StepCard vs Steps for Watch
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
StepCard
This app displays your daily step count directly on your Apple Watch face. Track progress towards your goal with visual indicators and review your recent step history.
- Daily step tracking complication
- Configurable display (steps, percentage, combined)
- Daily step goal achievement grading
- Recent daily step history
- 7-day rolling average
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StepCard is an Apple Watch complication to track the number of steps per day. Hit your goal each day and get a perfect grade of A+! Configure the complication to display total steps, percentage of a daily step goal or a combination of both where the number represents steps and the ring represents percentage to of goal. View a recent daily history of your steps as well as a rolling 7 day average.
Steps for Watch
This app tracks your daily steps and heart rate directly on your Apple Watch. It offers detailed daily step analysis, a seven-day graph of your activity, and the ability to set personal step goals. All data is stored locally on your device for privacy.
- Daily step tracking
- Heart rate monitoring
- Digital Crown for detailed analysis
- Seven-day activity graph
- Complication support
- Personal step goals
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Track your Steps and Heart Rate in this standalone app for Apple Watch Key features: -Daily steps -Use the Digital Crown to examine daily steps in detail and compare your steps activity to heart rate measurements during the selected time period -Seven day graph with daily steps and heart rate averages -Complication with daily steps -Set your personal daily steps goal -In app tutorial (open menu by firmly pressing the screen) Privacy: Steps for Watch needs read access to Motion & Fitness Activity and Heart Rate data. Information read by Steps for Watch is only stored and used locally on your Apple Watch. If you have any questions please contact us at contact@sydvesti.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Steps for Watch at none against StepCard's 5. StepCard's advantage is rating (3.9 vs 3.6) and update cadence (every 3 months vs every 7 months). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and ads 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. StepCard sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Steps for Watch asks for nothing beyond the download.
StepCard holds the better App Store score, 3.9 against 3.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 29 and 20 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 71% of StepCard's written reviews are positive against 75% of Steps for Watch's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
StepCard ships an update every 3 months, Steps for Watch every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | StepCard | Steps for Watch |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (29 ratings) — better | 3.6 (20 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 71.0% of reviews | 75.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 29 — better | 20 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months — better | Every 7 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Scott Bowling | Sydvesti Oy |
Customer experience
StepCard
Steps for Watch
In-app purchases
StepCard
- Baby Steps Tip$0.99
- 5k Tip$1.99
- Half Marathon Tip$4.99
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- Marathon Tip$9.99
- Ultra Marathon Tip$19.99
Steps for Watch
No in-app purchases
