't let me log on (says invalid, but typed it in correct)??? |
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By Julius Beres
From Boulder, CO
Oct 28, 2011
| Holy crap you guys are cheap! I know that climbers are dirt bags and all, but asking $5/year is nothing! It is the cost of one beer, and if you own an iPhone and have a data plan, you cannot be that broke...
I can't wait for the android app! |
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