Comparison

Big Team Challenge vs Challenge Hound

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

Challenge Hound

This app helps you stay active and motivated by creating and joining challenges with friends, family, or colleagues. Track progress, share achievements, and engage in friendly competition to reach shared goals. It supports various fitness activities and can be used for fundraising or personal well-being.

Highlights
  • Create individual or team challenges
  • Track distance, duration, elevation, activity totals
  • Goal-based or open-ended challenge formats
  • View personalized progress metrics and leaderboards
  • Live challenge feed for chat and encouragement
  • Sync with popular fitness apps
  • Support for diverse activity types and custom challenges
Features
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Challenge Hound powers fitness and wellness challenges for companies, nonprofits, and communities. Run employee wellness programs, charity fundraising challenges, or team competitions — all with shared progress, leaderboards, and built-in motivation. Whether you're an HR team launching a company-wide step challenge, a nonprofit running a fundraising campaign, or a group of friends staying active together, Challenge Hound makes it easy to create, manage, and grow engaging challenges. Track distance, duration, elevation, or total activities. Set goal-based challenges like "100 miles this month," or open challenges like "as much as possible in 30 days." Each challenge includes personalized progress tracking, charts, leaderboards, and an activity feed for motivation, photos, and celebrations. Optional maps allow you to visualize progress along real routes. - Create individual or team challenges - Track distance, duration, elevation, or activity totals - Use goal-based or open-ended challenge formats - View personalized progress metrics and leaderboards - Stay connected with a live challenge feed for chat, photos, and encouragement - Add maps to visualize progress on real routes - Log activities manually or sync automatically with connected apps Challenge Hound syncs with: - Apple Health - Garmin - Fitbit - Strava - MapMyRun / MapMyWalk / MapMyRide / MapMyHike - and more Supported activity types include running, cycling, walking, hiking, swimming, rowing, skiing, wheelchair activities, yoga, workouts, strength training, and more. You can also create custom non-fitness challenges such as hydration, reading, meditation, or good deeds. Challenge Hound has powered thousands of challenges for companies, nonprofits, and communities around the world — from corporate wellness programs to charity fundraisers to friend groups staying active together. Stay active. Stay connected. Stay motivated — together.

Screenshots

Big Team Challenge4 screens
Challenge Hound4 screens

Verdict

The call

Big Team Challenge and Challenge Hound both sit at 4.8 stars, but that hides the real split: 67% of Challenge Hound's written reviews are positive against 12% of Big Team Challenge's. Challenge Hound also leads on device support (3 vs 1). Big Team Challenge's advantage is ratings volume (1.2K vs 205). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Big Team Challenge against 4.8 for Challenge Hound. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Big Team Challenge has 1.2K ratings behind it against 205, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 12% of Big Team Challenge's written reviews are positive against 67% of Challenge Hound's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 20, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Big Team Challenge versus Challenge Hound: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBig Team ChallengeChallenge Hound
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (1.2K ratings)4.8 (205 ratings)
Positive reviews12.0% of reviews66.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1.2K — better205
Update frequencyMonthlyMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.615.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size69 MB46 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTeam Challenge Apps LtdChallenge Hound LLC

Customer experience

Big Team Challenge

All ratings1,167 ratings
Positive95.7%
Neutral1.7%
Negative2.6%
Written reviews25 reviews
Positive12.0%
Neutral8.0%
Negative80.0%

Challenge Hound

All ratings205 ratings
Positive95.1%
Neutral2.4%
Negative2.4%
Written reviews12 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%

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

Challenge Hound

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Big Team Challenge

No in-app purchases

None

Challenge Hound

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Big Team Challenge free?
Big Team Challenge is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Challenge Hound free?
Challenge Hound is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Big Team Challenge or Challenge Hound?
Big Team Challenge and Challenge Hound are both rated 4.8 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1.2K and 205 ratings respectively.
Do Big Team Challenge or Challenge Hound have ads?
Neither Big Team Challenge nor Challenge Hound shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Big Team Challenge or Challenge Hound?
Big Team Challenge ships an update monthly, and Challenge Hound monthly. Most recently, Big Team Challenge was updated on September 23, 2026 and Challenge Hound on September 20, 2026.

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