Step Counter vs Moves Lite
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Step Counter
Track your daily walking activity, including steps taken, calories burned, distance covered, and time spent. This app uses your phone's accelerometer to conserve battery life and provides clear visual graphs of your progress. It's designed for anyone looking to monitor their fitness journey.
- Step tracking
- Calorie counting
- Distance monitoring
- Time spent walking
- Battery-efficient accelerometer use
- Progress graphs
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Step Counter - Pedometer - Calorie Counter is a free and professional app, your way to perfect health! Ideal for tracking your fitness progress! The advantage of this application is that it uses an accelerometer sensor instead of a GPS sensor, that way it prolongs the duration of your battery life. This easy to use Step Counter - Pedometer - Calorie Counter app records and displays not only the number of steps walked but also the number of calories burned, time spent walking and distance covered. All you have to do is push the play button and start walking! In the gym, on your home treadmill, or outside in the park, be conscious of your walking data anytime and anywhere. Let’s start walking!!! View graphs displaying the number of steps, calories burned, time, distance by touching on each icon respectively. For a precise number of calories burned, you will need to enter your height and weight values. If there is a mistake with the number of steps recorded, further sensitivity adjustments should be made. Thank you for taking the time to review our application.
Moves Lite
This app automatically tracks your daily activities and exercise, including steps, distance, time, and calories burned. It operates lightly, consuming minimal battery, and allows you to view your movement routes on a map. Receive daily health status notifications to support a healthier lifestyle.
- Automatic activity tracking
- Low battery consumption
- Route mapping
- Step, distance, time, and calorie tracking
- Daily health status notifications
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Moves Lite is the pedometer that automatically tracks your everyday life and exercise. Because it is simple, it operates lightly and consumes almost no batteries. Since you can check the daily health status with notifications, it will help you to create your healthy lifestyle. [Features] - Just carry your iPhone or iPad, it automatically tracks activity. - If the application is suspended, it will automatically continue tracking. - You can check the route that you moved on the map. - Because it has no unnecessary function, it consumes almost no battery. [How to use] When you first start up, you will be asked for permission to access the activity sensor and location data, so please allow. Tracking starts automatically after launching. On the main screen you can check the activities of today. On the calendar screen, you can check past activity. On the map screen, you can check the route you moved. [Tracking activities] - Number of steps - Activity distance (meters, miles) - Activity time - Calories consumed
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Verdict
Step Counter and Moves Lite both sit at 4.4 stars, but that hides the real split: 62% of Step Counter's written reviews are positive against 21% of Moves Lite's. Step Counter also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and update cadence (every 4 days vs every 8 days). Moves Lite's advantage is ratings volume (418 vs 32). On price, rating, ads and monetization model 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. Moves Lite sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Step Counter asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.4 for Step Counter against 4.4 for Moves Lite. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Moves Lite has 418 ratings behind it against 32, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 62% of Step Counter's written reviews are positive against 21% of Moves Lite's.
Step Counter ships an update every 4 days, Moves Lite every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on September 20, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Step Counter | Moves Lite |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (32 ratings) | 4.4 (418 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 62.1% of reviews — better | 21.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 32 | 418 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Every 8 days |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 34 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | SDG CODE DOO NIS | Hayato Shimizu |
Customer experience
Step Counter
Moves Lite
Bugs and requests
Step Counter
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Moves Lite
Reported bugs
3 issues- Loses historical data
- Fails to track activity unless the app is open
- Misidentifies activities (e.g. cycling as driving)
Requested features
4 requests- Ability to edit tracked activities and locations
- Support for more activity types (cycling, running, etc.)
- Improved data export and sync options
- Better integration with Apple Health and other fitness apps
In-app purchases
Step Counter
No in-app purchases
Moves Lite
- Remove Ads$2.99
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