Comparison

Steps vs Forever

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

Head to head
About

Steps

This app helps you track your daily step count and achieve your fitness goals. It offers a widget for quick access and visual cues to celebrate your progress, encouraging an active lifestyle. The app is lightweight and supports both light and dark modes.

Highlights
  • Daily step tracking
  • Home and Lock Screen widgets
  • Customizable step goals
  • Visual goal achievement celebration
  • Light and Dark modes
  • Small app size
Features
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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.

About

Forever

This app tracks your daily and total step count using HealthKit. Monitor your walking activity and see your progress over time.

Highlights
  • Track daily steps
  • Track total steps
  • Uses HealthKit API
  • Displays step history
  • Simple interface
Features
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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.

Screenshots

Steps4 screens
Forever1 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Steps at weekly against Forever's every 6 weeks. Steps also leads on ratings volume (6.3K vs 5). Forever's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 81%) 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

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

Forever holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Steps has 6.3K ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 81% of Steps's written reviews are positive against 100% of Forever's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Steps ships an update weekly, Forever every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 14, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Steps versus Forever: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStepsForever
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (6.3K ratings)5.0 (5 ratings) — better
Positive reviews81.5% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings6.3K — better5
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 6 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.012.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB67 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDasmer SinghForever Today Inc.

Customer experience

Steps

All ratings6,335 ratings
Positive93.9%
Neutral2.7%
Negative3.4%
Written reviews507 reviews
Positive81.5%
Neutral3.9%
Negative14.6%

Forever

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

None

Steps

No in-app purchases

None

Forever

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Steps free?
Steps is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Forever free?
Forever is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Steps or Forever?
Forever is rated higher. Steps averages 4.7 out of 5 from 6.3K ratings, while Forever averages 5.0 from 5 ratings.
Do Steps or Forever have ads?
Neither Steps nor Forever shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Steps or Forever?
Steps ships an update weekly, and Forever every 6 weeks. Most recently, Steps was updated on November 14, 2026 and Forever on November 3, 2026.

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