Comparison

TimePipe Go vs Step

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

Head to head
About

TimePipe Go

This app acts as your personal tour guide, providing instant notifications and information upon arriving at planned stops. It offers nearby point of interest searches, travel time estimates, and dynamic plan adjustments with partner notifications. It also facilitates group communication through automatic chatrooms.

Highlights
  • Instant arrival notifications at planned stops
  • Reminders for sights, shops, and items
  • Travel time and distance inquiries
  • Nearby point of interest search
  • Dynamic travel plan updates with partner notifications
  • Automatic group chatrooms
  • Trip plan creation and sharing
Features
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When you go on a new trip, the instant tour guide notifies you upon arriving at any planned stops, allowing you to review your progress and information of coming stops. At every planned stop, it could remind you scenes you must see, shops that cannot be missed, things to buy, stuffs to bring, as well as other information to remember. Besides the active notifications and reminders, TimePipe Go is also a smart consultant – providing you nearby points of interests, traveling time and directions between stops, as well as other information you may request. In case you decide to change your travel plan in the midst of the trip, don’t worry. The smart tour guide adapts to the new plan and notifies all your travel partners about the update. Moreover, it sets up a chatroom automatically from the start, allowing all travel partners to be in touch before, during, and after the trip. INSTANT TOUR GUIDE – instant guidance and instant inquiry: * Notifying of arrival at planned stops, allowing you to review the progress, and the coming stops * Reminding important information, e.g. scenes to see, shops to visit, things to buy, stuffs to bring * Inquiring traveling distances, time, and directions between stops * Searching for nearby points of interests, restaurants, restrooms, parking, gas stations, ATM ...... * Supporting changes of plan amid a trip, notifying travel partners, and providing updated information * Automatically setting up a chatroom so all travel partners can be in touch TRIP PLANNING – copying from experts or starting from scratch: * Providing database of public travel plans, allowing you to explore plans shared by others * Allowing you to copy a plan shared by others and to modify it based on your own need * Of course, you can also design a brand new trip plan from scratch * Bookmarking trip plans in TimePipe Go or places of interests found through web browsers * Quick access of resources through bookmarks for trip planning * Smooth combination of travel plans and maps for overview and planning * Inviting family and friends to join a trip and to share the plan and any instant updates COMMUNITY AND SHARING – sharing your travel plans and build your fan club: * Sharing is bi-directional – you can explore others’ plans, and you can share your own with others * After returning from a joyful trip, you can enter valuable notes and turn the plan into a journal * Sharing your trip plan – while admiring your journal, people can also copy your plan and take a similar trip for themselves * You can sign up to become a follower of other travelers and get notified when they share new plans * You can build your own follower community – the more you share, the faster it grows * While others’ travel plans become your reference, yours can also be their guidance From trip planning, instant tour guide, to community and sharing, TimePipe Go converts you from a tourist to a tour expert!

About

Step

Discover and share your favorite places globally. Create a personalized world map with recommendations from friends and trusted curators. Easily find new experiences based on categories like food, culture, and accommodation.

Highlights
  • Save and share favorite places
  • Personalized world map creation
  • Add photos and comments to places
  • Follow friends and curators
  • Filter map by categories
  • Community feed for updates
Features
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Save every place you find on TikTok, Instagram and Google Maps to one map you'll actually use. You screenshot the restaurant. You save the Reels. You paste the address into your notes. Then the trip comes around and it's all gone. Step fixes that. Share a post to Step and the places land on your map, tagged and sorted by city, waiting for you when you get there. IMPORT FROM ANYWHERE TikTok. Instagram posts and Reels. Google Maps links. Screenshots. Even the running list in your Notes app. Send it to Step and we pull the place, the address and the details. No copy-pasting, nothing lost. BUILT AROUND CITIES Your saves organise themselves by city automatically. Land in Lisbon, open Step, see every place you've been collecting for months. RECOMMENDATIONS FROM PEOPLE, NOT ALGORITHMS Follow friends and Step's Culture Curators, a network of writers, chefs, designers and travellers who publish guides to the cities they know best. Build a personally curated map of the world, populated by the people you love, respect, and admire. MADE TO BE LOOKED AT Step is designed like a magazine, not a directory. Clean typography, real editorial, none of the review-farm noise. WHAT PEOPLE USE STEP FOR - Collecting places from social media before a trip - Rescuing a years-old list of recommendations out of Notes - Keeping a running map of their own city - Sharing a list of recommendations with a friend in one link - Following creators they trust instead of trawling review sites Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

TimePipe Go4 screens
Step4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: TimePipe Go at none against Step's 4. TimePipe Go also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.0). Step's advantage is ratings volume (231 vs 6). On price, rating, review sentiment and update cadence 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. Step sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. TimePipe Go asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for TimePipe Go against 4.5 for Step. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Step has 231 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 54% and 54% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on June 11, 2026 and September 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
TimePipe Go versus Step: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTimePipe GoStep
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (6 ratings)4.5 (231 ratings)
Positive reviews53.7% of reviews53.9% of reviews — better
Number of ratings6231 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS13.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size71 MB91 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTimepipeStep Digital Holdings Limited

Customer experience

TimePipe Go

All ratings6 ratings
Positive83.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative16.7%
Written reviews54 reviews
Positive53.7%
Neutral9.3%
Negative37.0%

Step

All ratings231 ratings
Positive84.4%
Neutral5.2%
Negative10.4%
Written reviews102 reviews
Positive53.9%
Neutral8.8%
Negative37.3%

Bugs and requests

TimePipe Go

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Step

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Locations not registering in certain cities
  • Frequent errors, content not loading
  • Profile and login issues
  • Subscription charges not visible, hard to cancel

Requested features

4 requests
  • Allow users to add their own places
  • Ability to separate places visited vs want to go
  • Option to create custom categories
  • Search by city to find local users

In-app purchases

None

TimePipe Go

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

Step

Subscriptions4
  • Step Premium Monthly7 Days trial$5.991 Month
  • Step Premium Monthly$5.991 Month
  • Step Premium Annual7 Days trial$49.991 Year
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  • Step Premium Annual$49.991 Year

Questions

Is TimePipe Go free?
TimePipe Go is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Step free?
Step is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, TimePipe Go or Step?
TimePipe Go and Step are both rated 4.5 out of 5 on the App Store, from 6 and 231 ratings respectively.
Do TimePipe Go or Step have ads?
Neither TimePipe Go nor Step shows ads.
Which is updated more often, TimePipe Go or Step?
TimePipe Go ships an update every 2 weeks, and Step every 2 weeks. Most recently, TimePipe Go was updated on June 11, 2026 and Step on September 25, 2026.

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