Count.It Journey vs Challenge Hound
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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!
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.
- 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
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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.
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Verdict
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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
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.
Count.It Journey ships an update fortnightly, Challenge Hound monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Count.It Journey | Challenge Hound |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (1.5K ratings) | 4.8 (205 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 40.4% of reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.5K — better | 205 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 108 MB | 46 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Count It Labs, Inc. | Challenge Hound LLC |
Customer experience
Count.It Journey
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In-app purchases
Count.It Journey
No in-app purchases
Challenge Hound
No in-app purchases
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