Comparison

Nine vs StepKeep

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

Head to head
About

Nine

This app simplifies dental care by connecting users with dentists and offering flexible solutions for oral health needs. It emphasizes transparency, affordability, and accessibility for a seamless experience.

Highlights
  • Connect with dentists
  • Affordable dental solutions
  • Preventive care options
  • Transparent dental services
  • Accessible oral health journey
Features
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Nine redefines dental care with a focus on transparency, affordability, and accessibility. Designed to make your oral health journey seamless, Nine connects you with top dentists while offering flexible solutions for all your dental needs, including preventive care.

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

Nine4 screens
StepKeep4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Nine at none against StepKeep's 4. StepKeep's advantage is update cadence (every 6 days vs monthly). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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 4 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. Nine 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 Nine against 5.0 for StepKeep. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Nine ships an update monthly, StepKeep every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Nine versus StepKeep: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNineStepKeep
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 6 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS15.1 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size96 MB13 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperAl-sahm Al-tasii月梅 孙

Customer experience

Nine

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

StepKeep

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

In-app purchases

None

Nine

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

StepKeep

Subscriptions3
  • StepKeep Plus Monthly$6.991 Month
  • StepKeep Plus Yearly Offer$14.991 Year
  • StepKeep Plus Yearly7 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • StepKeep Plus Lifetime$39.99

Questions

Is Nine free?
Nine 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, Nine or StepKeep?
Nine and StepKeep are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Nine or StepKeep have ads?
Neither Nine nor StepKeep shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Nine or StepKeep?
Nine ships an update monthly, and StepKeep every 6 days. Most recently, Nine was updated on October 14, 2026 and StepKeep on October 24, 2026.

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