Strive vs Challenge Hound
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
Challenge Hound
This app helps you stay active and motivated by creating and joining challenges with friends, family, or colleagues. Track progress, share achievements, and engage in friendly competition to reach shared goals. It supports various fitness activities and can be used for fundraising or personal well-being.
- Create individual or team challenges
- Track distance, duration, elevation, activity totals
- Goal-based or open-ended challenge formats
- View personalized progress metrics and leaderboards
- Live challenge feed for chat and encouragement
- Sync with popular fitness apps
- Support for diverse activity types and custom challenges
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Challenge Hound powers fitness and wellness challenges for companies, nonprofits, and communities. Run employee wellness programs, charity fundraising challenges, or team competitions — all with shared progress, leaderboards, and built-in motivation. Whether you're an HR team launching a company-wide step challenge, a nonprofit running a fundraising campaign, or a group of friends staying active together, Challenge Hound makes it easy to create, manage, and grow engaging challenges. Track distance, duration, elevation, or total activities. Set goal-based challenges like "100 miles this month," or open challenges like "as much as possible in 30 days." Each challenge includes personalized progress tracking, charts, leaderboards, and an activity feed for motivation, photos, and celebrations. Optional maps allow you to visualize progress along real routes. - Create individual or team challenges - Track distance, duration, elevation, or activity totals - Use goal-based or open-ended challenge formats - View personalized progress metrics and leaderboards - Stay connected with a live challenge feed for chat, photos, and encouragement - Add maps to visualize progress on real routes - Log activities manually or sync automatically with connected apps Challenge Hound syncs with: - Apple Health - Garmin - Fitbit - Strava - MapMyRun / MapMyWalk / MapMyRide / MapMyHike - and more Supported activity types include running, cycling, walking, hiking, swimming, rowing, skiing, wheelchair activities, yoga, workouts, strength training, and more. You can also create custom non-fitness challenges such as hydration, reading, meditation, or good deeds. Challenge Hound has powered thousands of challenges for companies, nonprofits, and communities around the world — from corporate wellness programs to charity fundraisers to friend groups staying active together. Stay active. Stay connected. Stay motivated — together.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Challenge Hound at none against Strive's 14. Strive's advantage is update cadence (every 8 days vs monthly) and ratings volume (3.1K vs 227). On price, rating, review sentiment 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. Strive sells 14 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Challenge Hound asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Strive against 4.8 for Challenge Hound. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Strive has 3.1K ratings behind it against 227, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 71% of Strive's written reviews are positive against 67% of Challenge Hound's.
Strive ships an update every 8 days, Challenge Hound monthly. Both last shipped on October 27, 2026.
| Parameter | Strive | Challenge Hound |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (3.1K ratings) | 4.8 (227 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 71.1% of reviews — better | 66.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3.1K — better | 227 |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Subscription | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 101 MB | 46 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Strive Competitions LLC | Challenge Hound LLC |
Customer experience
Strive
Challenge Hound
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
Challenge Hound
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
Challenge Hound
No in-app purchases
Questions
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