Comparison

Step Stats vs Step Year

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

Head to head
About

Step Stats

Track your daily steps, distance, and floors climbed with real-time data from Apple Health. View your progress with daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly insights. Your health data stays private on your device.

Highlights
  • Real-time step tracking
  • Distance and floors climbed
  • Daily activity snapshot
  • Progress trends (daily, weekly, monthly, yearly)
  • Apple HealthKit integration
  • On-device data privacy
Features
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Step Stats - Pedometer & Health See your steps, distance and floors from Apple Health clearly, and how today, this week and this year compare with the rest. Today Your day at a glance the moment you open the app: steps, distance or floors against your goal, the change on yesterday, and your week as a chart with your goal and average. Swipe back through earlier weeks. Trends Compare this day, week, month or year with the one before, as bars or as a running total. Compare the week so far with last week up to the same moment, or look at rolling days. Records Your best day, week, month and year for each stat, how far the current period has got, and where it ranks. Open a record to see every entry, ranked or latest first. Goals that fit you Set a daily, weekly or monthly goal for each stat. Every goal you set is kept, so past days count against the goal you had then. Share your day Make an image of today's stats, choose which ones to show, and pick light or dark. Built on Apple HealthKit Step Stats reads straight from Apple Health, so your figures are always up to date with no manual logging. Your Health data stays on your iPhone Step Stats reads your Health data on the device and never uploads, shares or stores it anywhere else. Download Step Stats and start moving with purpose.

About

Step Year

Visualize your yearly step data with interactive daily views. Scroll and tap to see photos from specific days, jogging your memory about your activity. Share your annual step count and stats with friends and family.

Highlights
  • Yearly step data visualization
  • Daily step count review
  • Photo integration for daily context
  • Step count sharing with friends
  • One-time purchase for historical data
Features
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Review your step data from a bird's eye view! Have fun scrolling and tapping around to see photos you took that day. Jog your memory on why you took that many steps!  Share and compare your total year's step count and stats with friends and family! ______ Your step data for the current year is unlocked for free. Unlock the step data from all your previous years with a one-time purchase!

Screenshots

Step Stats4 screens
Step Year4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Step Year at every 2 weeks against Step Stats's every 6 months. Step Year also leads on review sentiment (75% vs 50%) and rating (4.6 vs 4.3). On price, ratings volume, 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. Step Stats sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Step Year sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Step Year holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 31 and 25 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Step Stats's written reviews are positive against 75% of Step Year's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Step Stats ships an update every 6 months, Step Year every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 14, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Step Stats versus Step Year: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStep StatsStep Year
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (31 ratings)4.6 (25 ratings) — better
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews75.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings31 — better25
Update frequencyEvery 6 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size18 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSven NavezShannon Bolick

Customer experience

Step Stats

All ratings31 ratings
Positive80.6%
Neutral9.7%
Negative9.7%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

Step Year

All ratings25 ratings
Positive92.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative8.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Step Stats

One-time1
  • Step Stats Premium$3.99
1 purchases

Step Year

One-time1
  • Unlock Past Years$4.99

Questions

Is Step Stats free?
Step Stats is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Step Year free?
Step Year is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Step Stats or Step Year?
Step Year is rated higher. Step Stats averages 4.3 out of 5 from 31 ratings, while Step Year averages 4.6 from 25 ratings.
Do Step Stats or Step Year have ads?
Neither Step Stats nor Step Year shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Step Stats or Step Year?
Step Stats ships an update every 6 months, and Step Year every 2 weeks. Most recently, Step Stats was updated on November 14, 2026 and Step Year on November 4, 2026.

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