Comparison

Challenge Tracker vs Tally Steps

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

Head to head
About

Challenge Tracker

Track your progress towards monthly health and fitness goals, including steps, distance, and exercise minutes. Integrates with Apple Health to visualize your progress with rings and charts. Supports various activities and is fully accessible.

Highlights
  • Set monthly goals
  • Track various activities (walking, running, exercise, steps, cycling, swimming)
  • Integrates with Apple Health
  • Progress rings and bar charts
  • VoiceOver and Apple Audio Graph accessibility
  • Supports iPhone and iPod
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Set a monthly goal or use suggested goal and keep track on the progress throughout the month or number days in a month that you want to achieve the daily goal. Set different types of activities - Walking + Running Distance - Exercise ** - Steps Count - Cycling Distance (App or device may be needed) - Swimming Distance (App or device may be needed) - Move (Apple Watch required or iPhone on iOS16 or later) - Wheelchair Distance Activities integrates with Apple Health app to be able to show a progress ring so each day you can see if you are on target for the month and a bar chart showing each day amount compared to the goal each day. Fully accessible with Voice Over and Apple Audio Graph. ** Movement equal to or exceeding the intensity of a brisk walk counts towards your Exercise minutes. Apple Watch not required for some of activities but recommended. Apple and Apple Watch are a trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries.

About

Tally Steps

Features
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One number, one ring, one goal. Tally Steps shows you how far you have walked today and nothing else. No coaching. No streaks. No badges for getting out of bed. It reads the step count your iPhone and Apple Watch already record, and it draws it plainly. TODAY A single ring against your daily goal, with distance and active energy underneath. Drag the goal, or type an exact one. THE MONTH, AND THE YEAR Every day as a square, darker the further you walked. Tap any day to see it, page back through earlier months, or open the year to find one. ON YOUR WRIST A watch app, and three complications for the corner, circular and rectangular slots — so the number is on your watch face without opening anything. WIDGETS Small and medium for the Home Screen, plus Lock Screen widgets. They keep up in the background. LIGHT OR DARK Follows your phone, or pin it either way in Settings. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT No account. No sign-up. No analytics, no tracking, no third-party SDKs. Nothing about your activity leaves your device — the app reads Health, stores a copy on your phone so the widgets can draw, and that is the whole of it. FREE The whole app, with nothing held back and nothing to unlock. If you would like to support it, Settings has a tip jar. It is entirely optional and changes nothing about the app. Requires access to Health for steps, walking and running distance, and active energy. Tally Steps only reads; it never writes anything back.

Screenshots

Challenge Tracker4 screens
Tally Steps4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Challenge Tracker at none against Tally Steps's 3. Challenge Tracker also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). Tally Steps's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks). On price, rating, ratings volume 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Tally Steps sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Challenge Tracker asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Challenge Tracker against 5.0 for Tally Steps. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Challenge Tracker ships an update every 3 weeks, Tally Steps weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Challenge Tracker versus Tally Steps: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChallenge TrackerTally Steps
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNigel GeeBuildfront LLC

In-app purchases

None

Challenge Tracker

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Tally Steps

One-time3
  • Small$1.99
  • Medium$4.99
  • Large$9.99

Questions

Is Challenge Tracker free?
Challenge Tracker is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Tally Steps free?
Tally Steps is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Challenge Tracker or Tally Steps?
Challenge Tracker and Tally Steps are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Challenge Tracker or Tally Steps have ads?
Neither Challenge Tracker nor Tally Steps shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Challenge Tracker or Tally Steps?
Challenge Tracker ships an update every 3 weeks, and Tally Steps weekly. Most recently, Challenge Tracker was updated on October 12, 2026 and Tally Steps on October 24, 2026.

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