Stepminder vs Walk Buddy
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Stepminder
This app calculates your average daily activity based on recent steps and distance, smoothing out daily fluctuations. Customize the averaging period and weighting for personalized insights. Track progress towards goals or simply monitor your movement.
- Weighted step averaging
- Customizable averaging period
- Unweighted average option
- Goal progress visualization
- Health app integration
- Distance tracking
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Stepminder averages your recent steps and distance, smoothing out day-to-day variations. The default 7-day weighted average gives the most weight to steps today (¼ of the total), and the least weight to steps six days ago (1/28 of the total). Change the averaging period, or choose an unweighted average (that is, each day has the same weight). An unweighted average of 7-28 days, for example, is useful if you do most of your walking on weekends. Visually track your progress toward your goal through the day. Or turn off goal orientation and just see how much you walk. Stepminder integrates with the Health app, using it as its source of past step counts and walking & running distances. Questions or problems? Email support@lobitoscreek.com
Walk Buddy
This app tracks your daily steps, calories burned, and distance covered. It offers a simple way to stay motivated and healthy by encouraging you to beat your previous records. View your progress at a glance with daily and weekly summaries, and utilize convenient widgets and watch app features.
- Step, calorie, and distance tracking
- No goal setting, focus on personal bests
- Daily and weekly progress summaries
- Home screen widgets
- Apple Watch app and complications
- Privacy-focused, no data collection
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Walk Buddy Pedometer is a simple step, calories, distance tracking app with no ads and completely private. No need to be a fitness nerd to stay active. - No goal setting, just try to beat your previous record and get in green zone. - Easy way to keep your self motivated and healthy - Quick glance on your daily and weekly steps, calories and distance - Widgets (left most page on your iPhone/iPad). - Watch app: Keep the app while walking, and it will show you steps as you raise your hand. - Watch Face Complications - shows you current steps, weekly low, weekly high - and motivates you to walk more. We are super sensitive to users privacy and don't collect any user data at all. App built on latest modern SwiftUI stack.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Walk Buddy at every 4 days against Stepminder's every 5 weeks. Walk Buddy also leads on ratings volume (24 vs 2) and device support (4 vs 1). Stepminder's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 80%) and rating (5.0 vs 4.8). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Stepminder holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Walk Buddy has 24 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Stepminder's written reviews are positive against 80% of Walk Buddy's.
Stepminder ships an update every 5 weeks, Walk Buddy every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Stepminder | Walk Buddy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 4.8 (24 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 80.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 24 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 20 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Lobitos Creek | GammaPoint LLC |
Customer experience
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In-app purchases
Stepminder
No in-app purchases
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No in-app purchases
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