Givhero vs Stepstakes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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.
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.
- 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
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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.
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Verdict
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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
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.
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.
| Parameter | Givhero | Stepstakes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (407 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 72.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 407 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 76 MB | 38 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Givhero, Inc. | Around The Hoop Holdings, LLC |
Customer experience
Givhero
Stepstakes
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
Givhero
No in-app purchases
Stepstakes
No in-app purchases









