Outwalk vs Stridekick Activity Challenges
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Outwalk
This app tracks your steps and distance, motivating you to build healthier habits. Compete with friends on live leaderboards, earn badges, and view detailed statistics. It integrates with Apple Health and offers background tracking, widgets, and Apple Watch support.
- Step and distance tracking
- Live leaderboards
- Nearly 100 unlockable badges
- Detailed statistics and reports
- Apple Health integration
- Background activity tracking
- Home and Lock Screen widgets
- Apple Watch support
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Outwalk — Step Tracker & Leaderboards *** Featured by Apple in "New Apps We Love" and "Great on iPhone X" *** Outwalk turns your everyday movement into motivation. Track your steps and distance, compete with friends on live leaderboards, and unlock nearly 100 badges as you build healthier habits — all without draining your battery. TRACK SMARTER • Count steps and measure distance walked, run, or jogged — daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly • Get detailed graphs, statistics, and personalized weekly reports at a glance • Integrates with Apple Health to pull data from all sources: built-in motion sensor, third-party apps, and dedicated hardware COMPETE AND CONNECT • Challenge friends on custom leaderboards and climb the Global & Regional Rankings • Chat with friends directly in the app or invite new ones to fuel your rivalry • Share achievements and leaderboard positions to social media or via iMessage BUILT FOR YOUR LIFESTYLE • Stays active in the background — no need to keep the app open • Glanceable Widgets on your Home Screen and Lock Screen • Full Apple Watch support with step and distance complications • Localized for all 50 App Store languages Restore your data seamlessly on a new device with Sign in with Apple or Google Follow us for news and updates facebook.com/multipinch x.com/multipinch
Stridekick Activity Challenges
Engage in fun, free activity challenges with friends and family, regardless of their fitness tracker. Connect various devices or use your smartphone to compete in different challenge modes and track your progress over time. Upgrade for longer, private challenges and higher participant limits.
- Connects to multiple fitness trackers
- Smartphone activity tracking
- Manual activity entry
- Create custom challenges (Leaderboard, Streak, Target)
- Join community challenges (Journey, Teams, Group Target)
- Social activity feed and friend leaderboards
- Track progress over time (weekly, monthly, yearly)
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Compete in free, fun activity challenges with your friends and family–no matter which fitness tracker they have. Sign-up for free, connect a wearable device or smartphone and get moving with others. CONNECT A VARIETY OF WEARABLE DEVICES Stridekick connects to a variety fitness trackers so you can compete with your friends no matter which device they use. Don’t have a fitness tracker? No problem. Connect using your smartphone or enter your activity manually. We connect with the following devices: Fitbit, Apple Watch, Garmin, Withings, Misfit, iPhone 5S+, Apple Health, Polar, and Xiaomi. CREATE YOUR OWN ACTIVITY CHALLENGES Choose from three challenge modes: Leaderboard, Streak, and Target. JOIN COMMUNITY ACTIVITY CHALLENGES Join bigger community challenges with other steppers on the Stridekick platform. Community challenges feature different modes of competition including Journey, Stick to it!, Teams, and even a collective Group Target! We're always adding new community challenges, so check back often. A SOCIAL COMMUNITY TO KEEP YOU MOVING Everything is more fun with others. Stay motivated with the community of Stridekick steppers. Add friends and follow each other's activity stats. Keep up with those you know best through our daily Friends Leaderboard. A VARIETY OF CHALLENGE GOALS, UNLIMITED FUN Our challenge types offer a variety of ways to compete. Whether you're seeking a highly competitive leaderboard, a daily activity goal, or a long-term step target, we’ve got you covered. Compete on steps or active minutes. TRACK YOUR PROGRESS OVER TIME View your weekly, monthly and yearly averages for steps, distance and active minutes. Keep track of your all-time best days and work to beat your personal records. Unlock activity levels as you increase your weekly activity average. Join for free to create challenges that - Last up to 7 days - Can include up to 10 people per challenge - Are public for anyone to join Upgrade your experience with a Pro subscription that includes - Longer challenges, up to 45 days - Higher participant limits - Private challenges for just your group - Priority support Terms of use: https://stridekick.com/terms-of-service
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Stridekick Activity Challenges at none against Outwalk's shown. Stridekick Activity Challenges also leads on update cadence (every 6 days vs every 3 months). Outwalk's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.6). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Outwalk sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Stridekick Activity Challenges sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Outwalk against 4.6 for Stridekick Activity Challenges. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2.1K and 4.4K respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 46% and 46% positive.
Outwalk ships an update every 3 months, Stridekick Activity Challenges every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Outwalk | Stridekick Activity Challenges |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (2.1K ratings) — better | 4.6 (4.4K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 45.8% of reviews | 46.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2.1K | 4.4K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 118 MB | 86 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Miroslav Otsedarski | Stridekick Inc |
Customer experience
Outwalk
Stridekick Activity Challenges
User reviews
Outwalk
From 2.1K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Fun and interactive
- 👍 Great app for walking/running
- 👍 Motivating to compete with friends
Room to improve
- 🐛 Inaccurate step/distance tracking
- 🐛 Frequent crashes and connection issues
- 🐛 Unable to sync with other fitness apps
- 🔍 Issues with adding/connecting friends
Stridekick Activity Challenges
From 4.4K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 💪 Motivating app for fitness challenges
- 👥 Great for connecting friends with different devices
- 🤝 Excellent customer service
- 🎨 Clean and user-friendly interface
- 🏆 Engaging challenges and competitions
Room to improve
- 🤖 Issues with syncing and data accuracy
- 🔒 Lack of privacy/security controls
- 💰 Paid subscription required for certain features
- 🚫 Inability to manually add activities
- 🤯 Buggy and unstable app
Bugs and requests
Outwalk
Reported bugs
3 issues- Steps disappearing or not syncing correctly
- Ads that cannot be closed
- Blank screens and loading issues
Requested features
3 requests- Ability to link with other fitness apps
- Custom distance/goal setting options
- Better leaderboard and sharing features
Stridekick Activity Challenges
Reported bugs
4 issues- Frequent app crashes and login issues
- Syncing problems with various fitness devices
- Inability to edit or manually add activities
- Notification issues and unclear in-app notifications
Requested features
5 requests- Ability to create larger group challenges
- More activity tracking beyond just steps
- Push notifications for challenge updates
- Integration with more fitness trackers
- Archiving of past challenges
In-app purchases
Outwalk
- Remove Ads$1.99
Stridekick Activity Challenges
- Stridekick Workouts–Echelon–Monthly7 Days trial$7.991 Month
- Stridekick Pro–10$12.991 Month
- Stridekick Pro–20$24.991 Month
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- Stridekick Pro–50$49.991 Month
- Stridekick Workouts–Echelon–Annual$79.991 Year
- Stridekick Pro–10$139.991 Year
- Stridekick Pro–20$274.991 Year
- Stridekick Pro–50$549.991 Year
Questions
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