Stridekick Activity Challenges

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.

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 👍.

** I really appreciate getting a response to my review. I reached out and they were able to help accommodate my group so we could switch back to the app. Thank you!!** I really like this app! The only thing that I really do not like is the fact that you can’t have more than 10 people participate in a private challenge. I run a health and fitness Facebook group for moms and we were doing weekly step challenges with this app. But because we have so many members and more people wanted to join, I had to make multiple separate challenges, so that meant everyone wasn’t able to compete against the group as a whole. Also, I believe you can only have 5 private challenges at a time so that wouldn’t have been enough to include everyone from my group anyway. I really wish you would change the number of participants in a private challenge to unlimited or at least to a cap of 50 or even 100. Hell, we even talked about paying an annual membership if that would allow us to participate together.