Comparison

STEPR vs Plateful

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

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About

STEPR

This app enhances your stair climbing workouts with personalized classes, real-time performance tracking, and virtual scenic climbs. Connect with a community, participate in challenges, and achieve your fitness goals with efficient cardio.

Highlights
  • Personalized workouts
  • On-demand classes
  • Performance tracking
  • Scenic virtual climbs
  • Community engagement
  • Custom challenges
Features
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Introducing the STEPR App: Your Ultimate Stair Climbing Companion Elevate your fitness journey with the STEPR App, designed to seamlessly integrate with your STEPR or any Stria Climber and bring the benefits of stair climbing to your fingertips. Key Features: • Personalized Workouts: Access a variety of on-demand classes tailored to your fitness level and goals, from beginner to advanced. • On-Demand Classes: Choose from a vast library of on-demand workouts led by expert trainers specifically designed for the STEPR or any stair climber. • Performance Tracking: Monitor your progress with real-time metrics, including steps per minute, calories burned, and heart rate integration. • Scenic Climbs: Experience virtual climbs through iconic locations worldwide, making your workouts engaging and immersive. • Community Engagement: Connect with a global community of fitness enthusiasts, share achievements, and stay motivated. • Device Compatibility: Not just for STEPR but can be used with any stair climber across the globe. • Faster Results: Burn more calories in less time with stair climbing, proven to be one of the most efficient forms of cardio. • Custom Challenges: Participate in fun, community-wide challenges like “STEPtember” to stay motivated and win exclusive rewards. (*coming soon!) • More Coming Soon! Enjoy regular updates with new features, classes, and content to keep your fitness journey fresh and exciting. Why Choose STEPR? STEPR is committed to making stair climbing mainstream by providing innovative equipment and a supportive platform that caters to all fitness levels. Our app enhances your workout experience, offering flexibility, variety, and the motivation you need to achieve your health goals. Download the STEPR App Today and Always Take The Stairs!

About

Plateful

This app uses on-device AI to estimate meal nutrition from photos, text, or voice input. It prioritizes user privacy by never uploading meal data and offers optional cloud-based estimation for enhanced accuracy. Integrates with Apple Health for a comprehensive health overview.

Highlights
  • On-device AI meal estimation
  • Photo, text, and voice logging
  • Privacy-focused data handling
  • Optional cloud estimation
  • Apple Health integration
  • Barcode and label scanning
  • Comprehensive nutrition breakdown
Features
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On an iPhone running iOS 27 with Apple Intelligence, Plateful estimates your meals on the device itself. The photograph is read where it was taken and is never uploaded. Food logging asks for something unusually personal: what you eat, when, how much, and a picture of it, every day for months. Plateful is built so that record has nowhere to go. HOW A MEAL IS ESTIMATED, AND WHAT EACH PATH SENDS 1. On your iPhone. On iOS 27 with Apple Intelligence, photos, typed meals, and spoken meals are read by the model already on your phone. Nothing is uploaded. No account, no monthly limit, no network needed. 2. Apple's Private Cloud Compute, at your tap. One tap on the confirm card sends a hard-to-call meal to Apple's Private Cloud Compute for a second opinion from a larger model. It runs on Apple's hardware-attested servers, Apple retains nothing, the request is not readable by Apple, and it never passes through Plateful's servers. It needs no account, and it happens only when you press the button. 3. Claude, if you switch it on. Cloud estimation is how an iPhone without Apple Intelligence gets an AI estimate, and Pro subscribers can choose it deliberately for a harder meal. Before anything is sent, the photo is downscaled and stripped of location and camera metadata on the device. Plateful's server hands the meal to the model and keeps nothing: no image storage, no image column, no log of it. Your meals are not used to train models. The switch starts off, and Settings turns it back off. WHAT NEVER LEAVES THE PHONE, IN ANY MODE Your corrections to an estimate. Everything read from Apple Health: weight, workouts, active energy. Your weigh-ins. Your goals. None of it syncs, none of it is sent, and none of it reaches an estimation request. Plateful carries no advertising, no third-party analytics, and no tracking across apps or websites. WHERE THE NUMBERS COME FROM Privacy is worth little if the figures are guesses. The model reads what is on the plate and judges how much there is. The numbers come from a database of roughly 12,900 foods built from USDA FoodData Central, bundled in the app and needing no network. Every saved meal records the reference it was priced from. WHAT YOU NEED On-device photo, text, and voice estimation requires iOS 27 and an iPhone with Apple Intelligence turned on. On iOS 26 with Apple Intelligence, text and voice run on the device and photos are not estimated. On iOS 18 and later without Apple Intelligence, the food database, barcodes, label reading, widgets, Apple Health, and sync all work, and cloud estimation is available. INCLUDED, AT NO COST - Photo, text and voice logging, on device where supported - Barcode scanning and nutrition label reading - A bundled database of roughly 12,900 sourced foods - Calories, protein, carbs, fat, fibre and sodium on every meal - Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets, with one-tap relogging - Apple Health for weight, workouts and active energy - A daily meal quality score, with its reasons - Meal reminders that learn when you actually eat - Progress charts, a weight log, and sync across your devices PLATEFUL PRO - A larger monthly allowance for cloud estimation - Claude as your estimator, for plates you want a stronger read on - Insights: per-meal breakdowns, swaps and weekly patterns - Adaptive calorie targets from your own weight trend - PDF progress reports you can print or send Nothing that was free before Pro moved behind it. Plateful Pro is an auto-renewable subscription, monthly or annual, with a 7-day free trial. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase. It renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and you can manage or cancel it in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use: https://platefulhq.com/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://platefulhq.com/privacy/

Screenshots

STEPR4 screens
Plateful4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Plateful at 5.0 against STEPR's 3.4. Plateful also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 80%). STEPR's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and ratings volume (12 vs 1). On price, ads 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. Plateful sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. STEPR asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Plateful holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: STEPR has 12 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 80% of STEPR's written reviews are positive against 100% of Plateful's.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
STEPR versus Plateful: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSTEPRPlateful
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.4 (12 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews80.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings12 — better1
Update frequency—Every 2 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.6 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size50 MB25 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSTEPR, Inc.Asad Ansari

Customer experience

STEPR

All ratings8 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%
Written reviews10 reviews
Positive80.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative20.0%

Plateful

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

STEPR

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Plateful

Subscriptions2
  • Plateful Pro (Monthly)7 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • Plateful Pro (Annual)7 Days trial$39.991 Year

Questions

Is STEPR free?
STEPR is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Plateful free?
Plateful is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, STEPR or Plateful?
Plateful is rated higher. STEPR averages 3.4 out of 5 from 12 ratings, while Plateful averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do STEPR or Plateful have ads?
Neither STEPR nor Plateful shows ads.

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