Social Steps vs BurnFriends
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.
BurnFriends
This app gamifies fitness by turning your step count into a virtual pet challenge for friend groups. Motivate each other to reach daily and weekly step goals, earning trophies along the way. It integrates with HealthKit to track your progress and foster friendly competition.
- Virtual pet fitness challenges
- HealthKit step count integration
- Daily and weekly step goals
- Friend motivation and competition
- Customizable daily step goals
- Trophy earning system
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BurnFriends is a fun virtual pet that helps friend groups complete fitness challenges together. This app will read your step count data from HealthKit so you can track your progress towards your goals. Note: This app will only work on iPhone device. iPads are not supported. In this version, define your weekly step goal, complete daily step challenges to help you achieve your weekly goal. Add friends so you can help motivate them to hit their goals! --Win the Day-- The default daily goal is 5,000 steps but you can adjust this up or down to modify the difficulty. Win those yellow trophies! --Win the Week-- You can make up lost steps on any day of the week but make sure you are done by Sunday. --Win with Friends-- Add and motivate your friends to hit their target to make burning even more fun!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: BurnFriends at 100% against Social Steps's 62%. BurnFriends 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 13). 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
Both are free to download. Social Steps sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. BurnFriends asks for nothing beyond the download.
BurnFriends 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 13, 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 BurnFriends's.
Social Steps ships an update every 10 days, BurnFriends every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Social Steps | BurnFriends |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (5.2K ratings) | 5.0 (13 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 62.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 5.2K — better | 13 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days | Every 3 days — better |
| 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 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 23 MB | 32 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jose Jeria | DIVERSIFIED FUN LLC |
Customer experience
Social Steps
BurnFriends
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
BurnFriends
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Social Steps
- Small$1.99
- Medium$4.99
- Large$9.99
BurnFriends
No in-app purchases
