Comparison

Step Counter vs Arrive

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Automatic step tracking
  • Apple Health integration
  • Home & lock screen widgets
  • Achievements and streaks
  • Calorie and distance tracking
  • Progress insights
Features
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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 youโ€™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.

About

Arrive

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Feel less bad. Or more good. You get home and you can't calm down. It's 1am and you're wide awake. You've got nothing left and it's only 3pm. You're in the car park and you can't go in. You've told yourself to relax, and it did nothing. Telling yourself to 'just relax' does not work. You can't jump from wound up to calm. You have to come down in steps. Arrive picks the steps for you, based on how you feel right now. How it Works Tap the feeling that fits. Arrive gives you a short set of somatic exercises. You do them. At the end you say whether you feel better or worse. Arrive remembers, and surfaces the ones that work for you more often. Most take just 2 minutes. The Practices 40 practices, built on techniques tested in randomised trials. 60 seconds to 3 minutes. No equipment needed. Many are invisible to anyone watching, so you can do them at a desk. The Other Half Most apps wait until you feel bad. Half of Arrive is for the good days. Savour something, send someone warmth, look wide, name one good thing. What's Not Here No subscription. No AI chatbot. No streaks. No account. No internet needed. Price An exercise a day of your choice is free and you can repeat it as often as you need that day. Unlock everything with one payment. No renewal, nothing to cancel. Important Arrive is a wellbeing app, nothing more. Not therapy, not treatment, not a medical device. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Step Counter4 screens
Arrive4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Step Counter at 15.1 against Arrive's 26.0. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Step Counter sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days and Arrive sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Step Counter ships an update every 3 weeks, Arrive every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference ยท 6 level
Step Counter versus Arrive: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStep CounterArrive
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 2 weeks โ€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumโ€”
DevicesiPhone, iPod โ€” betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 โ€” better26.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size79 MB157 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperSrivishnu RamakrishnanEscape Velocity Studio Limited

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Step Counter

Subscriptions4
  • 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
One-time1
  • Steps App Premium Lifetime$24.99
1 purchases

Arrive

One-time1
  • Unlock Arrive$39.99

Questions

Is Step Counter free?
Step Counter is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Arrive free?
Arrive is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Step Counter or Arrive have ads?
Neither Step Counter nor Arrive shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Step Counter or Arrive?
Step Counter ships an update every 3 weeks, and Arrive every 2 weeks. Most recently, Step Counter was updated on October 8, 2026 and Arrive on October 16, 2026.

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