Comparison

Badger Bug vs Challenges

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

Head to head
About

Badger Bug

This app helps you overcome procrastination by sending repeated reminders for tasks you've been putting off. It offers adjustable intensity levels and encouraging messages to motivate you to complete your to-do list.

Highlights
  • Task deferral reminders
  • Adjustable intensity levels
  • Encouraging messages
  • Task suspension and resumption
  • Completion celebration
Features
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Badger Bug When procrastination is not an option, the Badger Bug can help… Having problems getting things done in time? Do you have a tendency to put boring or difficult things off? Taxes, repairs, calls to plumbers, veterinarians or distant family? Help is on the way! The Badger Bug application will bug you to accomplish today what you were deferring until tomorrow! Enter or dictate the task you are constantly putting off, then press START. It will send to your phone, or your Apple Watch repeated reminders to get it done! The Friendly Badger has three different levels of intensity, and a lot of encouraging words for you. He believes in you, and thus Badger Bug is and always will be free! You can suspend the Badger if you are too busy or unable to complete the task due to physical or mental circumstances. Once you get back, just resume, and the Badger will report for duty. It will be joyful and celebratory once you are able to press the “DONE!” button, and send the Badger away…

About

Challenges

Features
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Challenges is a self improvement app where you can create challenges for yourself to accomplish goals. Stop procrastinating and increase productivity with Challenges. Create a new challenge by clicking the plus button on the top right. You can select any time interval you want. Add multiple goals to your challenge. Goals can be one of two types: to achieve things that are good for you (for example "go for a run at least 5 times"), and to stop doing your bad habits (for example "drink alcohol at most 2 nights"). You can pick any emoji you want for your goal. You can choose a step value for how much you wanna increase when you tick an item. For example you may want to increase hours by 0.5 or 0.25 whereas you may want to increase meters by 10 in each tick. Press the green tick button to increase the goal's completed amount. Press yellow undo button to decrease the goal's completed amount. Long press yellow undo button to reset to 0. Good habits are used in calculating how much of a challenge you completed. Bad habits are absolute, as long as you are under the limit, the challenge is going good. But if you exceed the limit, then the challenge is failed :(

Screenshots

Badger Bug4 screens
Challenges3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Badger Bug at every 2 months against Challenges's every 8 months. Challenges's advantage is iOS requirement (10.0 vs 16.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Badger Bug ships an update every 2 months, Challenges every 8 months. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Badger Bug versus Challenges: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBadger BugChallenges
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.6 (5 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews80.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings5 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 8 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS16.010.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size25 MB28 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMartine HabibDeniz Egemen Coskun

In-app purchases

None

Badger Bug

No in-app purchases

None

Challenges

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Badger Bug free?
Badger Bug is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Challenges free?
Challenges is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Badger Bug or Challenges have ads?
Neither Badger Bug nor Challenges shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Badger Bug or Challenges?
Badger Bug ships an update every 2 months, and Challenges every 8 months. Most recently, Badger Bug was updated on October 12, 2026 and Challenges on October 10, 2026.

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