Comparison

Big Team Challenge vs Count.It Journey

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Big Team Challenge

This app facilitates workplace walking challenges for organizations. It allows groups to participate in fixed-length pedometer events and can optionally sync steps automatically with Apple Health.

Highlights
  • Workplace walking challenges
  • Pedometer events
  • Fixed-length events
  • Apple Health sync
  • Organizational sign-up required
Features
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Big Team Challenge is a simple, affordable and flexible workplace challenge system that allows organisations and groups to run fixed-length walking/pedometer events. You can connect to Apple Health to automatically sync your steps to your account. This is an optional feature and can be turned off at any time. ** This app is only for use by members of organisations that have signed up to Big Team Challenge. **

About

Count.It Journey

This app facilitates interactive virtual wellness challenges for corporate teams, syncing with fitness trackers to encourage healthy habits and community building. Users can participate in various challenge types and engage with a dynamic virtual journey.

Highlights
  • Virtual challenge path with user avatars
  • Multiple challenge types (steps, exercises, mindfulness)
  • Real-time data syncing
  • One-tap emoji reactions
  • Configurable goals and rewards
  • Smart scaling for challenge difficulty
Features
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Introducing the brand new Count.It app, a breakthrough in corporate wellness and team building. The new app seamlessly syncs with Apple Health and other fitness tracking apps and creates an interactive, virtual wellness challenge. Built to get people moving and promote healthy community culture, the new app is the result of nearly a decade of market experience. Among many innovations: --A zoomable virtual challenge path that displays user avatars as though they were together on a real world journey. --Multiple challenge types, including daily steps, hundreds of exercises, and mindfulness/meditation. --A new sync'ing engine build from the ground up to ensure fast delivery data to make challenges feel increasingly "real time." --Hooray for one tap emoji reactions! Yep, that's in there too. --Configurable goals and rewards for individual users, and the group as a whole. --Smart scaling technology which allows admins to set the relative difficulty of their challenge --And much more! Come host a challenge, and get your people moving!

Screenshots

Big Team Challenge4 screens
Count.It Journey4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Count.It Journey at 40% against Big Team Challenge's 15%. Count.It Journey also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs monthly). Big Team Challenge's advantage is rating (4.8 vs 4.5) and iOS requirement (16.6 vs 18.0). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Big Team Challenge holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1.2K and 1.6K respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 15% of Big Team Challenge's written reviews are positive against 40% of Count.It Journey's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Big Team Challenge ships an update monthly, Count.It Journey every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Big Team Challenge versus Count.It Journey: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBig Team ChallengeCount.It Journey
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (1.2K ratings) — better4.5 (1.6K ratings)
Positive reviews15.4% of reviews40.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1.2K1.6K — better
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS16.6 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size69 MB108 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTeam Challenge Apps LtdCount It Labs, Inc.

Customer experience

Big Team Challenge

All ratings1,167 ratings
Positive95.7%
Neutral1.7%
Negative2.6%
Written reviews26 reviews
Positive15.4%
Neutral7.7%
Negative76.9%

Count.It Journey

All ratings1,621 ratings
Positive86.2%
Neutral3.9%
Negative9.9%
Written reviews55 reviews
Positive40.0%
Neutral7.3%
Negative52.7%

Bugs and requests

Big Team Challenge

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Syncing doesn't work
  • App keeps crashing
  • Incorrect data recording

Requested features

3 requests
  • Integration with Strava
  • Conversion chart
  • Screenshot submission for approval

Count.It Journey

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Big Team Challenge

No in-app purchases

None

Count.It Journey

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Big Team Challenge free?
Big Team Challenge is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Count.It Journey free?
Count.It Journey is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Big Team Challenge or Count.It Journey?
Big Team Challenge is rated higher. Big Team Challenge averages 4.8 out of 5 from 1.2K ratings, while Count.It Journey averages 4.5 from 1.6K ratings.
Do Big Team Challenge or Count.It Journey have ads?
Neither Big Team Challenge nor Count.It Journey shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Big Team Challenge or Count.It Journey?
Big Team Challenge ships an update monthly, and Count.It Journey every 2 weeks. Most recently, Big Team Challenge was updated on November 1, 2026 and Count.It Journey on November 3, 2026.

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