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.
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.
- 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.
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.
- 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/
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Verdict
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
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.
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.
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.
| Parameter | Step It Up by CHAI | ChartRun |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 14 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 170 MB | 22 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | EPage, Inc. |
Customer experience
Step It Up by CHAI
ChartRun
In-app purchases
Step It Up by CHAI
No in-app purchases
ChartRun
- Premium7 Days trial$1.991 Month
- Premium$19.991 Year









