Comparison

Muddy Steps vs Winter Arc

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

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Muddy Steps

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Discover the power of purposeful training with Muddy Steps โ€“ the ultimate app to prepare you for your toughest muddy race challenges. Whether you're tackling Tough Mudder, Spartan Race, or a local mud run, Muddy Steps equips you with the tools to build endurance, strength, and mental resilience, one muddy step at a time. Muddy Steps isn't just a fitness app โ€“ it's your daily motivator. Perfect for first-time mud runners or seasoned obstacle course warriors, our app tailors your training to crush hills, slog through sludge, and leap over obstacles with confidence. KEY FEATURES: โ€ข Race-Specific Training Tracking โ€ข Mud-Proof Challenges โ€ข Streak Tracking โ€ข Fun facts; how many Olympic pools of mud have you conquered? Was your last hill sprint taller than the Eiffel Tower? โ€ข Home screen widgets โ€ข Live activities on your lock screen โ€ข Customisable Reminders โ€ข In-Depth Stats & Insights โ€ข Personal Best Records โ€ข Detailed Training History โ€ข Per-Session Analytics & Graphs BUILD RACE-READY TOUGHNESS Transform your body into a mud-running machine. Our app makes it easy to track your training sessions, helping you build the consistency and grit needed to dominate on race day. STAY MOTIVATED WITH DAILY CHALLENGES Keep your training exciting with our mud-ready challenges. Push yourself, set new goals, and stay engaged with increasingly tough obstacles every single day. NEVER MISS A SESSION Set personalised reminders to ensure you never skip training. Our flexible notification system adapts to your schedule, keeping you on track with your race preparation goals. TRACK YOUR PROGRESS Watch your efforts pay off with our comprehensive stats. Monitor your overall distance, elevation gain, and personal bests. Visualise your improvement over time and celebrate your milestones. MAINTAIN YOUR STREAK Build momentum and stay motivated by tracking your training streaks. Challenge yourself to maintain and extend your streak, creating the mental toughness that muddy races demand. DIVE INTO DETAILED ANALYTICS Gain insights into each session with our detailed stats and graphs. Analyse your pace, terrain difficulty, and routes to optimise your training routine and track your improvement. REVIEW YOUR JOURNEY Access your complete training history to reflect on your progress and identify patterns in your preparation. Use this information to set new goals and continue improving. PRIVACY FOCUSED Your training data is important to us. All your stats are stored securely on your device, ensuring your fitness journey remains private. Start your journey to mud race glory today โ€“ download Muddy Steps and take that first step towards conquering your next challenge! Privacy policy: https://addjam.com/privacy Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

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Winter Arc

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YOUR RULES Before day one you write your own rules. Three to seven of them, small enough to do on your worst day. Your rules can change whenever your life does: add one, drop one or reword one on any day, and the days you have already held stay exactly as you held them. WHO YOU ARE BECOMING Four stats, BODY, MIND, GRIND and IRON, drawn from the rules you actually wrote. Watch the shape change across ninety days. The most honest picture of a season you will get, you never chose the numbers, you chose the habits. EVERY DAY YOU SHOWED UP Tap the day number for your calendar: every day you held, every shield that covered you, every day still to come. DAY 90 Add a progress photo whenever you want. They stay on your phone, nowhere else. On the final day they play back as a summit montage, first day to last, beside everything you held and banked. THE MOUNTAIN Your home screen is a climb, not a list. Every day you hold your rules the climber moves up the face, past the treeline, onto the ridge, into the summit push. START ANY DAY Missed October 1? Nothing is lost. Pick your start date when you set up, today or any day ahead, and the app builds the same climb, the same camps and the same summit from there. A winter arc that starts on November 3 is still a winter arc. THE DAILY CHECK-IN The work is yours: the training, the pages, the early nights. Logging it is the quick part. Open the app, tick what you did, close it. Change your mind any time the same day; nothing is final until the day is. STREAK SHIELDS Miss a day and a shield goes instead of your arc. Your gear covers it and the climb continues. No red screen, no broken chain, no starting again from zero. WEEKLY BOSSES Each camp opens a challenge built from your own rules: one of them before 6am, seven days in a row, or done somewhere that is not home. Complete it and you bank a streak shield. Skip it and nothing changes. A challenge is an offer, never an obligation. AURA AND RANKS Every rule you close banks aura, and aura carries you through five ranks: Basecamp, Treeline, Ridgeline, Summit push, Summited. EVERY WEEK CLOSES Seven days make a camp, and each one ends with a recap of what you actually did rather than what you meant to do. Hold every day and the camp is perfect, which banks you a shield. WRITE THE DAY DOWN A line a day, if you want one. A sentence from a book, a note about why it was hard, a photo from the gym. They collect into a private timeline you can scroll back through from day one. A REMINDER THAT KNOWS WHEN TO STOP One nudge at the hour you pick, an optional evening save if the day is still open, and nothing at all once your arc is done. It ends when the season ends. BUILT TO BE LOOKED AT Two themes: Summit, dark and cold and quiet, or Glow, warm and light. Home screen and lock screen widgets so today sits one glance away and one tap from done. PRIVATE No account, no sign up, no feed, no leaderboard. Your arc lives on your phone and in your own iCloud, so it survives a new phone and a reinstall. None of it comes to us. Every screen opens before you decide anything, and Pro starts with a free week for eligible new subscribers, then renews automatically unless cancelled. Terms of Use: https://winterarcchallenge.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://winterarcchallenge.app/privacy

Screenshots

Muddy Steps4 screens
Winter Arc4 screens

Verdict

The call

Muddy Steps and Winter Arc are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters โ€” price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them โ€” neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Muddy Steps sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Winter Arc sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Muddy Steps versus Winter Arc: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMuddy StepsWinter Arc
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyโ€”Every 5 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad โ€” better
Requires iOS17.0 โ€” better18.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size20 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAdd JamMoonshot Media Limited

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Muddy Steps

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Yearly7 Days trial$24.991 Year
3 purchases

Winter Arc

Subscriptions2
  • Winter Arc Monthly7 Days trial$7.991 Month
  • Winter Arc Yearly7 Days trial$24.991 Year
One-time1
  • Winter Arc Lifetime$34.99

Questions

Is Muddy Steps free?
Muddy Steps is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Winter Arc free?
Winter Arc is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Muddy Steps or Winter Arc have ads?
Neither Muddy Steps nor Winter Arc shows ads.

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