Comparison

Play Steps vs Steps

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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

About

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.

Highlights
  • Daily step counting
  • Home and Lock Screen widgets
  • Customizable step goal
  • Visual goal achievement celebration
  • Light and Dark modes
  • Small app size
Features
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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.

Screenshots

Play Steps3 screens
Steps4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Play Steps ships an update every 9 days, Steps weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Play Steps versus Steps: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPlay StepsSteps
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.8 (5 ratings)4.7 (5.5K ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better80.5% of reviews
Number of ratings55.5K — better
Update frequencyEvery 9 daysWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS11.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size17 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEnabled Solutions Pty LtdDasmer Singh

Customer experience

Play Steps

All ratings5 ratings
Positive60.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative20.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Steps

All ratings5,527 ratings
Positive93.8%
Neutral2.7%
Negative3.6%
Written reviews451 reviews
Positive80.5%
Neutral4.2%
Negative15.3%

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

None

Play Steps

No in-app purchases

None

Steps

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Play Steps free?
Play Steps is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Steps free?
Steps is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Play Steps or Steps?
Steps is rated higher. Play Steps averages 3.8 out of 5 from 5 ratings, while Steps averages 4.7 from 5.5K ratings.
Do Play Steps or Steps have ads?
Neither Play Steps nor Steps shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Play Steps or Steps?
Play Steps ships an update every 9 days, and Steps weekly. Most recently, Play Steps was updated on October 8, 2026 and Steps on October 12, 2026.

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