Google Fit vs Challenge Tracker
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Google Fit
This app helps you achieve a healthier, more active lifestyle by tracking your physical activity and providing personalized goals. It awards points for moderate and intense exercise, aligning with recommendations from health organizations to improve heart health, sleep, and mental wellbeing.
- Track workouts (runs, walks, bike rides)
- Monitor Heart Points and steps goals
- Manually add missed activities
- Connect with favorite fitness apps and devices
- View activity history and journal
- Get insights on heart rate, speed, pace, and route
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Get to a healthier and more active life with Google Fit! It’s hard to know how much or what kind of activity you need to stay healthy. That’s why Google Fit collaborated with the World Health Organization (WHO) and the American Heart Association (AHA) to bring you Heart Points, an activity goal that can help improve your health. Activities that get your heart pumping harder have tremendous health benefits for your heart and mind. You’ll earn one Heart Point for each minute of moderate activity like picking up the pace when walking your dog, and double points for more intense activities like running. It takes just 30-minutes of brisk walking five days a week to reach the AHA and WHO’s recommended amount of physical activity shown to reduce the risk of heart disease, improve sleep, and increase overall mental wellbeing. Google Fit will also help you: SEE YOUR WORKOUTS Get insights and see stats such as heart rate, speed, pace, route, and more for your runs, walks, and bike rides. MONITOR YOUR GOALS See your daily progress on your Heart Points and steps. Meeting your goals all the time? Easily adjust your goals to keep challenging yourself to achieve a healthy heart and mind. MAKE EVERY MOVE COUNT All physical activity can help you lead a healthier life, and with Google Fit you can track it all in one place. Working with your favorite fitness apps and devices, Google Fit builds a journal of your activity. And to make sure Fit never misses a workout, you can manually add any activity your other apps didn’t track - from Aerobics to Zumba! CONNECT WITH YOUR FAVORITE APPS AND DEVICES Google Fit can show you info from many of your favorite apps and devices that are compatible with Apple Health to give you a holistic view of your health, so you’ll never lose track of your progress. These include Lifesum, Runkeeper, Strava, MyFitnessPal, Headspace, and more. CHECK IN AT ANYTIME, FROM ANYWHERE See a snapshot of your activity history across Google Fit and your integrated apps in your journal. Or, see the full picture in browse, where you can find all of your health and wellness data. Learn more about Google Fit and see a list of supported apps at: https://www.google.com/fit
Challenge Tracker
Track your progress towards monthly health and fitness goals, including steps, distance, and exercise minutes. Integrates with Apple Health to visualize your progress with rings and charts. Supports various activities and is fully accessible.
- Set monthly goals
- Track various activities (walking, running, exercise, steps, cycling, swimming)
- Integrates with Apple Health
- Progress rings and bar charts
- VoiceOver and Apple Audio Graph accessibility
- Supports iPhone and iPod
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Set a monthly goal or use suggested goal and keep track on the progress throughout the month or number days in a month that you want to achieve the daily goal. Set different types of activities - Walking + Running Distance - Exercise ** - Steps Count - Cycling Distance (App or device may be needed) - Swimming Distance (App or device may be needed) - Move (Apple Watch required or iPhone on iOS16 or later) - Wheelchair Distance Activities integrates with Apple Health app to be able to show a progress ring so each day you can see if you are on target for the month and a bar chart showing each day amount compared to the goal each day. Fully accessible with Voice Over and Apple Audio Graph. ** Movement equal to or exceeding the intensity of a brisk walk counts towards your Exercise minutes. Apple Watch not required for some of activities but recommended. Apple and Apple Watch are a trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Challenge Tracker at 5.0 against Google Fit's 4.2. Google Fit's advantage is ratings volume (2.2K vs 1). 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Challenge Tracker holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Google Fit has 2.2K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Google Fit ships an update every 5 weeks, Challenge Tracker every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 28, 2026 and August 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Google Fit | Challenge Tracker |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (2.2K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 22.1% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2.2K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 300 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Nigel Gee | |
Customer experience
Google Fit
Challenge Tracker
Bugs and requests
Google Fit
Reported bugs
3 issues- Steps and heart points not accurately recorded
- Syncing issues between app, watch, and Apple Health
- Workout data disappearing or decreasing over time
Requested features
5 requests- Add ability to edit workouts
- Integrate with Fitbit and other devices
- Improve sleep tracking and analysis
- Add more exercise types and customization
- Provide widget and Apple Watch support
Challenge Tracker
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Google Fit
No in-app purchases
Challenge Tracker
No in-app purchases
Questions
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