Comparison

ChallengeRunner vs Metric Pro

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

Head to head
About

ChallengeRunner

Log and track your progress in employee health challenges. View real-time leaderboards, submit data, and engage with other participants. Integrates with Apple Health for automatic data syncing.

Highlights
  • Log health challenge data
  • View real-time leaderboards
  • Submit challenge data
  • Messaging and comments
  • Apple Health integration
  • Join challenges via codes/links/QR
Features
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ChallengeRunner Fitness Challenge Logging provides a lightweight interface to the ChallengeRunner employee health challenge platform. This application gives participants access to the fitness challenges they are currently enrolled in. ChallengeRunner Fitness Challenge Logging allows participants to view and submit health challenge data and review the challenge leaderboard. This application features a simple challenge data logging interface, real-time leaderboards, messaging and comments. Participants may join challenges using links, QR Codes, or challenge codes provided by a Challenge Administrator. It is now possible for ChallengeRunner to pull steps, active minutes, distance and calories from the Apple Health app. To turn on this functionality, enable the Health Integration switch in Settings and accept the HealthKit privileges when prompted in the ChallengeRunner app. With HealthKit enabled, ChallengeRunner will sync with the Health app whenever the ChallengeRunner app is opened. NOTE: Most functions require an Internet connection

About

Metric Pro

This app is a registry designed to track the natural history of Medullary Thyroid Cancer (MTC). It aims to understand disease progression and identify patient-reported outcomes to inform treatment decisions and clinical trial design.

Highlights
  • Medullary Thyroid Cancer registry
  • Track disease progression
  • Identify patient-reported outcomes
  • Inform treatment decisions
  • Aid clinical trial design
Features
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The goal of this study is to describe the natural history of Medullary Thyroid Cancer (MTC) via the utilization of a novel multi-institutional registry in order to understand the pathway to progressive disease requiring drug therapy, integrating for the first time the patient perspective in order to identify patient reported outcome measures that could inform decision-making around current treatment and that could be included in clinical trial design for the development of emerging drug therapies for advanced MTC.

Screenshots

ChallengeRunner4 screens
Metric Pro4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Metric Pro at 5.0 against ChallengeRunner's 4.5. Metric Pro also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.6). ChallengeRunner's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 4 months) and ratings volume (8.7K 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

Metric Pro holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ChallengeRunner has 8.7K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ChallengeRunner ships an update every 2 weeks, Metric Pro every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and July 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
ChallengeRunner versus Metric Pro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChallengeRunnerMetric Pro
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (8.7K ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews15.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings8.7K — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterEvery 4 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.612.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB51 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperChallengeRunner LLCe-Health Technology

Customer experience

ChallengeRunner

All ratings8,692 ratings
Positive88.0%
Neutral6.0%
Negative6.0%
Written reviews65 reviews
Positive15.4%
Neutral20.0%
Negative64.6%

Metric Pro

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

Bugs and requests

ChallengeRunner

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • App crashes when scrolling leaderboard
  • Steps not syncing correctly or disappearing
  • Login issues and inability to access app features

Requested features

4 requests
  • Ability to manually enter steps and other activities
  • Improved leaderboard and team management features
  • Integration with more fitness tracking devices
  • Better data visualization and analytics

Metric Pro

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

ChallengeRunner

No in-app purchases

None

Metric Pro

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ChallengeRunner free?
ChallengeRunner is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Metric Pro free?
Metric Pro is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, ChallengeRunner or Metric Pro?
Metric Pro is rated higher. ChallengeRunner averages 4.5 out of 5 from 8.7K ratings, while Metric Pro averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do ChallengeRunner or Metric Pro have ads?
Neither ChallengeRunner nor Metric Pro shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ChallengeRunner or Metric Pro?
ChallengeRunner ships an update every 2 weeks, and Metric Pro every 4 months. Most recently, ChallengeRunner was updated on September 25, 2026 and Metric Pro on July 2, 2026.

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