Comparison

Step Forward vs Concrete Gym

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

Head to head
About

Step Forward

This app encourages teams to stay active and connected through daily step challenges. It features leaderboards for friendly competition and integrates with popular health trackers to monitor progress.

Highlights
  • Daily step challenges
  • Team leaderboards
  • Personal goal tracking
  • Apple Health integration
  • Google Fit integration
  • Garmin integration
  • Fitbit integration
Features
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Step Forward (an initiative of Healthy Workplaces) is an app designed to help organisations support their teams to keep active and stay connected. The app features events that encourage users to achieve 10,000 steps per day. Leader boards generate automatically in the app allowing team members to compete with one another while striving to reach their personal goals. The app tracks users steps through integrations with Apple Health (HealthKit), Google Fit, Garmin, and Fitbit.

About

Concrete Gym

Manage your gym account, book classes and events, and access on-demand content. Stay connected with the gym through direct messaging and a public feed for announcements and promotions.

Highlights
  • Account management
  • Class and event booking
  • On-demand content
  • Direct messaging
  • Public feed for announcements
Features
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The Concrete Gym app makes it very easy for you to manage your Concrete Gym account, book into our classes and events, watch our on-demand content, and keep in touch with us. You can easily message us if you have a question or want to share something with them. You can also follow our public feed to see any announcements we make, promos we run, or content we share.

Screenshots

Step Forward4 screens
Concrete Gym4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Step Forward at fortnightly against Concrete Gym's every 3 months. Concrete Gym's advantage is monetization model (free vs ad-supported). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Step Forward ships an update fortnightly, Concrete Gym every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Step Forward versus Concrete Gym: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStep ForwardConcrete Gym
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews83.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supportedFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size23 MB55 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNetEngine Pty LtdMomence, Inc.

Customer experience

Step Forward

Written reviews6 reviews
Positive83.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative16.7%

Concrete Gym

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Step Forward

No in-app purchases

None

Concrete Gym

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Step Forward free?
Step Forward is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Concrete Gym free?
Concrete Gym is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Step Forward or Concrete Gym have ads?
Neither Step Forward nor Concrete Gym shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Step Forward or Concrete Gym?
Step Forward ships an update fortnightly, and Concrete Gym every 3 months. Most recently, Step Forward was updated on October 13, 2026 and Concrete Gym on October 11, 2026.

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