Comparison

Steps vs walkwalk

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Daily step counting
  • Home and Lock Screen widgets
  • Customizable step goal
  • 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

walkwalk

This app helps couples stay motivated to reach their daily step goals together. Track progress, fill a shared heart, leave gifts, and customize the look with themes. View stats on your lock screen or via widgets.

Highlights
  • Shared step tracking
  • Daily goal achievement
  • Interactive heart progress
  • Gift leaving feature
  • Customizable themes
  • Lock screen stats
  • Widget support
Features
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walkwalk is the cutest way to make sure you and your partner hit your 10k steps every day. track your progress and fill your heart together, leave gifts for your partner and use cute themes to customize your tracker. see your progress on the lock screen or in a widget. walkwalk has premium features which are paid in-app purchases that auto-renew on a weekly or monthly basis. you can cancel the subscription in the Settings app or by going to the settings screen inside walkwalk. terms of use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula

Screenshots

Steps4 screens
walkwalk4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Steps at none against walkwalk's 2. Steps also leads on ratings volume (5.5K vs 3). walkwalk's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and update cadence (every 2 days vs weekly). On price, ads and iOS requirement 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. walkwalk sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days. Steps asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

walkwalk 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 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Steps ships an update weekly, walkwalk every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Steps versus walkwalk: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStepswalkwalk
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (5.5K ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews80.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings5.5K — better3
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB48 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperDasmer SinghChun Zhi Xu

Customer experience

Steps

All ratings5,527 ratings
Positive93.8%
Neutral2.7%
Negative3.6%
Written reviews451 reviews
Positive80.5%
Neutral4.2%
Negative15.3%

walkwalk

All ratings1 ratings
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

walkwalk

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Steps

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

walkwalk

Subscriptions2
  • walkwalk Premium Couple Upgrade$2.997 Days
  • walkwalk Premium Couple Upgrade$7.991 Month

Questions

Is Steps free?
Steps is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is walkwalk free?
walkwalk is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Steps or walkwalk?
walkwalk is rated higher. Steps averages 4.7 out of 5 from 5.5K ratings, while walkwalk averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do Steps or walkwalk have ads?
Neither Steps nor walkwalk shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Steps or walkwalk?
Steps ships an update weekly, and walkwalk every 2 days. Most recently, Steps was updated on October 17, 2026 and walkwalk on October 6, 2026.

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