Comparison

StrideWise vs Stepwise

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

Head to head
About

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

About

Stepwise

Features
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Your steps. One huge number. Nothing else in the way. Stepwise is a step counter for people who just want to know how far they have walked today — without dashboards, feeds, sign-ups, or a tutorial to sit through. Open it and the number is already there, big enough to read at arm's length. WHAT YOU GET • Today's steps, huge and instant Your step count fills the screen in a clean, rounded typeface you can read in a glance while walking. The number animates as it climbs, so you can watch it move. • Draw your steps on your own map Tap the orange Record button and a blank map fills in behind you as you walk, one road at a time. It keeps recording with the screen locked, and a Live Activity on your Lock Screen shows your time, distance and steps, with a Stop button. See how many new roads you have found, save the walk to My map, and watch it grow. Show faint streets or a colorful map under your trail, or keep it blank. • Distance, automatically in your units Right below your steps you get the distance you have covered, in kilometres or miles depending on your region. No settings to dig through. • A daily goal that actually celebrates you Set any goal from 1,000 to 100,000 steps. Hit it and the screen bursts into confetti — once a day, when you have earned it. Not a badge buried in a profile tab. • Home Screen widget Small, medium, or large. Your step count sits on your Home Screen and stays current, so most days you never need to open the app at all. • Hour-by-hour stats Tap Stats for a clean bar chart of today and yesterday, broken down by hour. See when you actually move — the morning commute, the afternoon slump, the evening walk — and compare today against yesterday at the same hour. • Light and dark, your call Follow your system appearance or lock it to light or dark from the menu. BUILT ON APPLE HEALTH Stepwise reads your step count from Apple Health, so it counts the steps your iPhone is already recording — including the ones you took before you installed it. There is no separate tracker running in the background and no extra battery drain from a second counter. If you carry your phone, your steps are counted. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account, no sign-up, no email • Your step history stays on your device • Location is used only while you record a walk, and your trails stay on your device • Read-only access to Health — Stepwise never writes to your Health data • Everything is saved only on your device, and ads follow your tracking choice WHO IT IS FOR If you have tried a fitness app and quit because it wanted your weight, your goals, your notifications and your subscription before showing you a single number — this is the opposite of that. Stepwise does one thing. Walk, glance, done. Whether you are working toward 10,000 steps a day, keeping a walking habit alive, getting back on your feet after an injury, or just curious how far you actually go in a day, Stepwise keeps the number in front of you and stays out of your way. GETTING STARTED Open Stepwise and allow access to your steps in Apple Health Tap the gear icon and set your daily step goal Add the widget to your Home Screen: long-press anywhere, tap +, search for Stepwise That is the whole setup. There is no step four. Requires an iPhone with step data in Apple Health. Recording a walk uses Location. Terms of Use: https://sites.google.com/view/yoav-sabag-policy-ios/terms-of-use Privacy Policy: https://sites.google.com/view/yoav-sabag-policy-ios/privacypolicy

Screenshots

StrideWise4 screens
Stepwise4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: StrideWise at none against Stepwise's shown. StrideWise also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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. StrideWise sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $8.99 per year and Stepwise sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

StrideWise ships an update every 5 days, Stepwise every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 4 level
StrideWise versus Stepwise: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStrideWiseStepwise
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS26 — better26.5
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB6 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperBjoern KapitzYoav Sabag

In-app purchases

3 purchases

StrideWise

Subscriptions1
  • Buy me a Coffee regularly$8.991 Year
One-time2
  • Buy me a Coffee$2.99
  • Buy me a Coffee & Cake$11.99
1 purchases

Stepwise

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$4.99

Questions

Is StrideWise free?
StrideWise is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Stepwise free?
Stepwise is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do StrideWise or Stepwise have ads?
Stepwise shows ads; StrideWise does not.
Which is updated more often, StrideWise or Stepwise?
StrideWise ships an update every 5 days, and Stepwise every 3 weeks. Most recently, StrideWise was updated on November 4, 2026 and Stepwise on October 31, 2026.

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