Stridekick Activity Challenges vs Strive
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Stridekick Activity Challenges
Engage in fun, free activity challenges with friends and family, regardless of their fitness tracker. Connect various wearables or use your smartphone to compete in diverse challenge modes and track your progress over time. Upgrade for longer challenges and private groups.
- Cross-device compatibility
- Multiple challenge modes
- Community challenges
- Progress tracking
- Social activity feed
- Customizable challenges
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Compete in free, fun activity challenges with your friends and family–no matter which fitness tracker they have. Sign-up for free, connect a wearable device or smartphone and get moving with others. CONNECT A VARIETY OF WEARABLE DEVICES Stridekick connects to a variety fitness trackers so you can compete with your friends no matter which device they use. Don’t have a fitness tracker? No problem. Connect using your smartphone or enter your activity manually. We connect with the following devices: Fitbit, Apple Watch, Garmin, Withings, Misfit, iPhone 5S+, Apple Health, Polar, and Xiaomi. CREATE YOUR OWN ACTIVITY CHALLENGES Choose from three challenge modes: Leaderboard, Streak, and Target. JOIN COMMUNITY ACTIVITY CHALLENGES Join bigger community challenges with other steppers on the Stridekick platform. Community challenges feature different modes of competition including Journey, Stick to it!, Teams, and even a collective Group Target! We're always adding new community challenges, so check back often. A SOCIAL COMMUNITY TO KEEP YOU MOVING Everything is more fun with others. Stay motivated with the community of Stridekick steppers. Add friends and follow each other's activity stats. Keep up with those you know best through our daily Friends Leaderboard. A VARIETY OF CHALLENGE GOALS, UNLIMITED FUN Our challenge types offer a variety of ways to compete. Whether you're seeking a highly competitive leaderboard, a daily activity goal, or a long-term step target, we’ve got you covered. Compete on steps or active minutes. TRACK YOUR PROGRESS OVER TIME View your weekly, monthly and yearly averages for steps, distance and active minutes. Keep track of your all-time best days and work to beat your personal records. Unlock activity levels as you increase your weekly activity average. Join for free to create challenges that - Last up to 7 days - Can include up to 10 people per challenge - Are public for anyone to join Upgrade your experience with a Pro subscription that includes - Longer challenges, up to 45 days - Higher participant limits - Private challenges for just your group - Priority support Terms of use: https://stridekick.com/terms-of-service
Strive
Compete in step challenges with friends and colleagues on an interactive leaderboard. Chat and encourage each other to reach your fitness goals. Offers individual and group plans for personalized or team-based motivation.
- Interactive Leaderboard
- Step Challenges
- Social Chat & Encouragement
- Individual Plans
- Group Plans
- Employee Step Challenges
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Strive has built an interactive Leaderboard so you can compete in step challenges, chat, and encourage each other to Strive! Strive Individual plans: * Monthly Premium: $5.99 * Yearly Premium: $24.99 Strive Group plans: * 5 Users Yearly Premium: $99.99 * 10 Users Yearly Premium: $199.99 * 25 Users Yearly Premium: $499.99 * 50 Users Yearly Premium: $999.99 More information on how to host an Employee Step Challenge: https://www.strivecompetitions.com/employee-step-challenge Payments and Renewal: * Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. * Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period. * You can manage or turn off auto-renew in your Account settings at any time after purchase * No cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during the active period. Terms of use: https://www.strivecompetitions.com/terms Privacy policy: https://www.strivecompetitions.com/privacypolicy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Strive at 71% against Stridekick Activity Challenges's 46%. Strive also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.6). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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. Stridekick Activity Challenges sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $12.99 per month and Strive sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Strive holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4.6K and 3.1K respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 46% of Stridekick Activity Challenges's written reviews are positive against 71% of Strive's.
Stridekick Activity Challenges ships an update weekly, Strive every 8 days. Both last shipped on November 13, 2026.
| Parameter | Stridekick Activity Challenges | Strive |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (4.6K ratings) | 4.8 (3.1K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 45.9% of reviews | 71.4% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 4.6K — better | 3.1K |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 8 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 90 MB | 102 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Stridekick Inc | Strive Competitions LLC |
Customer experience
Stridekick Activity Challenges
Strive
User reviews
Stridekick Activity Challenges
From 4.6K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 💪 Motivating app for fitness challenges
- 👥 Great for connecting friends with different devices
- 🤝 Excellent customer service
- 🎨 Clean and user-friendly interface
- 🏆 Engaging challenges and competitions
Room to improve
- 🤖 Issues with syncing and data accuracy
- 🔒 Lack of privacy/security controls
- 💰 Paid subscription required for certain features
- 🚫 Inability to manually add activities
- 🤯 Buggy and unstable app
Strive
From 3.1K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Great customer service
- 🚀 Amazing app for friendly competitions
- 💡 Fun and motivating
- 👍 Measuring goals
- 🚀 Fantastic extrinsic motivator
Room to improve
- 🔒 Subscription changed significantly
- 🐛 Glitch
- 🐛 Support nonexistent
- 🐛 Doesn't work
- 🐛 $ to connect to Fitbit , do deleting
Bugs and requests
Stridekick Activity Challenges
Reported bugs
4 issues- Frequent app crashes and login issues
- Syncing problems with various fitness devices
- Inability to edit or manually add activities
- Notification issues and unclear in-app notifications
Requested features
5 requests- Ability to create larger group challenges
- More activity tracking beyond just steps
- Push notifications for challenge updates
- Integration with more fitness trackers
- Archiving of past challenges
Strive
Reported bugs
3 issues- Crashes when trying to read chat
- Frustrating loss of steps
- Waste of Money
Requested features
2 requests- Relative goals for challenges like apple fitness
- Weekend challenges
In-app purchases
Stridekick Activity Challenges
- Stridekick Pro–10$12.991 Month
- Stridekick Pro–20$24.991 Month
- Stridekick Pro–50$49.991 Month
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- Stridekick Pro–10$139.991 Year
- Stridekick Pro–20$274.991 Year
- Stridekick Pro–50$549.991 Year
Strive
- Monthly$0.991 Month
- Strive Monthly$1.491 Month
- Strive Monthly$2.991 Month
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- 6 Months$3.996 Months
- Strive Yearly$4.991 Year
- Annual$5.991 Year
- Monthly with FREE 7-Day Trial7 Days trial$5.991 Month
- Strive Yearly$9.991 Year
- Yearly with FREE 7-Day Trial7 Days trial$24.991 Year
- 10 Users7 Days trial$39.991 Month
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