The best cardio deserves a better app.

Ascend is the iOS app made for the stair stepper: live climbs to race, best efforts to beat, routines to run, trends to track, and every reason to keep climbing.

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Take on iconic climbs across the globe and see where you rank.

Ascend globe browse screen with climb search and landmark cards

01 / Discover

Browse famous landmarks across the globe.

Ascend climb detail screen for Empire State Building

02 / Preview

Check the steps, floors, time, and completions.

Ascend Live Climb leaderboard with current user highlighted

03 / Climb

Watch your rank update while you climb.

Ascend Live Climb result screen with rank, stats, best effort, and splits

04 / Review

Review your rank, best effort, stats, and splits.

Ascend share screen with an Empire State Building Live Climb result card

05 / Share

Save a share card with your climb and result.

Ascend Live Climb leaderboard screen for a climb

06 / Leaderboard

Compare completed attempts on the climb leaderboard.

Best Efforts

Beat the version of you that showed up last time.

Ascend turns your hardest stair-stepper sessions into records you can chase: most steps, longest climbs, fastest pace, rolling windows, and progress charts tied back to the workouts that set them.

Ascend Best Efforts detail screen showing a Most Steps record, progress chart, and history tab

Routines to Run

Pick the stair session your body needs today.

Ascend gives you pre-built stair-stepper routines for endurance, max output, and heart-rate-zone work, then guides each interval while you climb. Finished routines log with the rest of your workout history, and you can save favorites, repeat what works, or build your own interval structure from scratch.

Ascend Pyramid Climb routine detail screen

FAQ

Ascend is an iOS app dedicated to stair-stepper workouts. It combines logging, imports, routines, Best Efforts, Live Climbs, share cards, and leaderboards around one stair-first workout history.

Live Climbs are real-time stair-stepper attempts against landmark climb goals. They use compatible headphone motion tracking for live steps and can unlock climb history, completion summaries, and replay leaderboard context.

Yes. Ascend supports Apple Health import flows and Hevy-based workout import logic, with review states designed to keep the workout history clean and avoid duplicate records.

Ascend is planned as freemium: core features available free at launch, with a future optional subscription for advanced features.

Ascend is still in development. Join the waitlist to get launch updates and a note when the App Store release is ready.

Track the stair stepper like the workout it is.

Get launch updates and a note when Ascend is live on the App Store.

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