Badger Bug vs Challenges
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Task deferral reminders
- Adjustable intensity levels
- Encouraging messages
- Task suspension and resumption
- Completion celebration
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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…
Challenges
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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 :(
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Verdict
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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
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.
| Parameter | Badger Bug | Challenges |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.6 (5 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 80.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 8 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 10.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 25 MB | 28 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Martine Habib | Deniz Egemen Coskun |
In-app purchases
Badger Bug
No in-app purchases
Challenges
No in-app purchases
Questions
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Do Badger Bug or Challenges have ads?
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