StepCrush vs Stride
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
StepCrush
This app motivates users to increase their daily movement through gamified team challenges and friendly competition. It focuses on habit formation with features like streaks, awards, and team-based goals to encourage sustained activity.
- Team-based step challenges
- Gamification (streaks, awards)
- Goal-based earned discounts
- Team vs team competition
- World rankings
- Movement habit formation
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Looking for a fun way to stay active? Turn your daily walks into friendly competitions with friends, family, coworkers, and teammates. StepCrush transforms everyday walking into team step challenges that keep everyone motivated. Build healthy habits, maintain step streaks, climb leaderboards, and compete together in fun, social fitness challenges that make it easier to stay active every day. Whether you’re challenging friends, organizing a family competition, or running a workplace wellness challenge, StepCrush makes every step count. Why StepCrush? Most step trackers simply count your steps. StepCrush keeps you motivated by turning walking into a social game built around accountability, teamwork, and friendly competition. Key Features: • Team Step Challenges: Create teams and compete head-to-head to see who can walk the most each day or week. • Friends, Family & Coworkers: Invite the people you know and stay motivated together through shared goals and friendly rivalry. • Leaderboards & Rankings: Track team versus team performance, celebrate milestones, and climb the friend and global rankings. • Step Streaks & Achievements: Build consistency, unlock awards, and keep your streak alive every day. • Boosts & Rest Days: Strategically use boosts to help your team or take a well-earned rest day without breaking momentum. • Character Progression: Meet your goals consistently to level up your character; but don’t slack off, or you might start to devolve. • Automatic Step Tracking: Securely sync your daily steps using your phone's built-in sensors or wearable, so you can focus on the competition instead of tracking manually. Whether you call it a pedometer, a step counter, or a walking tracker, StepCrush is built to make fitness social, competitive, and genuinely fun. Download StepCrush today and start your first team step challenge! Terms of service: http://www.apple.com/legal/itunes/appstore/dev/stdeula
Stride
Compete with friends in step-based challenges and leagues. Turn your daily walks into races and track your progress with real-time updates and historical data. Offers customizable features and privacy controls.
- Weekly step leagues
- Head-to-head friend races
- Daily goal streaks
- Home and Lock Screen widgets
- Step history tracking
- Private by default data
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Your steps. Now it's a race. Stride is a step counter with a finish line. Your friends run beside you on a real track, each one a different-colored Bib, and the finish line is your daily goal. Stride also turns the steps you already walk into a weekly competition against real people. Every Monday you join a league group of up to 30. Every Sunday the top finishers move up and the bottom ones move down. No equipment, no workouts to log — just walk. WEEKLY LEAGUES Twelve leagues, Bronze to Immortal, stacked like floors of one mountain. Your daily step total is your score. Watch the board move in real time, see exactly how many steps put you in the promotion places, and find out where you finished when the season closes. RACE A FRIEND Challenge anyone to a head-to-head: most steps over three days, first to 50,000, or a weekend sprint. Everyone runs on a real track — each friend a different-colored Bib, the finish line at the target — so you see who's ahead, down to the last step. STREAKS AND MARKS Hit your daily goal to build a streak. Bib, your running buddy, will let you know — loudly — when it's about to break. Earn marks for the milestones that actually took effort. WIDGETS WITH PRO Today's progress, your league rank, your streak and your race, on the Home Screen and the Lock Screen, updated through the day. STEP HISTORY Every day you've walked since you installed Stride, week by week, with your goal line drawn through it. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT Stride reads one thing from Apple Health: your daily step count. No workouts, no location, no routes. No ads, no trackers, no data sold. Delete your account in Settings and everything goes with it. STRIDE PRO Monthly, yearly (starting with a 7-day free trial) or once for life. Streak freezes (miss a day, keep your streak) and a monthly streak repair, a League Shield (stay in your league once a month), Home and Lock Screen widgets, your own Bib — colour, headband, shirt, shades, a cap or a crown, and your friends see it — unlimited races, advanced statistics and the full history. The leagues, streaks and friend races are free forever. Subscriptions renew automatically until cancelled in Settings › Apple Account › Subscriptions. Terms of Use: https://mosamir01.github.io/stride/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://mosamir01.github.io/stride/privacy.html Walking is more fun when someone's chasing you.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: StepCrush at 7 against Stride's 2. On price, rating, review sentiment and update cadence 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. StepCrush sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Stride sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for StepCrush against 5.0 for Stride. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 2 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
StepCrush ships an update every 3 days, Stride every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | StepCrush | Stride |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (7 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Every 4 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 60 MB | 30 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tindrels LLC | Mohamed Aboushady |
Customer experience
StepCrush
Stride
In-app purchases
StepCrush
- Pro Monthly$0.991 Month
- Pro Yearly2 variants$9.991 Year
- 1 month of Pro1 Month trial$9.991 Month
- Extra Life$0.99
Stride
- Stride Pro — Monthly$2.991 Month
- Stride Pro — Yearly7 Days trial$14.991 Year
- Stride Pro$19.99









