Comparison

Social Steps vs Upkeep Social

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

Upkeep Social

This app helps you build consistent fitness habits by creating and joining step challenges. Track your progress, earn a consistency score, and compete with friends or solo to stay motivated and accountable.

Highlights
  • Create personalized step challenges
  • Compete solo, 1-on-1, or in groups
  • Automatic step syncing from Apple Health
  • Track consistency score and streaks
  • Daily verification to prevent cheating
  • Flexible challenge scheduling
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Upkeep Social is the fitness accountability app where your consistency is verified, ranked, and visible to the people who matter. Create step challenges for yourself or with friends. Set a daily step goal, pick your success criteria, and prove you can show up — day after day, week after week. Whether you're building a daily walking habit or defending a 10K-step streak, Upkeep tracks whether you kept your word. HOW IT WORKS Pick a daily step goal: 2K, 3K, 5K, 7K, or 10K. Choose your success threshold: hit your target 70%, 85%, or 100% of days. Go solo, challenge a friend 1-on-1, or compete in a group. Your steps sync automatically from Apple Health — no manual logging, no separate step counter. At the end of each week, see exactly who showed up and who didn't. YOUR CONSISTENCY SCORE Every verified day earns points toward your Consistency Score — a single number from 0 to 100 that represents your long-term commitment to showing up. Skip a week and your score decays. The score isn't just a stat. It becomes your fitness identity. Tiers: Getting Started → Building Momentum → Committed → Relentless → Elite → Legendary. CHALLENGE MODES Solo: Challenge yourself. No invite needed. Start immediately. Duel: Go head-to-head with one friend. Group: Compete with multiple people and follow the leaderboard. BUILT FOR ACCOUNTABILITY Daily verification confirms your steps are real — no shaking your phone to fake it. Leaderboards show who's on track and who's falling behind. Streak tracking rewards consistency with visual milestones. Share cards let you post your results to Instagram, WhatsApp, or anywhere you want proof. FLEXIBLE SCHEDULING Start a challenge now, tomorrow, or pick a specific day. No waiting for a fixed weekly window. MORE THAN A STEP TRACKER A pedometer counts your steps. A habit tracker takes your word for it. Upkeep Social does neither — it verifies your activity against Apple Health data and puts the result where your friends can see it. Your daily walk, your workout streak, your active days: all of it counts, none of it can be faked. WHY UPKEEP SOCIAL? Most fitness apps track what you do. Upkeep Social tracks whether you keep your word. The difference is accountability — and it changes everything. Free to use, with an optional Pro upgrade for deeper fitness insights and higher challenge limits. No ads. FOR TEAMS AND ORGANIZERS Running a step challenge for your office, club, campus, or community? Create the challenge, share one invite link, and your participants join free. Verification means the winner earned it — no manual honor-system spreadsheets, no disputed results. Free groups hold up to 15 people; with Pro, up to 250. Questions or feedback? Reach us at support@upkeep.social Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Social Steps4 screens
Upkeep Social4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Upkeep Social at 100% against Social Steps's 62%. Upkeep Social also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). Social Steps's advantage is ratings volume (5.2K vs 10) and rating (4.7 vs 4.5). 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 Upkeep Social sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Social Steps holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Social Steps has 5.2K ratings behind it against 10, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 62% of Social Steps's written reviews are positive against 100% of Upkeep Social's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Social Steps ships an update weekly, Upkeep Social every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Social Steps versus Upkeep Social: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSocial StepsUpkeep Social
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (5.2K ratings) — better4.5 (10 ratings)
Positive reviews62.4% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings5.2K — better10
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.617.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size23 MB52 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperJose JeriaImperial Engineering Labs

Customer experience

Social Steps

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

Upkeep Social

All ratings10 ratings
Positive90.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative10.0%
Written reviews2 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

Upkeep Social

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
5 purchases

Upkeep Social

Subscriptions4
  • Upkeep Pro Monthly7 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • Upkeep Pro Yearly14 Days trial$49.991 Year
  • Upkeep Pro Annual Plan$49.991 Year
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  • Upkeep Pro Annual$69.991 Year
One-time1
  • Creator Pass$4.99

Questions

Is Social Steps free?
Social Steps is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Upkeep Social free?
Upkeep Social is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Social Steps or Upkeep Social?
Social Steps is rated higher. Social Steps averages 4.7 out of 5 from 5.2K ratings, while Upkeep Social averages 4.5 from 10 ratings.
Do Social Steps or Upkeep Social have ads?
Neither Social Steps nor Upkeep Social shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Social Steps or Upkeep Social?
Social Steps ships an update weekly, and Upkeep Social every 5 days. Most recently, Social Steps was updated on October 23, 2026 and Upkeep Social on October 24, 2026.

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