Comparison

Stridekick Activity Challenges vs Challenge Hound

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

Challenge Hound

This app helps you stay active and motivated by creating and joining challenges with friends, family, or colleagues. Track progress, share achievements, and engage in friendly competition to reach shared goals. It supports various fitness activities and can be used for fundraising or personal well-being.

Highlights
  • Create individual or team challenges
  • Track distance, duration, elevation, activity totals
  • Goal-based or open-ended challenge formats
  • View personalized progress metrics and leaderboards
  • Live challenge feed for chat and encouragement
  • Sync with popular fitness apps
  • Support for diverse activity types and custom challenges
Features
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Challenge Hound powers fitness and wellness challenges for companies, nonprofits, and communities. Run employee wellness programs, charity fundraising challenges, or team competitions — all with shared progress, leaderboards, and built-in motivation. Whether you're an HR team launching a company-wide step challenge, a nonprofit running a fundraising campaign, or a group of friends staying active together, Challenge Hound makes it easy to create, manage, and grow engaging challenges. Track distance, duration, elevation, or total activities. Set goal-based challenges like "100 miles this month," or open challenges like "as much as possible in 30 days." Each challenge includes personalized progress tracking, charts, leaderboards, and an activity feed for motivation, photos, and celebrations. Optional maps allow you to visualize progress along real routes. - Create individual or team challenges - Track distance, duration, elevation, or activity totals - Use goal-based or open-ended challenge formats - View personalized progress metrics and leaderboards - Stay connected with a live challenge feed for chat, photos, and encouragement - Add maps to visualize progress on real routes - Log activities manually or sync automatically with connected apps Challenge Hound syncs with: - Apple Health - Garmin - Fitbit - Strava - MapMyRun / MapMyWalk / MapMyRide / MapMyHike - and more Supported activity types include running, cycling, walking, hiking, swimming, rowing, skiing, wheelchair activities, yoga, workouts, strength training, and more. You can also create custom non-fitness challenges such as hydration, reading, meditation, or good deeds. Challenge Hound has powered thousands of challenges for companies, nonprofits, and communities around the world — from corporate wellness programs to charity fundraisers to friend groups staying active together. Stay active. Stay connected. Stay motivated — together.

Screenshots

Stridekick Activity Challenges4 screens
Challenge Hound4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Challenge Hound at none against Stridekick Activity Challenges's 8. Challenge Hound also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.5) and review sentiment (67% vs 45%). Stridekick Activity Challenges's advantage is update cadence (every 6 days vs monthly) and ratings volume (3.9K vs 205). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Challenge Hound asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Challenge Hound holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Stridekick Activity Challenges has 3.9K ratings behind it against 205, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 45% of Stridekick Activity Challenges's written reviews are positive against 67% of Challenge Hound's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Stridekick Activity Challenges ships an update every 6 days, Challenge Hound monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and September 20, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Stridekick Activity Challenges versus Challenge Hound: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStridekick Activity ChallengesChallenge Hound
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (3.9K ratings)4.8 (205 ratings) — better
Positive reviews45.5% of reviews66.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings3.9K — better205
Update frequencyEvery 6 days — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPod, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.615.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size83 MB46 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperStridekick IncChallenge Hound LLC

Customer experience

Stridekick Activity Challenges

All ratings3,851 ratings
Positive88.7%
Neutral3.8%
Negative7.5%
Written reviews466 reviews
Positive45.5%
Neutral10.9%
Negative43.6%

Challenge Hound

All ratings205 ratings
Positive95.1%
Neutral2.4%
Negative2.4%
Written reviews12 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%

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

Challenge Hound

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

Challenge Hound

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Stridekick Activity Challenges free?
Stridekick Activity Challenges is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Challenge Hound free?
Challenge Hound is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Stridekick Activity Challenges or Challenge Hound?
Challenge Hound is rated higher. Stridekick Activity Challenges averages 4.5 out of 5 from 3.9K ratings, while Challenge Hound averages 4.8 from 205 ratings.
Do Stridekick Activity Challenges or Challenge Hound have ads?
Neither Stridekick Activity Challenges nor Challenge Hound shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Stridekick Activity Challenges or Challenge Hound?
Stridekick Activity Challenges ships an update every 6 days, and Challenge Hound monthly. Most recently, Stridekick Activity Challenges was updated on September 22, 2026 and Challenge Hound on September 20, 2026.

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