Better Step vs Elevate
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Better Step
This app helps you improve your walking by encouraging longer strides to burn more calories and correct posture. It offers a stride meter, pedometer, and calorie counter to guide you towards a healthier gait.
- Stride length correction
- Calorie burning encouragement
- Stride meter
- Pedometer
- Calorie counter
- Personalized step-by-step program
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Just 4 inches will change your entire life. Better Step corrects your stride length and encourages calorie burn more faster. Simply by taking better steps, you change yourself for tomorrow. Stop walking ineffectively and practice striding 4 inches longer with Better Step. Our app provides a stride meter, pedometer and a calorie counter to help you practice walking with longer strides. More than half of the population (56%) enjoy exercising through walking. However, your steps could be causing: - Loss of flexibility in joints - Back pain due to a bent posture - Exercising without activating your muscles. Does this sound like you? Through activating your muscles when you walk, you are working on your flexibility, reducing your back pain, burning calories, and losing weight daily with our step counter. - Walk 4 inches further with each step. If you allow your stride to narrow, your posture bends, your muscles weaken, movement becomes laborious and the joint movements decrease. It's difficult to exercise properly if this is your every day habit. We want to encourage you to widen your stride. By walking with an average stride length of an extra 4 inches each time, you will activate your muscle strength, restore your lost flexibility, and reduce body fat through the increase of energy expenditure. Alongside this, longer strides contribute to better balance and coordination. - By using our walking app, you will decrease your back pain. A narrow stride is one of the reasons the erector spinae muscle weakens and contraction of the iliopsoas muscle in the pelvis. Through walking with a wide stride, the erector spinae muscles develop under the influence of ground reaction force iliopsoas muscles increase through stretching. This helps to improve balance throughout the whole body, bring stability to your spine and reduce back pain with posture correction. - If this is true, what is the best stride length? Ideally, add 4in more to your stride length in comparison to normal walking. The best stride length is to walk at a 'proper stride length' that works best for you. This is due to the fact that walking wider than your appropriate stride length will increase your fall rate, because of the wider angle you are attempting to stride. Better Step will analyze your physical condition to measure the appropriate stride length and provide a step-by-step program to ensure you are walking properly. - Things you can do with Better Step We aim to make it easy to walk. Alongside this, we help you stay motivated with a personalized step-by-step program. This will help to burn visceral fat through this aerobic exercise, activate your muscles (lower body strength exercise), strengthen erector spinae muscles (posture correction), and correct turtle neck through upright walking. Better Step can also help you with what you eat, give daily walking challengers and give you positive energy every day! Walk 4in more today and be happier tomorrow! - Smartphone app access information When you use the app, we will request access to provide the following services. Link to the Terms of Use (EULA) https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Elevate
Log your Apple Watch workouts, track progress, and set fitness goals. Seamlessly sync with HealthKit and import workouts from URLs for a comprehensive fitness experience.
- Workout logging for Apple Watch
- Rate and review workouts
- Detailed workout statistics
- Progress tracking
- HealthKit integration
- Workout URL import
- Goal setting
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Meet Elevate--Your workout logger for Apple Watch workouts. Elevate is a companion along your fitness journey, specifically designed to enhance your workout experience and help you achieve your fitness goals with the following features: - Workout Logging: Log your workouts from your Apple Watch effortlessly. - Rate and review: Add notes to your workouts, rate, and favorite them. - Detailed Statistics: Get in-depth insights and analytics on the workouts you complete. - Progress Tracking: Monitor your progress over time and stay motivated. - HealthKit Integration: Sync seamlessly with HealthKit for a holistic view of your workouts. - Workout Import: Do your workouts from a website and track on Apple Watch? Add the URL to pull in workout details added convenience. - Goal Setting: Set and achieve your fitness goals with our goal tracking features. - No ads! We hope with Elevate you'll be well on your way to achieve your fitness potential, and become your go-to partner for a healthier, fitter you! Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
Better Step and Elevate both sit at 5.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Elevate's written reviews are positive against 67% of Better Step's. Better Step's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 17.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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. Better Step sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $27.49 per year and Elevate sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Better Step against 5.0 for Elevate. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 67% of Better Step's written reviews are positive against 100% of Elevate's.
Better Step ships an update every 6 days, Elevate weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Better Step | Elevate |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days — better | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Apple TV — better |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 63 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 1zlabs | Gregory Bell |
Customer experience
Better Step
Elevate
In-app purchases
Better Step
- BetterStep Annual Subscription7 Days trial$27.491 Year
Elevate
- Monthly7 Days trial$1.991 Month
- Yearly7 Days trial$12.991 Year
- Warm-up$1.99
- Cardio Boost$5.99
- Elevate Plus$7.99
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- Peak Performance$9.99
- Lifetime$29.99









