Step It Up with Steph vs Basic Fit Formula
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Step It Up with Steph
This app helps women transform their mindset and internal dialogue to support healthy habits and achieve weight loss goals with joy. It offers workouts, yoga, Pilates, motivation, and healthy recipes.
- Multi-day courses
- Full length classes for any level
- Daily uplifting quotes
- User profile for tracking
- Daily reminder settings
- Healthy recipes
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Transform your internal dialogue and mindset to support your healthy habits and reach your weight loss goals with grace, ease, and happiness. Workouts, yoga, Pilates, motivation, and more by Today Show's fitness contributor. App Features Include: -Multi-day courses -Full length Classes for Any Level -Daily Uplifting Quotes -User Profile to Track Your Journey -Daily Reminder Settings -Healthy Recipes The subscription is auto-renewable. This means it will automatically renew unless you go to you account settings to manage your subscription and turn auto-renew off. To manage subscriptions: 1. Open the Settings app. 2. Tap your name. 3. Tap Subscriptions. Terms: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1z04QJUfwpPOrxDLK-s9pVrSZ49dbBDSv/view?pli=1 Privacy Policy: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CY5fUuTRkFgnMCJJrKrwXoj_MkGNzVMQ/view
Basic Fit Formula
A private fitness tracker for calorie counting, meal planning, and workout logging. It offers fast calorie logging with custom foods, recipe import, and auto-generated shopping lists. Track macros or use it as a food journal, with all data stored locally on your device.
- Fast calorie logging
- Custom foods and recipes
- Barcode scanning
- Meal planning with shopping list
- Workout tracking (strength & cardio)
- Recipe import from URLs
- Local data storage
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Basic Fit Formula is a simple, private fitness tracker. Calorie counting, meal planning, and workout logging. No ads, no account, no hidden costs. Key features: Fast calorie logging with custom foods, recipes, and barcode lookups Track only the macros you care about, or use it as a plain food journal Import recipes from any blog URL Meal planning with an auto-built shopping list Strength and cardio workout tracking Calendar history Custom reminders Everything stays on your device
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Basic Fit Formula at none against Step It Up with Steph's 12. Basic Fit Formula also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8). Step It Up with Steph's advantage is ratings volume (627 vs 7) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 7 months). On price, review sentiment, ads 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
Both are free to download. Step It Up with Steph sells 12 in-app purchases, starting at $7.49 per month. Basic Fit Formula asks for nothing beyond the download.
Basic Fit Formula holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Step It Up with Steph has 627 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 94% of Step It Up with Steph's written reviews are positive against 100% of Basic Fit Formula's.
Step It Up with Steph ships an update every 2 months, Basic Fit Formula every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on September 26, 2026 and June 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Step It Up with Steph | Basic Fit Formula |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (627 ratings) | 5.0 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 94.1% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 627 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 7 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Subscription | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 159 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Breakthrough Apps | Tyler Eftink |
Customer experience
Step It Up with Steph
Basic Fit Formula
In-app purchases
Step It Up with Steph
- 50% off monthly subscriptions$7.491 Month
- Step It Up - Monthly7 Days trial$8.991 Month
- 30% monthly subscriptions$10.491 Month
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- Monthly Subscription7 Days trial$14.991 Month
- Step It Up Promo Annual$56.991 Year
- 50% off yearly subscriptions7 Days trial$57.001 Year
- Step It Up - Yearly7 Days trial$68.991 Year
- 30% yearly subscriptions$80.001 Year
- Yearly Subscription7 Days trial$114.991 Year
- 3 Day Detox Subscription$9.99
- Promo Lifetime Subscription$199.99
- Lifetime Subscription$399.99
Basic Fit Formula
No in-app purchases
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