Comparison

Stridekick Activity Challenges vs Steppa

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 wearables or use your smartphone to compete in diverse challenge modes and track your progress over time. An upgrade offers extended challenges and higher participant limits.

Highlights
  • Connects multiple fitness trackers
  • Smartphone activity tracking
  • Manual activity entry
  • Variety of challenge modes
  • Community challenges
  • Progress tracking over time
  • Social activity feed
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

Steppa

Compete with friends and family in step counting challenges and leagues. Track your progress, climb world rankings, and build healthy walking habits through social competition.

Highlights
  • Step count rankings
  • Leagues and challenges
  • World rankings
  • Private group competitions
  • Achievement tracking
  • Habit building
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Be the fit friend who walks every day. Steppa is a social step counting app with rankings, leagues, challenges and achievements. Create private groups to compete in step count rankings and challenges with your friends and family, or challenge yourself to dominate the leagues. View your world rankings or join public groups to compete with others. Build a good walking habit and see where it takes you. Steppa Pro subscription required after onboarding to create groups. 7-day free trial on Monthly and Yearly plans. The Steppa Pro subscription auto-renews until cancelled in Settings. Privacy Policy: https://steppa.app/privacy-policy Terms of Use: https://steppa.app/terms-of-use

Screenshots

Stridekick Activity Challenges4 screens
Steppa4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Steppa at 100% against Stridekick Activity Challenges's 46%. Steppa also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 6) and rating (5.0 vs 4.6). Stridekick Activity Challenges's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (4.5K vs 7). 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 6 in-app purchases, starting at $12.99 per month. Steppa asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Steppa holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Stridekick Activity Challenges has 4.5K ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 46% of Stridekick Activity Challenges's written reviews are positive against 100% of Steppa's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Stridekick Activity Challenges ships an update weekly, Steppa every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Stridekick Activity Challenges versus Steppa: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStridekick Activity ChallengesSteppa
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (4.5K ratings)5.0 (7 ratings) — better
Positive reviews45.9% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings4.5K — better7
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.615.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size90 MB53 MB
Age rating17+12+
DeveloperStridekick IncSMRLND LLC

Customer experience

Stridekick Activity Challenges

All ratings4,530 ratings
Positive90.1%
Neutral3.5%
Negative6.4%
Written reviews475 reviews
Positive45.9%
Neutral10.9%
Negative43.2%

Steppa

All ratings7 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

Steppa

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Stridekick Activity Challenges

Subscriptions6
  • 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
None

Steppa

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Stridekick Activity Challenges free?
Stridekick Activity Challenges is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Steppa free?
Steppa is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Stridekick Activity Challenges or Steppa?
Steppa is rated higher. Stridekick Activity Challenges averages 4.6 out of 5 from 4.5K ratings, while Steppa averages 5.0 from 7 ratings.
Do Stridekick Activity Challenges or Steppa have ads?
Neither Stridekick Activity Challenges nor Steppa shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Stridekick Activity Challenges or Steppa?
Stridekick Activity Challenges ships an update weekly, and Steppa every 2 months. Most recently, Stridekick Activity Challenges was updated on October 30, 2026 and Steppa on October 20, 2026.

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