Comparison

Fitbeing vs Basho Steps

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

Head to head
About

Fitbeing

Track your fitness with precise exercise logging, GPS route mapping, and detailed health monitoring. Analyze sleep, compare trends, and set personalized goals. Integrates with other health apps for a comprehensive wellness overview.

Highlights
  • Precise exercise tracking (steps, distance, calories)
  • Support for 100+ exercise modes
  • High-precision GPS route tracking
  • Deep sleep analysis and improvement suggestions
  • Multidimensional health data charts
  • Personalized goal setting and tracking
  • Notification management
Features
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Precise Exercise Tracking Accurately record steps, distance, and calorie consumption, support for various exercise modes including running, cycling, swimming, etc., with automatic recognition and recording of exercise status. High-precision GPS for accurately tracking your exercise route. All-Day Health Guard Deep sleep analysis: Precisely analyze sleep cycles and provide improvement suggestions to optimize sleep quality. Health indicator tracking: Monitor exercise intensity and calorie consumption to help you embrace a healthy lifestyle. Professional Sports Partner Diverse exercise types: Covers over 100 exercise modes such as running, cycling, and swimming, accurately capturing every performance of your exercise. Multidimensional data charts: Multidimensional data visualization technology transforms complex health data into clear and understandable charts, giving you a clear picture of your health status. Trend comparison: Compare health data across different time periods to visually display your progress or areas for improvement. Goal tracking: Set personalized exercise goals and track progress to stimulate your motivation to exercise. Intelligent Lifestyle Assistant Notification management: Synchronize mobile notifications such as calls, messages, and social media messages to ensure no important information is missed. Health focus: Provide intelligent in-depth data interpretation and recovery suggestions to customize an exclusive improvement plan for you. Voice interaction: Quickly activate watch functions or various information inquiries. Health Data Interconnectivity Interconnectivity across multiple devices and applications to build your personal health ecosystem. Strava, Apple Health, Google Fit, and more health applications are in the process of docking.

About

Basho Steps

Features
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Walk, and Basho's journey moves with you. In 1689 the poet Matsuo Basho set out from Edo on foot and walked the deep north for about 150 days. This pedometer turns your own steps into that road. Each milestone opens a new station of Oku no Hosomichi, with the original hokku and a fresh English rendering written for this app. THE FREE ROAD - TO MATSUSHIMA Leave the grass door at Fukagawa. Pass Senju, Nikko, the barrier at Shirakawa, the twin-trunk pine, and the morning bell at Shiogama. At 18,000 steps you reach Matsushima Bay - the most beautiful place on the journey, and the one where the master wrote no poem at all. Some places are already poems. You only walk into them. THE OKU ROAD - ONE PURCHASE, THE DEEP NORTH Past the bay the road bends inland: the summer grass of Hiraizumi, the stillness of the mountain temple, the gathered rains of the Mogami, the rough sea at Izumozaki, the scent of the springs at Yamanaka, and the clam-shell parting at Ogaki, where the journey ends by beginning again. WHAT THIS APP IS - Real hokku by Basho in the original, with original English renderings - Your steps only, counted on your iPhone and kept on your iPhone - An Apple Watch companion that sends each station to your wrist - A travel pack of ten things you cannot use, and are glad to have WHAT THIS APP IS NOT No ads. No account. No tracking. No data collection. No location. No health claims - this is a book that happens to count steps, not a fitness program. One purchase opens the second half forever. There is no subscription.

Screenshots

Fitbeing4 screens
Basho Steps4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Fitbeing at none against Basho Steps's 1. Fitbeing also leads on iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.0). Basho Steps's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 weeks). On price, ads and device support 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. Basho Steps sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Fitbeing asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Fitbeing ships an update every 2 weeks, Basho Steps every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and September 20, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Fitbeing versus Basho Steps: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFitbeingBasho Steps
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (152 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings152 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS14.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size361 MB3 MB
Age rating+124+
DeveloperCreek Wearable Technology Co., Ltd.RIEKO NAITO

Bugs and requests

Fitbeing

Reported bugs

34 issues
  • Sensors stopped working after update
  • Messages and calls not received on watch
  • Won't connect to Apple Health for sleep apnea data
  • App crashes and doesn't open
  • Watch loses settings
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  • App doesn't interact 100% with watch
  • Menstrual cycle info not saving
  • Strava sync issues
  • Notifications from other apps not received
  • WhatsApp notifications not arriving
  • Notifications turn themselves back on
  • App won't launch after update
  • Keeps disconnecting from Bluetooth
  • Weather doesn't update automatically
  • Functions on watch stopped working after update
  • Calls don't work
  • Some watch faces don't install
  • Can't get past download app screen on watch
  • Alexa not working
  • Pulse wildly inaccurate
  • Blood oxygen/sleep data not written to iOS
  • Watch face lights up at night
  • Steps wildly inaccurate
  • App crashes when setting options
  • Settings not always pushed to watch
  • Pairing issues with iPhone
  • Latest app update bricked watch
  • Constantly crashes
  • No notifications
  • UI/UX jumbled, words don't fit
  • Can't verify account with code
  • Watch not as described (Alexa, GPS)
  • Blank watch face screen
  • App suddenly appearing in Polish

Requested features

24 requests
  • Add function for heart rate zones and pace in outdoor running
  • Add option to create workouts like on model 055
  • Sync with Strava and Treinus app
  • Add more watch faces
  • Add more options for changing photos on watch faces
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  • Add thief alert and alarm feature
  • Allow replies to messages from the watch
  • Add more watch face designs, especially minimalist ones
  • Allow 3rd party apps to access watch faces
  • Allow remote pay with watch/app
  • Add calculator to the watch
  • Add more watch face options and styles
  • Add instructions for watch face selections
  • Add detail on fixes in update notes
  • Add font options for watch faces
  • Add bubble behind text on picture watch face
  • Make font adjustable on watch face
  • Add time, date, battery with date in localized format
  • Add customisation for watch faces
  • Add option to disable crown sensitivity
  • Add more watch faces showing fitness, health, weather, charge status
  • Add option to receive notifications from any app
  • Add manual sharing of workouts to Strava
  • Add language option to switch from Polish

Basho Steps

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Fitbeing

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Basho Steps

One-time1
  • The Oku Road$2.99

Questions

Is Fitbeing free?
Fitbeing is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Basho Steps free?
Basho Steps is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Fitbeing or Basho Steps have ads?
Neither Fitbeing nor Basho Steps shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Fitbeing or Basho Steps?
Fitbeing ships an update every 2 weeks, and Basho Steps every 4 days. Most recently, Fitbeing was updated on October 9, 2026 and Basho Steps on September 20, 2026.

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