Beat Stride 2 vs Steppies
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.
Steppies
This app offers a straightforward way to track your daily steps, distance, calories burned, and floors climbed. It features a progress ring that fills as you approach your goal and provides historical data for weekly, monthly, and yearly views. Widgets are available for your home screen, lock screen, and Apple Watch.
- Live daily step count
- Customizable daily step goal
- Distance, active calories, floors climbed
- Home and Lock Screen widgets
- Apple Watch app and complications
- Weekly, monthly, yearly history
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Steppies is a beautifully simple step counter that keeps your health data where it belongs—with you. Set it up once, and you may never need to open the app again. Add Steppies premium widgets to your Lock Screen, Home Screen, or Apple Watch face to keep your live step count a glance away. See today’s steps, or pinch and zoom through years of history to see how far you’ve come. FEATURES • Set up in seconds—no account, ads, or hassle • Track steps, distance, floors climbed, and active calories • Choose your own daily step goal and watch the ring fill • Explore Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Yearly, and All Time history • Share your step count your way with custom visual cards and animations • Add beautiful widgets to your Home Screen and Lock Screen • Use the Apple Watch app and complications that fit right in TRY BEFORE YOU BUY Premium widgets and complications are included for 30 days. If you like them, Steppies Forever unlocks every current and future widget we release for a small, one-time purchase. PRIVACY FIRST Steppies reads your health data directly from your device and never sends it anywhere. Your personal information never leaves your iPhone or Apple Watch. No subscriptions. No ads. No notifications. Just steps. Built in San Francisco.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Steppies at none against Beat Stride 2's shown. Steppies also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 4 weeks) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Beat Stride 2's advantage is iOS requirement (17.6 vs 26.0). On price, rating, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Beat Stride 2 against 5.0 for Steppies. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Steppies has 6 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Beat Stride 2 ships an update every 4 weeks, Steppies weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Beat Stride 2 | Steppies |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (6 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 6 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 44 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Marc L. Melcher | Isaac Consultants LLC |
Customer experience
Beat Stride 2
Steppies
In-app purchases
Beat Stride 2
No in-app purchases
Steppies
No in-app purchases








