Chasing Watts vs Great Cycle Challenge USA
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Chasing Watts
Discover, join, and organize cycling group rides effortlessly. Find cyclists nearby, see ride details like pace and difficulty, and manage your cycling community with integrated communication tools and weather forecasts.
- Discover and join group rides
- Organize new cycling rides
- Route integration (Ride with GPS, Strava, Garmin, GPX)
- View ride details (pace, distance, difficulty)
- Manage clubs and teams
- Group chat and ride rosters
- Day-of weather forecasts
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Find the group ride. Know the ride before you roll. Chasing Watts shows you who's riding near you, where they're going, and how fast — so you show up to the right ride with the right crew. FIND RIDES • Map and radius search for rides near you • Route, distance, pace, and difficulty on every ride • See who's confirmed before you commit • Day-of weather for the ride, not just your zip code RIDE SMARTER • Crash hotspot data built from Texas DOT records, mapped along your route • Ask Joulia, our AI ride assistant, to find a ride that fits your day CREATE AND LEAD RIDES • Post a ride in seconds with routes from Ride with GPS, Strava, Hammerhead, or any GPX file • Rosters and group chat keep everyone in sync • Share any ride with a link or image to pull in new riders BUILT FOR CLUBS, TEAMS, AND SHOPS One place to schedule rides, talk to your members, and grow your community, instead of posting the same ride in three apps. Houston riders already post 60+ rides a week on Chasing Watts. Bring your group. Group rides. Easy. Download Chasing Watts — and LET'S RIDE.
Great Cycle Challenge USA
Track your cycling distance for a charitable cause using GPS. Sync your rides to fundraising pages, update goals, and connect with your team. Discover your cycling limits while supporting the fight against kids' cancer.
- GPS ride tracking
- Syncs with fundraising pages
- Update ride and fundraising goals
- Post blog updates
- View leaderboards
- Thank sponsors
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Great Cycle Challenge's mobile application uses GPS to record the distance of your bike rides while taking part in the fundraising event to fight kids' cancer. Each ride immediately syncs with your individual and team fundraising profile pages and automatically updates the distance ridden towards your event goal as you chase it down! The app also allows participants to update their ride and fundraising goals, change their profile image, update their details, post blog updates, view past rides, thank sponsors, view leaderboards and more. How far can you ride? Find out! * Continued use of GPS running in the background can decrease battery life.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Chasing Watts at 88% against Great Cycle Challenge USA's 0%. Chasing Watts also leads on rating (4.8 vs 3.4) and update cadence (every 9 days vs every 2 months). 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.
Chasing Watts holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Chasing Watts has 778 ratings behind it against 17, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 88% of Chasing Watts's written reviews are positive against 0% of Great Cycle Challenge USA's.
Chasing Watts ships an update every 9 days, Great Cycle Challenge USA every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Chasing Watts | Great Cycle Challenge USA |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (778 ratings) — better | 3.4 (17 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 87.5% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 778 — better | 17 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 86 MB | 75 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Chasing Watts LLC | Great Cycle Challenge |
Customer experience
Chasing Watts
Great Cycle Challenge USA
Bugs and requests
Chasing Watts
Reported bugs
6 issues- App crashes when creating rides over cellular data
- Profile setup crashes and errors
- App requires re-login on every launch
- Profile pictures rotate 90 degrees after saving
- Errors when answering profile questions
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- Unreliable performance on cell data vs WiFi
Requested features
6 requests- Expand to multiple cities nationwide
- Expand to other sports like running
- Face ID or biometric login option
- Ability to save/star rides without committing attendance
- Persistent app state when switching apps
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- Better offline functionality
Great Cycle Challenge USA
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Chasing Watts
No in-app purchases
Great Cycle Challenge USA
No in-app purchases
Questions
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