Comparison

EveryStride vs Stepwise

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

Head to head
About

EveryStride

Features
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EveryStride turns your Apple Watch and HealthKit running data into clear, actionable insights โ€” without recording a single run itself. Connect once, and EveryStride automatically imports every run from Apple Watch, Strava, Nike Run Club, Garmin, and any app that saves workouts to Apple Health. Then it gets to work. DASHBOARD AT A GLANCE Your Home tab is a living dashboard โ€” weekly goal progress rings, training load gauge, running streaks, and personalized recommendations all update as you run. See your last run's full stats including distance, pace, elevation, and heart rate right at the top. TRAINING LOAD (ACWR) A sports-science metric used by professional coaches, now in your pocket. EveryStride calculates your Acute:Chronic Workload Ratio โ€” comparing your last 7 days of training to your 28-day average โ€” and tells you if you're in the sweet spot, undertraining, or at risk of overtraining. PERSONALIZED RECOMMENDATIONS Based on your training load, streaks, goals, and recent activity, EveryStride generates up to 3 prioritized suggestions each day: target distances for next week, overtraining warnings, goal catch-up nudges, and rest day reminders. WEEKLY & MONTHLY HIGHLIGHTS Automatic, detailed summaries generated every week and month. See your run count, total distance, pace trends, personal records, and how you compare to the previous period โ€” all with change indicators. ALL TIME STATS Premium users can view stats across their entire running history with year-by-year filtering. See your all-time records, averages, and trends. RICH CHARTS & STATISTICS Weekly Comparison, Weekly Breakdown, Monthly Distance, Pace Trend, Cardio Trend (pace + HR + elevation + resting HR), and Run Type Split charts give you deep insight into your training. CALENDAR HEATMAP Browse every month with color-coded day cells โ€” green for outdoor, blue for indoor. Tap any day to see full run details. HOME SCREEN WIDGET A medium-size widget shows your weekly progress, goal rings, and streak count. FULLY CUSTOMIZABLE Toggle any card or chart on or off. Set weekly distance and time goals. Choose metric or imperial. Make EveryStride yours. PRIVACY FIRST EveryStride only reads your data โ€” it never writes to HealthKit. Your workouts stay on your device and sync via iCloud. No accounts, no tracking, no ads. --- EveryStride Premium (one-time purchase) unlocks unlimited run history, All Time stats with year filtering, and all charts. Free users get the full feature set with the last month of data. Previously known as Askel. Love cycling? EveryRide โ€” the same great analytics for your rides โ€” is coming soon.

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Stepwise

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Your steps. One huge number. Nothing else in the way. Stepwise is a step counter for people who just want to know how far they have walked today โ€” without dashboards, feeds, sign-ups, or a tutorial to sit through. Open it and the number is already there, big enough to read at arm's length. WHAT YOU GET โ€ข Today's steps, huge and instant Your step count fills the screen in a clean, rounded typeface you can read in a glance while walking. The number animates as it climbs, so you can watch it move. โ€ข Draw your steps on your own map Tap the orange Record button and a blank map fills in behind you as you walk, one road at a time. It keeps recording with the screen locked, and a Live Activity on your Lock Screen shows your time, distance and steps, with a Stop button. See how many new roads you have found, save the walk to My map, and watch it grow. Show faint streets or a colorful map under your trail, or keep it blank. โ€ข Distance, automatically in your units Right below your steps you get the distance you have covered, in kilometres or miles depending on your region. No settings to dig through. โ€ข A daily goal that actually celebrates you Set any goal from 1,000 to 100,000 steps. Hit it and the screen bursts into confetti โ€” once a day, when you have earned it. Not a badge buried in a profile tab. โ€ข Home Screen widget Small, medium, or large. Your step count sits on your Home Screen and stays current, so most days you never need to open the app at all. โ€ข Hour-by-hour stats Tap Stats for a clean bar chart of today and yesterday, broken down by hour. See when you actually move โ€” the morning commute, the afternoon slump, the evening walk โ€” and compare today against yesterday at the same hour. โ€ข Light and dark, your call Follow your system appearance or lock it to light or dark from the menu. BUILT ON APPLE HEALTH Stepwise reads your step count from Apple Health, so it counts the steps your iPhone is already recording โ€” including the ones you took before you installed it. There is no separate tracker running in the background and no extra battery drain from a second counter. If you carry your phone, your steps are counted. PRIVATE BY DESIGN โ€ข No account, no sign-up, no email โ€ข Your step history stays on your device โ€ข Location is used only while you record a walk, and your trails stay on your device โ€ข Read-only access to Health โ€” Stepwise never writes to your Health data โ€ข Everything is saved only on your device, and ads follow your tracking choice WHO IT IS FOR If you have tried a fitness app and quit because it wanted your weight, your goals, your notifications and your subscription before showing you a single number โ€” this is the opposite of that. Stepwise does one thing. Walk, glance, done. Whether you are working toward 10,000 steps a day, keeping a walking habit alive, getting back on your feet after an injury, or just curious how far you actually go in a day, Stepwise keeps the number in front of you and stays out of your way. GETTING STARTED Open Stepwise and allow access to your steps in Apple Health Tap the gear icon and set your daily step goal Add the widget to your Home Screen: long-press anywhere, tap +, search for Stepwise That is the whole setup. There is no step four. Requires an iPhone with step data in Apple Health. Recording a walk uses Location. Terms of Use: https://sites.google.com/view/yoav-sabag-policy-ios/terms-of-use Privacy Policy: https://sites.google.com/view/yoav-sabag-policy-ios/privacypolicy

Screenshots

EveryStride4 screens
Stepwise4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: EveryStride at none against Stepwise's shown. EveryStride also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 3 weeks) and iOS requirement (17.6 vs 26.5). On price, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. EveryStride sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Stepwise sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

EveryStride ships an update every 3 days, Stepwise every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences ยท 3 level
EveryStride versus Stepwise: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEveryStrideStepwise
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 days โ€” betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNo โ€” betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad โ€” betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.6 โ€” better26.5
Further details โ€” not scored
Size5 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPragmaTecYoav Sabag

In-app purchases

1 purchases

EveryStride

One-time1
  • Premium$4.99
1 purchases

Stepwise

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$4.99

Questions

Is EveryStride free?
EveryStride is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Stepwise free?
Stepwise is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do EveryStride or Stepwise have ads?
Stepwise shows ads; EveryStride does not.
Which is updated more often, EveryStride or Stepwise?
EveryStride ships an update every 3 days, and Stepwise every 3 weeks. Most recently, EveryStride was updated on November 7, 2026 and Stepwise on November 6, 2026.

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