StrideWise vs StrideSafe
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
StrideWise
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Reach your daily step goal and bring your friends along. StrideWise was born out of a family challenge to hit 10,000 steps a day. It reads your steps straight from Apple Health and turns them into something you actually want to look at. WALK TOGETHER Add friends with a code or a link and watch your steps line up next to theirs on a shared leaderboard. Compare today, yesterday, this week, this month, or the whole year, ranked by steps, goal reached, or current streak. A podium crowns the top three, because a plain list never made anyone walk further. TAKE ON A CHALLENGE Pick a friend, pick a length and see who moves. Most steps wins, or best goal percentage so nobody is punished for having longer legs, or one shared target the whole group walks towards together. Anything from a single day up to a month. Finished challenges stay in your archive, so you can still settle who won last summer. SEE YOUR PROGRESS A daily ring that fills as you walk. Your last seven days at a glance. Streaks, a goal calendar, monthly and yearly charts, and a year end forecast that tells you where you will land if you carry on like this. BUILT FOR REAL LIFE Works with your iPhone alone or with an Apple Watch. Nothing to set up beyond your daily goal. Available in English, Deutsch, and Português (Brasil). PRIVATE BY DEFAULT No ads, no analytics, no tracking. Your steps stay on your device unless you choose to set up a Friends profile and even then only the people you accept can see them. 100 % free to use! Privacy Policy: https://www.stridewise.de/app-privacy/ EULA: http://www.apple.com/legal/itunes/appstore/dev/stdeula
StrideSafe
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Walk more together—without turning connection into constant tracking. StrideSafe is a consent-first step tracker for two trusted people. Follow daily steps, goals and streaks, share progress with a partner, and choose when a current walk or commute includes location. WALK MORE TOGETHER • Track daily steps with Apple Health or the iPhone pedometer • Set personal daily and weekly goals • Build personal and couple walking streaks • Share step progress separately from location • Send quick encouragements to your paired partner SHARE ON YOUR TERMS Location sharing is off by default. Starting a stride never silently enables it. Choose Off, Approximate or, with Plus, Precise. Pause, Stop, Arrive and End stay close on iPhone. Your partner sees your approved location only while the pairing and current consent allow it. Stride sharing requires an active walk; continuous sharing is a separate opt-in. An optional live route during an active walk is relayed temporarily and is never saved to the server database. FREE IN STRIDESAFE • Daily walking progress, goals and streaks • One active partner pairing • Approximate location during an active stride • Pause, Stop, Revoke, Arrive, End, sign-out and deletion controls STRIDESAFE PLUS Every new download includes an automatic seven-day Plus Preview. No sign-up or payment is required, and the preview does not charge or renew. After it ends, choose a monthly or annual subscription in the app. Plus unlocks: • Precise location sharing • Full walking Insights and private on-device route history • Apple Watch app and complications • iPhone widgets • Optional continuous sharing and goal-progress notifications One active subscription also unlocks Plus for your current paired partner. PRIVACY BY DESIGN StrideSafe stores only one replaceable latest approved location on the server—not a server-side route history. Private walk routes stay on the walker’s device. Approximate, precise, paused, stale, unavailable, revoked, arrived and ended states are clearly distinguished. StrideSafe supports connection and reassurance. It does not guarantee safety and is not a replacement for emergency services. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://stridesafe.app/privacy/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: StrideSafe at 17.0 against StrideWise's 26. On price, ads, 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
Both are free to download. StrideWise sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $8.99 per year and StrideSafe sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | StrideWise | StrideSafe |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 26 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 19 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Bjoern Kapitz | Luan van der Walt |
In-app purchases
StrideWise
- Buy me a Coffee regularly$8.991 Year
- Buy me a Coffee$2.99
- Buy me a Coffee & Cake$11.99
StrideSafe
- StrideSafe Plus Monthly$4.991 Month
- StrideSafe Plus Annual$39.991 Year









