Comparison

Social Steps vs PHYZIK

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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.

About

PHYZIK

Log workouts, track progress, and share achievements with your training partners. Features hands-free set logging, AI-powered nutrition tracking, and science-backed programming to optimize your fitness journey.

Highlights
  • Hands-free set logging via voice dictation
  • Social squad features with leaderboards
  • AI-powered nutrition tracking with photo logging
  • Science-backed, auto-adjusting training programs
  • Recovery tracking and daily readiness scores
  • Workout highlight reel creation
Features
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PHYZIK is the social training platform for lifters. Every set. Every PR. Every meal — logged, analyzed, and shared with the people who push you. HANDS-FREE SET LOGGING Talk your set into the app between reps. Voice dictation captures weight and reps without breaking your tempo. The fastest way to log a working set, ever. YOUR SQUAD Build a private squad with your training partners. The squad schedule grid shows who trained each day — when your crew is watching, you don't skip leg day. Weekly leaderboards rank total volume, PRs, and consistency. Solo sessions become team competition. THE FLOOR Your feed, built from real sessions by real people. No influencer noise. Just the lifters you train with, putting in work. Post your workouts, give respect when someone hits a PR, and share any post straight to your friends. A dedicated discovery page surfaces athletes, workouts, and gyms you haven't found yet. NUTRITION BUILT FOR LIFTERS Snap to track. Photograph your plate and AI breaks down the foods, portions, and macros — it even accounts for restaurant cooking oils and dressings. Multi-ingredient dishes log as one meal you can expand and edit ingredient by ingredient. Or talk through your meal and we transcribe it. When you want precision, scan a barcode or search 300,000+ foods backed by USDA + Open Food Facts. Save your go-to meals. Import recipes from any URL. Calories shift between training days and rest days automatically. SMART TRACKING A tracker built for speed between sets. Previous session numbers stay visible — down to the exact machine brand you trained on. Plate calculator for barbells and plate-loaded machines. Supersets, warm-ups, and drop sets that count like real sets. Tell PHYZIK what muscle group you're hitting and get instant exercise suggestions. Rest timers start automatically. Tag your gym right from the workout. SCIENCE-BACKED PROGRAMMING Programs built on peer-reviewed exercise science. Volume is prescribed within evidence-based thresholds — minimum effective volume to maximum recoverable volume. The system auto-adjusts to your actual performance: hit the top of your rep range and the weight goes up; fall short and it recalibrates. Set rep ranges per exercise or per individual set. Hypertrophy, strength, recomposition, fat loss — every program is periodized around how muscle actually adapts. RECOVERY INTELLIGENCE Muscles don't grow in the gym — they grow when you recover. An interactive muscle map tracks fatigue across every muscle group, and every group carries its own 0–100 readiness score so you can see exactly what's ready and what still needs time. A whole-body readiness score tells you when to push and when to back off, built from your actual training load. ELITE ANALYTICS Every lift scored against real strength standards, from beginner to elite. Volume landmarks show weekly sets per muscle group against sport science benchmarks. Body weight uses smoothed trend analysis with goals and projected completion dates. Personal records, tracked and ranked across every exercise you've ever logged. Ten years in or ten days in, this is your platform. Built by lifters, for lifters. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://phyzik.app/privacy

Screenshots

Social Steps4 screens
PHYZIK4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: PHYZIK at 100% against Social Steps's 62%. PHYZIK also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). Social Steps's advantage is ratings volume (5.2K vs 11). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Social Steps sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and PHYZIK sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

PHYZIK 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 11, 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 PHYZIK's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Social Steps versus PHYZIK: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSocial StepsPHYZIK
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (5.2K ratings)5.0 (11 ratings) — better
Positive reviews62.4% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings5.2K — better11
Update frequencyWeeklyWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS18.615.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size23 MB99 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperJose JeriaPhysique Technologies LLC

Customer experience

Social Steps

All ratings5,177 ratings
Positive93.3%
Neutral3.2%
Negative3.5%
Written reviews93 reviews
Positive62.4%
Neutral10.8%
Negative26.9%

PHYZIK

All ratings11 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

PHYZIK

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Social Steps

One-time3
  • Small$1.99
  • Medium$4.99
  • Large$9.99
2 purchases

PHYZIK

Subscriptions2
  • PHYZIK Pro Monthly7 Days trial$6.991 Month
  • PHYZIK Pro Annual7 Days trial$59.991 Year

Questions

Is Social Steps free?
Social Steps is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is PHYZIK free?
PHYZIK is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Social Steps or PHYZIK?
PHYZIK is rated higher. Social Steps averages 4.7 out of 5 from 5.2K ratings, while PHYZIK averages 5.0 from 11 ratings.
Do Social Steps or PHYZIK have ads?
Neither Social Steps nor PHYZIK shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Social Steps or PHYZIK?
Social Steps ships an update weekly, and PHYZIK weekly. Most recently, Social Steps was updated on October 14, 2026 and PHYZIK on October 1, 2026.

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