Challenges Aid vs My.Marbles
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Challenges Aid
This app helps you track and achieve your monthly Apple Watch fitness challenges. It provides insights into your progress, offers reminders, and displays your achievements through a history tab and customizable widgets.
- Monthly challenge progress tracking
- Historical achievement overview
- Motivational messages
- Home and Lock Screen widgets
- Limited Edition Challenge tracking
- Customizable reminders
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Struggling to complete your Apple Watch challenges each month? Let us aid you! With Challenges Aid you will get easier and better insights into your progress this month. You can be reminded on the first day of each month to set your new challenges and with the History tab you will build a great overview of your achievements through the years. Small motivational messages will keep you going and inform you how you are doing. And with both Lock Screen and Homescreen widgets you always have your progress right at hand! Challenges Aid gets your data from Apple Health and only requires read access. The Apple Watch challenges cannot be read from your Health app or the Watch, those must be set manually each month. A reminder will help you do that. ThisMonth Overview * Get a clear view on today's progress * Get an overview of this month's challenge and progress * Get an overview of how much time has passed in the month * See day by day whether or not you achieved that day's goal or reached the required average Limited Edition Challenges* * Track the current, upcoming and previous Limited Edition Challenges * Get a clear view on the current challenges * Look back which challenges you’ve achieved and which you didn’t * More details to come later History* * Add previous challenges and see at a glance which ones you achieved * Open a challenge to see more details Settings * Toggle motivational messages on or off * Choose between distances in kilometers or miles * Toggle the monthly reminder on or off and set a time* * Toggle the monthly summary on or off and let it be auto saved * Subscribe to Limited Edition Notifications to never miss one* With companion Apple Watch App (work in progress). Widgets for your iPhone's Home and Lock Screen and Apple Watch complications! Challenges Aid Plus: * Get access to Limited Edition Challenges * Get your full History instead of the past 12 months * Set reminders and notifications * More widgets (coming soon) * Deeper insights (coming soon) Standard Apple Terms of Use (EULA) applies: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
My.Marbles
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My.Marbles is a zen way to keep track of your time and effort. Visualize your habits or goals over days and weeks. Feel good about how much you are spending your time on the things you care about. Using marbles to represent the different uses of your time, add them to the jar and see what your life is made of. • Create habits with unique marble colors • Tap +1 to drop a marble • Track daily and weekly progress • View trends in the analytics screen Simple. Visual. Satisfying.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: My.Marbles at none against Challenges Aid's 3. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Challenges Aid sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. My.Marbles asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Challenges Aid | My.Marbles |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (7 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 30.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tim Hilker | Cynthia Steinhardt |
In-app purchases
Challenges Aid
- Plus Monthly7 Days trial$0.991 Month
- Plus Yearly$9.991 Year
- Plus Lifetime$29.99
My.Marbles
No in-app purchases









