Comparison

Stride vs Abburn

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

Head to head
About

Stride

Turn your workouts into cash by competing in fitness challenges. Connect your health data, set goals, and earn real money for achieving them. Join or create challenges for distance, steps, duration, and more.

Highlights
  • Earn real money for workouts
  • Compete in distance, steps, and duration challenges
  • Connect Strava, Apple Health, or Health Connect
  • Create custom challenges
  • Join head-to-head or group tournaments
  • Build and compete with Crews
  • Cash out winnings to your bank
Features
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Stride. Get paid for the workouts you already do. Stride turns your runs, walks, rides, and gym sessions into real-money challenges. Pick a goal that pushes you, put a little skin in the game, and split the pool with whoever hits it. Miss it, the field takes your buy-in. Simple. Fair. Decided by your legs, not luck. This isn't gambling. It's competition. Every winner crossed the finish line for real. HOW IT WORKS Connect Strava, Apple Health, or Health Connect. We read the activity you already record. No new wearable required. Browse open challenges, or create your own in under a minute. Set the goal, the window, the buy-in. Train. Stride tracks your progress live against everyone else in the pool. Hit the goal before the timer ends and your share of the pool lands in your wallet. Cash out anytime. CHALLENGE TYPES Distance: be the first to run, walk, or ride X miles or kilometers. Steps: hit a daily or weekly step target. Duration: log X minutes of active movement. Streaks: don't break the chain. Head-to-head, small-pool group challenges, or open-to-anyone tournaments. CREWS Build your running club, your gym, your office, your group chat. Invite-only or open. Run private challenges. Climb the crew leaderboard together. Trash-talk encouraged. REAL CASH. REAL WITHDRAWALS. Winnings hit your in-app wallet the moment a challenge settles. Withdraw to your bank in 2 to 7 business days. United States: ACH. Colombia: Wompi to any local bank. No hidden fees. No "credits." Real money. WELCOME BONUS New athletes get a first-deposit bonus to try your first paid challenge on us. Look for the offer the first time you fund your wallet. BUILT FOR ATHLETES, NOT BETTORS Your fitness decides the outcome. Anti-cheat systems flag implausible paces, GPS-impossible routes, and manual data entry. We protect honest competitors so the pool always pays the people who actually moved. PRIVACY YOU CONTROL We read only the workout data needed to score the challenges you join. Steps, distance, duration, calories, route. Nothing else. Revoke access from your Health app or Strava at any time. We never sell your data. We never use HealthKit data for ads. WHO IT'S FOR Runners chasing a 5K, 10K, half, or full Walkers building a daily step habit Cyclists logging weekend miles Anyone who's ever paid for a gym they didn't go to Friend groups who need a reason to actually show up Stop running for nothing. Make every mile count.

About

Abburn

This app provides a minimalist interval timer for Tabata and HIIT workouts. It features guided exercises with demos, custom workout building, and a quick timer for personalized intervals. Enjoy a clutter-free, offline experience with audio cues and progress tracking.

Highlights
  • Guided Tabata and HIIT workouts
  • Custom workout builder
  • Exercise library with demos
  • Configurable interval timer
  • Audio cues for workout phases
  • Offline functionality
  • Dark and light themes
Features
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ABBURN — MINIMALIST TABATA & HIIT TIMER Abburn is a no-nonsense interval timer for Tabata and HIIT training. Pure black and white, zero clutter, and big bold numbers you can read from across the room. Pick a workout, hit start, move. GUIDED WORKOUTS • FAT BURNING — 10 high-intensity, no-equipment moves. • Every exercise shows a moving demo, its name, and what's coming up next during rest. BUILD YOUR OWN • Assemble a custom workout from the full exercise library. • Add, reorder, and remove moves — your workout is saved for next time. QUICK TIMER • Just want intervals? Set your own prepare, work, rest, and rounds. • Any durations you like — the classic 20/10 for 8 rounds by default. BUILT FOR TRAINING • Sharp audio cues count you down (3-2-1) and signal every phase change. • The screen stays awake for your entire workout. • Dark and light themes. • Clean round-by-round progress you can track at a glance. FREE & PRIVATE • Completely free — no ads, no subscriptions, no accounts. • No tracking, no analytics, works 100% offline. • Nothing you do ever leaves your device. Whether you're squeezing in four minutes before work or grinding a full circuit, Abburn keeps it simple: your workout, your timer, your burn. Always train within your limits and consult a health professional before starting any new exercise program. — Exercise images © Everkinetic, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.

Screenshots

Stride4 screens
Abburn4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Abburn at 5.0 against Stride's 4.0. Stride's advantage is ratings volume (4 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Abburn holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 1 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Stride versus Abburn: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStrideAbburn
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (4 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 10 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.417.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size22 MB3 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperLeto Technologies LLCDora Alkan

In-app purchases

None

Stride

No in-app purchases

None

Abburn

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Stride free?
Stride is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Abburn free?
Abburn is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Stride or Abburn?
Abburn is rated higher. Stride averages 4.0 out of 5 from 4 ratings, while Abburn averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Stride or Abburn have ads?
Neither Stride nor Abburn shows ads.

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