Social Steps vs Play Steps
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Social Steps
This app transforms daily walking into a fun, competitive experience. Set personal step goals, challenge friends, and track your progress automatically. It integrates with popular fitness trackers to keep you motivated and active.
- Set daily step goals
- Compete with friends
- Automatic step tracking
- Connect with friends
- Earn top walker status
- Integrates with Apple Health, Apple Watch, Garmin, Fitbit
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Set goals. Compete with friends. Stay active. Social Steps makes walking more fun by turning your daily steps into friendly competition. Track your progress, challenge friends, and push yourself to be more active every day. Key Features: - Set your daily goal: Choose how many steps to walk each day and track your progress automatically. - Add friends: Connect with friends and see who is hitting their goals. - Compete and win: Beat your friends and earn the top walker status. - Automatic tracking: Social Steps imports steps from Apple Health—no setup or tracking start required. - Supported devices: Works with Apple Watch, Garmin, and Fitbit, so you don’t need to carry your phone all the time. Stay motivated. Walk, compete, and succeed with Social Steps.
Play Steps
Compete with friends by tracking your steps from Apple Health. Engage in friendly taunting with tailored messages based on your leaderboard position. Start games easily without sign-up and enjoy a simple, fun fitness challenge.
- Step tracking via Apple Health
- Friendly competition with friends
- In-game taunting messages
- Easy game creation and joining
- Weekly step leaderboards
- No sign-up required
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Harmless taunting between friends has been scientifically proven to motivate people to become more active. Ok maybe not, but that's the big idea behind Steps — weaving a fitness thread into a snappy, colourful design Why? Simple Beautiful Fun Privacy for your data What? Compete against friends with step data from the Apple Health app. START A GAME Starting and joining a game is the easiest thing in the world. No sign-up required, just join via a link or send a link to your friends Each game starts from Monday 12AM to Sunday 5PM in your local time. The single app screen displays the tallied steps of participants up to that point of the week GET TAUNTING There are two ways to taunt others: 1. Set your player name to whatever you want, or choose an amusing randomly generated name, or even change it so often that your friends don’t see it coming 2. Share the leaderboard with your friends. Whether you’re at the top, middle, or bottom of the leaderboard, you get a randomly generated message tailored to your position
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Social Steps at 4.7 against Play Steps's 3.8. Social Steps also leads on ratings volume (5.2K vs 5). Play Steps's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 62%) and in-app purchases (none vs 3). On price, update cadence, 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
Both are free to download. Social Steps sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Play Steps asks for nothing beyond the download.
Social Steps holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Social Steps has 5.2K ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 62% of Social Steps's written reviews are positive against 100% of Play Steps's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Social Steps ships an update weekly, Play Steps every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Social Steps | Play Steps |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (5.2K ratings) — better | 3.8 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 62.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 5.2K — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 9 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 23 MB | 17 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jose Jeria | Enabled Solutions Pty Ltd |
Customer experience
Social Steps
Play Steps
Bugs and requests
Social Steps
Reported bugs
4 issues- Unable to add friends
- Steps not syncing correctly
- App crashes or freezes
- Delayed or missing step updates
Requested features
4 requests- Add group/team challenges
- Implement chat/messaging functionality
- Provide more detailed statistics and analytics
- Expand compatibility to Android and other devices
Play Steps
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Social Steps
- Small$1.99
- Medium$4.99
- Large$9.99
Play Steps
No in-app purchases








