Comparison

Steps vs Tally

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

Head to head
About

Steps

Features
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Stop procrastinating. Start moving. Steps gives your daily walk a deadline. Set a step goal and a cutoff time. If you reach your goal before the deadline, everything stays unlocked. If you don’t, your selected apps lock until tomorrow. It’s a simple system that removes excuses and keeps you accountable. How does it work? 1. Set your daily step goal 2. Choose a deadline for the day 3. Pick the apps you want locked if you miss it Now your day has a rule: • Walk before the deadline. • Reach your goal and your apps stay unlocked. • Miss it and they lock until the next day. Designed to prevent procrastination! Many people plan to walk later… and never do. Steps fixes that by giving your activity a clear deadline and consequence. Instead of saying “I’ll walk later”, you’ll find yourself thinking: “I should go now.” Stay motivated • Live step tracking • Time remaining until your deadline • Daily streak tracking • Weekly step progress • A monster that reacts to your progress Emergency Unblocks Need access unexpectedly? You get a small number of emergency unblocks each week. Use them wisely. Walk now. Not later.

About

Tally

This app serves as a digital workout logbook, designed for both experienced and beginner lifters. It allows for fast, friction-free logging of any exercise imaginable and can recommend starter workouts that adapt over time. Users maintain full control over their data, with options to export or delete their account.

Highlights
  • Workout logbook
  • Exercise recommendation
  • Natural language workout builder
  • Fast logging with custom keypad
  • Data export (CSV)
  • Account deletion
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Plan workouts by chatting with Claude or Meta Muse. Log them in Tally. Tally is a strength-training log for iPhone that your AI assistant can write to. Tell Claude or Meta Muse what you want to train, how much time you have, and what to avoid. Your assistant builds the workout and saves it to Tally. Open the app and it is there: exercises, sets, reps and target weights, ready to start. HOW IT WORKS • Connect Claude or Meta Muse once from Settings. Setup takes about a minute in your browser. A free Claude account works. • Plan in a chat: "Plan three days this week around squat and bench. Go easy on my left shoulder." • Your assistant reads your planned days and recent workouts, then writes new days into your week. • At the gym, tap Start. Every set is filled in and ready to check off. FAST TO LOG • A big keypad and one-tap set check-offs • Edit one set and the sets below it update • The rest timer starts when you finish a set • Change the whole workout by typing or speaking, mid-session • Track weight and reps, time, or distance (rows, sled pushes, carries) • Works offline; your log syncs when you are back online YOUR WEEK, YOUR CALL • See planned, completed and skipped days in the week view • Skip a day you can't make; your assistant sees it the next time it plans • Days you build in Tally stay as you made them unless you ask your assistant to change them • Build days yourself from the exercise library, or add your own exercises YOUR DATA • Sign in with Apple, Google or email; your log syncs to your account • Your assistant sees only your account, and you can disconnect it anytime in Settings • Export your full history as a CSV file Tally is an independent app. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by Anthropic or Meta.

Screenshots

Steps3 screens
Tally4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Steps at daily against Tally's every 9 days. Tally's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 26.0). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Steps ships an update daily, Tally every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Steps versus Tally: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStepsTally
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (5 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—5 — better
Update frequencyDaily — betterEvery 9 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPod — better
Requires iOS26.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB39 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAnthony Duenez RamirezVegh Labs LLC

In-app purchases

None

Steps

No in-app purchases

None

Tally

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Steps free?
Steps is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Tally free?
Tally is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Steps or Tally have ads?
Neither Steps nor Tally shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Steps or Tally?
Steps ships an update daily, and Tally every 9 days. Most recently, Steps was updated on October 7, 2026 and Tally on October 18, 2026.

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