Step vs Pace Monster
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Step
This app challenges you to achieve daily walking goals and maintain streaks. It automatically tracks your steps, workouts, and integrates with Apple Health. Enjoy beautiful visuals and motivational features without needing extra hardware.
- Automatic step counting
- Workout tracking (walking, jogging, running, hiking)
- Streak challenges for distance goals
- Apple Health integration
- Calendar view of activity
- Background operation
- No extra hardware required
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Can you walk 10,000 steps for 10, 20 or maybe even 30 days in a row? Step will challenge you to walk further and complete your goals. Just put your phone in your pocket and you are ready to go. FEATURES • Automatic step counter • Calendar-view • Apple Health integration • Beautiful drawings • Lots of different workouts • Timed workouts • Streaks - complete distances for a long period of time • Notification whenever you finished a distance • No extra hardware required • It runs in the background so no need of constantly looking at the app • It tracks walking, jogging, running and hiking • Step will motivate you to walk further • Set the goal-distance per day yourself • See easily if you reach your daily goal or not • It doesn’t rely on GPS, but actual steps, so the battery will not be affected a lot • The iPhone’s pedometer will make the step counting very accurate SOME OF THE WORKOUTS • 10 km • 10,000 steps • Half-Marathon • Marathon • 10 km in two hours • 20 km in five hours • 10,000 steps in four hours • Two Marathon in one week • 5 km thirty days in a row • 8 km forty-five days in a row • 15 km five days in a row • 20 km seven days in a row • 10,000 steps forty-five days in a row (There are many more and we will add workouts on a regular basis) APPLE HEALTH • Automatically synchronise your activity data such as running and walking via Apple Health • Whenever your Apple Watch is connected to your iPhone, Step will get the data from any workout Step respects your privacy: All your personal fitness data is only read by Step and NOT shared in anyway via network connection or any other technically way. As always when it comes to my apps, I listen to you as a user. If you have any issue or any feature that you miss, just contact me through the app and I will reply to you faster than you walk a mile… And remember, Every Step Counts… Steps Privacy Policy: http://miiam.net/privacy Steps Terms of Condition http://miiam.net/terms
Pace Monster
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A monster is always behind you. Pace Monster turns your iPhone's step counter into a chase. A cute monster walks at your daily step goal, all day, every day. Every step you take keeps you ahead of it. Sit still too long and it closes in. If it catches you, you lose a heart. Lose every heart in one day and it evolves into something scarier, and your streak breaks. A walking game for anyone who wants a reason to move. No workouts. No sessions. No GPS. Just walk. HOW IT WORKS • Pick your daily pace (2,000–12,000 steps) and how many hearts you get each day • Your iPhone's motion sensor drives the chase. Add the Home Screen widget and one glance shows how close it is • Wear an Apple Watch? Allow Apple Health and your watch steps join the chase. The watch app and complication show the monster on your wrist • The monster's face tells the story: oblivious when you're safely ahead, game face when it's gaining, genuinely scary when it's close • Hit your daily goal and the monster falls asleep until tomorrow. Nothing catches you after that • Win a day and it calms down a phase. Get wiped out and it evolves into a faster, meaner monster • Every day lands on your streak calendar. Tap any day to see how it went, hour by hour BUILT TO BE FAIR • Every 7-day streak earns a freeze token, and you can hold two. Sick, injured or traveling? Freeze the day and your streak survives • Pause everything, any time, penalty-free • Steps past double your pace earn nothing extra. This is a walking game, not a grinding game • Walking is always enough. Running is never required • Changes to your pace or hearts start tomorrow, so every day is played by the rules it started with YOUR DATA • No account needed. No GPS • Steps come from your iPhone's motion sensor and, if you allow it, from Apple Health (HealthKit), so Apple Watch steps count too. Pace Monster reads steps only, never writes to Apple Health, and processes them on your iPhone. Health data is never used for ads or shared with anyone • Create an optional account (Sign in with Apple, Google or email) to back up your streak and settings for a new phone • Export or erase everything from Settings • Two short video ads and nothing more: one before you spend a freeze token, and at most one a day when you open your streak history. Never when you get caught, and pausing is always ad-free Choose your pace. Stay ahead. Don't get caught.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Pace Monster at none against Step's 6. Step's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). On price 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. Step sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Pace Monster asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Step | Pace Monster |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (35 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 25.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 35 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Monthly | — |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 24 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Marcus Carlsson | George Green |
In-app purchases
Step
- All Access$1.991 Month
- All Access$3.993 Months
- All Access$9.991 Year
- All Access$1.99
- All Access$3.99
- Pro$34.99
Pace Monster
No in-app purchases









