Footsteps Pedometer Lite vs Walk Buddy
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Footsteps Pedometer Lite
This app tracks your daily steps, distance, calories burned, and speed. It works in the background and integrates with Apple Watch and the Health App. Customize your experience with various color schemes and units of measurement.
- Counts steps, duration, distance, and calories burned
- Displays current speed and pace
- Works in the background
- Integrates with Apple Watch and Health App
- Customizable units and step length
- Workout tracking and history logs
- Pacer for maintaining desired speed
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The lite version can count up to 3000 steps a day. OVERVIEW Footsteps is an advanced pedometer counting steps and calories burned as you walk or run. It's easy to use, works when in your pocket, hand or a case. It doesn't require any special belt although works great when you use one. Works in background (don't forget to start Footsteps after you turn on your iPhone/iPod). Works with Apple Watch. FEATURES - Records steps, duration, distance and calories burned - Displays current speed, pace and calorie burn - Works in background - Works with Apple Watch - Optional integration with the Health App - Displays counts for walking and running as well as total counts - Nine color schemes to choose from including high contrast B&W - Dark mode support - Timer pauses automatically when no activity is detected - Pacer helps you maintain the desired speed and intensity. It also gives you information about calories burned per hour as you maintain this speed - Distance chime - Advanced algorithm calculating calories burned - Screen lock - Configurable step length for walking and running separately (check our website for step length calculators) - Configurable units of measurement both English and Metric - History & Graphs modules - Allows to share your workout sessions by email, SMS, Facebook & Twitter - On iPhones turns the screen off to save battery when close to the body, in the pocket or case WORKOUTS Your activity can be grouped into workouts. You decide when to start, pause, reset and save your workout. You can also turn off workouts completely and let Footsteps capture your steps whenever the app is running (Settings -> Use Workouts switch to OFF). HISTORY History module lets you browse your activity grouped by months, weeks, days or by the workouts. You can add, edit or delete any of it or share it by Email (with CSV attachment), SMS, Twitter or Facebook. THE APPLE HEALTH APP INTEGRATION You can set up Footsteps to provide steps, active calories and distance data to the Health App/Activity App. Footsteps can also synchronize weight with the Health App. APPLE WATCH You can use Apple watch with Footsteps, the activity recorded by it is transferred to Footsteps. The app can also contribute to Activity Rings If you turn on Health Kit integration. HELP Footsteps has a built-in help system with FAQ section, also feel free to contact our support, we'll be glad to help you. (from within Footsteps tap Help, then Feedback and send us an email explaining the problem).
Walk Buddy
This app tracks your daily steps, calories burned, and distance covered. It offers a simple way to stay motivated and healthy by encouraging you to beat your previous records. View your progress at a glance with daily and weekly summaries, and utilize convenient widgets and watch app features.
- Step, calorie, and distance tracking
- No goal setting, focus on personal bests
- Daily and weekly progress summaries
- Home screen widgets
- Apple Watch app and complications
- Privacy-focused, no data collection
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Walk Buddy Pedometer is a simple step, calories, distance tracking app with no ads and completely private. No need to be a fitness nerd to stay active. - No goal setting, just try to beat your previous record and get in green zone. - Easy way to keep your self motivated and healthy - Quick glance on your daily and weekly steps, calories and distance - Widgets (left most page on your iPhone/iPad). - Watch app: Keep the app while walking, and it will show you steps as you raise your hand. - Watch Face Complications - shows you current steps, weekly low, weekly high - and motivates you to walk more. We are super sensitive to users privacy and don't collect any user data at all. App built on latest modern SwiftUI stack.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Walk Buddy at 80% against Footsteps Pedometer Lite's 47%. Walk Buddy also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 months) and rating (4.8 vs 4.5). Footsteps Pedometer Lite's advantage is ratings volume (376 vs 27) and iOS requirement (12 vs 15.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Walk Buddy holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Footsteps Pedometer Lite has 376 ratings behind it against 27, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 47% of Footsteps Pedometer Lite's written reviews are positive against 80% of Walk Buddy's.
Footsteps Pedometer Lite ships an update every 2 months, Walk Buddy every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Footsteps Pedometer Lite | Walk Buddy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (376 ratings) | 4.8 (27 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 47.0% of reviews | 80.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 376 — better | 27 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 12 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 20 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Michal Kasza | GammaPoint LLC |
Customer experience
Footsteps Pedometer Lite
Walk Buddy
Bugs and requests
Footsteps Pedometer Lite
Reported bugs
3 issues- Stops counting when phone is locked
- Inconsistent step tracking
- Crashes and freezes
Requested features
4 requests- Allow more than 3,000 steps in free version
- Improve step counting accuracy
- Optimize battery usage
- Add more customization options
Walk Buddy
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Footsteps Pedometer Lite
No in-app purchases
Walk Buddy
No in-app purchases
Questions
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