Play Steps vs Steps
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Play Steps
Compete with friends by tracking your steps from Apple Health. Engage in friendly taunting with tailored messages based on your leaderboard position. Start games easily without sign-up and enjoy a simple, fun fitness challenge.
- Step tracking via Apple Health
- Friendly competition with friends
- In-game taunting messages
- Easy game creation and joining
- Weekly step leaderboards
- No sign-up required
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Harmless taunting between friends has been scientifically proven to motivate people to become more active. Ok maybe not, but that's the big idea behind Steps — weaving a fitness thread into a snappy, colourful design Why? Simple Beautiful Fun Privacy for your data What? Compete against friends with step data from the Apple Health app. START A GAME Starting and joining a game is the easiest thing in the world. No sign-up required, just join via a link or send a link to your friends Each game starts from Monday 12AM to Sunday 5PM in your local time. The single app screen displays the tallied steps of participants up to that point of the week GET TAUNTING There are two ways to taunt others: 1. Set your player name to whatever you want, or choose an amusing randomly generated name, or even change it so often that your friends don’t see it coming 2. Share the leaderboard with your friends. Whether you’re at the top, middle, or bottom of the leaderboard, you get a randomly generated message tailored to your position
Steps
Track your daily step count and stay motivated to reach your fitness goals. This app offers a simple way to monitor progress with customizable goals and visual celebrations upon achievement. Enjoy a lightweight and user-friendly experience with customizable display options.
- Daily step counting
- Home and Lock Screen widgets
- Customizable step goal
- Visual goal achievement celebration
- Light and Dark modes
- Small app size
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Achieve your 10,000 steps goal with Steps! Add the widget to your Lock Screen or Home Screen for daily motivation. When you hit 10,000 steps, the app turns green to celebrate your success. Strive for green every day to stay active and healthy. You can edit the goal if you want too. Steps is a simple app, and at less than 2MB, it's smaller than even just 1 photo on your iPhone. Enjoy both Light and Dark modes for the app and widget.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Steps at 4.7 against Play Steps's 3.8. Steps also leads on ratings volume (5.5K vs 5). Play Steps's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 80%) and device support (3 vs 1). 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Steps holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Steps has 5.5K ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 100% of Play Steps's written reviews are positive against 80% of Steps's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Play Steps ships an update every 9 days, Steps weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Play Steps | Steps |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (5 ratings) | 4.7 (5.5K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 80.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 5 | 5.5K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 17 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Enabled Solutions Pty Ltd | Dasmer Singh |
Customer experience
Play Steps
Steps
Bugs and requests
Play Steps
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Steps
Reported bugs
2 issues- Steps not syncing correctly
- App changes step totals retrospectively
Requested features
3 requests- Add distance and pace tracking
- Allow customization of step goal
- Extend historical data view beyond one week
In-app purchases
Play Steps
No in-app purchases
Steps
No in-app purchases









