Challenge Hound vs Squirrel Chase
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.
Squirrel Chase
Transform your walks and runs into an engaging adventure by collecting virtual acorns and interacting with virtual dogs on a real-world map. Customize your gameplay experience with adjustable settings for playing area, item density, and dog behavior.
- Real-world GPS gameplay
- Collect virtual acorns
- Dodge or befriend virtual dogs
- Expand collection ring with movement
- Customize game area and elements
- Share progress with friends
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Turn your everyday walk or jog into an epic real-world adventure. In Squirrel Chase, you become a cheeky squirrel on the map, collecting virtual acorns while dodging or befriending virtual dogs. How to play: • GPS places acorns and dogs around you in the real world • Start with a 30-foot collection ring — the more you move and collect, the wider it grows, making items easier to grab • Pick up dog bones to get 1 minute to befriend nearby dogs and remove them from the chase • Customize everything: playing area size (up to 1 mile), number of acorns, dog count & speed — or play with no dogs for a relaxed experience Whether you want an exciting run or a chill walk, Squirrel Chase makes fitness fun again. Pause anytime, stay safe, and always be aware of your surroundings. Share your progress and accomplishments with friends! Download Squirrel Chase today and turn your neighborhood into your personal squirrel adventure. Your next acorn is waiting!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Challenge Hound at none against Squirrel Chase's shown. Challenge Hound also leads on ratings volume (229 vs 2) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Squirrel Chase's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 67%). On price, rating, update cadence 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.
Squirrel Chase 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 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of Challenge Hound's written reviews are positive against 100% of Squirrel Chase's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Challenge Hound | Squirrel Chase |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (229 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 229 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Monthly |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 46 MB | 36 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Challenge Hound LLC | BFDNA Labs LLC |
Customer experience
Challenge Hound
Squirrel Chase
In-app purchases
Challenge Hound
No in-app purchases
Squirrel Chase
No in-app purchases
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