Comparison

Challenge Hound vs Gapless

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

Gapless

Features
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Gapless is the minimalist challenge app designed for those who find motivation in direct comparison. Whether it's fitness, reading, or building habits – create a 1v1 duel or a group challenge in seconds and see exactly who’s leading.

Screenshots

Challenge Hound4 screens
Gapless3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Gapless at every 2 weeks against Challenge Hound's monthly. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Challenge Hound ships an update monthly, Gapless every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Challenge Hound versus Gapless: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChallenge HoundGapless
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (205 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings205 — better—
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.115.1
Further details — not scored
Size46 MB42 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperChallenge Hound LLCKian Salem

In-app purchases

None

Challenge Hound

No in-app purchases

None

Gapless

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Challenge Hound free?
Challenge Hound is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Gapless free?
Gapless is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Challenge Hound or Gapless have ads?
Neither Challenge Hound nor Gapless shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Challenge Hound or Gapless?
Challenge Hound ships an update monthly, and Gapless every 2 weeks. Most recently, Challenge Hound was updated on October 16, 2026 and Gapless on October 2, 2026.

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