Studio50 vs BearWalks
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Studio50
Manage your account, book classes and events, and access on-demand content. Stay connected with announcements, promotions, and direct messaging. Follow the public feed for updates and shared content.
- Account management
- Class and event booking
- On-demand content access
- Direct messaging
- Public feed for announcements
- Promotions and content sharing
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The Studio50 app makes it very easy for you to manage your Studio50 account, book into our classes and events, watch our on-demand content, and keep in touch with us. You can easily message us if you have a question or want to share something with them. You can also follow our public feed to see any announcements we make, promos we run, or content we share.
BearWalks
Compete with your campus by tracking your daily steps. See your rank, streaks, and daily winners. Create private groups with friends and view your progress on your home screen widget. Your privacy is protected with optional profile details and the ability to go dark.
- Campus-wide step leaderboard
- Private group creation
- Daily winner determination
- Home screen widget
- Optional profile customization
- Privacy controls
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Your steps. Everyone's board. One winner a day. BearWalks reads your step count from Apple Health and ranks you against your whole campus. The board locks at midnight. Whoever walked the most takes it. WALK WITH FRIENDS Make a private group. Send a code or a QR. They're in. SEE WHERE YOU LAND Your rank, your streak, your best day, and how you sit against everyone who actually walked today. ON YOUR HOME SCREEN Add the widget for your steps, your rank and your percentile without opening the app. NO SETUP No login. No password. No email. Open it, you're on the board. YOU CONTROL WHAT SHOWS A photo and an Instagram handle are optional. Go dark removes you from every board while your steps keep counting. Delete your account and everything goes with it. Steps come from Apple Health. Nothing else is read. Made for university students. BearWalks is an independent app and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by any university.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: BearWalks at every 2 days against Studio50's every 2 months. Studio50's advantage is ratings volume (194 vs 3) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, rating, 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Studio50 against 5.0 for BearWalks. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Studio50 has 194 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Studio50 ships an update every 2 months, BearWalks every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Studio50 | BearWalks |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (194 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | 194 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 55 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Momence, Inc. | BENJAMIN GRAHAM GOODHART |
Customer experience
Studio50
BearWalks
In-app purchases
Studio50
No in-app purchases
BearWalks
No in-app purchases
