Comparison

Activity Plus vs Challenges Aid

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

Head to head
About

Activity Plus

This app helps you maintain your activity streaks and recover lost ones by closing your rings. It offers global challenges, customizable widgets, and detailed progress insights to keep you motivated and informed about your fitness journey.

Highlights
  • Streak recovery for activity rings
  • Global fitness challenges
  • Customizable home screen widgets
  • Monthly challenges and awards
  • Graphical progress insights
  • Comprehensive activity tracking
  • Audio and video-guided workouts
Features
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Activity Plus helps you track your activity rings, protect your Move streak, review workouts, compare progress, and stay motivated every day. Follow your Move, Exercise, and Stand goals, recover missed ring days, customize widgets, unlock awards, and see your activity history across iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. Main Features: - Siri: Ask Siri to check your activity rings, daily metrics, and nutrition, compare weeks, or open your latest workout. - Energy & Nutrition: Compare calories consumed and burned, and view protein, fat, and carbs from Apple Health. - Protect Your Move Streak: Missed a day? Use Close Rings to recover a previous day and keep your Longest Move Streak on track. - Activity Rings: Track your Move, Exercise, and Stand progress throughout the day. - Home Screen Widgets: Keep rings, steps, distance, workouts, energy, and nutrition in view on your Home Screen. - Awards & Monthly Challenges: Stay motivated with goals, badges, and achievements. - Activity Stats: View steps, distance, and floors together, track progress toward your goals, and review active energy and daily metrics. - Workout Insights: Search your workouts and review routes, pace, distance, energy, and monthly results. - Global Challenges: Compete with friends and users around the world. - Global Leaderboard: Compare Move, Steps, Distance, and Exercise results. - Goal Notifications: Get notified when you reach your daily goals. - Share Your Progress: Share activity rings and workout stats with photos or videos. - Custom Goals: Set personal goals for Move, Exercise, Stand, Distance, Steps, and Floors. - Light & Dark Mode: Choose the look that works best for you. - Custom App Icons: Personalize Activity Plus with your favorite icon. Apple Watch Features: - Use Activity Plus directly on Apple Watch. - Review activity from previous days. - Add activity details to your watch face with complications. - Join the global leaderboard without adding contacts. Privacy: Activity Plus requests access to your Health data, including Activity, Steps, Distance, and Workouts, to show your stats, progress, widgets, goals, and workout history. Nutrition and energy data from Apple Health are also used to display your nutrition and calorie summaries. Terms of Use: https://gaivoronskii.com/activity/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://gaivoronskii.com/activity/privacy-policy/

About

Challenges Aid

This app helps you track and achieve your monthly Apple Watch fitness challenges. It provides insights into your progress, offers reminders, and displays your achievements through a history tab and customizable widgets.

Highlights
  • Monthly challenge progress tracking
  • Historical achievement overview
  • Motivational messages
  • Home and Lock Screen widgets
  • Limited Edition Challenge tracking
  • Customizable reminders
Features
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Struggling to complete your Apple Watch challenges each month? Let us aid you! With Challenges Aid you will get easier and better insights into your progress this month. You can be reminded on the first day of each month to set your new challenges and with the History tab you will build a great overview of your achievements through the years. Small motivational messages will keep you going and inform you how you are doing. And with both Lock Screen and Homescreen widgets you always have your progress right at hand! Challenges Aid gets your data from Apple Health and only requires read access. The Apple Watch challenges cannot be read from your Health app or the Watch, those must be set manually each month. A reminder will help you do that. ThisMonth Overview * Get a clear view on today's progress * Get an overview of this month's challenge and progress * Get an overview of how much time has passed in the month * See day by day whether or not you achieved that day's goal or reached the required average Limited Edition Challenges* * Track the current, upcoming and previous Limited Edition Challenges * Get a clear view on the current challenges * Look back which challenges you’ve achieved and which you didn’t * More details to come later History* * Add previous challenges and see at a glance which ones you achieved * Open a challenge to see more details Settings * Toggle motivational messages on or off * Choose between distances in kilometers or miles * Toggle the monthly reminder on or off and set a time* * Toggle the monthly summary on or off and let it be auto saved * Subscribe to Limited Edition Notifications to never miss one* With companion Apple Watch App (work in progress). Widgets for your iPhone's Home and Lock Screen and Apple Watch complications! Challenges Aid Plus: * Get access to Limited Edition Challenges * Get your full History instead of the past 12 months * Set reminders and notifications * More widgets (coming soon) * Deeper insights (coming soon) Standard Apple Terms of Use (EULA) applies: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Activity Plus4 screens
Challenges Aid4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Activity Plus at 4.6 against Challenges Aid's 4.1. Activity Plus also leads on ratings volume (2K vs 7) and review sentiment (51% vs 30%). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Activity Plus sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days and Challenges Aid sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Activity Plus holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Activity Plus has 2K ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 51% of Activity Plus's written reviews are positive against 30% of Challenges Aid's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Activity Plus ships an update every 2 weeks, Challenges Aid fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and July 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Activity Plus versus Challenges Aid: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterActivity PlusChallenges Aid
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (2K ratings) — better4.1 (7 ratings)
Positive reviews50.9% of reviews — better30.0% of reviews
Number of ratings2K — better7
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size74 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGaivoronski Andrei Vyacheslavovich, IPTim Hilker

Customer experience

Activity Plus

All ratings1,979 ratings
Positive88.7%
Neutral3.8%
Negative7.5%
Written reviews173 reviews
Positive50.9%
Neutral15.0%
Negative34.1%

Challenges Aid

All ratings7 ratings
Positive71.4%
Neutral28.6%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews10 reviews
Positive30.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative50.0%

Bugs and requests

Activity Plus

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Crashes frequently
  • Syncing issues
  • Inaccurate data tracking
  • Compatibility issues with older devices

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add ability to manually log exercises
  • Add water intake tracking
  • Improve widget customization
  • Sync data across devices
  • Add more workout options

Challenges Aid

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Activity Plus

Subscriptions3
  • Activity+$2.997 Days
  • Activity+$6.991 Month
  • Activity+$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • Close Rings$1.99
3 purchases

Challenges Aid

Subscriptions2
  • Plus Monthly7 Days trial$0.991 Month
  • Plus Yearly$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • Plus Lifetime$29.99

Questions

Is Activity Plus free?
Activity Plus is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Challenges Aid free?
Challenges Aid is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Activity Plus or Challenges Aid?
Activity Plus is rated higher. Activity Plus averages 4.6 out of 5 from 2K ratings, while Challenges Aid averages 4.1 from 7 ratings.
Do Activity Plus or Challenges Aid have ads?
Neither Activity Plus nor Challenges Aid shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Activity Plus or Challenges Aid?
Activity Plus ships an update every 2 weeks, and Challenges Aid fortnightly. Most recently, Activity Plus was updated on September 24, 2026 and Challenges Aid on July 9, 2026.

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