BurnFriends vs Challenge Hound
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BurnFriends
This app gamifies fitness by turning your step count into a virtual pet challenge for friend groups. Motivate each other to reach daily and weekly step goals, earning trophies along the way. It integrates with HealthKit to track your progress and foster friendly competition.
- Virtual pet fitness challenges
- HealthKit step count integration
- Daily and weekly step goals
- Friend motivation and competition
- Customizable daily step goals
- Trophy earning system
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BurnFriends is a fun virtual pet that helps friend groups complete fitness challenges together. This app will read your step count data from HealthKit so you can track your progress towards your goals. Note: This app will only work on iPhone device. iPads are not supported. In this version, define your weekly step goal, complete daily step challenges to help you achieve your weekly goal. Add friends so you can help motivate them to hit their goals! --Win the Day-- The default daily goal is 5,000 steps but you can adjust this up or down to modify the difficulty. Win those yellow trophies! --Win the Week-- You can make up lost steps on any day of the week but make sure you are done by Sunday. --Win with Friends-- Add and motivate your friends to hit their target to make burning even more fun!
Challenge Hound
This app helps you stay active and motivated by creating and joining challenges with friends, family, or colleagues. Track progress, share achievements, and engage in friendly competition to reach shared goals. It supports various fitness activities and can be used for fundraising or personal well-being.
- Create individual or team challenges
- Track distance, duration, elevation, activity totals
- Goal-based or open-ended challenge formats
- View personalized progress metrics and leaderboards
- Live challenge feed for chat and encouragement
- Sync with popular fitness apps
- Support for diverse activity types and custom challenges
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Challenge Hound powers fitness and wellness challenges for companies, nonprofits, and communities. Run employee wellness programs, charity fundraising challenges, or team competitions — all with shared progress, leaderboards, and built-in motivation. Whether you're an HR team launching a company-wide step challenge, a nonprofit running a fundraising campaign, or a group of friends staying active together, Challenge Hound makes it easy to create, manage, and grow engaging challenges. Track distance, duration, elevation, or total activities. Set goal-based challenges like "100 miles this month," or open challenges like "as much as possible in 30 days." Each challenge includes personalized progress tracking, charts, leaderboards, and an activity feed for motivation, photos, and celebrations. Optional maps allow you to visualize progress along real routes. - Create individual or team challenges - Track distance, duration, elevation, or activity totals - Use goal-based or open-ended challenge formats - View personalized progress metrics and leaderboards - Stay connected with a live challenge feed for chat, photos, and encouragement - Add maps to visualize progress on real routes - Log activities manually or sync automatically with connected apps Challenge Hound syncs with: - Apple Health - Garmin - Fitbit - Strava - MapMyRun / MapMyWalk / MapMyRide / MapMyHike - and more Supported activity types include running, cycling, walking, hiking, swimming, rowing, skiing, wheelchair activities, yoga, workouts, strength training, and more. You can also create custom non-fitness challenges such as hydration, reading, meditation, or good deeds. Challenge Hound has powered thousands of challenges for companies, nonprofits, and communities around the world — from corporate wellness programs to charity fundraisers to friend groups staying active together. Stay active. Stay connected. Stay motivated — together.
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Verdict
BurnFriends and Challenge Hound both sit at 5.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of BurnFriends's written reviews are positive against 67% of Challenge Hound's. BurnFriends also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs monthly). Challenge Hound's advantage is ratings volume (229 vs 13) and device support (3 vs 1). 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.
BurnFriends holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Challenge Hound has 229 ratings behind it against 13, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of BurnFriends's written reviews are positive against 67% of Challenge Hound's.
BurnFriends ships an update every 3 days, Challenge Hound monthly. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | BurnFriends | Challenge Hound |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (13 ratings) — better | 4.8 (229 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 66.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 13 | 229 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 32 MB | 46 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | DIVERSIFIED FUN LLC | Challenge Hound LLC |
Customer experience
BurnFriends
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In-app purchases
BurnFriends
No in-app purchases
Challenge Hound
No in-app purchases
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