Step Counter vs Ascend Stairs
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Step Counter
Track your daily steps and physical activity with this iPhone-based pedometer. Set daily goals and monitor your progress with a simple interface and icon badge updates. Review your weekly history to stay motivated on your fitness journey.
- Automatic step detection
- Daily progress tracking
- Icon badge step count
- Weekly history review
- Customizable interface
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Think you can achieve 10,000 steps a day? Challenge yourself! Seamlessly use your iPhone as a step counter. Learn more about your physical activity and get fit by reaching your daily goal. Simple interface makes your life easy with just the information you need at your fingertips FEATURES: -Automatic step detection - Set it once and the app does the rest recording your step for each day -Super simple interface shows your daily progress. -Easily check your step count just by looking at the app's icon badge. -Check your history and see how you're doing for the week. -Change the look and feel to match your mood.
Ascend Stairs
This app helps users track their stair climbing activities and monitor weight loss progress. It provides weekly and monthly data visualizations to understand training and weight loss trends.
- Track stair climbs
- Monitor weight loss
- Add daily climbing stats
- Add daily weight stats
- Weekly data visualizations
- Monthly data visualizations
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Ascend is a stair climber's tracking app. It will help you track your climbs and lose weight. Add daily climbing and weight stats. Get data visualizations by week and month to help understand your training and weight loss.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Ascend Stairs at 5.0 against Step Counter's 4.0. Ascend Stairs also leads on ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and in-app purchases 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.
Ascend Stairs holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 2 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
| Parameter | Step Counter | Ascend Stairs |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (4 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | — |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | WALABOK LLC | Craic Studio LLC |
Customer experience
Step Counter
Ascend Stairs
In-app purchases
Step Counter
No in-app purchases
Ascend Stairs
No in-app purchases
