Comparison

BurnFriends vs Challenge Hound

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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!

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

Screenshots

BurnFriends3 screens
Challenge Hound4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

BurnFriends ships an update every 3 days, Challenge Hound monthly. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
BurnFriends versus Challenge Hound: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBurnFriendsChallenge Hound
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (13 ratings) — better4.8 (229 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better66.7% of reviews
Number of ratings13229 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size32 MB46 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDIVERSIFIED FUN LLCChallenge Hound LLC

Customer experience

BurnFriends

All ratings13 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Challenge Hound

All ratings227 ratings
Positive95.2%
Neutral2.6%
Negative2.2%
Written reviews12 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%

In-app purchases

None

BurnFriends

No in-app purchases

None

Challenge Hound

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is BurnFriends free?
BurnFriends is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Challenge Hound free?
Challenge Hound is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, BurnFriends or Challenge Hound?
BurnFriends is rated higher. BurnFriends averages 5.0 out of 5 from 13 ratings, while Challenge Hound averages 4.8 from 229 ratings.
Do BurnFriends or Challenge Hound have ads?
Neither BurnFriends nor Challenge Hound shows ads.
Which is updated more often, BurnFriends or Challenge Hound?
BurnFriends ships an update every 3 days, and Challenge Hound monthly. Most recently, BurnFriends was updated on November 3, 2026 and Challenge Hound on November 3, 2026.

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