Comparison

Nice vs Stepbound

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Nice

This app helps you privately track your sexual encounters and intimacy patterns. Log details like date, duration, and activities to gain insights into your intimate life. It offers robust privacy features, keeping your data secure on your device or iCloud.

Highlights
  • Log encounters with date, time, and activities
  • Track duration, protection, and orgasms
  • Analyze daily, weekly, and yearly trends
  • Sync across iPhone and iPad via iCloud
  • Private by design with no account or ads
  • Lock with Face ID or passcode
Features
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Nice is a private sex and intimacy tracker. Log an encounter in seconds, see your patterns over time, and keep it all to yourself: no account, no ads, and your entries never touch our servers. Track solo or with a partner. Nice is for every gender, orientation and relationship: straight, gay, bi, poly, or however you identify. TRACK WHAT MATTERS • Date, time, activities and partners • Duration, protection, rating and orgasms • Who initiated: you, them or both • Locations, tags, notes, photos and videos • STD / STI test dates and results • Your own activities, alongside the built-in ones SEE YOUR INTIMATE LIFE CLEARLY • A calendar of every entry • Daily, weekly, monthly and yearly trends • Streaks, breaks and frequency • Longest, shortest and average duration • Favorite activities, partners, times and days • Who initiates more, overall and with each partner • Orgasm counts and protection use LOG IN SECONDS • Ask Siri: "Log entry in Nice" • Widgets for the Home Screen and Lock Screen: Time Since, This Week, Insight and Quick Entry SYNC & SHARE Keep Nice in sync on your iPhone and iPad through your own iCloud, or share one journal with your partner and log together. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account, no ads • Your entries stay on your devices and in your own iCloud • Lock Nice with Face ID or a passcode • Back up and restore your whole journal • Save your entries to Apple Health, if you like FREE AND PREMIUM Nice is free to log your entries with one partner and one custom activity, with every stat for your first 30 days and the Time Since widget. Nice Premium unlocks everything else: unlimited partners and activities, ratings, orgasms, locations, tags, photos and videos, who initiated, every stat, Sync & Share, backups, the Face ID and passcode lock, Siri logging and every widget. Choose monthly or yearly; yearly starts with a 1-week free trial. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the period ends, and you can manage them in your App Store account settings. Website: https://nicetracker.app Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://nicetracker.app/privacy

About

Stepbound

This adventure game uses your real-world steps as in-game currency. Explore the Grand Canyon in 1892, making choices that impact your journey and lead to multiple endings. Your daily movement directly influences your progress and discoveries.

Highlights
  • Real step-based gameplay
  • Choose-your-own-adventure narrative
  • Grand Canyon exploration
  • Branching story with multiple endings
  • Illustrated scenes
  • Random encounters and item discovery
  • Progress tracking and achievements
Features
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Your steps are the currency. The canyon is the story. Stepbound is a choose-your-own-adventure game set in the Grand Canyon of 1892 and it runs on your real daily steps. You play as an explorer dispatched by the Society of Explorers to map uncharted passages deep inside one of the world's great geological wonders. Every decision you make costs steps drawn from your actual walking. Rest more, explore less. Walk more, go further. Your body and your choices shape the story together. How it works: each day, your phone step count is converted into banked steps. Spend them on story choices: descend the Bright Angel Trail, investigate a mysterious fissure in the rimrock, shelter in a cave, or push on to the river. The further and more demanding the path, the more steps it costs. The canyon rewards those who keep moving. What you'll find inside the canyon is a branching narrative told across dozens of richly illustrated scenes. Random encounters: scorpion stings, rattlesnakes, flash floods, and hidden oases with Items to discover.and carry, Multiple distinct endings and achievements tracking your progress as a canyon explorer with a map showing every path you've walked and every branch yet to discover. Stepbound is designed for people who want their daily movement to mean something beyond a closing ring. The story is written to be replayed with different passages, different fates, and ultimately the best endings reserved for the explorer who sees everything the canyon has to offer. The year is 1892. The rim is just moments way, Step carefully.

Screenshots

Nice4 screens
Stepbound3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Stepbound at 5.0 against Nice's 4.5. Stepbound also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 6) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.1). Nice's advantage is ratings volume (4.9K vs 1). On price, ads and device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Nice sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Stepbound asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Stepbound holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Nice has 4.9K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Nice versus Stepbound: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNiceStepbound
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (4.9K ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews75.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings4.9K — better1
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS18.115.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size25 MB120 MB
Age rating17+12+
DeveloperIncendiary Studios LLCKEVIN WENDELL DOWDY

Bugs and requests

Nice

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Premium features not unlocking after purchase
  • Custom activities disappearing after app restart

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add positions tracking
  • Integrate with period tracking
  • Allow filtering calendar view
  • Provide more default activity icons
  • Enable syncing between devices

Stepbound

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Nice

Subscriptions3
  • Nice Premium Monthly$5.991 Month
  • Nice Premium Yearly7 Days trial$24.991 Year
  • Nice Premium Yearly$29.991 Year
One-time3
  • Nice Premium$29.99
  • Nice Premium B$29.99
  • Nice Premium C$29.99
None

Stepbound

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Nice free?
Nice is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Stepbound free?
Stepbound is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Nice or Stepbound?
Stepbound is rated higher. Nice averages 4.5 out of 5 from 4.9K ratings, while Stepbound averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Nice or Stepbound have ads?
Neither Nice nor Stepbound shows ads.

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