Comparison

BodyState vs Step Step

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

Head to head
About

BodyState

This app provides a daily energy score based on your fitness metrics, helping you manage stress, plan workouts, and understand your body's condition. It tracks sleep, recovery, stress levels, and training load, offering personalized insights to optimize your well-being.

Highlights
  • Personalized Energy Score
  • Sleep & Recovery Tracking
  • Stress Insights via HRV
  • Acute Training Load (ATL)
  • Personalized Baseline Learning
  • All-in-One Dashboard
  • Apple Health Sync
Features
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Monitor Your Energy, Every Day with BodyState! BodyState gives you a daily energy score from 1 to 100, combining your most important fitness metrics into a single, clear signal. Whether your goal is to manage stress, plan workouts, or simply feel better, BodyState helps you make smarter choices in tune with your body. Key features: - Personalized Energy Score: Track your body’s condition with a single score, powered by sleep quality, HRV, resting heart rate, and recent physical exertion. No guesswork, just real insights. - Sleep & Recovery Tracking: Discover how restful your sleep truly was and how well your body recovered overnight. - Stress Insights via HRV & Resting Heart Rate: Monitor your stress level over time and stay ahead of burnout. - Acute Training Load (ATL): See the impact of recent physical activity on your body. Know when to push harder and when to pull back. - Know What’s Normal for You: BodyState doesn’t rely on generic health data. Instead, it learns your personal baseline over time to give context-specific insights. Understand how today's numbers compare to your standard. - All-in-One Dashboard: Get your energy, stress, sleep, and training signals all in one intuitive view. - Effortless Syncing: Works seamlessly with Apple Health to gather the metrics you already track, no extra setup needed. How It Works: 1. Sync with Apple Health to pull in key health metrics. 2. Get your daily score and see how each input affects your energy. 3. Check f you’re balanced, depleted, or primed for performance. 4. Track trends over time and adjust your habits. This App is intended for general wellness and information purposes only. BodyState does not provide medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always consult healthcare professionals for medical guidance. Subscribe to access to premium app features; subscription details are the following: - Length: weekly, yearly. - Your payment will be charged to your iTunes Account as soon as you confirm your purchase. - You can manage your subscriptions and turn off auto-renewal from your Account Settings after the purchase. - Your subscription will renew automatically, unless you turn off auto-renew at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. - The cost of renewal will be charged to your account in the 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. - When canceling a subscription, your subscription will stay active until the end of the period. Auto-renewal will be disabled, but the current subscription will not be refunded. - Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when purchasing a subscription. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Step Step

Track your daily steps, workouts, and weight with a visually engaging night-sky dashboard. Earn medals, build streaks, and fill your moonlit ring as you move. Your health data remains private on your device.

Highlights
  • Daily step ring with live count and historical views
  • Adaptive streaks and streak protection shields
  • Medal cabinet with over 40 awards
  • Weight, body fat, and waist logging with trend lines
  • GPS workout recording with route, heart-rate, and elevation
  • Workout calendar and year heat map
  • Apple Watch app and widgets for Home/Lock Screen
Features
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The step counter that makes every day feel like a small mission. Step Step turns your walks, workouts and weigh-ins into a beautiful night-sky dashboard — streaks, medals and a moonlit ring that fills as you move. No accounts, no ads, and your health data stays on your iPhone. Step Step uses anonymous, opt-out analytics to help us improve the app. It never includes your health or personal data. FEATURES • Daily step ring with live count, weekly chart and month & year views • Adaptive streaks that score each day against the goal you had back then — raising your goal never breaks your past • Solar Flare Shields protect your streak on rest days, earned as your streak grows • Medal cabinet with 40+ awards: steps, streaks, distance, floors, workouts and hidden records • Log weight, body fat % and waist with a swipe dial, trend line and goal checkpoints • Record walks, hikes and runs with GPS route, heart-rate zones, splits and elevation • Workout calendar and year heat map for your full Apple Health history • Post-workout notes, photos, tags, effort rating and state of mind • Challenges: daily, weekly and monthly step missions APPLE WATCH & WIDGETS • Watch app with its own workout recorder and Smart Stack widgets • Watch face complications — see your steps right on your watch face • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets: step ring, week bars, streak, weight and goals • Siri: ask for today's steps without opening the app APPLE HEALTH • Reads steps, workouts, heart rate and weight from Apple Health • Writes your weigh-ins and recorded workouts back — Health stays the source of truth PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account. No sign-up. No ads. • Your health data never leaves your device. Step Step uses anonymous, opt-out analytics to help us improve the app, and it never includes your health data. STEP STEP PRO Some features require Step Step Pro (subscription or one-time lifetime purchase): advanced trends and comparisons, all-time records, extra accent themes, multiple body-metric goals and unlimited workout goals. The core experience — steps, streaks, shields, medals, weight logging and the workout recorder — is free. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://step-step.app/privacy

Screenshots

BodyState4 screens
Step Step4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: Step Step at freemium against BodyState's subscription. Step Step also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 3 days vs every 6 weeks). BodyState's advantage is ratings volume (1.7K vs 4) and iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, in-app purchases 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. BodyState sells 11 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days and Step Step sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Step Step holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: BodyState has 1.7K ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 77% of BodyState's written reviews are positive against 100% of Step Step's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

BodyState ships an update every 6 weeks, Step Step every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
BodyState versus Step Step: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBodyStateStep Step
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (1.7K ratings)5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews77.5% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1.7K — better4
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 3 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationSubscriptionFreemium — better
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size170 MB60 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperFitness & Sports apps SRLGwilym James

Customer experience

BodyState

All ratings1,684 ratings
Positive91.8%
Neutral1.8%
Negative6.4%
Written reviews683 reviews
Positive77.5%
Neutral3.8%
Negative18.7%

Step Step

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

BodyState

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Inability to access app due to Health permissions
  • App not working after updates

Requested features

4 requests
  • Longer data history
  • Automatic Apple Watch complication updates
  • Customization options
  • Ability to manually log feelings/recovery

Step Step

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

11 purchases

BodyState

Subscriptions8
  • Weekly premium7 Days trial$2.997 Days
  • Weekly premium$2.997 Days
  • Weekly premium$4.997 Days
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  • Weekly premium7 Days trial$4.997 Days
  • Yearly premium7 Days trial$39.991 Year
  • Yearly premium$39.991 Year
  • Yearly premium7 Days trial$49.991 Year
  • Yearly premium$49.991 Year
One-time3
  • Supporter$4.99
  • Patron$9.99
  • Champion$14.99
8 purchases

Step Step

Subscriptions3
  • Step Step Pro$2.991 Month
  • Step Step Pro7 Days trial$19.991 Year
  • Step Step Pro Family7 Days trial$24.991 Year
One-time5
  • Solar Flare Shield$0.99
  • Shield 3-Pack$2.49
  • Shield Crate$3.99
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  • Step Step Pro — Lifetime$39.99
  • Step Step Pro — Family Lifetime$49.99

Questions

Is BodyState free?
BodyState is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Step Step free?
Step Step is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, BodyState or Step Step?
Step Step is rated higher. BodyState averages 4.7 out of 5 from 1.7K ratings, while Step Step averages 5.0 from 4 ratings.
Do BodyState or Step Step have ads?
BodyState shows ads; Step Step does not.
Which is updated more often, BodyState or Step Step?
BodyState ships an update every 6 weeks, and Step Step every 3 days. Most recently, BodyState was updated on October 24, 2026 and Step Step on October 6, 2026.

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