Comparison

Running Station vs StepKeep

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

Head to head
About

Running Station

Connect with friends to share running achievements and track your progress. This app complements your existing running trackers by allowing social interaction and comparison of running records. Discover your running TIER and engage with your crew.

Highlights
  • Discover friends' running TIER
  • Sync with Apple Health Records
  • Compliment and react to running records
  • Invite crew members
  • Share running records with friends
Features
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Your neighborhood is the race. Track runs, claim local stations and climb your neighborhood leaderboard. Check in at "stations" around your city and go for a run. Your distance stacks up on the station, and a fresh ranking starts every week. ■ What makes it different • Station check-in — start your run within 100 m of the start point and you're checked in automatically • Weekly rankings — every station has a leaderboard that resets each week; go for #1 • Your neighborhood map — nearby stations and this week's runners at a glance • Found new stations — if there's none nearby, be the first to create one ■ Tracked in detail • Distance, time, average pace and automatic km splits • Your route drawn along real streets • Accurate GPS tracking with elevation gain and pause handling ■ More fun together • Cheer and comment on runs in the feed • Share "run cards" with your stats over your photo or video • Find friends from your contacts and follow them ■ Your location, protected • Other runners see your route with the start and end sections hidden Start today at the station around the corner.

About

StepKeep

This app synchronizes with Apple Health to provide an accurate, verifiable step count. It displays real-time data, offers historical trends, and includes features like goal setting and challenges. It prioritizes privacy by not uploading data or requiring an account.

Highlights
  • Accurate step count synced with Apple Health
  • Timestamped data for verification
  • History restoration and streak preservation
  • Goal setting, streaks, and rest days
  • Weekly, monthly, and yearly trends
  • Challenges and badges
  • Heart rate estimation (for reference)
  • Apple Watch app and complications
Features
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Most step counters show you a number you cannot check. Open the Health app and it says something different, and nobody tells you which one is right. StepKeep shows the number Health shows. Every day, on every screen, next to the time it was last updated. Why the number holds up: • One authoritative total, read straight from Apple Health and deduplicated across iPhone and Apple Watch. Never re-counted, never estimated from your weight or your stride. • Steps still waiting to sync get their own line, so the big number never runs ahead of Health. • Every screen is timestamped. If the data is more than two hours old, StepKeep says so instead of pretending it is live. • A source breakdown shows which device contributed what, and how many duplicate steps were removed. Key Features: • History restored: the first launch brings your past days back from Health, so your record and your streak survive a new phone. • Goals, streaks and rest days: set a daily goal, build a streak, and spend a rest day when life gets in the way. The streak stays alive. • Trends: week, month and year, with a calendar heat map and your best day. • Insights that admit what they do not know: how today compares with your usual pace, how this period compares with the last, and the hours you are most active. Too little data, and StepKeep says so rather than inventing a number. • Challenges and badges: daily, weekly, monthly, or your own target and length. Finish it and the badge is yours. • Calories, distance, floors and exercise minutes, all read from Health so they match too. • Heart rate: your Health heart rate and resting rate in one chart, plus a quick estimate with the rear camera. For reference only, not a medical device. • Apple Watch app and complication: today, the last 7 days and your goal on your wrist, and it works offline. • Widgets and Live Activity: Home Screen, Lock Screen and Dynamic Island. • Manual entry: treadmill, stroller, phone left on the table. Add those steps yourself; they stay on this device. • Wheelchair mode: counts pushes and wheelchair distance, read from Health like everything else. • Reminders: a nudge when you are close, a word when you hit the goal. Works with your devices StepKeep reads from Apple Health, so it already includes Apple Watch, Garmin, Oura, Whoop, Polar, Amazfit and Withings. Anything that writes to Health is already counted. No extra setup, no extra account. Private by design No ads. No third-party SDKs. No account to create. Your steps never leave your iPhone: nothing is uploaded to a server, and nothing goes to iCloud. Free forever: today's steps, the 7-day chart, week trends, goals, streaks, rest days, challenges, badges, every widget, the Live Activity and the Watch complication. StepKeep Plus adds month and year trends, camera heart rate measurement, and CSV export of your whole history. Fully usable with VoiceOver and Dynamic Type. Available in 15 languages. Terms of Use: https://sites.google.com/view/stepkeep-terms Privacy Policy: https://sites.google.com/view/stepkeep-privacy

Screenshots

Running Station4 screens
StepKeep4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Running Station at none against StepKeep's 3. On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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. StepKeep sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Running Station asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Running Station against 5.0 for StepKeep. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Running Station ships an update every 5 days, StepKeep every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Running Station versus StepKeep: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRunning StationStepKeep
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterEvery 6 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size54 MB13 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer마야크루月梅 孙

Customer experience

Running Station

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

StepKeep

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Running Station

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

StepKeep

Subscriptions3
  • StepKeep Plus Monthly$4.991 Month
  • StepKeep Plus Yearly Offer$9.991 Year
  • StepKeep Plus Yearly$19.991 Year

Questions

Is Running Station free?
Running Station is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is StepKeep free?
StepKeep is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Running Station or StepKeep?
Running Station and StepKeep are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Running Station or StepKeep have ads?
Neither Running Station nor StepKeep shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Running Station or StepKeep?
Running Station ships an update every 5 days, and StepKeep every 6 days. Most recently, Running Station was updated on October 7, 2026 and StepKeep on September 30, 2026.

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