Comparison

Steps Ten vs Stride

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

Head to head
About

Steps Ten

This app helps you track your daily steps to encourage an active lifestyle. It focuses on building consistent walking habits with a simple and reliable interface.

Highlights
  • Step counting
  • Habit building
  • Active lifestyle encouragement
  • Simple interface
  • Reliable tracking
Features
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Steps Ten is a simple and reliable step counter app designed to help you stay active and build healthy daily walking habits.

About

Stride

Compete with friends in step-based challenges and leagues. Turn your daily walks into races and track your progress with real-time updates and historical data. Offers customizable features and privacy controls.

Highlights
  • Weekly step leagues
  • Head-to-head friend races
  • Daily goal streaks
  • Home and Lock Screen widgets
  • Step history tracking
  • Private by default data
Features
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Step challenges with friends, on a real race track. Stride is a step counter with a finish line. Your friends run beside you on a real track, each one a different-colored Bib, and the finish line is your daily goal. Stride also turns the steps you already walk into a weekly competition against real people. Every Monday you join a league group of up to 30. Every Sunday the top finishers move up and the bottom ones move down. No equipment, no workouts to log — just walk. WEEKLY LEAGUES Twelve leagues, Bronze to Immortal, stacked like floors of one mountain. Your daily step total is your score. Watch the board move in real time, see exactly how many steps put you in the promotion places, and find out where you finished when the season closes. RACE A FRIEND Challenge anyone to a head-to-head: most steps over three days, first to 50,000, or a weekend sprint. Everyone runs on a real track — each friend a different-colored Bib, the finish line at the target — so you see who's ahead, down to the last step. STREAKS AND MARKS Hit your daily goal to build a streak. Bib, your running buddy, will let you know — loudly — when it's about to break. Earn marks for the milestones that actually took effort. WIDGETS WITH PRO Today's progress, your league rank, your streak and your race, on the Home Screen and the Lock Screen, updated through the day. STEP HISTORY Every day you've walked since you installed Stride, week by week, with your goal line drawn through it. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT Stride reads one thing from Apple Health: your daily step count. No workouts, no location, no routes. No ads, no trackers, no data sold. Delete your account in Settings and everything goes with it. STRIDE PRO Monthly, yearly (starting with a 7-day free trial) or once for life. Streak freezes (miss a day, keep your streak) and a monthly streak repair, a League Shield (stay in your league once a month), Home and Lock Screen widgets, your own Bib — colour, headband, shirt, shades, a cap or a crown, and your friends see it — unlimited races, advanced statistics and the full history. The leagues, streaks and friend races are free forever. Subscriptions renew automatically until cancelled in Settings › Apple Account › Subscriptions. Terms of Use: https://mosamir01.github.io/stride/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://mosamir01.github.io/stride/privacy.html Walking is more fun when someone's chasing you.

Screenshots

Steps Ten3 screens
Stride4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Steps Ten at none against Stride's 3. Steps Ten also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 5 days) and device support (3 vs 1). 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. Stride sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Steps Ten asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Steps Ten against 5.0 for Stride. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Steps Ten ships an update daily, Stride every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Steps Ten versus Stride: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSteps TenStride
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings12 — better
Update frequencyDaily — betterEvery 5 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.6 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB30 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperVenkipuram RamakrishnanMohamed Aboushady

In-app purchases

None

Steps Ten

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Stride

Subscriptions2
  • Stride Pro — Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Stride Pro — Yearly7 Days trial$14.991 Year
One-time1
  • Stride Pro$19.99

Questions

Is Steps Ten free?
Steps Ten is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Stride free?
Stride is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Steps Ten or Stride?
Steps Ten and Stride are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do Steps Ten or Stride have ads?
Neither Steps Ten nor Stride shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Steps Ten or Stride?
Steps Ten ships an update daily, and Stride every 5 days. Most recently, Steps Ten was updated on October 30, 2026 and Stride on November 6, 2026.

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