Stridekick Activity Challenges 4+

I love this app as it has allowed me to compete with my family and friends who don’t have the same trackers. The one thing I would love to see is active notifications/prompts during competitions. A lot of the people I’ve brought over recently have Fitbits, and this is a strength of their app. It lets you know when people are gaining on you or when you’re gaining on someone else. It also reminds you to sync, congratulates challenge winners, etc. I think those features keep people opening the app. Because Stridekick isn’t the native app for most trackers, you need a little something extra to drive people to remember to open two different apps otherwise they tend to forget to do so. The chat feature is great. I just think it would be used more if there were prompts to drive people to comment. If it already does this, and I missed it let me know. Right now the only notifications I get are challenge invites. Stridekick provides a lot of useful information during a challenge and has a fun interface. I think adding this would push the app over the top 👍.

Thanks for the great review and helpful feedback, KittenCat! We appreciate you taking the time to share your insight and we'll definitely pass this along to our team for the future. Happy stepping! 👟

Update to their response which was received several months later: yes they do allow scammers…. A LOT! They are all over the site and in the challenges. It’s possible they cracked down in the last couple of months since I left the app, but to act like they never did is wildly untrue. I can share proof and screenshots since they want to deny it. Second, they keep replying to all their one star reviews that they now offer an “affordable” pro plan to keep challenges private. Their idea of “affordable” is $25 A MONTH. Not sure how many people can afford that in this economy. $5 a month I might have considered but $25… that’s just greedy especially since the app was just free AND they do make money off corporations who use this app for company wide challenges. Lastly their customer service was very unprofessional when this happened. Very rude, not understanding…. Like they were over the very legitimate complaints pouring in and were just taking it out on their customers. ORIGINAL REVIEW: The new update removed all private challenges and allowed random people to join EXISTING challenges with friends without warning. Another company that is money hungry. You could have done a million things to make more money, this wasn’t the answer. Guess I’ll head back to Garmin. App had so much potential but now they have allowed their already out of control scammer problem to be everywhere even private challenges. Really have to question the company on this decision.

Thanks for your feedback — we understand this change has been frustrating, especially for groups who’ve been using Stridekick to stay connected privately. To clarify, Stridekick does not allow scammers or fake accounts, and we’ve taken recent steps to improve safety on the platform — including disabling direct messaging, expanding reporting tools, and continuing to monitor challenges for abuse. Stridekick is home to over 1 million real users, many of whom join public challenges to stay motivated and find community. We know the shift to public, 7-day free challenges has impacted long-time users, and we didn’t get everything right in the rollout. That’s why we created Stridekick Pro, which allows you to run private group challenges with up to 45-day durations and more control. Only the organizer needs to upgrade, and we’re actively working on lower-cost options for smaller groups. We appreciate you being part of the Stridekick community and are here if you’d like help finding the right setup for your group.

My friends and I had been looking for an app where we could send challenges to each other and compete to see who has the most steps. This app was just what we were looking for and is user friendly, simple looking, and has positive energy.

We love the challenge options but we’d love if there was a choice to make a collective target. We originally thought that the target challenge was cumulative with all our steps but it turns out it isn’t. I think it’s great to have friendly competition but it’s also fun to work with friends to meet a common goal. I look forward to the future updates with this app and I’ve very excited to start using it with my friends.

Hi MMKAJ! Thanks for taking the time to give us a review, we're so glad to hear that using Stridekick has been a positive experience so far for you and your friends!

We appreciate you sharing that insight with us as well, and we'll definitely keep it in mind for future consideration. Please don't hesitate to reach out to our support team if you have any other feedback in the future! Happy stepping 👟