StepsWatch vs Steps
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
StepsWatch
This app displays your daily step count directly on your smartwatch. It syncs with your phone's health data to provide real-time activity tracking. View your progress at a glance without needing to open your phone.
- Displays today's step count on watch
- Syncs with Health App data
- Real-time activity tracking
- Glanceable progress view
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StepsWatch can display today step count to your watch. Display steps data from Health App.
Steps
Track your daily step count and stay motivated to reach your fitness goals. This app offers a simple way to monitor progress with customizable goals and visual celebrations upon achievement. Enjoy a lightweight and user-friendly experience with customizable display options.
- Daily step counting
- Home and Lock Screen widgets
- Customizable step goal
- Visual goal achievement celebration
- Light and Dark modes
- Small app size
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Achieve your 10,000 steps goal with Steps! Add the widget to your Lock Screen or Home Screen for daily motivation. When you hit 10,000 steps, the app turns green to celebrate your success. Strive for green every day to stay active and healthy. You can edit the goal if you want too. Steps is a simple app, and at less than 2MB, it's smaller than even just 1 photo on your iPhone. Enjoy both Light and Dark modes for the app and widget.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Steps at 80% against StepsWatch's 33%. Steps also leads on rating (4.7 vs 2.8) and ads (none vs shown). StepsWatch's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (8.2 vs 16.0). On price and in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Steps holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 2.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Steps has 5.5K ratings behind it against 16, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 33% of StepsWatch's written reviews are positive against 80% of Steps's.
StepsWatch ships an update every 11 months, Steps weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | StepsWatch | Steps |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.8 (16 ratings) | 4.7 (5.5K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews | 80.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 16 | 5.5K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 11 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 8.2 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Airwire products. | Dasmer Singh |
Customer experience
StepsWatch
Steps
Bugs and requests
StepsWatch
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Steps
Reported bugs
2 issues- Steps not syncing correctly
- App changes step totals retrospectively
Requested features
3 requests- Add distance and pace tracking
- Allow customization of step goal
- Extend historical data view beyond one week
In-app purchases
StepsWatch
No in-app purchases
Steps
No in-app purchases
