Challenge Tracker vs Runtile
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.
Runtile
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Runtile turns the runs saved in Apple Health into clear totals, a colorful year of tiles, your personal bests and the distance on your shoes. It works with Apple Watch and the running apps you already use. No account, nothing to set up. Whether you just finished your first 5K, run a few times a week for fun, or are training for a marathon, Runtile shows how your running is going in plain, simple numbers. FOR EVERY RUNNER • Just starting? Set a monthly or yearly goal, build a streak and celebrate every milestone. • Running for fun? Watch your year fill up with tiles and share good-looking cards of your runs. • Training for a race? Follow your personal bests, race time estimates, heart rate zones and whether your easy days are really easy. YOUR WEEK, MONTH AND YEAR See how far you ran this week, month or year, compared with the same point last time. Your number of runs, time, average pace and streak sit right beside it, and a ring fills up as you get closer to your goal. Highlights tell the story of each week, month and year: your longest run, your fastest, new records and milestones. A YEAR IN TILES Every day you ran is a tile, colored by how far or how fast you went, so big days and easy days stand out at a glance. Tap any day to see its runs, check your streaks and look back at every month. EVERY RUN IN DETAIL A map of your route colored by pace, splits for every kilometer or mile, heart rate, elevation and running form from your watch. Runtile also finds your similar runs, so you can see if you are getting faster. PERSONAL BESTS AND RACE TIMES Your best times for 1 km, 1 mile, 5K, 10K, half marathon and marathon, with a top 10 for each, plus your longest runs and biggest weeks. See how long each record has stood and what time you could run in your next race. TRAIN SMARTER See how your running splits between easy and hard, how long you spend in each heart rate zone, and whether you are getting fitter over time. After a big week, a friendly note reminds you to rest. After a break, another helps you ease back in. SHOES THAT COUNT THEMSELVES Add the shoes you run in and Runtile assigns your runs to them automatically. See how far each pair has gone, compare pairs, and get a reminder when it is time for new ones. You can even bring your shoes over from a Strava export. SHARE YOUR RUNS Turn any run into a card, a story with your own photo, or stickers. Share your year of tiles or your personal bests too. WIDGETS This Month, This Week, Last Run (pick the shoe with one tap), Recovery, Streak and Lock Screen widgets. With Pro: Heatmap, Shoe and Records widgets. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account, no ads, no tracking. Runtile only reads your runs from Apple Health and keeps everything on your iPhone. It never changes your Health data. WORKS WITH YOUR FAVOURITE APPS Runtile reads every run saved to Apple Health: Apple Watch, Strava, Nike Run Club, Garmin Connect, COROS, Polar and more. Walks are left out, so your totals are runs only. FREE AND PRO Free: weekly, monthly and yearly totals, this year's runs and tiles, goals, streaks, highlights, personal bests, one pair of shoes, rest reminders, sharing and widgets. Runtile Pro adds every earlier year, tiles colored by pace, all training insights and race times, unlimited shoes with stats and comparison, similar runs, the Pro widgets and extra app icons. Choose monthly, yearly with a 7-day free trial, or a one-time lifetime purchase. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel them in your App Store account settings. Any unused part of a free trial ends when you buy a subscription. Terms of Use: https://runtile.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://runtile.app/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Challenge Tracker at none against Runtile's 4. Challenge Tracker also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). Runtile's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, ads 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. Runtile sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Challenge Tracker asks for nothing beyond the download.
Challenge Tracker ships an update every 3 weeks, Runtile every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Challenge Tracker | Runtile |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 17 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Nigel Gee | Karim Hossenbux |
In-app purchases
Challenge Tracker
No in-app purchases
Runtile
- Runtile Pro Monthly$3.991 Month
- Runtile Pro Yearly7 Days trial$19.991 Year
- Runtile Pro Yearly1 Year trial$19.991 Year
- Runtile Pro Lifetime$49.99









