Comparison

Step Habit vs Walking Buddy

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

Head to head
About

Step Habit

This app tracks your daily steps and walking distance, helping you build a consistent habit. Set personal goals, monitor progress with streaks, and review historical data. Record and revisit your walking routes, and receive helpful reminders to stay active.

Highlights
  • Daily step goals
  • Step streaks tracking
  • Steps and distance tracking
  • Walking history and trends
  • Walking route recording
  • Walking reminders
  • Home and Lock Screen widgets
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Step Habit is a simple step counter and walking tracker that helps you reach your daily step goal and build a lasting walking habit. Connect Apple Health to use Step Habit as your daily pedometer, with your steps and walking distance in one place. From a short break to a longer walk, every step brings you closer to your goal. - Daily step goals: Choose your own target and watch your progress grid fill up as you walk. - Step streaks: Follow your current and longest streaks, and celebrate each day you reach your goal. - Steps and distance: Check your daily step count and see how far you've walked, with automatic Apple Health syncing. - Walking history and trends: Explore weekly, monthly, and yearly statistics. Discover your most active days and see how your walking habits change. - Walking routes: Record your walks, track distance and duration, and revisit each saved route on a map. - Walking reminders: Get gentle encouragement to take a break and move. - Step counter widgets: Keep your steps and goal progress in view on your Home Screen or Lock Screen. No account needed. You decide what to share from Apple Health. Step Habit offers free features and optional Premium purchases. Your first 3 saved walks are free. Premium adds monthly and yearly statistics, earlier walking history, detailed trends, unlimited saved walks, and more Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets. Start with a few more steps today. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Walking Buddy

Features
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Reminders that say how many steps to take and keep you moving through the day instead of one long walk in the morning or evening. Walking Buddy reads your steps from Apple Health, learns your usual pace, and nudges you when the day starts to slip. No account, no ads. STEPS THAT ADD UP See today's count from Apple Health on a ring with your goal, how far you are ahead of or behind pace, and where the steps landed hour by hour. REMINDERS SIZED TO YOUR DAY Instead of "walk more", each nudge tells you how many steps to take right now to stay on pace, and stops once the goal is done. Choose your active hours and days. Snooze a nudge or mark the day done straight from the notification. YOUR USUAL PACE Walking Buddy learns your typical day from the past four weeks and tells you whether today is ahead, on track or behind, with a projection of where the day will land. GOALS FOR EVERY KIND OF DAY Keep more than one goal active, each on its own days: 10,000 steps on weekdays and 6,000 at the weekend. A day without a goal is a rest day: no reminders, and your streak is safe. HISTORY THAT MEANS SOMETHING Week, month and year views, goal-met days, streaks with rest days that do not break them, and a Steps Log calendar back to your first recorded step. A weekly recap arrives every Sunday evening. ON YOUR APPLE WATCH Today's ring, steps to go and your pace on your wrist, with complications for the watch face and the Smart Stack. The watch app works on its own: it reads steps from the watch, keeps your goal, and lets you change the daily target with the Digital Crown. With the iPhone app installed, the goal stays the same on both. WALKING BUDDY PRO - Reminders on your schedule: every hour, twice an hour, fixed intervals, or your own times - Keep the nudges coming after the goal - Custom reminder messages - Vacation mode: plan the days you are away, with no reminders and your streak safe - Streak protection: one missed day a week does not break your streak - Trends and All Time: four-week trend, this week, month and year against the last, the year as a heat map, typical day with weekday and weekend averages, and every year since your first step - Apple Watch: pace and steps to go on the watch face (rectangular and corner complications), your usual pace and the day by hour PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account, no ads, no analytics. Step data is read from Apple Health and stays on your iPhone and Apple Watch. Goals are stored locally. Walking Buddy is a pedometer built on Apple Health: it works with iPhone step counting and with Apple Watch data that syncs to Apple Health. Pro is a subscription, monthly or yearly with a 7-day free trial, charged to your Apple ID and renewed unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the period ends. Manage it in Settings > Apple ID > Subscriptions. Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Step Habit4 screens
Walking Buddy4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Walking Buddy at every 2 days against Step Habit's every 10 days. Step Habit's advantage is iOS requirement (16.6 vs 18.0). 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. Step Habit sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days and Walking Buddy sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Step Habit against 5.0 for Walking Buddy. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Step Habit ships an update every 10 days, Walking Buddy every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Step Habit versus Walking Buddy: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStep HabitWalking Buddy
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS16.6 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size67 MB32 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKrzysztof BoneckiRaphael Koebraam

Customer experience

Step Habit

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

Walking Buddy

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

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Step Habit

Subscriptions4
  • Weekly$1.997 Days
  • Monthly7 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • Annual PROMO$9.991 Year
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  • Annual1 Month trial$14.991 Year
One-time2
  • Lifetime PROMO$12.99
  • Lifetime$22.99
2 purchases

Walking Buddy

Subscriptions2
  • Pro Monthly: Reminders, Trends$1.991 Month
  • Pro Yearly: Reminders, Trends7 Days trial$19.991 Year

Questions

Is Step Habit free?
Step Habit is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Walking Buddy free?
Walking Buddy is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Step Habit or Walking Buddy?
Step Habit and Walking Buddy are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Step Habit or Walking Buddy have ads?
Neither Step Habit nor Walking Buddy shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Step Habit or Walking Buddy?
Step Habit ships an update every 10 days, and Walking Buddy every 2 days. Most recently, Step Habit was updated on October 30, 2026 and Walking Buddy on October 29, 2026.

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