Challengermode vs ValoShopTracker
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Challengermode
Compete in tournaments and ladders for your favorite games with friends. Discover daily events hosted by gamers and organizers, with opportunities to win prizes. Stay updated on your team's practice times and tournament check-ins.
- Compete in tournaments and ladders
- Join events hosted by gamers and organizers
- Win real prizes
- Team check-in notifications
- Mobile gaming companion app
- Compete anytime, anywhere
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Challengermode lets you and your friends compete in tournaments and ladders in your favorite games. New events and competitions hosted by other gamers and professional organizers from around the world with cool prizes to win every day. Sign up and join your first official tournament or ladder to compete for real prizes in less than a minute. Want to sign up for the tournament that starts right when you get home? Need to check in with your teammates to see what your practice times are this week? Want to be notified when the check-in for your tournament opens? Whatever you need, we've got you covered. Challengermode is putting competitive gaming into the palm of your hand. Compete in your favorite mobile games on your daily commute or use it as the perfect companion app to have Challengermode at your fingertips - anytime and anywhere.
ValoShopTracker
Track desired in-game cosmetic items with alerts for their appearance in the daily store. Build wishlists, view past store history, and plan purchases. Share your store with friends and manage your virtual currency.
- Wishlist alerts for desired skins
- Daily Store and Night.Market browsing
- Saved store history
- VP and Radianite Point tracking
- Spending planning tools
- Shareable store links
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Find the VALORANT skins you want with VST (ValoShopTracker). Build a wishlist with your favorite looks and get notified when the skins appear in your Daily Store. Get alerts for the skins you've been waiting for VST lets you know when a wishlist skin arrives in your Daily Store. Check your notifications for wishlist matches and information about the skin tiers in your store. Make your wishlist your own Search for skins you like and choose their levels and color variants. Explore preview videos, find your favorite look, and save it to your wishlist. You can also check the VP and Radianite Points needed to buy and upgrade your selections. Look back at past stores Wondering which skins appeared on a particular day? Open your saved store history. Browse past dates in the calendar and explore frequently appearing skins and your wishlist appearance stats. Explore your Daily Store, Night.Market, and bundles Check today's skins and prices without launching the game. Browse your Night.Market discounts, bundle contents, individual item prices, and the Accessory Store in one place. Plan your spending before you buy Compare your VP balance with the amount you need, then explore VP top-up combinations and estimated costs. Planning for the skins you want is easier with the figures in front of you. Share your store with friends Send a link to your store and open stores shared by friends. See which skins turned up for each of you. Usage and security VST does not have its own user accounts, so there is no separate VST sign-up or account-deletion feature. You need an existing Riot account to view your personal store. You sign in on Riot's official sign-in page. VST does not collect or store the username or password you enter. Communication with servers is encrypted. Skin search and details are available without signing in. Sign in with your Riot account to view your personal store, currency balances, competitive rank, and RR. VP top-up costs are estimates and may differ from the actual checkout price. Unofficial app notice VST does not grant skins or VP. This app is not endorsed or sponsored by Riot Games and does not reflect the views or opinions of Riot Games or anyone officially involved in producing or managing VALORANT. VALORANT and Riot Games are trademarks or registered trademarks of Riot Games, Inc.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Challengermode at none against ValoShopTracker's shown. Challengermode also leads on monetization model (free vs ad-supported) and ratings volume (170 vs 21). ValoShopTracker's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.5) and review sentiment (57% vs 27%). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and device support 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
ValoShopTracker holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Challengermode has 170 ratings behind it against 21, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 27% of Challengermode's written reviews are positive against 57% of ValoShopTracker's.
Challengermode ships an update weekly, ValoShopTracker every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Challengermode | ValoShopTracker |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (170 ratings) | 5.0 (21 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 27.3% of reviews | 57.1% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 170 — better | 21 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 136 MB | 101 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Challengermode AB | sunguk kim |
Customer experience
Challengermode
ValoShopTracker
In-app purchases
Challengermode
No in-app purchases
ValoShopTracker
No in-app purchases
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