Comparison

Step It Up by CHAI vs ChartRun

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

Head to head
About

Step It Up by CHAI

This wellness app promotes community-focused physical activity with an emphasis on exercise, healthy eating, and behavior change. It offers personalized feedback, location-based exercise opportunities, educational modules, and a social support forum. Connect your Fitbit, Aria II scale, or Omron blood pressure device for comprehensive health tracking.

Highlights
  • Community-centered physical activity
  • Exercise and healthy eating guidance
  • Personalized feedback tools
  • Location-based exercise triggers
  • Educational modules
  • Social support forum
  • Device integration (Fitbit, Aria II, Omron)
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Step it Up is a general wellness app designed to encourage low cost, community centered, physical activity. The program focuses on exercise, healthy eating, and behavior change with personalized feedback tools that support cardiovascular health. Local geofences specific to the user will trigger text location opportunities for exercise. Step it Up includes educational modules and a social support forum. Participants will connect their Fitbit device, Aria II scale, Omron blood pressure device and the option for logging daily blood glucose.

About

ChartRun

Visualize your running and walking performance history from Health data. Track distance, pace, heart rate, and more with detailed charts and lists. Share your workout summaries as PDFs.

Highlights
  • View data by day, week, or month
  • Chart and list views
  • Track distance, pace, heart rate, and more
  • Share workout info as PDF
  • Premium features: multi-year history, route maps, zone graphs
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ChartRun displays and graphs your run and walk history saved to Health. The data can come from any workout app that saves to Health including Apple Workouts, Garmin, Strava, etc. • View data by day, week, or month. • Chart and list views. • Distance, Pace, Heart Rate, Ascent, Cadence, Stride Length, Vertical Oscillation and Ground Contact • Splits available on Day List • Share workout info as a PDF Tap the gear icon to adjust settings. Upgrade to a Premium subscription to gain additional features: * Multiple years of history instead of default 31 days. * Month graphs and lists. * Insights like race history and best paces. * Workout route on map * Zone graphs for HR Zones, time in Pace or HR. * Compare training between 2 periods. As ChartRun gets data from Health, you must turn on the sources and accept the Health data access when prompted in the app in order to view charts. If you decline access in the app, you can turn access on in the Settings app under Privacy / Health / RunChart. Note that your workout recording device must capture data in order to graph it. Some devices do not capture all available data such as stride length or cadence. Terms of use follow the standard EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Step It Up by CHAI3 screens
ChartRun4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Step It Up by CHAI at none against ChartRun's 2. Step It Up by CHAI also leads on iOS requirement (14 vs 17.0). ChartRun's advantage is update cadence (every 6 days vs every 3 months). On price, rating, ratings volume 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. ChartRun sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Step It Up by CHAI asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Step It Up by CHAI against 5.0 for ChartRun. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Step It Up by CHAI ships an update every 3 months, ChartRun every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 5 level
Step It Up by CHAI versus ChartRun: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStep It Up by CHAIChartRun
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 6 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS14 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size170 MB22 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel HillEPage, Inc.

Customer experience

Step It Up by CHAI

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

ChartRun

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

In-app purchases

None

Step It Up by CHAI

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

ChartRun

Subscriptions2
  • Premium7 Days trial$1.991 Month
  • Premium$19.991 Year

Questions

Is Step It Up by CHAI free?
Step It Up by CHAI is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is ChartRun free?
ChartRun is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Step It Up by CHAI or ChartRun?
Step It Up by CHAI and ChartRun are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Step It Up by CHAI or ChartRun have ads?
Neither Step It Up by CHAI nor ChartRun shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Step It Up by CHAI or ChartRun?
Step It Up by CHAI ships an update every 3 months, and ChartRun every 6 days. Most recently, Step It Up by CHAI was updated on October 2, 2026 and ChartRun on October 9, 2026.

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