Better Step vs PaceBoard
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/
PaceBoard
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Your couch called. It says it'll be fine without you. PaceBoard turns Apple Health into a dashboard that shows exactly how much you ran, walked and stepped today. Or didn't. We'll both know. On your Home Screen, Lock Screen and Apple Watch. No account, no feed, nobody watching except your shoes. Set goals, keep your streak alive, and let the progress bar judge you quietly. Lovingly. WIDGETS & APPLE WATCH Check your progress without opening the app, because opening apps is cardio you didn't sign up for. A foam-track bar shows how much is left to your goal. The Apple Watch app has a full dashboard, workout recording and shoe selection. SHOE CLOSET Every pair gets a photo and a mileage counter. Get a heads-up when they're worn out, before your knees file a complaint. Pick your shoe before each workout, or swap mid-run with Plus. DISCOVERY MAP Your whole city is covered in fog, and clearing it is your problem now. Every street you run or walk gets revealed, with a coverage percentage and explored area in km² or mi². Yes, it's addictive. No, we're not sorry. DASHBOARD Running, walking or steps, by day, week, month or year. Recent workouts, goals and today's training plan workout on one screen. Zero scrolling for excuses. WORKOUT RECORDING Start a run or walk from your iPhone or Apple Watch. Live distance, pace, heart rate zones, elevation and calories on your Lock Screen and Dynamic Island. Your GPS route is saved to Apple Health, so the evidence is safe. TRAINING PLANS Couch to 5K all the way to Marathon, with week-by-week schedules, coach notes, tempo runs, intervals and long runs. Your couch will take it personally. STREAKS & ACHIEVEMENTS Streaks reward showing up, and they remember when you don't. Compare year over year, collect medals for records, step milestones and lifetime distance, and follow your Road to Marathon from 1K to 42.2K. SHARING Workout cards, weekly summaries, Year Wrapped visuals and medals, for when you want to brag. Never required. IPHONE DUO Unfold it and PaceBoard unfolds with you: dashboard, map, plans, shoes and medals get two-pane layouts that use both halves of the screen. Twice the screen, same number of excuses. KM OR MILES Pick one and it applies everywhere: app, widgets, Apple Watch. We don't take sides. PACEBOARD PLUS Free to use. Plus unlocks monthly widget timeframes, dynamic widget backgrounds, the unlimited discovery map, extra training plans, unlimited shoes, mid-workout shoe switching and Apple Watch complications. Subscribe monthly or yearly, or pay once with Lifetime: one payment, not a subscription, and no guilt-trip notifications. That's the streak's job. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://thundering-ketchup-fee.notion.site/Privacy-Policy-PaceBoard-3f3ed39e6413819ab096f79a4e617d96?source=copy_link
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Better Step at 11.0 against PaceBoard's 27.0. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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 PaceBoard sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 6 days. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Better Step | PaceBoard |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days | Every 6 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 27.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 63 MB | 19 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 9+ |
| Developer | 1zlabs | Raul Carlos Petru Petruta |
In-app purchases
Better Step
- BetterStep Annual Subscription7 Days trial$27.491 Year
PaceBoard
- PaceBoard: Run & Walk Tracker7 Days trial$6.991 Month
- Plus Year7 Days trial$49.991 Year
- PaceBoard: Run & Walk Tracker$24.99









