Comparison

Pedometer vs BlockStep

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

Head to head
About

Pedometer

Display your key health metrics directly on your iPhone's Home Screen and Lock Screen with customizable widgets. Track steps, heart rate, and more without opening an app. Set daily goals and visualize trends with beautiful charts.

Highlights
  • Home Screen & Lock Screen widgets
  • Track 6 health metrics
  • Daily goals and streak tracking
  • Weekly trend charts
  • 9 customizable widget themes
  • Metric and imperial units
Features
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Count every step and see your health at a glance — right on your Home Screen, Lock Screen and Apple Watch, without ever opening the app. Steppy is the all-in-one pedometer, step counter and health widget for iPhone and Apple Watch. Track your steps, heart rate, blood oxygen, calories, distance and flights climbed, hit daily goals, keep your streak alive and unlock achievements — all synced privately with Apple Health. TRACK 6 HEALTH METRICS - Steps (pedometer) - Heart rate (BPM) - Blood oxygen (SpO2) - Calories burned - Walking & running distance - Flights climbed 8 WIDGETS FOR EVERY SCREEN - Small Home Screen widgets (free) - Medium & large Health Dashboard widgets (Premium) - Lock Screen widgets — Circular, Rectangular & Inline (free for everyone) - Quick Action Widget — refresh and bump your goal in one tap (Premium) - iOS 18 Control Center buttons — Today's Steps, Quick Refresh, Start Activity - Live Activity in the Dynamic Island while you walk (Premium) - Auto-refreshes every 15 minutes NATIVE APPLE WATCH APP Works standalone — no iPhone needed. See today's steps with a goal ring, live heart rate, calories, goals and achievements straight from your wrist. 9 BEAUTIFUL WIDGET THEMES Make your widgets yours with 9 color themes — Classic, Ocean, Sunset, Forest, Midnight, Berry, Lavender, Rose and Slate — each in light and dark mode. GOALS, STREAKS & 32 ACHIEVEMENTS Set daily goals for steps, calories, distance and flights, watch your progress fill up beautiful rings, and build a streak by hitting your goal every day. Unlock 32 achievement badges across six categories, and climb the Game Center leaderboards. TRENDS & CHARTS Review the last 7 days with interactive bar charts, and see your whole year at a glance with the contribution-style heatmap (Premium). PRIVATE BY DESIGN 100% private. Steppy reads only from Apple Health, with your permission. No data is collected, stored or sent to third parties — ever. PREMIUM Unlock everything with an optional subscription: an ad-free experience, medium & large widgets, the Quick Action Widget, Live Activities, all 9 themes, trends, the year heatmap, all goals and streaks, premium achievements and CSV export of your full history. Free forever: Classic theme, small Home Screen widgets, every Lock Screen widget, steps goal tracking and the full Apple Watch app. Download Steppy and turn every step into progress. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://code-expert.de/app-privacy-policy/

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BlockStep

Features
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BlockStep turns walking into building. Every step you take lays one block. Reach your daily Goal and the day's structure is complete; fall short and you keep exactly what you built — the scaffolding stays where you stopped, honestly. A NEW STRUCTURE EVERY DAY Ninety-one authored pieces across thirteen chapters — a cottage, a lighthouse, a locomotive, a hot air balloon, a kraken. Everyone walks the same order from their own first day, so what you meet on day four is a decision somebody made, not an accident of the calendar. YOUR GOAL, YOUR RESOLUTION Set it anywhere from 500 to 30,000 steps. The same structure is built at whatever detail your Goal implies — a modest Goal makes a bolder, chunkier object; an ambitious one makes a finer, more detailed one. Nobody is building a worse version of anything. KEEP GOING A Streak counts the days you finished. Crown a structure by walking 150% of your Goal and you bank a Shield, which quietly saves a day you missed. Ill, or away? Mark the day — your Streak holds where it is, and never pretends you walked. EXTRA STEPS GO SOMEWHERE Walked past your Goal? Point the overflow at an unfinished day from your Collection and finish that one too. The record keeps both truths: what you walked that day, and that a later day completed it. WHERE YOU LEFT IT Every past day is in your Collection: scroll it, open one, and turn it in your hand. Twenty Badges mark what the walking has earned — firsts, streaks, hours, whole chapters — and none of them can be un-earned. ON YOUR WRIST AND YOUR HOME SCREEN The watch app counts your steps on its own. The widget shows today's structure as it goes up. Walk mode puts it on your Lock Screen while you are out. IT FOLLOWS YOU Your Collection travels between your own devices through your own iCloud, so a new phone starts where the old one stopped. There is no account to make and nothing to sign in to. FREE, AND THE KIT The first fourteen Steps of the Sequence are free — enough to see whether this is for you. After that the road begins again, and the Kit is a single $4.99 purchase that opens all ninety-one Builds and everything after them. No subscription, no ads, no second currency. Your walking counts either way: the Kit changes what gets built, never what gets recorded. PRIVACY BlockStep reads exactly one thing — your step count — and there is no server of ours for it to go to. No account, no analytics, no advertising, no tracking. Your Collection is mirrored into your own private iCloud database, which is yours: it lives in your Apple account and we have no key to it. A device that is not signed in to iCloud simply keeps its Collection locally.

Screenshots

Pedometer4 screens
BlockStep4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: BlockStep at none against Pedometer's shown. BlockStep also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 weeks). Pedometer's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Pedometer sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and BlockStep sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pedometer ships an update every 2 weeks, BlockStep every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and September 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Pedometer versus BlockStep: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPedometerBlockStep
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (626 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings626 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 4 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB17 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAyhan GulsevenCaffeinated Code d.o.o.

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Pedometer

Subscriptions2
  • Pro Monthly Subscription$1.991 Month
  • Pro Yearly Subscription$15.991 Year
1 purchases

BlockStep

One-time1
  • The Kit$4.99

Questions

Is Pedometer free?
Pedometer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is BlockStep free?
BlockStep is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Pedometer or BlockStep have ads?
Pedometer shows ads; BlockStep does not.
Which is updated more often, Pedometer or BlockStep?
Pedometer ships an update every 2 weeks, and BlockStep every 4 days. Most recently, Pedometer was updated on October 12, 2026 and BlockStep on September 29, 2026.

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