Comparison

Steps for Watch vs My Steps Today

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

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About

Steps for Watch

This app tracks your daily steps and heart rate directly on your Apple Watch. It offers detailed daily step analysis, a seven-day graph of your activity, and the ability to set personal step goals. All data is stored locally on your device for privacy.

Highlights
  • Daily step tracking
  • Heart rate monitoring
  • Digital Crown for detailed analysis
  • Seven-day activity graph
  • Complication support
  • Personal step goals
Features
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Steps for Watch puts your steps and heart rate together in one clear chart, on iPhone and Apple Watch. See how today compares with your usual day, and where this pace takes you by the end of the day. Works on iPhone alone, too. Heart rate needs Apple Watch. No account, no ads, nothing uploaded. Today at a Glance • Steps toward your goal, and the steps expected by midnight • Steps and heart rate in one chart, or your steps next to your usual day • Today vs Usual: your running total against how a day like today usually goes • Heart rate through the day, with your resting rate • Distance and floors • Your whole day in detail, hour by hour All Your History (Steps Pro) • Week, Month, Year and All Time, with your goal days marked • Records: your best day, week and month, and your longest goal run • Any earlier day in full detail Trends and Patterns (Steps Pro) • Weekday Pattern: how each day of the week usually goes • When You Walk: your busiest hours and days • Long View: this year against last year, and the best day of every month • Compare any period with the one before or with last year Walking and Intensity (Steps Pro) • Walking speed, step length, distance and floors over time • Brisk minutes and steps per minute Heart Rate and Steps (Steps Pro, needs Apple Watch) • See how your heart rate moves with your steps • How it settles after a walk, and your walking heart rate month by month • Descriptive only, not a medical measurement A Goal That Fits • Set your daily steps goal • Goal Simulator (Steps Pro): try a goal against your last four weeks • Goal by Weekday (Steps Pro): a different goal for each day Widgets • The small Today widget is free • Every other widget is part of Steps Pro: Lock Screen, Medium, Large and StandBy Notifications • Goal Reached, Week Ready and a quiet Evening Summary at the time you choose • Local only, and off until you turn them on On Apple Watch • Steps and heart rate in one full-screen chart • Turn the Digital Crown to move through the day. Each bar shows its steps and average heart rate • A 7-day view with daily steps and heart rate averages • Your latest heart rate, and a daily goal you set on the watch • A complication with today's steps and goal progress • Runs on its own; the iPhone app is optional Free and Steps Pro Free: the whole Apple Watch app, the Today screen and today's details on iPhone, your daily goal, notifications and the small Today widget. Steps Pro adds all your history, Trends and Patterns, Walking and Intensity, Heart Rate and Steps, Goal Simulator, Goal by Weekday, every widget, themes and CSV export. Steps Pro is available as a yearly subscription with a 7-day free trial for new subscribers, a monthly subscription, or a one-time Lifetime purchase. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel them anytime in your Apple Account settings. Privacy Steps for Watch reads your activity from Health, only with your permission. Your data stays on your devices and is never sent to us or anyone else. No account, no ads. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://sydvesti.com/privacy-policy Questions or ideas? contact@sydvesti.com

About

My Steps Today

Track your daily step count with this Apple Watch app. Visualize your progress towards a customizable daily goal using a progress bar. It can also be used as a convenient watch complication.

Highlights
  • Daily step tracking
  • Progress bar visualization
  • Configurable daily goal
  • Watch complication support
Read full description

Are you simply looking to see how many steps you've walked today? My Steps Today for the Apple Watch does exactly that, showing how many steps you've taken today. It also expresses that in progress-bar form as you work towards a daily user-configurable goal. It's also available to use as a watch complication. That's it, enjoy!

Screenshots

Steps for Watch4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: My Steps Today at 5.0 against Steps for Watch's 3.6. Steps for Watch's advantage is update cadence (every 7 months vs every 27 months) and ratings volume (20 vs 2). 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

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

My Steps Today holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Steps for Watch has 20 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Steps for Watch ships an update every 7 months, My Steps Today every 27 months. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Steps for Watch versus My Steps Today: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSteps for WatchMy Steps Today
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.6 (20 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews75.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings20 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 7 months — betterEvery 27 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS17.016.2 — better
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB1 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperSydvesti OyBrian Tinberg

Customer experience

Steps for Watch

All ratings20 ratings
Positive70.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative30.0%
Written reviews16 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral6.3%
Negative18.8%

My Steps Today

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Steps for Watch

No in-app purchases

None

My Steps Today

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Steps for Watch free?
Steps for Watch is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is My Steps Today free?
My Steps Today is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Steps for Watch or My Steps Today?
My Steps Today is rated higher. Steps for Watch averages 3.6 out of 5 from 20 ratings, while My Steps Today averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Steps for Watch or My Steps Today have ads?
Neither Steps for Watch nor My Steps Today shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Steps for Watch or My Steps Today?
Steps for Watch ships an update every 7 months, and My Steps Today every 27 months. Most recently, Steps for Watch was updated on October 24, 2026 and My Steps Today on October 24, 2026.

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