Comparison

Quick Steps vs Plain Weights

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

Head to head
About

Quick Steps

This app helps runners improve their stride rate to increase speed and reduce injury risk. It provides audio cues to guide your pace and tracks your running activity, even when in the background. Customize your target cadence for personalized training.

Highlights
  • Improve running cadence
  • Audio step-sound cues
  • Customizable target cadence
  • Background activity tracking
  • Run summary with average cadence
  • Reduce injury risk
Features
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Quick Steps is a fitness app to help improve your running cadence (steps per minute). 180 steps per minute has been recognised as the ideal running cadence. By increasing your cadence, you will be able to run faster and will be less prone to certain types of injury. The free version of Quick Steps defaults to a cadence of 180 steps per minute and will display your current cadence and activity time. It will also play a step-sound at 180 beats per minute to allow you to synchronise your cadence to 180. Through in-app purchase, you can change the target cadence to suit your needs. Using this feature, you can ease towards 180 steps per minute. If you put Quick Steps in the background the sound will continue to play, allowing you to add cadence training to your workout alongside other fitness apps. Quick Steps still tracks your activity, even in the background. At the end of your run, hold down the stop button to finish and show a summary of your activity, including an average cadence.

About

Plain Weights

Features
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The simplest way to track your progress and lift more. No account. No subscription. No creating a full workout programme just to log a set. Open the app, log your lifts, and get back to training. Log in seconds --------------- Create any exercise, name it what you want, tag your muscles your way. Then just log your sets. That's it. Know exactly what to beat -------------------------- Every session surfaces a delta comparison against your last weight, reps, and total volume. You'll see exactly where you're up, where you're down, and what it takes to keep progressing. Progressive overload, made obvious. Data that actually helps ----------------------- Trend lines for weight, reps, and volume. Personal records per exercise. Clean charts that show whether you're moving in the right direction. Everything you need, nothing you don't. Native iOS, built properly ------------------------- SwiftUI and SwiftData from the ground up which is fast, fluid, and offline by default. Plain Weights is just the least frustrating way to track your training and make sure you're always improving.

Screenshots

Quick Steps4 screens
Plain Weights4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Plain Weights at none against Quick Steps's 1. Plain Weights also leads on update cadence (every 8 days vs every 13 months). Quick Steps's advantage is iOS requirement (10.3 vs 26.0). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Quick Steps sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Plain Weights asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Quick Steps ships an update every 13 months, Plain Weights every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Quick Steps versus Plain Weights: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterQuick StepsPlain Weights
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.0 (8 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings8 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 13 monthsEvery 8 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS10.3 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size17 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRichard LevyAFOUNDRY LTD

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Quick Steps

One-time1
  • Change Target Cadence$0.99
None

Plain Weights

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Quick Steps free?
Quick Steps is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Plain Weights free?
Plain Weights is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Quick Steps or Plain Weights have ads?
Neither Quick Steps nor Plain Weights shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Quick Steps or Plain Weights?
Quick Steps ships an update every 13 months, and Plain Weights every 8 days. Most recently, Quick Steps was updated on October 19, 2026 and Plain Weights on October 25, 2026.

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