Ascend Stairs vs Steps
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
Steps
Track your daily step count and stay motivated to reach your fitness goals. This app offers a simple way to monitor progress with customizable goals and visual celebrations upon achievement. Enjoy a lightweight and user-friendly experience with customizable display options.
- Daily step counting
- Home and Lock Screen widgets
- Customizable step goal
- Visual goal achievement celebration
- Light and Dark modes
- Small app size
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Achieve your 10,000 steps goal with Steps! Add the widget to your Lock Screen or Home Screen for daily motivation. When you hit 10,000 steps, the app turns green to celebrate your success. Strive for green every day to stay active and healthy. You can edit the goal if you want too. Steps is a simple app, and at less than 2MB, it's smaller than even just 1 photo on your iPhone. Enjoy both Light and Dark modes for the app and widget.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Steps at 6.1K against Ascend Stairs's 2. Ascend Stairs's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 80%) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Steps has 6.1K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Ascend Stairs's written reviews are positive against 80% of Steps's.
| Parameter | Ascend Stairs | Steps |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 4.7 (6.1K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 80.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 6.1K — better |
| Update frequency | — | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Craic Studio LLC | Dasmer Singh |
Customer experience
Ascend Stairs
Steps
Bugs and requests
Ascend Stairs
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Steps
Reported bugs
2 issues- Steps not syncing correctly
- App changes step totals retrospectively
Requested features
3 requests- Add distance and pace tracking
- Allow customization of step goal
- Extend historical data view beyond one week
In-app purchases
Ascend Stairs
No in-app purchases
Steps
No in-app purchases
