StepShare vs StepChallenge
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
StepShare
This app allows you to share your daily step counts with family and friends, fostering a sense of connection and shared activity. It offers personalized goal setting, team challenges, and progress tracking, all while prioritizing user privacy by only accessing step data from HealthKit.
- Share daily step totals
- Personalized step goals
- Create or join private teams
- Walking Journeys challenges
- Sync with Apple Watch
- View step history and rankings
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StepShare helps family and friends share daily step totals and enjoy walking together at their own pace. Track daily steps, explore personal charts and view goals without an account. Your personal step goal adapts to recent activity and can also be set manually. Sign in with Apple only when you choose to share steps by creating or joining a private team with a 6-digit invitation code. Compare today's steps and rankings, and encourage your team with 15 fixed reaction stamps. In Walking Journeys, add your team's steps to reach checkpoints and take on weekly goals based on your recent pace. Review step history, sync steps from Apple Watch, and check your team's ranking from your wrist. Privacy StepShare reads only daily step totals from HealthKit. It does not access location, heart rate, or workout details. After you join a team, members can see your display name and daily step totals. You can stop sharing or delete your saved step history and account in the app. Health data is not used for advertising or user tracking.
StepChallenge
Transform your daily walks into engaging races with friends and groups. Track progress, compete on leaderboards, and stay connected through in-app messaging. Enjoy a private and fair experience with data from Apple Health.
- Race friends step-by-step
- Compare daily, weekly, and hourly stats
- Create and join groups for collective races
- Set up multi-day or monthly challenges
- Earn awards for streaks and top performance
- In-app messaging and customizable notifications
- Private and secure data sharing via Apple Health
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StepChallenge turns your everyday walking into a friendly race. RACE YOUR FRIENDS Add friends with a code or a link. Everyone runs on the same winding road toward today's finish line, so you can see at a glance who's ahead and how far you have to go to catch them. HEAD TO HEAD Open any friend to compare today, this week and your best hour side by side, with a running score of who's won more days this month. GROUPS Create a group for your family, colleagues or walking club. Invite friends or share the group code, and race together on one leaderboard. CHALLENGES Set up a step or distance challenge for a few days or a month, share the invite code, and follow the live leaderboard to the finish. The winner gets the trophy. AWARDS AND STREAKS Keep a run of days at number one, top the weekly board, and see who had the fastest hour. STAY IN TOUCH Message your friends, and get notified when someone passes you, sends a request, or a challenge is about to end. You choose which notifications you want. FAIR AND PRIVATE Steps come from Apple Health and manually entered steps never count. Only your daily totals are shared, and only with people you accept. Block or report anyone at any time, and delete your account whenever you like. Available in English and Arabic.
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Verdict
StepShare and StepChallenge are too close to call on the numbers: across 8 compared parameters — price, review sentiment, update cadence and ads among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
StepShare ships an update every 3 days, StepChallenge every 4 days. Both last shipped on November 6, 2026.
| Parameter | StepShare | StepChallenge |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Every 4 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 16.1 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 25 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Naoki Miura | Hassan . |
Customer experience
StepShare
StepChallenge
In-app purchases
StepShare
No in-app purchases
StepChallenge
No in-app purchases









