Social Steps vs Stepminder
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.
Stepminder
This app calculates your average daily activity based on recent steps and distance, smoothing out daily fluctuations. Customize the averaging period and weighting for personalized insights. Track progress towards goals or simply monitor your movement.
- Weighted step averaging
- Customizable averaging period
- Unweighted average option
- Goal progress visualization
- Health app integration
- Distance tracking
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Stepminder averages your recent steps and distance, smoothing out day-to-day variations. The default 7-day weighted average gives the most weight to steps today (¼ of the total), and the least weight to steps six days ago (1/28 of the total). Change the averaging period, or choose an unweighted average (that is, each day has the same weight). An unweighted average of 7-28 days, for example, is useful if you do most of your walking on weekends. Visually track your progress toward your goal through the day. Or turn off goal orientation and just see how much you walk. Stepminder integrates with the Health app, using it as its source of past step counts and walking & running distances. Questions or problems? Email support@lobitoscreek.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Stepminder at 100% against Social Steps's 62%. Stepminder also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 3) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). Social Steps's advantage is ratings volume (5.2K vs 2) and update cadence (weekly vs every 5 weeks). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Stepminder asks for nothing beyond the download.
Stepminder holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Social Steps has 5.2K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 62% of Social Steps's written reviews are positive against 100% of Stepminder's.
Social Steps ships an update weekly, Stepminder every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and September 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Social Steps | Stepminder |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (5.2K ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 62.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 5.2K — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 23 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jose Jeria | Lobitos Creek |
Customer experience
Social Steps
Stepminder
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
Stepminder
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Social Steps
- Small$1.99
- Medium$4.99
- Large$9.99
Stepminder
No in-app purchases
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