ChallengeRunner vs Count.It Journey
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Log health challenge data
- View real-time leaderboards
- Submit challenge data
- Messaging and comments
- Apple Health integration
- Join challenges via codes/links/QR
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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
Count.It Journey
This app facilitates interactive virtual wellness challenges for corporate teams, syncing with fitness trackers to encourage healthy habits and community building. Users can participate in various challenge types and engage with a dynamic virtual journey.
- Virtual challenge path with user avatars
- Multiple challenge types (steps, exercises, mindfulness)
- Real-time data syncing
- One-tap emoji reactions
- Configurable goals and rewards
- Smart scaling for challenge difficulty
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Introducing the brand new Count.It app, a breakthrough in corporate wellness and team building. The new app seamlessly syncs with Apple Health and other fitness tracking apps and creates an interactive, virtual wellness challenge. Built to get people moving and promote healthy community culture, the new app is the result of nearly a decade of market experience. Among many innovations: --A zoomable virtual challenge path that displays user avatars as though they were together on a real world journey. --Multiple challenge types, including daily steps, hundreds of exercises, and mindfulness/meditation. --A new sync'ing engine build from the ground up to ensure fast delivery data to make challenges feel increasingly "real time." --Hooray for one tap emoji reactions! Yep, that's in there too. --Configurable goals and rewards for individual users, and the group as a whole. --Smart scaling technology which allows admins to set the relative difficulty of their challenge --And much more! Come host a challenge, and get your people moving!
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Verdict
ChallengeRunner and Count.It Journey both sit at 4.5 stars, but that hides the real split: 40% of Count.It Journey's written reviews are positive against 15% of ChallengeRunner's. ChallengeRunner's advantage is ratings volume (8.7K vs 1.5K) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 18.0). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for ChallengeRunner against 4.5 for Count.It Journey. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ChallengeRunner has 8.7K ratings behind it against 1.5K, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 15% of ChallengeRunner's written reviews are positive against 40% of Count.It Journey's.
ChallengeRunner ships an update every 2 weeks, Count.It Journey fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ChallengeRunner | Count.It Journey |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (8.7K ratings) | 4.5 (1.5K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 15.4% of reviews | 40.4% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 8.7K — better | 1.5K |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 108 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ChallengeRunner LLC | Count It Labs, Inc. |
Customer experience
ChallengeRunner
Count.It Journey
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
Count.It Journey
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
ChallengeRunner
No in-app purchases
Count.It Journey
No in-app purchases
Questions
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