App Profile: Strive: Step Walk Hike Run App

VA Games

Rating: 5/5

Simple but effective. There isn’t a lot of variety, and I personally recommend only doing steps challenges or calorie based challenges because it is very easy to turn on your Apple Watch and let it sit and count every step you take as part of a workout in a day. So there are some people with like 6 to 8 hours a day of working out which is crazy but for the steps challenges and the calories challenges, it’s great. I think distance base challenges are good in theory but because I believe it also includes things like bicycles, a cyclist is gonna go way farther than any runner. Still, for its use, it is a fantastic resource, and source of motivation. Just getting involved with this app motivated me to increase my daily active steps from 16,000 to over 20,000 per day on average.

Anearforthedead

Rating: 3/5

So I really enjoy the idea behind this app. My friends and I have a competition going and it’s really fun. However there are some weird quirks with this app that I don’t get. To enter your weight, you also have to enter your body fat percentage. You cannot just enter the weight. I wouldn’t guess that most people just know their percentage. And if you don’t have a smart scale or calipers at home, nothing in the app explains to you how to calculate an estimate like using the navy method. I wish it would have told me. I just wasn’t putting in weight because I didn’t know my BF%. It screwed up my competition because I wasn’t recording any data or progress. Once I finally found the formula for the navy estimate and tried to put it in, it logged that I had gained a bunch of weight because the starting weight wasn’t accurate. I could not find anywhere to go back and edit the starting weight. I assume editing isn’t easy for competition integrity, but I feel like it’s a necessary feature to have. I put in the wrong numbers initially so I was firmly in last place in every competition. I had been manually entering my weight into my apple health data but that does not sync to the app apparently. When I went to the help button to check the FAQ or send in a message, none of the buttons under help actually work. I clicked them all multiple times and was never pushed to the site or got any further response from the app.

_msvirgoxo

Rating: 5/5

This has been the closest app I’ve found that is similar to the Fitbit group competitions. Apple only offers person to person competitions, no group ones, and Fitbit no longer does group challenges. Here we’re able to compete in our groups like we would way back when Fitbit still did group challenges and it’s the best way to stay motivated. 10/10 recommend if you’re looking for something similar.