Stridekick

Stridekick is a group activity challenge service for friends, families, and workplace teams. It is best for organizers who want wearable-connected tracking and a choice of challenge formats. It fits short public competitions well; private groups face participant caps unless they pay.

Overview

Challenges can track steps, distance, active minutes, calories, or sleep, while custom activities can set goals such as meditation or nutrition. That makes Stridekick useful for groups whose idea of movement goes beyond counting steps. Its free option is limited to public challenges lasting no more than seven days and capped at 10 people.

Key features

Stridekick offers 11 formats, including leaderboards, streaks, virtual races, custom activities, group challenges, and team challenges. The variety helps organizers choose between competition, habit-building, or shared goals, but Free and the paid Pro plans each provide only five modes. Unlimited is the only plan with all 11.

Participants can connect a wearable or smartphone. Supported devices and platforms named by Stridekick include Fitbit, Apple Watch, Apple iPhone, Android, Garmin, Withings, WHOOP, and Oura. For paid challenges, only the organizer needs Pro or Unlimited; participants can join using free accounts. That keeps the organizer’s subscription from becoming a group-wide requirement.

For workplace organizers, Stridekick promotes challenges as an employee perk and includes SuperDash reporting and team management with Unlimited. Privacy controls let users make profiles private, disconnect third-party services, or delete their accounts; Stridekick says account information is deleted within 30 days. It encrypts data in transit between its apps and services. Challenge participants can see profile photos, messages, step totals, personal statistics, and achievements, and data may also be shared with service partners such as analytics providers, merchants, and advertisers.

Pricing

The Free plan costs nothing and allows public challenges for up to 10 participants and seven days, with five modes. It is a sensible fit for a small group trying a brief challenge, but the public-only format rules it out for private teams.

Pro 10 costs $12.99 a month, billed $139.99/yr. It supports private challenges for up to 10 participants and 45 days, with five modes. This is the entry point for a small group that needs privacy or more time than Free allows.

Pro 20 costs $24.99 a month, billed $274.99/yr, and raises the limit to 20 participants. It includes private challenges up to 45 days, five modes, and priority support. Pro 50 costs $49.99 a month, billed $549.99/yr, and provides the same terms and support for up to 50 participants. These tiers suit organizers who can work within a fixed group size; the higher price buys additional seats, not more challenge modes or duration.

Unlimited has custom pricing. It removes the participant cap, extends private challenges to 90 days, and includes all 11 modes, priority support, a dedicated account manager, and SuperDash reporting. It is the plan built for larger or more involved workplace programs, though its custom price makes cost comparison harder.

Platforms

Stridekick has Android and iOS mobile apps, as well as a web platform. The combination gives participants several ways to access challenges, with supported device connections spanning common phones, watches, and fitness services.

Who it's for

Stridekick is a good match for friends, families, and organizations that want to motivate activity through shared goals, especially when participants use different supported devices or track more than steps. Small groups can start free if public challenges and a one-week duration are enough. Employers wanting private challenges can put the subscription with the organizer, while larger teams gain reporting and management tools on Unlimited.

It is a weaker fit for anyone who needs a private challenge without a subscription, wants more than five modes on a capped plan, or needs participant access to remain private: challenge participants can see several personal details and activity measures.

Pros and cons

• Pros: Tracks five activity metrics and supports custom activity goals, so challenges can cover more than step counts.
• Pros: Participants can join a paid challenge with free accounts, avoiding a subscription for every team member.
• Pros: Device and platform support includes Fitbit, Apple, Android, Garmin, Withings, WHOOP, and Oura.
• Cons: Free challenges must be public and stop at 10 participants or seven days, limiting their usefulness for private or extended events.
• Cons: Free and Pro plans include only five of 11 modes, so access to the full selection requires Unlimited.
• Cons: Unlimited uses custom pricing, making it difficult to weigh against the published per-month tiers before contacting the company.
• Cons: Challenge participants can see profile photos, messages, step totals, personal statistics, and achievements, which may not suit groups seeking limited visibility.

Alternatives

ChallengeRunner is worth considering for organizers who want a free sandbox with up to 10 participants, seven days, tracker syncing, smartphone and website apps, a real-time leaderboard, and self-service setup. Its listed Core plan starts at 15.00 USD per.

MindFi may suit teams looking for access to licensed psychologists and counsellors; its Basic plan is free for teams of fewer than 20, with therapy billed per session starting at $35/session.

Wellhub offers a different workplace wellness option, with a Digital plan at no cost and a Starter plan at $11.99 a month.

GoJoe, GOQii Corporate Wellness, Healthify Corporate, Peppy, and Personify Health are other paid workplace wellness options, each with custom or unpublished pricing.

For a broader set of workplace wellbeing options, see Employee Wellbeing Software.

Verdict

Choose Stridekick for a small public challenge at no cost or a private activity program where one organizer can pay and participants can join free. Its device support and varied activity goals give organizers flexibility, while the five-mode limit on Free and Pro and the custom-priced Unlimited tier are meaningful constraints. Look elsewhere if your group needs private challenges without a subscription, or if its privacy expectations conflict with participants seeing personal challenge data.