Strive vs Step Up Challenge
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
Step Up Challenge
Turn daily steps into live competitions with friends and groups. Receive instant updates when someone passes you on the leaderboard. Earn badges and track progress with automatic step syncing from Apple Health.
- Live step leaderboards
- Instant friend passing alerts
- Automatic step syncing
- Private, invite-only groups
- Customizable challenges
- Milestone and streak badges
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Walking is more fun when you're competing. Outstep turns your daily steps into a live competition with the people who'll actually keep you moving, your friends, your run club, your coworkers, your family. Small groups, real leaderboards, and the one feature no other step app nails: knowing the instant a friend passes you. WHEN A FRIEND PASSES YOU, YOU'LL KNOW The moment someone edges ahead on the leaderboard, Outstep sends you a live update usually within minutes of their steps syncing STEPS SYNC AUTOMATICALLY Your steps come straight from Apple Health. No manual entry, no calorie counting, no clutter. Just steps, ranked. BUILT FOR GROUPS - Create private, invite-only groups that never expire - Always-on daily, weekly, and monthly leaderboards - Up to 8 friends free - React with a fire, muscle, or turtle to cheer each other on (or tell someone to speed up) CHALLENGES EVERYONE CAN WIN - Set custom challenges over any timeframe - Group Target mode: chase one shared goal together, so nobody gets left behind SEE WHERE YOU STAND - City, region, and country percentile ranking - Earn badges for milestones, streaks, and breakthroughs all free GROUP PREMIUM (OPTIONAL) Love it and want more room? One person can back the whole group. Group Premium unlocks up to 50 members, more concurrent challenges, longer challenge durations, and a full group analytics dashboard and it covers every single member at once. One subscription, whole crew. YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS Delete your account and all health data anytime from Settings. No ads. Ever. Get your group. Get moving. Get Outstep. Standard EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Terms of service: https://outstepapp.com/legal#terms Privacy Policy: https://outstepapp.com/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Step Up Challenge at freemium against Strive's subscription. Step Up Challenge also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 71%). Strive's advantage is ratings volume (3K vs 13). On price, rating, update cadence 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 and Step Up Challenge sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 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 4.7 for Step Up Challenge. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Strive has 3K ratings behind it against 13, 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 100% of Step Up Challenge's.
Strive ships an update every 9 days, Step Up Challenge every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Strive | Step Up Challenge |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (3K ratings) — better | 4.7 (13 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 71.1% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3K — better | 13 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Subscription | Freemium — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 101 MB | 63 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Strive Competitions LLC | Yousuf Abduljawad |
Customer experience
Strive
Step Up Challenge
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
Step Up Challenge
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
Step Up Challenge
- Group Premium7 Days trial$6.991 Month
- Group Premium Annual7 Days trial$49.991 Year
