A Step Ahead Challenge vs Gerrymeandering
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
A Step Ahead Challenge
Embark on a virtual walking adventure where your real-world steps power your survival against zombies, robots, and aliens. Complete missions, upgrade your character, and join teams to conquer challenges in a post-apocalyptic world. New adventures are released regularly.
- Sync steps from fitness trackers
- Form teams and get active
- Use steps to complete missions
- Use exercise to battle enemies
- Track progress on maps and leaderboards
- Regular content expansions
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It's finally happened... the apocalypse is here and your only hope for survival is to outrun the zombies, rogue robots and alien invaders who've taken over! A Step Ahead™ is a walking adventure game that's powered by your physical activity. Use your real-world steps and exercise to complete missions in the wasteland, upgrade your character, and go on an epic fitness adventure. Getting started is simple: 1. Download the A Step Ahead™ app 2. Click your organization's personalized invite link or enter the Invite Code for your organization's challenge in the ASA app** 3. Use your real-world steps and exercise to go on an interactive fitness adventure Adventure through all of the ASA™ challenge series: The Outbreak™ Zombies are here… and they're hungry! You and your team will face a variety of challenges, obstacles and distance goals as you run (or walk) through a zombie-infested wasteland, helping other survivors and working to help those in need and rebuild society. Robotica™ What happens when the world's richest man, Albus Mousse, builds a sentient A.I. and charges it with protecting humanity? It determines that the biggest threat to mankind is… mankind. Race to avoid capture while you look for a way to shut down the servers and free the people "helped" by the army of rogue robots. Invasion™ They came from beyond the horizon, but why? And for what? Alien invaders are here and they're setting up shop on planet Earth. Work with your team across this adventure series to figure out why the aliens are here and how to get them to leave the planet. Seasons+™ A special series for challenges themed around the seasons, holidays, and special series crossover missions. Features: - Sync your steps and exercise from Fitbit, Garmin, Apple Watch or Apple Health Kit* - Form a team and get active** - Use your real-world steps to move your team - Use your real-world exercise to battle enemies - Keep track of your progress on the level maps and leaderboards - Tons of content, with regular expansions and updates - Play as humans OR enemies in over 20 different challenges across 4 different themes and settings - New adventures are released every quarter. *Use your favorite fitness tracker or fitness app to sync your activity data to A Step Ahead. Please consult your individual app(s) to ensure that they have permission to write Steps and Workouts to Apple Health. **A Step Ahead requires an invite code in order to participate. If you are part of a private group challenge, please consult your challenge organizer for your invite code. If you're an individual or group in need of an invite code, please visit asachallenge.com to get started. This project was completed with assistance from the Georgia Film Office, a division of the Georgia Department of Economic Development.
Gerrymeandering
A districting puzzle game where you draw electoral maps to achieve specific voting outcomes. Navigate hand-built maps and real US state geography to win elections by strategically carving districts. The game offers a clean, tactile drawing experience with provably winnable levels.
- Draw electoral districts on maps
- Achieve specific voting targets
- 100 hand-built maps
- Campaign across 50 US states
- Tactile touch controls
- Provably winnable levels
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Gerrymeandering is a districting puzzle about the most quietly powerful move in politics: drawing the lines. Every level hands you a map of colored voters and a target. Carve the map into districts so your side comes out ahead — or, in the trickier puzzles, so the outcome lands exactly where it has to. The votes never change. Only the borders do. Win by meandering. • A hundred hand-built maps — fifty grid puzzles and fifty invented countries — that ramp from "oh, I get it" to "…oh no." • A campaign across all 50 US states, built from real geography and election results — draw the districts, bank House seats, race to 218. • Clean, tactile map-drawing built for touch — drag to claim, two-finger pan, undo freely while you experiment. • Every level is provably winnable. No dead ends, no fake difficulty. • Play a quick puzzle in a minute or lose an afternoon to the campaign. A puzzle game about politics that never tells you how to vote — just shows you how the lines get drawn. Fair is a matter of perspective.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Gerrymeandering at 100% against A Step Ahead Challenge's 55%. Gerrymeandering also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8) and monetization model (ad-supported vs free with in-app purchases). A Step Ahead Challenge's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (7.2K vs 4). On price, update cadence, 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.
Gerrymeandering holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: A Step Ahead Challenge has 7.2K ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 55% of A Step Ahead Challenge's written reviews are positive against 100% of Gerrymeandering's.
A Step Ahead Challenge ships an update every 5 weeks, Gerrymeandering every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | A Step Ahead Challenge | Gerrymeandering |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (7.2K ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 55.2% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 7.2K — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 4 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 238 MB | 22 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | FIX Health | James Prince |
Customer experience
A Step Ahead Challenge
Gerrymeandering
Bugs and requests
A Step Ahead Challenge
Reported bugs
3 issues- Syncing issues with fitness trackers
- App crashes after updates
- Steps not registering properly
Requested features
5 requests- Add countdown timer
- Improve team management features
- Introduce more challenge types
- Provide post-mission recap
- Allow skipping tutorial
Gerrymeandering
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
A Step Ahead Challenge
No in-app purchases
Gerrymeandering
No in-app purchases
Questions
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