Comparison

RingRivals vs Ashimoto Zen

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

Head to head
About

RingRivals

Turn your fitness into exciting competitions with friends and users worldwide. Engage in daily ring-closing battles, create custom challenges, and track your progress with seamless health integration. Compete in various formats and climb global leaderboards.

Highlights
  • Global and private fitness competitions
  • Real-time leaderboards
  • Multiple competition formats (steps, distance, workouts)
  • Team battles and spectator mode
  • Apple Health integration
  • Social feed with likes and comments
  • Privacy controls for groups
Features
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RingRivals transforms your fitness journey into exciting competitions with friends and fitness enthusiasts worldwide. Turn daily ring-closing into epic battles that keep you motivated and engaged. COMPETE YOUR WAY · Join global competitions with users worldwide · Create private challenges with friends, family, or coworkers · Real-time leaderboards with live rankings and updates · 1v1 duels, group competitions, and team battles · Support for unlimited participants in each competition TEAM BATTLES · Create custom teams and compete together · Your team's combined score determines the winner · Spectator mode lets you watch the action without competing · Works with all six competition formats · Perfect for office challenges, family rivalries, or friend groups SIX COMPETITION FORMATS · Standard Ring Closing: Classic Apple competition format · Custom Rules: Set personalized targets and point multipliers · Step Challenges: Pure step counting competitions for everyone · Walk/Run Distance: Race to cover the most ground on foot · Cycle Distance: Compete to rack up the most miles on the bike · Workout Time: Who can log the most recorded workout time COMPREHENSIVE TRACKING · Seamless Apple Health integration · Track move calories, exercise minutes, stand hours, and steps · Detailed workout analysis and fitness history · Beautiful ring visualizations and progress insights SOCIAL FITNESS · Follow friends and see their workout activities · Like and comment on workouts in the social feed · Create public or private groups for friends, family, or coworkers · Privacy controls: public, private, or followers-only GLOBAL LEADERBOARDS · Top 10 worldwide rankings across four categories · Most Steps, Walk/Run Distance, Cycle Distance, and Workout Time · See how you stack up against the best in the world Whether you're a casual walker or fitness enthusiast, RingRivals makes every workout count. Join the community where fitness becomes a fun, social competition that motivates you to achieve your best.

About

Ashimoto Zen

Features
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Stepping stones. Alternating boards. Paths that make you want to match your steps. Stay seated and hold your phone steady while ink-painted feet walk on screen. Watch each foot find its place, then the next, and listen to the footsteps. Ink feet, one foothold at a time Stepping stones, alternating boards, and bricks. Look down at ink-painted robes and feet as they follow the footholds in each scene. The hem follows each step, and footprints left on the ground gradually fade. There is no need to tap the footholds or swipe during your walk. Choose from 10 places A wooden veranda, stepping-stone garden, white line, brick path, rice field, mossy stones, pilgrimage trail, Ganges, space, and Heart Sutra. All 10 are available from the start. Choose a scene to start walking there directly. Touch the home-screen stone for a two-minute walk in the stepping-stone garden. A journey through all ten scenes Choose the ten-scene journey for one continuous circuit, lasting about 21 minutes. Each scene flows into the next without another tap. Pause or finish early whenever you like. The Heart Sutra plays in full. Two minutes, or one complete track Most walks last two minutes. Heart Sutra follows a complete music track, about 2 minutes 45 seconds. If the device orientation changes too far, the walk, remaining time, and audio stop. Hold the phone steady again at a comfortable angle to resume automatically from that position. You do not need to find the original angle. Quiet walks have no penalties or failure ending. Learn the controls and take your time First-use guidance appears over the scene: keep the side-to-side tilt steady, then the front-to-back tilt. If you are already holding steady, no shaking is needed. Once the walk begins, watch the ink feet reach for the next foothold. A subtle indicator shows whether your hold is steady. The scene name and remaining time appear only when needed; pause remains available. You can skip the guidance, pause, or finish early whenever you like. Time does not advance while the app is in the background. Follow the Heart Sutra Heart Sutra includes captions timed to the chant, with an English translation in English mode. Switch captions on or off from the pause screen. They also work with sound muted. A record of your breaks Look back at time spent in the scenery. Stillness time is available as a separate record. Preparation, pauses, and stops caused by changes in device orientation are excluded from your time in the scenery. For a break between work or study, a breather before bed, or a moment when you notice you are still scrolling. One app purchase includes these 10 places and your moment records. No subscription. If you already own the app, you keep access to all 10 places. No account is required. Records are saved on your device. Available in Japanese, English, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese. Use while seated, holding your device. This app is not intended for use while actually walking. Your quiet moments grow a forest Time spent here remains as a changing forest. Moss gradually grows across the sunlit forest filling your record screen. Short breaks accumulate, giving you a quiet visual record alongside the time you have spent. Details about growth are available from the record screen.

Screenshots

RingRivals4 screens
Ashimoto Zen4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: RingRivals at Free against Ashimoto Zen's $9.90. Ashimoto Zen's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs fortnightly) and device support (3 vs 1). On ads 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

RingRivals is free to download; Ashimoto Zen costs $9.90 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

RingRivals ships an update fortnightly, Ashimoto Zen every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and November 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
RingRivals versus Ashimoto Zen: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRingRivalsAshimoto Zen
PriceFree — better$9.90
Rating5.0 (5 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings5 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size53 MB265 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperEric Hardiman株式会社FREETANCE

In-app purchases

None

RingRivals

No in-app purchases

None

Ashimoto Zen

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is RingRivals free?
RingRivals is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Ashimoto Zen free?
Ashimoto Zen costs $9.90, with no in-app purchases.
Do RingRivals or Ashimoto Zen have ads?
Neither RingRivals nor Ashimoto Zen shows ads.
Which is updated more often, RingRivals or Ashimoto Zen?
RingRivals ships an update fortnightly, and Ashimoto Zen every 4 days. Most recently, RingRivals was updated on November 8, 2026 and Ashimoto Zen on November 9, 2026.

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