Comparison

Kept vs Stride

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

Head to head
About

Kept

Features
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Make a promise you can prove. Kept turns a daily intention into a clear pact with a rule, reminder, check-in, and private evidence—without noisy gamification. BUILD A PACT - Define your promise, reminder, and evidence standard. - Keep protected photo proof on your device, or invite a trusted partner through private iCloud sharing. - See today’s commitment, current and best streaks, completion rate, freeze balance, and recent history. - Export a clean CSV history without proof images or local filenames. PRIVATE PARTNER ACCOUNTABILITY - A Kept Pro member can invite one person through a private iCloud share. - Invited partners can participate and review proof without subscribing. - Submit proof with a visible 36-hour review window. - Your partner approves or rejects the evidence; automated image analysis never makes the verdict. - Shared changes can queue while offline and retry when iCloud returns. - Merge and deletion safeguards protect shared history from duplicate days and stale cloud records. FREE - Create one solo pact. - View your progress and use a basic widget. - Participate in any pact shared with you by a Kept Pro member. KEPT PRO - Create unlimited solo and shared pacts. - Compare partner streaks, completion rates, and history. - Export pact history and use partner-aware widgets. Photo proof stays on your device until you choose to submit it to a shared pact. Shared evidence uses a private iCloud share with public access disabled. Image feedback uses Apple’s on-device frameworks; Kept does not send proof to a cloud AI service. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled in your Apple ID settings. Restore an existing purchase from Settings. TERMS OF USE Product Terms of Use: https://www.uncommonweather.com/legal/apps/kept-terms.html Apple Standard Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

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.

Highlights
  • Weekly step leagues
  • Head-to-head friend races
  • Daily goal streaks
  • Home and Lock Screen widgets
  • Step history tracking
  • Private by default data
Features
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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.

Screenshots

Kept4 screens
Stride4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Stride at every 4 days against Kept's every 3 weeks. 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. Kept sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Kept ships an update every 3 weeks, Stride every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Kept versus Stride: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterKeptStride
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Freemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size18 MB30 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRyan TinklepaughMohamed Aboushady

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Kept

Subscriptions2
  • Kept Pro Monthly$3.991 Month
  • Kept Pro Yearly$29.991 Year
3 purchases

Stride

Subscriptions2
  • Stride Pro — Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Stride Pro — Yearly7 Days trial$14.991 Year
One-time1
  • Stride Pro$19.99

Questions

Is Kept free?
Kept is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Stride free?
Stride is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Kept or Stride have ads?
Neither Kept nor Stride shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Kept or Stride?
Kept ships an update every 3 weeks, and Stride every 4 days. Most recently, Kept was updated on October 24, 2026 and Stride on October 29, 2026.

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