Comparison

FitwithFriends! vs StepKeep

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

Head to head
About

FitwithFriends!

Compete with friends in a social step-counting challenge. Share your progress, goals, and achievements in real-time. Motivate each other to stay active and reach fitness milestones together.

Highlights
  • Social step tracking
  • Friend challenges
  • Goal sharing
  • Progress monitoring
  • Live step competition
  • Daily, weekly, monthly tracking
Features
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FitwithFriends! is a social step-counter! Add your friends on the app and be able to share your steps goals, steps progress, and steps accomplishments. Features live step tracking to compete with your friends daily! Also, track you AND your friends' daily, weekly, and monthly goals and progress. Motivate each other to get FIT!

About

StepKeep

This app synchronizes with Apple Health to provide an accurate, verifiable step count. It displays real-time data, offers historical trends, and includes features like goal setting and challenges. It prioritizes privacy by not uploading data or requiring an account.

Highlights
  • Accurate step count synced with Apple Health
  • Timestamped data for verification
  • History restoration and streak preservation
  • Goal setting, streaks, and rest days
  • Weekly, monthly, and yearly trends
  • Challenges and badges
  • Heart rate estimation (for reference)
  • Apple Watch app and complications
Features
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Most step counters show you a number you cannot check. Open the Health app and it says something different, and nobody tells you which one is right. StepKeep shows the number Health shows. Every day, on every screen, next to the time it was last updated. Why the number holds up: • One authoritative total, read straight from Apple Health and deduplicated across iPhone and Apple Watch. Never re-counted, never estimated from your weight or your stride. • Steps still waiting to sync get their own line, so the big number never runs ahead of Health. • Every screen is timestamped. If the data is more than two hours old, StepKeep says so instead of pretending it is live. • A source breakdown shows which device contributed what, and how many duplicate steps were removed. Key Features: • History restored: the first launch brings your past days back from Health, so your record and your streak survive a new phone. • Goals, streaks and rest days: set a daily goal, build a streak, and spend a rest day when life gets in the way. The streak stays alive. • Trends: week, month and year, with a calendar heat map and your best day. • Insights that admit what they do not know: how today compares with your usual pace, how this period compares with the last, and the hours you are most active. Too little data, and StepKeep says so rather than inventing a number. • Challenges and badges: daily, weekly, monthly, or your own target and length. Finish it and the badge is yours. • Calories, distance, floors and exercise minutes, all read from Health so they match too. • Heart rate: your Health heart rate and resting rate in one chart, plus a quick estimate with the rear camera. For reference only, not a medical device. • Apple Watch app and complication: today, the last 7 days and your goal on your wrist, and it works offline. • Widgets and Live Activity: Home Screen, Lock Screen and Dynamic Island. • Manual entry: treadmill, stroller, phone left on the table. Add those steps yourself; they stay on this device. • Wheelchair mode: counts pushes and wheelchair distance, read from Health like everything else. • Reminders: a nudge when you are close, a word when you hit the goal. Works with your devices StepKeep reads from Apple Health, so it already includes Apple Watch, Garmin, Oura, Whoop, Polar, Amazfit and Withings. Anything that writes to Health is already counted. No extra setup, no extra account. Private by design No ads. No third-party SDKs. No account to create. Your steps never leave your iPhone: nothing is uploaded to a server, and nothing goes to iCloud. Free forever: today's steps, the 7-day chart, week trends, goals, streaks, rest days, challenges, badges, every widget, the Live Activity and the Watch complication. StepKeep Plus adds month and year trends, camera heart rate measurement, and CSV export of your whole history. Fully usable with VoiceOver and Dynamic Type. Available in 15 languages. Terms of Use: https://sites.google.com/view/stepkeep-terms Privacy Policy: https://sites.google.com/view/stepkeep-privacy

Screenshots

FitwithFriends!4 screens
StepKeep4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: FitwithFriends! at none against StepKeep's 4. FitwithFriends! also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.0). On price, rating, ratings volume 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. StepKeep sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. FitwithFriends! asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for FitwithFriends! against 5.0 for StepKeep. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

FitwithFriends! ships an update weekly, StepKeep every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
FitwithFriends! versus StepKeep: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFitwithFriends!StepKeep
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS13.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size24 MB15 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEric Lieu月梅 孙

Customer experience

FitwithFriends!

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

StepKeep

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

In-app purchases

None

FitwithFriends!

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

StepKeep

Subscriptions3
  • StepKeep Plus Monthly$6.991 Month
  • StepKeep Plus Yearly Offer$14.991 Year
  • StepKeep Plus Yearly7 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • StepKeep Plus Lifetime$39.99

Questions

Is FitwithFriends! free?
FitwithFriends! is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is StepKeep free?
StepKeep is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, FitwithFriends! or StepKeep?
FitwithFriends! and StepKeep are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do FitwithFriends! or StepKeep have ads?
Neither FitwithFriends! nor StepKeep shows ads.
Which is updated more often, FitwithFriends! or StepKeep?
FitwithFriends! ships an update weekly, and StepKeep every 5 days. Most recently, FitwithFriends! was updated on November 3, 2026 and StepKeep on October 31, 2026.

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