Steps vs Outstep Step up Challenge
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.
Outstep Step up Challenge
Turn daily steps into live competitions with friends and groups. Receive instant updates when someone passes you on the leaderboard. Earn badges and track progress with automatic step syncing from Apple Health.
- Live step leaderboards
- Instant friend passing alerts
- Automatic step syncing
- Private, invite-only groups
- Customizable challenges
- Milestone and streak badges
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Walking is more fun when you're competing. Outstep turns your daily steps into a live competition with the people who'll actually keep you moving, your friends, your run club, your coworkers, your family. Small groups, real leaderboards, and the one feature no other step app nails: knowing the instant a friend passes you. WHEN A FRIEND PASSES YOU, YOU'LL KNOW The moment someone edges ahead on the leaderboard, Outstep sends you a live update usually within minutes of their steps syncing STEPS SYNC AUTOMATICALLY Your steps come straight from Apple Health. No manual entry, no calorie counting, no clutter. Just steps, ranked. BUILT FOR GROUPS - Create private, invite-only groups that never expire - Always-on daily, weekly, and monthly leaderboards - Up to 15 friends free - React with a fire, muscle, or turtle to cheer each other on (or tell someone to speed up) CHALLENGES EVERYONE CAN WIN - Set custom challenges over any timeframe - Group Target mode: chase one shared goal together, so nobody gets left behind SEE WHERE YOU STAND - City, region, and country percentile ranking - Earn badges for milestones, streaks, and breakthroughs all free GROUP PREMIUM (OPTIONAL) Love it and want more room? One person can back the whole group. Group Premium unlocks up to 50 members, more concurrent challenges, longer challenge durations, and a full group analytics dashboard and it covers every single member at once. One subscription, whole crew. YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS Delete your account and all health data anytime from Settings. No ads. Ever. Get your group. Get moving. Get Outstep. Standard EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Terms of service: https://outstepapp.com/legal#terms Privacy Policy: https://outstepapp.com/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Steps at none against Outstep Step up Challenge's 2. Steps also leads on ratings volume (5.5K vs 9). Outstep Step up Challenge's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 80%). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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. Outstep Step up Challenge sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. Steps asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Steps against 4.6 for Outstep Step up Challenge. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Steps has 5.5K ratings behind it against 9, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 80% of Steps's written reviews are positive against 100% of Outstep Step up Challenge's.
Steps ships an update weekly, Outstep Step up Challenge every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Steps | Outstep Step up Challenge |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (5.5K ratings) — better | 4.6 (9 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 80.5% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 5.5K — better | 9 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 62 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Dasmer Singh | Yousuf Abduljawad |
Customer experience
Steps
Outstep Step up Challenge
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
Outstep Step up Challenge
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Steps
No in-app purchases
Outstep Step up Challenge
- Group Premium7 Days trial$6.991 Month
- Group Premium Annual7 Days trial$49.991 Year
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