Strive vs Friendly Competitions
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Strive
Compete in fitness challenges with friends using various metrics like weight loss, steps, and body fat. Track your progress with integrated health data and visualize your journey with insightful charts and graphs.
- Interactive leaderboards
- 7 competition types
- Health App integration
- Smart Scale integration
- Charts and graphs
- Weight loss challenges
- Step tracking
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Strive has built an interactive Leaderboard so you can compete in step challenges, chat, and encourage each other to Strive! Strive Individual plans: * Monthly Premium: $5.99 * Yearly Premium: $24.99 Strive Group plans: * 5 Users Yearly Premium: $99.99 * 10 Users Yearly Premium: $199.99 * 25 Users Yearly Premium: $499.99 * 50 Users Yearly Premium: $999.99 More information on how to host an Employee Step Challenge: https://www.strivecompetitions.com/employee-step-challenge Payments and Renewal: * Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. * Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period. * You can manage or turn off auto-renew in your Account settings at any time after purchase * No cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during the active period. Terms of use: https://www.strivecompetitions.com/terms Privacy policy: https://www.strivecompetitions.com/privacypolicy
Friendly Competitions
Compete with friends in fitness challenges using your Health app data. Set custom rules for start/end dates and scoring to create unique competitions. Enjoy seamless integration without manual setup.
- Group fitness competitions
- Health app data integration
- Customizable competition rules
- Automatic data syncing
- Set start and end dates
- Flexible scoring models
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Friendly Competitions allows you to compete against groups of friends in fitness. It automatically uses your fitness goals and results from the Health app, without the need for pesky configuration. Create competitions like never before, like start & end date, scoring models and more. Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Strive at 4.8 against Friendly Competitions's 3.4. Strive also leads on ratings volume (3K vs 7) and review sentiment (71% vs 60%). Friendly Competitions's advantage is monetization model (free with in-app purchases vs subscription). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Strive sells 14 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Friendly Competitions sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Strive holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Strive has 3K ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 71% of Strive's written reviews are positive against 60% of Friendly Competitions's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Strive | Friendly Competitions |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (3K ratings) — better | 3.4 (7 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 71.1% of reviews — better | 60.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3K — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days | Every 9 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Subscription | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 101 MB | 52 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Strive Competitions LLC | Evan Cooper |
Customer experience
Strive
Friendly Competitions
Bugs and requests
Strive
Reported bugs
3 issues- Crashes when trying to read chat
- Frustrating loss of steps
- Waste of Money
Requested features
2 requests- Relative goals for challenges like apple fitness
- Weekend challenges
Friendly Competitions
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Strive
- Monthly$0.991 Month
- Strive Monthly$1.491 Month
- Strive Monthly$2.991 Month
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- 6 Months$3.996 Months
- Strive Yearly$4.991 Year
- Annual$5.991 Year
- Monthly with FREE 7-Day Trial7 Days trial$5.991 Month
- Strive Yearly$9.991 Year
- Yearly with FREE 7-Day Trial7 Days trial$24.991 Year
- 10 Users7 Days trial$39.991 Month
- 10 Users$50.001 Year
- 25 Users$100.001 Year
- 100 Users$300.001 Year
- Public Challenges$5.00
Friendly Competitions
- Monthly3 Days trial$0.991 Month
- Semi-Annually3 Days trial$6.996 Months
- Annually3 Days trial$12.991 Year
Questions
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