Festina Smartime vs Stepup step counter
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Festina Smartime
This app acts as a companion for your smartwatch, tracking vital health metrics like heart rate and sleep patterns. It also supports various sports modes to monitor exercise data and offers customizable watch faces and smart notifications.
- Heart rate monitoring
- Sleep pattern tracking
- Multi-sports mode
- Calorie and distance tracking
- Dial customization
- Music remote control
- Notification control
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Festina SmarTime was conceived to be the perfect companion in every way. There is a heart rate monitor which keeps track of your heart rate during exercise. There are also other features that promote the user’s wellbeing, such as a sleep patterns monitor, and reminders to drink water and get up and move around. Sport is one of the other great allies of Festina SmarTime: the multi-sports mode is integrated with systems to track exercise data for different types of sports, such as hiking, running, cycling, swimming or football. Among the integrated features are a calorie monitor, counting distance covered or activity time. Style has by no means been compromised. Festina SmarTime offers dial customization, allowing the user to choose between different faces, all of them with full touch display, making the most of every millimeter to easily move around the different features, which also include music remote control, notification control and “Find my phone”. The Festina Smartime app can share daily activity, heart rate, and sleep data with Apple’s Health app. This app connects your Festina SmarTime watch.
Stepup step counter
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Stepup is a step tracking app that provides you with nudges to stay active using AI coaches based on different personality traits like optimistic, snarky, mysterious and more. Track steps, crush goals, have a laugh.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Stepup step counter at every 3 weeks against Festina Smartime's every 2 months. Festina Smartime's advantage is iOS requirement (9.0 vs 16.6). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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.
Festina Smartime ships an update every 2 months, Stepup step counter every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Festina Smartime | Stepup step counter |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 115 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Festina Lotus SA | Vivek Sahi |
In-app purchases
Festina Smartime
No in-app purchases
Stepup step counter
No in-app purchases
Questions
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