Social Steps vs Handly Powerlifting
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.
Handly Powerlifting
This app assists powerlifters and coaches in making smart decisions on competition day. It offers deadlift suggestions based on various metrics and includes a meet simulator for managing multiple athletes.
- Deadlift suggestions
- Pound or kilo options
- Total, coefficient, or placing goals
- Quick calculator
- In-depth meet simulator
- Manage multiple individuals
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Handly Powerlifting exists to help powerlifters and coaches quickly make informed decisions on meet-day. Lifters can get deadlift suggestions - in pounds or kilos - based on their total, coefficient, or placing goals. The app includes two ways of going about this: a quick calculator for individuals and an in-depth meet simulator for managing a competitive situation between multiple individuals.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Handly Powerlifting at 100% against Social Steps's 62%. Handly Powerlifting also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 10 days) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). Social Steps's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (5.2K vs 2). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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 and Handly Powerlifting sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Handly Powerlifting 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 Handly Powerlifting's.
Social Steps ships an update every 10 days, Handly Powerlifting daily. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Social Steps | Handly Powerlifting |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | Every 10 days | Daily — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 17.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 23 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jose Jeria | Gray Seven Software LLC |
Customer experience
Social Steps
Handly Powerlifting
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
Handly Powerlifting
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Social Steps
- Small$1.99
- Medium$4.99
- Large$9.99
Handly Powerlifting
- Lifetime Access$4.99
Questions
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