Comparison

Count.It Journey vs Challenge Hound

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Count.It Journey

This app facilitates interactive virtual wellness challenges for corporate teams, syncing with fitness trackers to encourage healthy habits and community building. Users can participate in various challenge types and engage with a dynamic virtual journey.

Highlights
  • Virtual challenge path with user avatars
  • Multiple challenge types (steps, exercises, mindfulness)
  • Real-time data syncing
  • One-tap emoji reactions
  • Configurable goals and rewards
  • Smart scaling for challenge difficulty
Features
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Introducing the brand new Count.It app, a breakthrough in corporate wellness and team building. The new app seamlessly syncs with Apple Health and other fitness tracking apps and creates an interactive, virtual wellness challenge. Built to get people moving and promote healthy community culture, the new app is the result of nearly a decade of market experience. Among many innovations: --A zoomable virtual challenge path that displays user avatars as though they were together on a real world journey. --Multiple challenge types, including daily steps, hundreds of exercises, and mindfulness/meditation. --A new sync'ing engine build from the ground up to ensure fast delivery data to make challenges feel increasingly "real time." --Hooray for one tap emoji reactions! Yep, that's in there too. --Configurable goals and rewards for individual users, and the group as a whole. --Smart scaling technology which allows admins to set the relative difficulty of their challenge --And much more! Come host a challenge, and get your people moving!

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

Screenshots

Count.It Journey4 screens
Challenge Hound4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Challenge Hound at 67% against Count.It Journey's 40%. Challenge Hound also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.5) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). Count.It Journey's advantage is ratings volume (1.5K vs 205). On price, update cadence, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Challenge Hound holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Count.It Journey has 1.5K ratings behind it against 205, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 40% of Count.It Journey's written reviews are positive against 67% of Challenge Hound's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Count.It Journey ships an update fortnightly, Challenge Hound monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 20, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Count.It Journey versus Challenge Hound: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCount.It JourneyChallenge Hound
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (1.5K ratings)4.8 (205 ratings) — better
Positive reviews40.4% of reviews66.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1.5K — better205
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size108 MB46 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCount It Labs, Inc.Challenge Hound LLC

Customer experience

Count.It Journey

All ratings1,522 ratings
Positive86.2%
Neutral3.9%
Negative9.9%
Written reviews52 reviews
Positive40.4%
Neutral5.8%
Negative53.8%

Challenge Hound

All ratings205 ratings
Positive95.1%
Neutral2.4%
Negative2.4%
Written reviews12 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%

In-app purchases

None

Count.It Journey

No in-app purchases

None

Challenge Hound

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Count.It Journey free?
Count.It Journey is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Challenge Hound free?
Challenge Hound is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Count.It Journey or Challenge Hound?
Challenge Hound is rated higher. Count.It Journey averages 4.5 out of 5 from 1.5K ratings, while Challenge Hound averages 4.8 from 205 ratings.
Do Count.It Journey or Challenge Hound have ads?
Neither Count.It Journey nor Challenge Hound shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Count.It Journey or Challenge Hound?
Count.It Journey ships an update fortnightly, and Challenge Hound monthly. Most recently, Count.It Journey was updated on September 24, 2026 and Challenge Hound on September 20, 2026.

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