Step Counter vs Pixel Pilgrim
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Step Counter
This app automatically tracks your daily steps, calories, and distance walked. It offers motivational achievements, streaks, and beautiful widgets for your home and lock screens to help you build a consistent walking habit.
- Automatic step tracking
- Apple Health integration
- Home & lock screen widgets
- Achievements and streaks
- Calorie and distance tracking
- Progress insights
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Stepsly is a beautiful step counter for iPhone. Track steps, see your daily steps at a glance, and turn step counting into a walking habit you’ll want to keep. Set daily step goals that fit your life, build a streak, beat your best, and make every walk count. WHY STEPSLY - A clear daily view that makes progress feel rewarding - Goals, streaks, achievements, and personal bests that give every walk more meaning - Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets that keep your progress close - Detailed history, charts, and records when you want the fuller story - Beautiful share cards for celebrating a great day your way YOUR MOVEMENT, CLEARLY - Step tracking powered by Apple HealthKit - See your steps and daily goal progress at a glance - Track distance, calories burned, floors climbed, and time moving - Choose metric or imperial distance - Follow the flow of your day with a smooth, animated progress ring MORE THAN TODAY - Explore your day, week, and month in a few taps - Compare weeks and months with easy-to-read charts and goal markers - Use the calendar view to spot your most active days - Look back on trends, averages, goal days, and lifetime records KEEP THE MOMENTUM GOING - Set a daily step goal that fits your life - Build a streak and revisit your progress over time - Unlock achievements for goals, milestones, records, and consistency - Celebrate your best days, weeks, and months - Share daily, weekly, monthly, or all-time progress in a polished card PROGRESS WHERE YOU NEED IT - Home Screen widgets for daily steps, stats, streaks, weekly progress, and monthly trends - Lock Screen widgets for a quick check without opening the app - Optional reminders when you need a little nudge or are close to your goal MADE YOURS - Light, dark, and system appearance - Smooth, thoughtful interactions throughout - A focused experience built around one thing: helping you keep moving SUBSCRIPTION DETAILS Stepsly is free to download. A free trial is available for eligible new users. A subscription unlocks full access and renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Website: https://stepsly.app Privacy Policy: https://heyvish.com/privacy/steps Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Download Stepsly and make every step count.
Pixel Pilgrim
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Walk the Camino de Santiago. From wherever you are. Every real step you take moves your pixel pilgrim along the legendary Camino Francés, 765 km and 33 stages from St-Jean-Pied-de-Port across the Pyrenees, the endless Meseta and green Galicia to the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela. * Your steps, your journey: connects to Apple Health / Health Connect. No treadmill screens, no ads, no account: just your daily walks, turned into a pilgrimage. * 33 pixel panoramas: every stage is a 16-bit painting that unlocks as you arrive, with a day/night cycle that follows your clock. * A real guidebook: elevation profiles, albergues, and some history of every stage, told one arrival ceremony at a time. * Collect it all: 33 credencial stamps, badges, levels, streaks, landmark moments like Cruz de Ferro and the 100 km stone. * Your pilgrim: customize skin, hair and tunic; share pixel postcards from the road; earn your Compostela certificate in Santiago. * On your home screen; a widget (and iOS lock-screen widget) keeps your pilgrim's progress in sight: next town, steps today. The first 4 stages are free. One single purchase unlocks the full road to Santiago. No subscription, no ads. Buen Camino!
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Verdict
Step Counter and Pixel Pilgrim are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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. Step Counter sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days and Pixel Pilgrim sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Step Counter ships an update every 3 weeks, Pixel Pilgrim every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Step Counter | Pixel Pilgrim |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 79 MB | 143 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Srivishnu Ramakrishnan | Maurits van Hassel |
In-app purchases
Step Counter
- Steps App Premium Weekly$2.997 Days
- Steps Pro Premium Weekly3 Days trial$2.997 Days
- Steps Pro Premium Yearly3 Days trial$9.991 Year
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- Steps App Premium Yearly$14.991 Year
- Steps App Premium Lifetime$24.99
Pixel Pilgrim
- The Full Camino$8.99
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