Steps vs Critter Walk
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.
Critter Walk
This app encourages activity with virtual companions. Track your steps, engage in focused walking sessions, and monitor your progress with customizable goals and cheerful characters. An Apple Watch app offers convenient tracking on your wrist.
- Step tracking with HealthKit
- Focused walking sessions
- Unlockable walking companions
- Daily, Weekly, Monthly step trends
- Apple Watch app integration
- Customizable goals and preferences
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Critter Walk is a warm, storybook-inspired walking app for people who want a softer way to stay active. Track daily steps, start focused walking sessions, build streaks, and keep an eye on your progress with cheerful companions by your side. The app connects with HealthKit to show your step progress, daily goal, estimated active time, streak status, and walking history. When you are ready to move, start a dedicated walk session to see live time, steps, distance, and goal progress in a full-screen companion scene. Critter Walk also includes an Apple Watch app for quick starts and glanceable walk tracking from your wrist. Key features: - Follow today's steps, daily goal progress, active time, and current streak from the Home screen. - Start focused walks with live elapsed time, steps, distance, pause, and finish controls. - Review Daily, Weekly, and Monthly step trends in the Journey tab. - Choose a walking companion, including Bunny plus unlockable Kitty, Foxy, Owl and Mouse companions. - Customize your daily step goal, distance units, reminders, haptics, encouragement, and end-of-day summary preferences. - Use Apple Watch to start walks, view goal progress, track distance, and monitor heart rate during a walk. - Keep an eye on your walking progress right from your Home Screen with widgets. Choose the simple progress widget or bring your current companion along with the Premium widget.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Steps at none against Critter Walk's 1. Steps also leads on ratings volume (6.1K vs 3) and update cadence (weekly vs fortnightly). Critter Walk's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 80%) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). On price, ads, device support 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
Both are free to download. Critter Walk sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Steps asks for nothing beyond the download.
Critter Walk holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Steps has 6.1K ratings behind it against 3, 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 Critter Walk's.
Steps ships an update weekly, Critter Walk fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Steps | Critter Walk |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (6.1K ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 80.5% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 6.1K — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 76 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Dasmer Singh | Todd Seabrook |
Customer experience
Steps
Critter Walk
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
Critter Walk
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Steps
No in-app purchases
Critter Walk
- Premium Companion Pack$1.99









