Comparison

Stridekick Activity Challenges vs Count.It Journey

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

Head to head
About

Stridekick Activity Challenges

Engage in fun, free activity challenges with friends and family, regardless of their fitness tracker. Connect various devices or use your smartphone to compete in different challenge modes and track your progress over time. Upgrade for longer, private challenges and higher participant limits.

Highlights
  • Connects to multiple fitness trackers
  • Smartphone activity tracking
  • Manual activity entry
  • Create custom challenges (Leaderboard, Streak, Target)
  • Join community challenges (Journey, Teams, Group Target)
  • Social activity feed and friend leaderboards
  • Track progress over time (weekly, monthly, yearly)
Features
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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

About

Count.It Journey

This app facilitates interactive virtual wellness challenges for corporate teams, syncing with fitness trackers to encourage healthy habits and community building. Users can participate in various challenge types and engage with a dynamic virtual journey.

Highlights
  • Virtual challenge path with user avatars
  • Multiple challenge types (steps, exercises, mindfulness)
  • Real-time data syncing
  • One-tap emoji reactions
  • Configurable goals and rewards
  • Smart scaling for challenge difficulty
Features
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Introducing the brand new Count.It app, a breakthrough in corporate wellness and team building. The new app seamlessly syncs with Apple Health and other fitness tracking apps and creates an interactive, virtual wellness challenge. Built to get people moving and promote healthy community culture, the new app is the result of nearly a decade of market experience. Among many innovations: --A zoomable virtual challenge path that displays user avatars as though they were together on a real world journey. --Multiple challenge types, including daily steps, hundreds of exercises, and mindfulness/meditation. --A new sync'ing engine build from the ground up to ensure fast delivery data to make challenges feel increasingly "real time." --Hooray for one tap emoji reactions! Yep, that's in there too. --Configurable goals and rewards for individual users, and the group as a whole. --Smart scaling technology which allows admins to set the relative difficulty of their challenge --And much more! Come host a challenge, and get your people moving!

Screenshots

Stridekick Activity Challenges4 screens
Count.It Journey4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Count.It Journey at none against Stridekick Activity Challenges's 8. Stridekick Activity Challenges's advantage is update cadence (every 6 days vs every 2 weeks) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 18.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Stridekick Activity Challenges sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Count.It Journey asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Stridekick Activity Challenges against 4.5 for Count.It Journey. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4.4K and 1.6K respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 46% of Stridekick Activity Challenges's written reviews are positive against 42% of Count.It Journey's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Stridekick Activity Challenges ships an update every 6 days, Count.It Journey every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Stridekick Activity Challenges versus Count.It Journey: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStridekick Activity ChallengesCount.It Journey
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (4.4K ratings) — better4.5 (1.6K ratings)
Positive reviews46.0% of reviews — better41.5% of reviews
Number of ratings4.4K — better1.6K
Update frequencyEvery 6 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.6 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size86 MB108 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperStridekick IncCount It Labs, Inc.

Customer experience

Stridekick Activity Challenges

All ratings4,426 ratings
Positive89.9%
Neutral3.5%
Negative6.6%
Written reviews474 reviews
Positive46.0%
Neutral11.0%
Negative43.0%

Count.It Journey

All ratings1,565 ratings
Positive86.2%
Neutral3.9%
Negative9.9%
Written reviews53 reviews
Positive41.5%
Neutral5.7%
Negative52.8%

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

Count.It Journey

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

8 purchases

Stridekick Activity Challenges

Subscriptions8
  • Stridekick Workouts–Echelon–Monthly7 Days trial$7.991 Month
  • Stridekick Pro–10$12.991 Month
  • Stridekick Pro–20$24.991 Month
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  • Stridekick Pro–50$49.991 Month
  • Stridekick Workouts–Echelon–Annual$79.991 Year
  • Stridekick Pro–10$139.991 Year
  • Stridekick Pro–20$274.991 Year
  • Stridekick Pro–50$549.991 Year
None

Count.It Journey

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Stridekick Activity Challenges free?
Stridekick Activity Challenges is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Count.It Journey free?
Count.It Journey is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Stridekick Activity Challenges or Count.It Journey?
Stridekick Activity Challenges is rated higher. Stridekick Activity Challenges averages 4.6 out of 5 from 4.4K ratings, while Count.It Journey averages 4.5 from 1.6K ratings.
Do Stridekick Activity Challenges or Count.It Journey have ads?
Neither Stridekick Activity Challenges nor Count.It Journey shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Stridekick Activity Challenges or Count.It Journey?
Stridekick Activity Challenges ships an update every 6 days, and Count.It Journey every 2 weeks. Most recently, Stridekick Activity Challenges was updated on October 16, 2026 and Count.It Journey on October 15, 2026.

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