Comparison

Step Count vs Cultivate

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

Head to head
About

Step Count

Features
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【Spirit Footprints】 keeps hikers, cyclists, and trail runners oriented on remote trails with dependable maps, responsive navigation, and detailed performance insights for every outing. **Offline contour maps** Download compact regional maps with contour lines and trail data, manage storage before leaving coverage, and preview elevation changes without a signal. **Reliable trail guidance** Import GPX/KML tracks, see your position against the planned route, and get spoken turn tips plus off-track notifications before you drift too far. **Real-time training metrics** Monitor distance, pace, ascent, heart rate, and remaining mileage while switching between hiking, cycling, or running modes to keep each workout on target. **Activity history & insights** Review past sessions with gradient charts, compare weekly totals, export GPX files, and sync highlights with Apple Health for a unified log. Stay on course, capture every climb, and stride into your next adventure with confidence. EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://luscweb.xyz/lingganzuji/privacy.html

About

Cultivate

This app provides a private space to intentionally nurture your most important relationships. Track progress with visual rings, set custom goals, and receive personalized ideas to show up for loved ones. It offers pre-built plans for various relationship types, including detailed character-building activities for children.

Highlights
  • Visual relationship rings
  • Customizable goals and plans
  • Personalized idea generation
  • Character development plans for children
  • Activity logging
  • Special date reminders
Features
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Cultivate is a quiet, private space to be intentional about the people who matter most — your spouse, your kids, your friends, your family, and the mentors and colleagues who shape your life. Every relationship has a ring. Show up — a call, a date night, a completed goal, a moment of real presence — and it fills. Let a relationship go quiet, and you'll feel it too. It's a simple, honest way to see where your time and attention are actually going. BUILT FOR YOUR RELATIONSHIPS THAT MATTERS Cultivate is built around every kind of relationship worth investing in: • Marriage — protect date nights, build goals around their love language, reconnect after a busy season • Parenting — real, age-specific ways to invest in who your kids are becoming • Friendship — the friend you've drifted from, the new one worth investing in, the one who's always shown up for you • Extended family — grandparents, siblings, nieces and nephews, aging parents • Mentorship — pour into someone coming up, or make the most of someone pouring into you • Work relationships — the colleague, the boss, the team you want to build well 250+ PRE-BUILT PLANS, OR BUILD YOUR OWN Every category comes with a library of ready-to-use plans — real goals with real timing, built from scratch to reflect what actually helps a relationship grow. Don't see what you need? Build your own custom plan in minutes and reuse it for anyone. RAISE KIDS OF CHARACTER Within that library, parenting goes especially deep. Choose from 20 character traits — honesty, courage, kindness, patience, resilience, gratitude, self-control, and more — each with its own age-specific plan from toddler years through the launch into adulthood (ages 3–18). Every plan is a real, hands-on month or year of practical moments: conversations to have, questions to ask, stories to tell, and small challenges that build real character over time. It's not a chore chart. It's a way to be as intentional about who your kids are becoming as you are about anything else in your life. HOW IT WORKS • Track any relationship with its own ring, goals, and activity log • Brainstorm — stuck on how to show up? Get a personalized idea in seconds, tailored to who they are to you • Today view — see what's due across every relationship you're tracking, all in one place • Special days — birthdays, anniversaries, and the dates that matter, with reminders that actually give you time to plan • Quick Log — did something meaningful that wasn't on a list? Log it in two taps PRIVATE BY DESIGN Cultivate works entirely on your device. There's no account to create, no data to hand over, and nothing about your relationships ever leaves your phone. No ads. No subscription. Unlock the full library once, and it's yours for good. Whether it's the marriage you want to keep choosing, the friendship you don't want to lose, or the character you're hoping to build in your kids — Cultivate helps you show up like it matters. Because it does.

Screenshots

Step Count4 screens
Cultivate4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Cultivate at daily against Step Count's every 2 months. Step Count's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). 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. Step Count sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days and Cultivate sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Step Count ships an update every 2 months, Cultivate daily. The most recent releases landed on September 13, 2026 and September 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Step Count versus Cultivate: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStep CountCultivate
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.6 (5 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—75.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—5 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB26 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer圣财 卢Taylor Allred

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Step Count

Subscriptions2
  • Weekly Pro Plan3 Days trial$4.997 Days
  • Yearly Pro Plan$19.991 Year
1 purchases

Cultivate

One-time1
  • Cultivate Premium$9.99

Questions

Is Step Count free?
Step Count is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Cultivate free?
Cultivate is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Step Count or Cultivate have ads?
Neither Step Count nor Cultivate shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Step Count or Cultivate?
Step Count ships an update every 2 months, and Cultivate daily. Most recently, Step Count was updated on September 13, 2026 and Cultivate on September 10, 2026.

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