Steplio vs Pacely Step
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Steplio
This app helps you quit smoking by encouraging you to walk instead of lighting up. It tracks your progress, money saved, and health recovery, offering guided workouts and personalized fitness plans. Features include step counting, GPS tracking, and motivational tools.
- Quit smoking tracker with SOS feature
- Follow-along video bodyweight workouts
- Automatic step and calorie counter
- Personalized weight loss plans
- GPS route tracking for walks
- 40+ walking workouts and challenges
- Adaptive step goals based on recovery and cycle
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Walk more, weigh less. Steplio turns your daily steps into a simple, personalized weight-loss plan — automatically. No manual logging. Steplio counts your steps and calories in the background, syncs with Apple Health, and shows exactly how close you are to your goal. Free to start. - STEP & CALORIE COUNTER Automatic step counting using your phone's built-in sensor. Track distance, calories burned, and pace in real time — all synced with Apple Health. - WEIGHT LOSS, MADE SIMPLE Enter your current and target weight and Steplio builds a personalized daily plan — exactly how many steps and calories you need each day to reach your goal on time. The weight tracker shows your weekly trend and forecasts the date you'll reach your goal. Add the fasting tracker and water tracker to stay on course. - GPS ROUTE TRACKING Record every walk with live GPS mapping. See your routes, elevation, speed, and distance — beautifully visualized on an interactive map. - 40+ WALKING WORKOUTS & TRENDING CHALLENGES Structured walking workouts for all levels — from beginner strolls to HIIT intervals. Try the viral protocols everyone's talking about: Japanese Walking (3 min fast / 3 min slow), 12-3-30, the 6-6-6 walk, Retro Walk and a post-meal Glucose Walk — with voice cues and haptic interval alerts. - SMARTER THAN A PEDOMETER Steplio adapts to your body, not just your step count: • Recovery Score — a 0–100 morning readiness score from your HRV, resting heart rate, sleep and yesterday's activity sets a personalized step zone for today. Walk smarter, not harder. • Cycle-aware goals — your daily step goal adapts across all four menstrual phases, automatically from Apple Health. • Breathing exercises — Box Breathing, 4-7-8, Calm Down and Energize with animated guidance. • Focus timer — Pomodoro-style sessions with built-in walking breaks. - QUIT SMOKING TRACKER Quitting smoking? Set your quit date and watch your smoke-free time, money saved, cigarettes avoided and life regained grow in real time. When a craving hits, tap SOS: guided breathing and a short walk with a live step count help you beat it. A health recovery timeline shows your body healing milestone by milestone — from 20 minutes to a full year. New Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets keep your progress in view all day. Slipped? Start over without judgment. Not a smoker? Hide it with one tap. - STAY MOTIVATED Build a daily habit with streak tracking and 24 unlockable achievements. Earn streak freezes that protect your streak on a missed day, and share your streak card with friends. Weekly and monthly charts for steps, distance, calories, and heart rate keep you on track. Purchasing unlocks premium features including your personalized day plan, fasting guidance, a GPS walking tracker, motivating workout walks, cycle-aware goals, and HRV recovery insights. Privacy Policy: https://steplio.app/privacy-policy/ Terms of Use: https://steplio.app/terms-of-use/ Contact our customer support team at support@steplio.app for any assistance.
Pacely Step
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Walking, recorded with care. For people who find typical fitness apps loud and cluttered. A quiet pedometer that asks for nothing but your steps. ■ What Pacely Step does - Steps, beautifully tracked Reads from iPhone's Motion & Fitness data to record your daily steps, distance, pace, and floors climbed — automatically. - Calories that reflect how you actually walk Calculated using your walking speed and stair activity with MET-based estimation, not a flat formula. - Stairs into landmarks Set the Eiffel Tower (330 m), Mt. Fuji (3,776 m), Burj Khalifa, Mt. Everest, and more as your monthly or yearly goal. Each floor you climb is a step closer. - See your usual self Compare today's pace with your 30-day average. Discover your weekday patterns — when you walk most, when you slow down. - A calendar that whispers your progress Goal-hit days marked in vermillion. Your streak, your best, and your monthly progress at a glance. ■ Who it's for - People tired of busy, gamified fitness apps - Anyone who's had enough of monthly subscriptions - Walkers who prefer "quietly daily" over "intensely athletic" - Users whose Apple Health data is already a mess - Anyone who appreciates typography and restraint - People who want stairs to feel like a small adventure ■ How we think about privacy Pacely Step never sends your steps anywhere. - No account required - No server uploads — everything stays on your iPhone - No HealthKit access - No location tracking - No advertising identifier (IDFA) We only read iOS Motion & Fitness data. Your steps belong to you, on your device, only.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Steplio at every 4 days against Pacely Step's every 3 months. 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
Both are free to download. Steplio sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Pacely Step sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Steplio ships an update every 4 days, Pacely Step every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on September 15, 2026 and August 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Steplio | Pacely Step |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 92 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tatiyana Milenko | torankirite |
In-app purchases
Steplio
- Premium one month access$4.991 Month
- Premium one year access7 Days trial$29.991 Year
- Premium one year access$29.991 Year
Pacely Step
- Premium$3.99









