Revolution Buffalo vs StepSense
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Revolution Buffalo
This app offers a variety of indoor fitness classes including cycling, TRX, treadmill, and strength training. It aims to help users achieve personal records, break mental barriers, and find a sense of freedom through guided workouts.
- Indoor cycling classes
- TRX training
- Treadmill workouts
- Strength training
- Personal record setting
- Mental barrier breaking
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Enter Revolution, and everything is possible. Completing your first class. Setting a personal record. Breaking down a mental barrier. Feeling free. Whatever you’ve come for, we’re going to make sure you find it with our indoor cycling, TRX, treadmill and strength training classes.
StepSense
This app helps organizations encourage healthy habits among employees through step challenges and team competitions. It offers a customizable, white-label solution to boost employee wellbeing, reduce absenteeism, and increase productivity.
- Employee step challenges
- Team competitions
- White-label customization
- Supports 130+ activity types
- Real-time progress tracking
- Multi-national challenge support
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Equip your employees, teams, students with the knowledge, tools and support they need to build new healthy habits. We support your organisation's health and wellness initiatives and objectives. Helping to change culture and assisting ongoing wellbeing of your employees. Our white-label product is completely brand-able to suit your organisation. Brand it with your colours, logos, own images and text. Users sign up for your step / walk challenge, create teams and compete against each other individually as well as in teams. You can run multi-national challenges that span across continents to make it even more fun and engaging. All information is available in real-time and is the most fun way for corporates to engage with each other, reduce absenteeism at the office and to create the most productive, happy and healthy workforce on the planet. Some call it walk challenges, others call it company step challenges, but one thing is for sure - employees love it. Your teams will work better together, build healthy habits, sleep better, reduce stress and anxiety and come out fitter, stronger and ready for the next big challenge - we see it over and over with every organisation we work with - vast improvements in metal health, absenteeism and stress management - with rock solid reports to back up our claims and show you real ROI. We now support a whopping 130 different activity types: Aerobic dancing class, Aerobic fitness class, Aerobics, low impact, Aerobics, step, Auto repair (light to moderate), Backpack, Badminton (casual - competitive), Ballet, Baseball, Basketball (shooting baskets), Basketball game, Bicycling, easy pace, Bicycling, moderate pace , Bicycling, vigorous pace , Boxing, non-competitive, Boxing, competitive, Bowling, Calisthenics, Canoe, light to moderate , Circuit training, Climb (rock/mountain), Croquet, Cross-country skiing, Curling (sweeping), Dance (light to lively), Downhill ski, Elliptical trainer, Fencing, Firewood carry/stack, Fishing, Football / Rugby, Frisbee, Gardening, Golf, no cart, carry clubs, 18 holes, Grocery shop, Handball, Hang laundry on line , Hike, Horseback ride, Hockey, Horseshoes, House/garage cleaning, Ice skate, Judo/Karate, Jump rope, Kayak, Kickboxing, Lacrosse, Miniature golf, Mop, Mow lawn, Orienteer, Paint wall/room, Pilates, Ping pong, Pool/billiards, Punching bag, Racquetball, Rake leaves, Rock climb, Rollerskate/rollerblade, Row, light , Row, competitive , Row, moderate, Run, 10 mph (6 min/mile), Run, 8 mph (7.5 min/mile), Run, 6 mph (10 min/mile), Run, 5 mph (12 min/mile), Sailing, Scrub floors, Scuba dive, Shop (grocery, mall), Skateboard, Skeeball, Skiing, Sledding, Snow shovel, Snowboard, Soccer, recreational, Soccer, competitive, Softball, Spinning, Squash , Stair climbing, machine, Stair climbing, downstairs , Stair climbing, up stairs, Stretch, Surf, Swimming, backstroke, Swimming, butterfly, Swimming, freestyle, Swimming, leisure, Swimming, treading water, Tae Bo, Tae Kwon Do, Tai Chi, Tennis, Trampoline, Trim trees/shrubs manually, Vacuum house, Volleyball, Walk slow, Walk moderate , Walk fast, Wash car (small to truck), Wash/dry dishes by hand , Wash windows manually, Water aerobics, Water ski, Wax your car, Weight lifting Wheelchair use, Yard work, Yoga, Zumba Fully GDPR compliant, we do NOT track anyone's physical location or GPS co-ordinates, EVER. Completely anonymous and perfect for any organisation, no matter how big or small. Important information about AppleHealth integration: StepSense integrates with AppleHealth. When you sign up for a corporate step challenge in StepSense, you will be required to grant permission for StepSense to read your steps walked, calories burned, flights climbed and BMR information to feature you on the leaderboard. We do not share this information with anyone else and it is solely used to feature you on the leaderboard.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Revolution Buffalo at 100% against StepSense's 50%. Revolution Buffalo also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.6) and ratings volume (447 vs 14). StepSense's advantage is monetization model (free vs ad-supported) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 16.0). 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.
Revolution Buffalo holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Revolution Buffalo has 447 ratings behind it against 14, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Revolution Buffalo's written reviews are positive against 50% of StepSense's.
Revolution Buffalo ships an update every 4 weeks, StepSense fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Revolution Buffalo | StepSense |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (447 ratings) — better | 3.6 (14 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 447 — better | 14 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 38 MB | 153 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Mariana Tek Corporation | NYXTEK DEVELOPMENT STUDIOS (PTY) LTD |
Customer experience
Revolution Buffalo
StepSense
In-app purchases
Revolution Buffalo
No in-app purchases
StepSense
No in-app purchases
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