Comparison

Stride vs TapBreath

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

TapBreath

This app guides you through paced breathing exercises to manage anxiety. Simply tap along with a visual cue that expands and contracts, helping you establish a steady rhythm. It offers customizable breath durations and gentle haptic feedback, all while ensuring your data remains private on your device.

Highlights
  • Paced breathing exercises
  • Visual breathing guide
  • Haptic feedback cues
  • Breath and time tracking
  • Offline functionality
  • Multi-language support
Features
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TapBreath is a breathing pacer for anxious moments. Tap the circle: quick taps as you breathe in, slow taps as you let it out, and the app leads you into a steady rhythm of five seconds in and five seconds out. Tapping gives your hands something to do while your breath slows down. The circle grows and shrinks with each breath, a light vibration marks each tap, and a gentle cue tells you if you are rushing. WHAT IT DOES - One button. Tap when you are ready, tap along, tap "I am done" when you are. - Paced breathing: four, five, or six seconds in and out. - Vibration with each tap and each change of breath (you can turn it off). - A count of breaths and time, and a quick "how do you feel now" after each session. - Recent sessions kept on your phone. - English, Spanish, German, and Vietnamese. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No login. No tracking. No data collection. Nothing you do here leaves your phone. WORKS ANYWHERE The whole app is on your phone, so it works with no signal at all. IMPORTANT TapBreath is not medical care and does not diagnose or treat any condition. If you are in crisis, call or text 988 (US, 24/7, free) or your local emergency number. From the team behind PatternMD.

Screenshots

Stride4 screens
TapBreath4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: TapBreath at 5.0 against Stride's 4.0. TapBreath also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.4). 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

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

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Stride versus TapBreath: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStrideTapBreath
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, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.415.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size22 MB9 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperLeto Technologies LLCPatternMD LLC

Customer experience

Stride

All ratings4 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

TapBreath

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Stride

No in-app purchases

None

TapBreath

No in-app purchases

Questions

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

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