Comparison

Fitstrail vs Sync Stairs

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

Head to head
About

Fitstrail

Features
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Walk where you are. Travel real roads. Fitstrail is a step counter with a road to walk. Pick a road between two cities. Every step you take, at home, at work or on your usual loop, moves you along it. Come back later and see how far you got. CITY ROADS ACROSS EUROPE - 64 roads between real cities in 12 countries, 8,934 km in all. Vienna to Bratislava, Pécs to Budapest and more, picked on a map of Europe. - Every stop sends you a postcard from the real place. - Cross a border and your passport takes an exit stamp for the country you leave and an entry stamp for the next. - City roads are free. ROADS FROM HISTORY Walk a true story, told as you go. Your steps open its moments one by one. - The Hijrah: Mecca to Medina, 88 moments. - The Conqueror's Road: Edirne to Istanbul, 1453. - The Road of Independence: İnebolu to Ankara, 1920–1922. - Rumi's Road: Balkh to Konya. The first stage of every journey is free. The rest of each journey opens with a visa, an in-app purchase that lasts a set number of days. Journeys are told in English and Turkish. No person on the Hijrah is drawn. Scenes show only the land, the light and distant travellers. Sources are shown in the app. YOUR DAY - Today's steps, your daily goal and your streak. - Each road is a trip, named by its days: a 12-day trip, a 20-day one. Fall behind and the finish date moves. The daily steps never rise. - Home screen widgets show your steps and the next stop. PRIVACY - No ads. No account. No GPS. Fitstrail reads only your step count from Apple Health. - Your steps stay on your phone. Walk where you are. Travel real roads.

About

Sync Stairs

Track your stair climbing workouts with real-time metrics, detailed analytics, and personal best achievements. Integrates seamlessly with Apple Health and Apple Watch for comprehensive fitness tracking. Offers smart features like live activities and widgets to keep you motivated.

Highlights
  • Real-time climb tracking
  • Comprehensive workout analytics
  • Apple Watch support
  • Apple Health integration
  • Live Activity and widgets
  • Automatic personal best detection
Features
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Transform your STEPR workouts with Sync Stairs - the fitness companion built for stair climbing. Connect to your machine over Bluetooth and unlock live metrics, comprehensive analytics, and personal best achievements, on iPhone and on Apple Watch. REAL-TIME CLIMB TRACKING • Live metrics including floors, steps, steps per minute, speed level, elevation gain, calories, and heart rate • Metric tiles you can drag to reorder, with your layout remembered • Automatic personal best detection and celebration • Pause and resume, with a confirmation before a climb ends COMPREHENSIVE ANALYTICS • Climb history grouped by month, with medal badges on records • Best, total, and average for every metric, filtered by week, month, quarter, year, or all time • Streak tracking for consecutive days climbed • Charts for climbs over time, steps over time, any metric's trend with a trend line, and heart rate against step rate • Per-climb detail with full-resolution step, speed, and heart rate charts APPLE WATCH SUPPORT • Record a climb entirely from your wrist - the watch connects to the machine itself • The same metric grid as the phone, sized for the watch • Keeps the heart rate sensor on and the workout running once your wrist drops • Saves straight to Health, so a watch climb shows up on your iPhone • Works with your iPhone nearby or left in the locker HEALTH & FITNESS INTEGRATION • Every climb saves as a Stair Climbing workout in Health • Floors and steps written at full resolution, second by second • Reads heart rate, energy, and effort score back from Health for your climb • Closes your activity rings like any other workout • Health is the only store - no account, no cloud, nothing to sign into SMART FEATURES • Lock Screen and Dynamic Island Live Activity with your climb in progress • A 7x7 heat map widget of the last seven weeks • A Control Center button to start a climb • Start a climb with Siri, Shortcuts, or Spotlight • Share a climb summary as an image • Metric or Imperial units, defaulting to your region DESIGNED FOR STEPR • Bluetooth connection to your STEPR • Scans for your machine and connects when you start a climb - nothing to pair first COMPATIBILITY Sync Stairs has only been tested on the 2026 STEPR Pro Classic. Other STEPR models, and other stair climbers may work but are untested. If yours does not connect properly, get in touch through the feedback link in Settings and it can be looked at. SYNC STAIRS PRO The app is free to use, and every climb you record is yours to keep. Sync Stairs Pro is an optional subscription that unlocks unlimited workouts, the Apple Watch app and the full Insights screen - all charts, all statistics, and streaks. Whether you climb twice a week or every morning, Sync Stairs gives you the tools to track progress, chase records, and stay motivated. Start tracking your climbing today. Privacy Policy: https://www.rspoon3.com/sync-stairs/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula

Screenshots

Fitstrail4 screens
Sync Stairs4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Fitstrail at every 5 days against Sync Stairs's every 4 weeks. Fitstrail also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 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. Fitstrail sells 4 one-off in-app purchases and Sync Stairs sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Fitstrail ships an update every 5 days, Sync Stairs every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Fitstrail versus Sync Stairs: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFitstrailSync Stairs
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterEvery 4 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Freemium
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS15.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size62 MB38 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperFurkan KaynarRichard Witherspoon

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Fitstrail

One-time4
  • Visa: The Conqueror's Road$4.99
  • Visa: The Hijrah$4.99
  • Visa: The Road of Independence$4.99
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  • Visa: Rumi's Road$4.99
2 purchases

Sync Stairs

Subscriptions2
  • Weekly Subscription$4.997 Days
  • Annual Subscription$29.991 Year

Questions

Is Fitstrail free?
Fitstrail is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Sync Stairs free?
Sync Stairs is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Fitstrail or Sync Stairs have ads?
Neither Fitstrail nor Sync Stairs shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Fitstrail or Sync Stairs?
Fitstrail ships an update every 5 days, and Sync Stairs every 4 weeks. Most recently, Fitstrail was updated on November 5, 2026 and Sync Stairs on October 31, 2026.

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