Comparison

Briskwalk vs Step Year

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

Head to head
About

Briskwalk

This app creates personalized walking routines to help you lose fat and boost energy. It tracks your steps, summarizes weekly activity, and maps past workouts. Integrates with the Health app for accurate data and a clean interface.

Highlights
  • Custom walking routines
  • Step count widget
  • Weekly activity summary
  • Workout mapping
  • Health app integration
  • Clean interface
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Walk briskly, see your progress and stay motivated. Briskwalk counts your steps and brisk minutes, maps every walk and guides you through interval walks that get a little harder as you improve. TODAY AT A GLANCE • Steps, distance and calories for the day, with a step goal you set • Swipe back through earlier days, or see your step history for the last 7 days, 30 days, 6 months or year • A daily streak and your brisk minutes for the week BRISK MINUTES Every minute you walk at 100 or more steps a minute counts as a brisk minute, the pace research uses for moderate-intensity walking. A weekly goal based on the WHO's recommended 150 active minutes keeps you on track. GUIDED BRISK INTERVALS • Three levels: Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced, with sessions from 22 to 55 minutes • Each session warms you up, mixes your normal pace with short brisk bursts and cools you down • Finish a level and you move up; after Advanced, every round gets 5% longer • A recorded voice coach announces each change and nudges you if you slow down EVERY WALK, MAPPED • Your route on a map, with distance, time, pace, steps, brisk minutes and calories • A calendar of your walks by week and month • Share a card of your walk and its route CHALLENGES Join a monthly distance challenge, hit 10,000 steps a day for a week or reach 150 brisk minutes. With Plus, set targets of your own for virtual walks and events. WORKS WITH APPLE HEALTH AND APPLE WATCH Briskwalk reads steps, distance and active calories from all your devices, including Apple Watch, and saves your walks to the Health app. Your walks are backed up to iCloud. Also: a step count widget, walk reminders on the days you choose, and no ads. Available in English, Spanish and Malay. BRISKWALK PLUS Step tracking, walk history, sharing and one challenge at a time are free, and you can try a guided session for free. Plus unlocks all guided brisk intervals, as many challenges at a time as you like, your own targets, yearly trends, exports and custom sounds. Briskwalk Plus is an optional auto-renewing subscription, billed monthly or yearly. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless it is canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel it in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://briskwalk.miklospavel.workers.dev/privacy

About

Step Year

Visualize your yearly step data with interactive daily views. Scroll and tap to see photos from specific days, jogging your memory about your activity. Share your annual step count and stats with friends and family.

Highlights
  • Yearly step data visualization
  • Daily step count review
  • Photo integration for daily context
  • Step count sharing with friends
  • One-time purchase for historical data
Features
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Review your step data from a bird's eye view! Have fun scrolling and tapping around to see photos you took that day. Jog your memory on why you took that many steps!  Share and compare your total year's step count and stats with friends and family! ______ Your step data for the current year is unlocked for free. Unlock the step data from all your previous years with a one-time purchase!

Screenshots

Briskwalk4 screens
Step Year4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Step Year at every 2 weeks against Briskwalk's every 3 months. Step Year also leads on review sentiment (75% vs 57%). Briskwalk's advantage is ratings volume (79 vs 25). On price, rating, 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. Briskwalk sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Step Year sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Briskwalk against 4.6 for Step Year. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 79 and 25 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 57% of Briskwalk's written reviews are positive against 75% of Step Year's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Briskwalk ships an update every 3 months, Step Year every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Briskwalk versus Step Year: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBriskwalkStep Year
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (79 ratings) — better4.6 (25 ratings)
Positive reviews57.1% of reviews75.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings79 — better25
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size37 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMiklos PavelShannon Bolick

Customer experience

Briskwalk

All ratings79 ratings
Positive92.4%
Neutral2.5%
Negative5.1%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive57.1%
Neutral14.3%
Negative28.6%

Step Year

All ratings25 ratings
Positive92.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative8.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Briskwalk

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly access to premium$4.991 Month
  • Yearly access to premium7 Days trial$39.991 Year
1 purchases

Step Year

One-time1
  • Unlock Past Years$4.99

Questions

Is Briskwalk free?
Briskwalk is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Step Year free?
Step Year is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Briskwalk or Step Year?
Briskwalk is rated higher. Briskwalk averages 4.7 out of 5 from 79 ratings, while Step Year averages 4.6 from 25 ratings.
Do Briskwalk or Step Year have ads?
Neither Briskwalk nor Step Year shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Briskwalk or Step Year?
Briskwalk ships an update every 3 months, and Step Year every 2 weeks. Most recently, Briskwalk was updated on October 15, 2026 and Step Year on October 8, 2026.

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