Strive vs Steppa
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
Steppa
Compete with friends and family in step counting challenges and leagues. Track your progress, climb world rankings, and build healthy walking habits through social competition.
- Step count rankings
- Leagues and challenges
- World rankings
- Private group competitions
- Achievement tracking
- Habit building
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Be the fit friend who walks every day. Steppa is a social step counting app with rankings, leagues, challenges and achievements. Create private groups to compete in step count rankings and challenges with your friends and family, or challenge yourself to dominate the leagues. View your world rankings or join public groups to compete with others. Build a good walking habit and see where it takes you. Steppa Pro subscription required after onboarding to create groups. 7-day free trial on Monthly and Yearly plans. The Steppa Pro subscription auto-renews until cancelled in Settings. Privacy Policy: https://steppa.app/privacy-policy Terms of Use: https://steppa.app/terms-of-use
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Steppa at none against Strive's 14. Steppa also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 71%) and rating (5.0 vs 4.8). Strive's advantage is update cadence (every 8 days vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (3.1K vs 7). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Steppa asks for nothing beyond the download.
Steppa holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Strive has 3.1K 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 100% of Steppa's.
Strive ships an update every 8 days, Steppa every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Strive | Steppa |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (3.1K ratings) | 5.0 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 71.1% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3.1K — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Subscription | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 101 MB | 53 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Strive Competitions LLC | SMRLND LLC |
Customer experience
Strive
Steppa
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
Steppa
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
Steppa
No in-app purchases
