Social Steps vs Step Champ
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.
Step Champ
Compete with friends and colleagues in step-counting challenges. Create or join challenges of any duration, and the user with the most steps wins. Supports cross-platform play and automatically updates step counts in the background.
- Create step-counting challenges
- Invite friends from any platform
- Cross-platform compatibility
- Automatic step count updates
- Real-time ranking notifications
- Motivation through progress tracking
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This is all about one question: Who takes the most steps? Create a challenge, invite friends - no matter which platform they use - and here we go. With Step Champ you can easily compete with your friends and colleagues. You can decide for yourself how long a challenge should last, in the end the user wins, with the most steps! No matter which smartphone, Step Champ is one of the few apps that supports both platforms, so nobody gets left behind! The number of steps is automatically updated in the background, so you can always keep an eye on everything. All you have to do is to sign in with your Apple account or other providers and you can start creating your first Step Challenge. Step Champ will get your Steps from Apple Healthkit. Step Champ keeps you up to date when you've slipped a place or won one. Plus, you'll never miss the start of a challenge and stay motivated! Spur each other on and find out who will be the step-champion!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Social Steps at 4.7 against Step Champ's 3.7. Social Steps also leads on ratings volume (5.2K vs 3). Step Champ's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 18.6). On price, review sentiment, update cadence 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. Social Steps sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Step Champ asks for nothing beyond the download.
Social Steps holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Social Steps has 5.2K ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 62% of Social Steps's written reviews are positive against 67% of Step Champ's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Social Steps ships an update weekly, Step Champ every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Social Steps | Step Champ |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (5.2K ratings) — better | 3.7 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 62.4% of reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 5.2K — better | 3 |
| 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 |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 23 MB | 43 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jose Jeria | Zelfi AG |
Customer experience
Social Steps
Step Champ
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
Step Champ
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Social Steps
- Small$1.99
- Medium$4.99
- Large$9.99
Step Champ
No in-app purchases
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