Strive vs Steppers
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
Steppers
This app transforms your daily steps into a fun, social game. Create teams with friends and family, customize your in-game character, and compete on leaderboards. It encourages friendly competition and motivates you to move more by tracking your progress and celebrating milestones together.
- Create or join teams with friends
- Personalize in-game characters
- Sync real steps for progress tracking
- Compete in daily leaderboards
- Participate in weekly contests
- Celebrate streaks and milestones
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Steppers is a walking social game. Join teams with friends and family, turn yourself into your own in-game character, and watch your real steps move you up the leaderboard. Instead of just looking at a step count, Steppers gives you a shared game to play with people you actually know - and let you encourage each other or joke about it. You can compete in daily rankings, follow weekly contests, and stay motivated by seeing your own character make progress as you walk. With Steppers, you can: • Create or join teams with friends, family, and other groups • Turn a photo of yourself into your own in-game character • Sync your real steps and see your progress each day • Compete in daily leaderboards and weekly contests • Be part of multiple teams at the same time • Celebrate streaks, milestones, and wins together Steppers is built around friendly competition. It’s not about being perfect or taking fitness too seriously. It’s about moving a little more, checking in with your people. Terms of Use https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Steppers at free with in-app purchases against Strive's subscription. Steppers also leads on review sentiment (90% vs 71%). Strive's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (3.1K vs 31). On price, rating, update cadence 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 10 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Steppers sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Strive against 4.8 for Steppers. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Strive has 3.1K ratings behind it against 31, 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 90% of Steppers's.
Strive ships an update every 8 days, Steppers every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Strive | Steppers |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (3.1K ratings) | 4.8 (31 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 71.1% of reviews | 90.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3.1K — better | 31 |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Subscription | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 101 MB | 123 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Strive Competitions LLC | Guy Tepper |
Customer experience
Strive
Steppers
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
Steppers
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
Steppers
- Super Steppers Monthly$4.991 Month
- Super Steppers Yearly7 Days trial$29.991 Year
- New Stepper$0.99
- Special Offer$1.99
- 50 Coins$1.99
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- Stepper Outfit$2.99
- 150 Coins$4.99
- 350 Coins$9.99
- 800 Coins$19.99
