Comparison

Walk Buddy vs StepTracker

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

Head to head
About

Walk Buddy

This app tracks your daily steps, calories burned, and distance covered. It offers a simple way to stay motivated and healthy by encouraging you to beat your previous records. View your progress at a glance with daily and weekly summaries, and utilize convenient widgets and watch app features.

Highlights
  • Step, calorie, and distance tracking
  • No goal setting, focus on personal bests
  • Daily and weekly progress summaries
  • Home screen widgets
  • Apple Watch app and complications
  • Privacy-focused, no data collection
Features
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Walk Buddy Pedometer is a simple step, calories, distance tracking app with no ads and completely private. No need to be a fitness nerd to stay active. - No goal setting, just try to beat your previous record and get in green zone. - Easy way to keep your self motivated and healthy - Quick glance on your daily and weekly steps, calories and distance - Widgets (left most page on your iPhone/iPad). - Watch app: Keep the app while walking, and it will show you steps as you raise your hand. - Watch Face Complications - shows you current steps, weekly low, weekly high - and motivates you to walk more. We are super sensitive to users privacy and don't collect any user data at all. App built on latest modern SwiftUI stack.

About

StepTracker

This application helps you increase your daily steps and motivation to reach your fitness goals. It automatically tracks your steps, even when the app is closed, and offers a home screen widget for easy progress monitoring. Set custom goals, earn awards, and view your weekly progress with insightful charts.

Highlights
  • Automatic step counting
  • Apple Health integration
  • Customizable step goals
  • Home screen widget
  • Weekly step charts
  • Awards for progress
Features
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StepTracker — the walking you already do, worth looking at. StepTracker turns the steps Apple Health already tracks into a daily habit worth checking — records, streaks, and patterns from data you're already generating, on your phone and nowhere else. SEE TODAY AT A GLANCE Your ring animates up the moment you open the app. A daily card tells a different story depending on when you check — yesterday's story in the morning, your pace to goal at midday, how close you are to a personal best by evening. EVERY WALK, TRACKED LIVE Start a live walk and watch your count in real time — on the Lock Screen, in the Dynamic Island, and on your Apple Watch. It ends itself if you forget, and nothing is ever written back to Health. WIDGETS AND A WATCH APP Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets show your ring and count without opening the app. Complications do the same on your wrist, plus a dedicated watch app for your ring, streak, and goal. RECORDS THAT MEAN SOMETHING Personal bests, streaks, and a weekday fingerprint that shows when you actually move. Chase themed journeys — from New York City to the Idaho wilderness to the Pacific Northwest — each one turning distance into a badge collection. 30+ METRICS, ONE PLACE Steps, distance, stairs, walking speed, cadence, and more — each with its own history and chart. COMPLETELY PRIVATE Every calculation happens on your device. No account, no server, no ads. Your health data is never sent anywhere — not even to us. FREE TO TRY StepTracker is free to download and free to use for 7 days. After that, continue with a subscription — monthly, yearly (with its own free trial), or a one-time lifetime purchase. Prices shown in USD and may vary by region. Subscriptions renew automatically and can be managed or cancelled anytime in your Apple ID settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Walk Buddy3 screens
StepTracker4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: StepTracker at 100% against Walk Buddy's 80%. StepTracker also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8). Walk Buddy's advantage is ratings volume (24 vs 2) and update cadence (every 4 days vs every 8 days). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

StepTracker holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Walk Buddy has 24 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 80% of Walk Buddy's written reviews are positive against 100% of StepTracker's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Walk Buddy ships an update every 4 days, StepTracker every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on September 9, 2026 and September 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Walk Buddy versus StepTracker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWalk BuddyStepTracker
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (24 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews80.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings24 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterEvery 8 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
Requires iOS15.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size20 MB76 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGammaPoint LLCBrittany Rima

Customer experience

Walk Buddy

All ratings24 ratings
Positive95.8%
Neutral0.0%
Negative4.2%
Written reviews10 reviews
Positive80.0%
Neutral10.0%
Negative10.0%

StepTracker

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Walk Buddy

No in-app purchases

None

StepTracker

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Walk Buddy free?
Walk Buddy is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is StepTracker free?
StepTracker is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Walk Buddy or StepTracker?
StepTracker is rated higher. Walk Buddy averages 4.8 out of 5 from 24 ratings, while StepTracker averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Walk Buddy or StepTracker have ads?
Neither Walk Buddy nor StepTracker shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Walk Buddy or StepTracker?
Walk Buddy ships an update every 4 days, and StepTracker every 8 days. Most recently, Walk Buddy was updated on September 9, 2026 and StepTracker on September 14, 2026.

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