Steps vs Forever
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
Forever
This app tracks your daily and total step count using HealthKit. Monitor your walking activity and see your progress over time.
- Track daily steps
- Track total steps
- Uses HealthKit API
- Displays step history
- Simple interface
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Forever Steps allows you to see how many steps you have taken. Walk outside and track your steps today! This app uses the HealthKit API and displays the number of steps you have taken today as well as total number of steps you have taken since you began using it.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Steps at weekly against Forever's every 6 weeks. Steps also leads on ratings volume (5.5K vs 5). Forever's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and review sentiment (100% vs 80%). 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.
Forever holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Steps has 5.5K ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 80% of Steps's written reviews are positive against 100% of Forever's.
Steps ships an update weekly, Forever every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Steps | Forever |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (5.5K ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 80.5% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 5.5K — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 67 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Dasmer Singh | Forever Today Inc. |
Customer experience
Steps
Forever
Bugs and 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
Forever
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Steps
No in-app purchases
Forever
No in-app purchases
