Comparison

HKStepMonitor vs Bloom

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

Head to head
About

HKStepMonitor

This utility app displays daily and weekly step counts tracked by your iPhone and Apple Watch. It presents your step data in a clear graph format, making it easy to monitor your activity over the past seven days.

Highlights
  • Displays step counts from Apple HealthKit
  • Tracks steps from iPhone and Apple Watch
  • Shows daily and weekly step totals
  • Presents data in a graph format
  • Monitors activity for the past 7 days
Features
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Simple utility for iPhone that uses Apple HealthKit to display the number of steps that were measured by the iPhone and Apple Watch. Displays steps measured for the past 7 days with a total for the week and daily totals in a graph format. Please enjoy this simple and handy tool to easily find and monitor your steps for the week and the day.

About

Bloom

Features
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Bloom is a habit tracker with a gentler philosophy: every habit you build is a living plant. Check in to water it, keep it up, and it grows from a tiny seed into a full, flourishing bloom. Miss a day? Your plant simply wilts — it never dies, and it perks right back up when you return. No broken-streak shame. No guilt. Just gentle, lasting progress. WHY BLOOM FEELS DIFFERENT Most habit apps punish you for being human. Bloom is built around the opposite idea — that kindness and consistency beat pressure every time. No leaderboards, no comparison. The only person you're growing alongside is yesterday's you. YOUR LIVING GARDEN Watch every habit grow through five stages — seed, sprout, bud, bloom, and flourishing — based on your consistency. Your whole garden shifts with the time of day and comes alive as you care for it. It's the most beautiful reason to keep showing up. BUILD ANY HABIT • Simple check-off habits (meditate, take vitamins) • Count-based habits (8 glasses of water, 20 pages) • Timed habits with a built-in timer (stretch, deep work) • "Leave behind" habits that count the days you've stayed free of something • Flexible schedules: every day, specific weekdays, X times per week or month, or every few days STREAKS WITHOUT FEAR Sick day? Traveling? A skip with a reason protects your streak, and monthly streak freezes quietly cover the days life gets in the way. Milestones are celebrated with a shower of petals — and comebacks are celebrated loudest of all. SEE WHAT HELPS YOU GROW Beautiful stats, calendar heatmaps, and completion trends show your progress at a glance. Optional insights reveal how your habits connect — and how they shape your mood. GENTLE, NEVER NAGGING Warm, rotating reminders nudge you at just the right moment — never the same guilt-trip twice. A soft evening summary shows what's left, and quiet hours keep your evenings calm. MADE FOR YOUR iPHONE • Start a timed habit and watch the countdown live in the Dynamic Island • Home Screen widgets show today's progress at a glance • Gorgeous light (Morning Bloom) and dark (Midnight Garden) themes MOOD, CONNECTED An optional once-a-day mood check-in helps you notice how your habits and your wellbeing feed each other — no pressure, just awareness. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Everything lives on your device. No account required, ever. Sign in only if you want your garden safely backed up and synced across devices. No ads. No selling your data. Your habits are yours — export them anytime. Plant your first habit today, and watch something beautiful grow.

Screenshots

HKStepMonitor4 screens
Bloom3 screens

Verdict

The call

HKStepMonitor and Bloom are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
HKStepMonitor versus Bloom: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHKStepMonitorBloom
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 21 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB87 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRichard ArmstrongDaniel Cojocaru

In-app purchases

None

HKStepMonitor

No in-app purchases

None

Bloom

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is HKStepMonitor free?
HKStepMonitor is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Bloom free?
Bloom is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do HKStepMonitor or Bloom have ads?
Neither HKStepMonitor nor Bloom shows ads.

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