Comparison

Tracking vs Shadowstep

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

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About

Tracking

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Tracking For Focus: Your Body Awareness Assistant on Apple Watch Enhance your body awareness with Tracking For Focus. Lovingly and precisely designed for Apple Watch, our app tracks movements related to BFRB, such as trichotillomania (hair pulling or eating), skin picking (face picking), and onychophagia (nail biting). Through sessions, we will help you overcome bad habits, helping you stay calm and focused in any situation. This app was developed at the Apple Developer Academy / UCB.

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Shadowstep

Features
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Every day, Shadowstep matches you against one hidden rival — and you have until 8 PM to out-walk them. You won't know who they are. Their name is redacted, their city is a guess, their step count climbs in real time beside yours. All you know is the number you have to beat. Then at 8 PM the mask comes off: the identity is revealed, the verdict lands, and you find out whether the stranger you've been racing all day was a friend, a neighbor, or someone you'll never meet. One duel. One day. No grinding, no endless leaderboards, no streak guilt. Just the quiet pressure of someone out there walking — and the question of whether you moved more than they did. HOW IT WORKS • Each morning you're paired with an anonymous rival. • Shadowstep reads your daily step total from Apple Health to keep score. • Watch the gap in real time — your steps against theirs, lane by lane. • At 8 PM, the rival is unmasked and the duel is settled. • Win or lose, you get a share card built to send. WALK YOUR FRIENDS Challenge people you actually know. Find which of your contacts already play (we only ever check secure one-way hashes — your address book never leaves your phone in readable form) and call them out for a head-to-head where you both know exactly who you're racing. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • Sign in with your phone number — no email, no password. • Shadowstep only READS your step count. It never writes to Apple Health and reads nothing else. • No ad tracking. No data sold. No advertising profiles. Out-walk a stranger before the day ends. Find out who they were. Then do it again tomorrow.

Screenshots

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Tracking at 3 against Shadowstep's 1. Tracking also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard2 real differences Ā· 3 level
Tracking versus Shadowstep: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTrackingShadowstep
PriceFreeFree
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS13.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB53 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperErick RibeiroElya Livshitz

In-app purchases

None

Tracking

No in-app purchases

None

Shadowstep

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Tracking free?
Tracking is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Shadowstep free?
Shadowstep is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Tracking or Shadowstep have ads?
Neither Tracking nor Shadowstep shows ads.

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