Comparison

Better Step vs TheDailySteps

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Stride length correction
  • Calorie burning encouragement
  • Stride meter
  • Pedometer
  • Calorie counter
  • Personalized step-by-step program
Features
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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/

About

TheDailySteps

This app helps you track your daily steps and stay motivated to reach your fitness goals. Set personal targets, maintain streaks with flexible rest days, and join challenges for extra motivation. Receive gentle reminders to keep you moving throughout the day.

Highlights
  • Step tracking via Health data
  • Apple Watch compatibility
  • Personal step goal setting
  • Streak system with rest days
  • Fitness challenges
  • Encouraging reminders
Features
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The Daily Steps – Move More, Stay Consistent! The Daily Steps uses your iPhone's Health data to track your steps throughout the day, and is fully compatible with Apple Watch. Set a personal step goal and stay on track with a built-in streak system. Life happens, so you can choose up to 3 rest days that won't break your streak — giving you flexibility without losing your progress. Ready to push further? Enroll in a challenge and take your step game to the next level. Each challenge has its own rules around rest days and step targets, so make sure to read them before enrolling. And if a challenge doesn't go as planned, don't give up — you can always re-enroll and try again. Your personal step goal and streak are always yours to keep, no matter what happens with a challenge. Throughout the day, The Daily Steps sends gentle, encouraging reminders to keep you motivated toward both your personal goal and any active challenge goal. Your journey, your pace — one step at a time.

Screenshots

Better Step4 screens
TheDailySteps4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: TheDailySteps at none against Better Step's 1. TheDailySteps also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 67%). Better Step's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 17.6). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Better Step sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $27.49 per year. TheDailySteps asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Better Step against 5.0 for TheDailySteps. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 67% of Better Step's written reviews are positive against 100% of TheDailySteps's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Better Step ships an update every 6 days, TheDailySteps every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Better Step versus TheDailySteps: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBetter StepTheDailySteps
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings12 — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 days — betterEvery 11 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS11.0 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size63 MB42 MB
Age rating12+12+
Developer1zlabsAndrea Monroy

Customer experience

Better Step

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral33.3%
Negative0.0%

TheDailySteps

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Better Step

Subscriptions1
  • BetterStep Annual Subscription7 Days trial$27.491 Year
None

TheDailySteps

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Better Step free?
Better Step is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is TheDailySteps free?
TheDailySteps is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Better Step or TheDailySteps?
Better Step and TheDailySteps are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do Better Step or TheDailySteps have ads?
Neither Better Step nor TheDailySteps shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Better Step or TheDailySteps?
Better Step ships an update every 6 days, and TheDailySteps every 11 days. Most recently, Better Step was updated on November 3, 2026 and TheDailySteps on October 31, 2026.

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