Beat Stride 2 vs Steppps
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Beat Stride 2
This app analyzes your heart rate and steps to provide a Heart Efficiency Index, a unique metric for understanding your fitness level. Track your progress with daily and monthly charts and sync data seamlessly with Apple Health.
- Heart Efficiency Index score
- Daily and monthly progress charts
- Track fitness improvement
- Apple Health integration
- Color-coded heat maps
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BeatStride: Your Heart & Step Efficiency Tracker Take control of your fitness journey with BeatStride. By analyzing your heart rate and steps, our app gives you a unique metric—the Heart Efficiency Index—to help you understand your fitness level in a new way. Key Features: Heart Efficiency Index: Get a single, easy-to-understand score that reveals your heart's efficiency. Daily & Monthly Charts: View your progress over time with intuitive, color-coded heat maps and charts. Track Your Progress: See how your efficiency improves with every step you take. Seamless Integration: Syncs effortlessly with Apple Health to securely access your data. BeatStride is the simple, powerful way to measure what matters most.
Steppps
This app provides an honest and straightforward step counter, focusing purely on your daily step count and walk tracking. It offers detailed stats for walks, integrates with Apple Watch and Health, and syncs with Strava. Get weekly performance verdicts without gamified motivation.
- Daily step count tracking
- Tracked walks with route mapping
- Apple Watch complications
- Strava export
- Apple Health integration
- Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets
- Weekly performance verdicts
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STEPPPS A step counter that doesn't lie to you. No streaks. No badges. No confetti. Just your steps and the truth. TRACK YOUR STEPS Daily step count, front and center. Hit your goal or don't. TEAMS Create a team. Invite your family with a code or a link. One leaderboard, ranked by who actually walked today. No participation trophies. Someone's in last. Maybe it's you. APPLE WATCH Your steps on your wrist. Complications for your watch face. Same brutalist style—no clutter, just data. TRACK YOUR WALKS Start a walk. See your route on the map. Stop when you're done. Distance, pace, steps, time—recorded and saved. Lock screen Live Activity shows your stats without unlocking. STRAVA EXPORT Track in Steppps. Export to Strava. Route, distance, time—all synced. THE NUMBERS, ALL OF THEM Today by the hour. This week. Your trends. Your full history. Best day. Worst day. Weekday vs. weekend. The patterns you'd rather not see. APPLE HEALTH INTEGRATION Reads steps from iPhone and Apple Watch. Writes workouts when you hit your goal or complete a tracked walk. WIDGETS & DYNAMIC ISLAND Step count on Home Screen, Lock Screen, Dynamic Island. Progress bar shows how close you are to your goal. WEEKLY VERDICTS Every week: PERFECT, STRONG, SOLID, MEDIOCRE, WEAK, or PATHETIC. Whatever you earned. NO MOTIVATION. JUST DATA. Privacy Policy - https://www.steppps.app/privacy Terms of Condition - https://www.steppps.app/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Beat Stride 2 at none against Steppps's 5. Steppps's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.6). 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
Both are free to download. Steppps sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Beat Stride 2 asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Beat Stride 2 against 5.0 for Steppps. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.
Beat Stride 2 ships an update every 4 weeks, Steppps fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Beat Stride 2 | Steppps |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 44 MB | 61 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Marc L. Melcher | MYFC LLC |
Customer experience
Beat Stride 2
Steppps
In-app purchases
Beat Stride 2
No in-app purchases
Steppps
- Steppps+$3.991 Month
- Steppps+$29.991 Year
- Steppps Small Tip$2.99
- Steppps Medium Tip$4.99
- Steppps Large Tip$9.99
