Comparison

Better Step vs Stepping Stone Pedometer

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

Stepping Stone Pedometer

This application tracks your daily steps, offering estimates for distance, calories, and walking time. It features customizable skins and a progress ring for daily goals, all while prioritizing user privacy by keeping data on your device. The app is completely free with no ads or subscriptions.

Highlights
  • Responsive step counting
  • Daily goal progress ring
  • Distance and calorie estimates
  • Offline functionality
  • Customizable app skins
  • No ads or subscriptions
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Stepping Stone is a step counter, designed to help you as much as it possibly can on your journey of improvement: FREE, WITH NO CATCH Every feature in this app is free. There are no subscriptions, no paywalls, and no ads anywhere. The only things for sale are optional cosmetic skins, a way to support the app if you ever want to, never a requirement. YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS Steps are counted on your device, using your phone's built-in motion sensor. No account, no sign-in, no analytics, no tracking. We never see, sell, or share your data. We couldn't even if we wanted to, because nothing leaves your phone. MAKE IT YOURS Skins re-theme the entire app to match your personality. You can preview any skin for free before deciding to buy it. JOIN THE COMMUNITY Stepping Stone is solely made by me, and I think health should be free and honest. Join the Discord server (in Settings) to shape what comes next, including community-designed skins. WHAT IT DOES • Responsive step count that ticks with every step • Daily goal with a progress ring you can set to any target • Distance, calories, and walking-time estimates • Recent-day history at a glance • Four full app skins (one free, three optional) • Light and dark modes for every skin • Works entirely offline WHAT IT DOESN'T DO • No ads • No subscriptions • No account required • No data collection Good luck out there. Remember to take things one day at a time :)

Screenshots

Better Step4 screens
Stepping Stone Pedometer4 screens

Verdict

The call

Better Step and Stepping Stone Pedometer both sit at 5.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Stepping Stone Pedometer's written reviews are positive against 67% of Better Step's. Stepping Stone Pedometer also leads on ratings volume (3 vs 1). Better Step's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.1). On price, rating, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Better Step sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $27.49 per year and Stepping Stone Pedometer sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

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 Stepping Stone Pedometer. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 3 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 67% of Better Step's written reviews are positive against 100% of Stepping Stone Pedometer's.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Better Step versus Stepping Stone Pedometer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBetter StepStepping Stone Pedometer
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings13 — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS11.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size63 MB38 MB
Age rating12+4+
Developer1zlabsLUIS ENRIQUE GONZALEZ VAZQUEZ

Customer experience

Better Step

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

Stepping Stone Pedometer

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Better Step

Subscriptions1
  • BetterStep Annual Subscription7 Days trial$27.491 Year
3 purchases

Stepping Stone Pedometer

One-time3
  • Sunrise$1.99
  • Neon$1.99
  • Trail$1.99

Questions

Is Better Step free?
Better Step is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Stepping Stone Pedometer free?
Stepping Stone Pedometer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Better Step or Stepping Stone Pedometer?
Better Step and Stepping Stone Pedometer are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 3 ratings respectively.
Do Better Step or Stepping Stone Pedometer have ads?
Neither Better Step nor Stepping Stone Pedometer shows ads.

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