Challenge Tracker vs Distance Goal
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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.
Distance Goal
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Distance Goal turns a distance into a goal you can see. Set a target — walk the length of Hadrian's Wall, run 50 km this month, cycle to the coast — and a ring fills up as you go. Log your walks, rides, runs and swims, and watch a diary build up day by day. WHAT IT IS FOR Some goals are too big to hold in your head. A number on a page does not tell you whether you are ahead or behind, or whether you went out yesterday. A ring and a diary do. BUDDY GROUPS Follow the same goal as a few people you choose. Everyone sees how far the others have gone — and nothing else. There is no chat, no photos, no links: you cannot send anyone a message even if you wanted to. Names are picked by the app from a fixed list, so nobody can call themselves anything unkind. Whoever starts a group can remove someone from it. Anyone can hide anyone. The group is private and invite-only. YOUR DATA STAYS ON YOUR PHONE Almost everything lives on your device and never leaves it. The few figures shared with a buddy group are locked on your phone before they are sent, so not even we can read them. There are no accounts. There is nothing to sign in to, nothing to buy, and no adverts. BADGES AND JOURNEYS Earn badges as you go, or follow a journey — a real route, turned into a distance to cover.
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Verdict
Challenge Tracker and Distance Goal are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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.
| Parameter | Challenge Tracker | Distance Goal |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 43 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Nigel Gee | Bluetorch Consulting |
In-app purchases
Challenge Tracker
No in-app purchases
Distance Goal
No in-app purchases









