Comparison

Bike vs Footfall

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

Head to head
About

Bike

This app is a cycling companion that tracks your rides with real-time stats and GPS mapping. It uses AI to plan optimal routes based on your fitness goals, helping you improve performance and discover new paths.

Highlights
  • Real-time ride statistics
  • AI-powered route planning
  • Interactive GPS map tracking
  • Performance review after rides
  • Focus on essential cycling features
Features
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Take your cycling to the next level with Bike-meter. Whether you're a casual rider or a cycling enthusiast, Bike-meter is your all-in-one companion for smarter, more enjoyable rides. Track Every Ride Get real-time stats like distance, speed, duration, and elevation. Review your performance after every ride to keep improving. Plan Smarter with AI Use AI-powered route planning to find the best cycling paths based on your goals — whether you're looking for a scenic cruise, a fast commute, or a challenging workout. See Your Journey View your routes on an interactive map with GPS tracking, perfect for analyzing your path or reliving your favorite rides. Simple, Clean, Focused No unnecessary features. Just what you need to ride better, plan smarter, and enjoy cycling more.

About

Footfall

Features
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Footfall shows the steps your iPhone already counted, and almost nothing else. It has no step counting algorithm of its own, and that is the point. It reads the daily totals from Health, the one place on iOS where an iPhone and an Apple Watch are added up without the same walk being counted twice. The number here is the number there. No second opinion, no arguing with your watch about this morning. The rest of the app puts that number in front of you. A widget on the Home Screen. A circle or a rectangle on the Lock Screen. A medium widget for the week. They refresh through the day, and say so rather than pass off yesterday's total as today's. ON YOUR WRIST Ten years after the first Apple Watch, no built-in complication shows a step count as a number. Footfall does, in four shapes, on any face with room for one. The watch reads Health on the watch, so the count is right even when the iPhone stayed at home, and there is nothing to fall out of sync. The complications are free, like every other widget here. ONE SCREEN, TOP TO BOTTOM A ring that warms from clay to amber and turns gold at your goal, with the count rolling in the middle. The shape of the day: twenty four hourly bars that show when you walked, not only how much. The week in seven bars you can tap, and tapping one moves the top of the screen to that day. The month as dots, each one sized by its steps, and a swipe back through the months before it. Then four numbers: your seven day average, your thirty day average, your best day, and the days you met your goal. NOTHING YOU DID NOT ASK FOR No account. No ads. No analytics. No notifications, no badges, no levels. The streak stays off until you turn it on, because a streak nobody asked for turns into a debt. The app opens no network connection at all, so nothing can leave the phone. Nothing is written back into Health either. FOOTFALL PLUS Counting, the widgets, the watch complications, the goal, kilometers or miles, the day, the week and the month are free and stay free. Footfall Plus is one payment, once, and it adds every past month one by one, the full year day by day, your rhythm by day of the week, records and totals from the first day Health holds, and a CSV export. No subscription. Nothing renews. WHAT IT NEEDS Permission to read steps and walking distance from Health, and nothing else. iOS has been recording those since you got the phone, so your history is usually there the first time you open the app. If you have never walked with the iPhone on you, Footfall will show you an honest empty day. Available in 45 languages. iPhone, iOS 18 and later. Apple Watch, watchOS 11 and later.

Screenshots

Bike4 screens
Footfall4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Footfall at weekly against Bike's every 5 weeks. Bike's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Bike sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Footfall sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Bike ships an update every 5 weeks, Footfall weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Bike versus Footfall: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBikeFootfall
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS15.1 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size46 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMicael IllosTHEO MARTIN

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Bike

One-time1
  • Bike-meter premium$9.99
1 purchases

Footfall

One-time1
  • Footfall Plus$4.99

Questions

Is Bike free?
Bike is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Footfall free?
Footfall is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Bike or Footfall have ads?
Neither Bike nor Footfall shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Bike or Footfall?
Bike ships an update every 5 weeks, and Footfall weekly. Most recently, Bike was updated on October 30, 2026 and Footfall on October 31, 2026.

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