Challenge Hound vs MFLH Training
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
MFLH Training
This app allows MFLH Training members to book classes and gym events. Manage your account, update personal details, and handle payment information seamlessly.
- Class reservation
- Gym event sign-up
- Account management
- Update personal details
- Manage payment information
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For members of MFLH Training to reserve their place in a class, sign up for gym events, and general account management like updating headshots and credit card on file.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Challenge Hound at 205 against MFLH Training's 3. Challenge Hound also leads on monetization model (free vs ad-supported). MFLH Training's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.8). On price, update cadence, 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.
MFLH Training holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Challenge Hound has 205 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Challenge Hound | MFLH Training |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (205 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 205 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 46 MB | 93 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Challenge Hound LLC | MFLH training |
Customer experience
Challenge Hound
MFLH Training
In-app purchases
Challenge Hound
No in-app purchases
MFLH Training
No in-app purchases
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