Comparison

Challenge Hound vs PaceIQ (b4f780)

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

Head to head
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.

About

PaceIQ (b4f780)

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Know your pace before race day — and run every mile with confidence. PaceIQ is a clean, distraction-free pace calculator built for runners of all levels. Whether you're chasing a first finish line or targeting a personal best, PaceIQ gives you the numbers you need in seconds. Predict your finish time. Enter your pace and race distance to instantly see how long your run will take. Supports 5K, 10K, Half Marathon, and Marathon distances, plus any custom distance you enter. Results update in real time as you type — no button tapping required. Work backwards from your goal. Have a target finish time in mind? Enter it alongside your distance and PaceIQ calculates exactly the pace you need to hold. Training and racing become simpler when the math is done for you. Convert between km and mile pace instantly. Switch between min/km and min/mile with a single tap. PaceIQ handles the conversion automatically, so you can always think in the unit that feels natural — no mental math required. Built for the way runners actually use their phone. PaceIQ features a dark theme designed for quick glances before and during runs, haptic feedback that keeps every interaction feeling native, and a minimal interface with zero ads, zero subscriptions, and zero distractions. Just the numbers that matter. Download PaceIQ and step to the start line knowing your numbers.

Screenshots

Challenge Hound4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Challenge Hound at 3 against PaceIQ (b4f780)'s —. Challenge Hound also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). On price 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.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Challenge Hound versus PaceIQ (b4f780): the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChallenge HoundPaceIQ (b4f780)
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (205 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings205 — better—
Update frequencyMonthly—
AdsNo—
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — better—
Requires iOS15.1 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size46 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperChallenge Hound LLCJaspal Singh

In-app purchases

None

Challenge Hound

No in-app purchases

None

PaceIQ (b4f780)

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Challenge Hound free?
Challenge Hound is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is PaceIQ (b4f780) free?
PaceIQ (b4f780) is free to download, with no in-app purchases.

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