Comparison

Givhero vs Stepstakes

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

Head to head
About

Givhero

This app encourages healthy habits by letting you set and track personal wellness goals. It connects you with colleagues for employer-sponsored challenges, allowing you to raise funds for selected charities as you achieve your objectives.

Highlights
  • Customized wellness goals
  • Sync with wearable devices
  • Employer-sponsored challenges
  • Fundraising for charities
  • Social connection and leaderboards
  • Well-being content
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Givhero inspires and motivates healthy behaviors so individuals can improve their lives and their communities. Set, track and achieve your personal health and wellness goals with Givhero. Compete with colleagues in employer sponsored well-being challenges. Select a charity, invite sponsors (friends or employer), and raise funds when your goals are achieved.  Do Good, Feel Good, Be A Hero! For Individuals: • Customized wellness goals (walk, run, bike, weight management, blood pressure, etc.) • Sync to your favorite wearable device or app (e.g., Apple Health, Fitbit, Strava, etc.) • Community wide challenges  • Challenge leaderboards • Social Connection ◦ Leaderboard ranking, applause, motivation, badges ◦ Teams  ◦ Hero Wall (chat, photo, video and content sharing) ◦ Sharing (to social media, etc.) • Well-being content (articles, videos, etc.) • Donation procession to partner charities • Fundraising for causes For Employers (everything above and the following): • Employer customized and themed challenges (supporting well-being and charitable causes) • Curated and customized well-being content (articles, videos, etc.) • Employer curated content • Employee and employer donation processing  • Matching gift processing • Employer selected charities (over 2M global charities) • Admin dashboard with full reporting capabilities • Customer success representative  Employee Wellness. Social Wellness. Community Wellness! For any support questions, please email us at support@givhero.com.

About

Stepstakes

This app encourages you to reach your daily step goals by rewarding you with entries into weekly prize drawings. Connect your health data to receive a personalized target and earn chances to win gift cards, gear, or cash.

Highlights
  • Personalized daily step targets
  • Earn entries for prize drawings
  • Win gift cards, gear, and cash
  • Connects with Apple Health
  • Weekly prize winner announcements
  • Free to play
Features
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Hit your daily step target. Earn entries. Win real prizes. Free to play, every single week. Stepstakes gives you a personalized daily step target based on your own walking history and rewards you for hitting it. Every day you reach your target, you earn an entry into that week's prize drawing. Hit all seven days and earn three bonus entries. Every Monday morning, we draw a winner. No gym. No gimmicks. No catch. Just walk like you already do. YOUR TARGET IS YOURS Your daily step target comes from your real walking data, not a generic goal. If your median is 4,800 steps, that's your target. If it's 12,000, that's yours. We meet you where you are. PRIZES EVERY WEEK Gift cards, gear, and cash prizes. New prizes announced every Monday. One winner drawn at random from all entries. Real prizes, real winners, every week. WAKE UP TO YOUR RESULTS Every morning you get a short email: steps walked, target hit or missed, entries banked, days left in the week. Open the app when you want, not because you have to. HOW IT WORKS 1. Connect Apple Health (takes 30 seconds) 2. Get your personalized daily step target 3. Walk and hit your target to earn entries 4. Every Monday, a winner is drawn Free to play. Must be 18+ and a US resident (excluding FL and NY). See Official Rules in the app for complete details.

Screenshots

Givhero4 screens
Stepstakes4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Stepstakes at every 4 days against Givhero's every 2 months. Stepstakes also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and review sentiment (100% vs 73%). Givhero's advantage is ratings volume (407 vs 2). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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

Stepstakes holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Givhero has 407 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 73% of Givhero's written reviews are positive against 100% of Stepstakes's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Givhero ships an update every 2 months, Stepstakes every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Givhero versus Stepstakes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGivheroStepstakes
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (407 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews72.7% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings407 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size76 MB38 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperGivhero, Inc.Around The Hoop Holdings, LLC

Customer experience

Givhero

All ratings408 ratings
Positive89.0%
Neutral5.1%
Negative5.9%
Written reviews11 reviews
Positive72.7%
Neutral9.1%
Negative18.2%

Stepstakes

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Givhero

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Tracker pairing issues
  • Manual logging not showing up
  • App difficult to figure out

Requested features

6 requests
  • Allow app usage without background app refresh
  • Improve app navigation and user flow
  • Add ability to see individual team performances from previous dates
  • Ensure manual step logging works reliably
  • Clarify how money is sourced
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  • Improve charity discovery functionality

Stepstakes

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Givhero

No in-app purchases

None

Stepstakes

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Givhero free?
Givhero is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Stepstakes free?
Stepstakes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Givhero or Stepstakes?
Stepstakes is rated higher. Givhero averages 4.6 out of 5 from 407 ratings, while Stepstakes averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Givhero or Stepstakes have ads?
Neither Givhero nor Stepstakes shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Givhero or Stepstakes?
Givhero ships an update every 2 months, and Stepstakes every 4 days. Most recently, Givhero was updated on October 23, 2026 and Stepstakes on October 8, 2026.

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