Comparison

ChallengeRunner vs Count.It Journey

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

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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!

Screenshots

ChallengeRunner4 screens
Count.It Journey4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

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

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
ChallengeRunner versus Count.It Journey: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChallengeRunnerCount.It Journey
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (8.7K ratings)4.5 (1.5K ratings)
Positive reviews15.4% of reviews40.4% of reviews — better
Number of ratings8.7K — better1.5K
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.6 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB108 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperChallengeRunner LLCCount It Labs, Inc.

Customer experience

ChallengeRunner

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

Count.It Journey

All ratings1,522 ratings
Positive86.2%
Neutral3.9%
Negative9.9%
Written reviews52 reviews
Positive40.4%
Neutral5.8%
Negative53.8%

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

None

ChallengeRunner

No in-app purchases

None

Count.It Journey

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ChallengeRunner free?
ChallengeRunner is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Count.It Journey free?
Count.It Journey is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, ChallengeRunner or Count.It Journey?
ChallengeRunner and Count.It Journey are both rated 4.5 out of 5 on the App Store, from 8.7K and 1.5K ratings respectively.
Do ChallengeRunner or Count.It Journey have ads?
Neither ChallengeRunner nor Count.It Journey shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ChallengeRunner or Count.It Journey?
ChallengeRunner ships an update every 2 weeks, and Count.It Journey fortnightly. Most recently, ChallengeRunner was updated on September 22, 2026 and Count.It Journey on September 24, 2026.

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