Comparison

Step Lynx Activity Tracker vs LockStepper

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

Head to head
About

Step Lynx Activity Tracker

This app provides a focused way to track your daily activity, including steps, distance, and calories burned, directly from your Lock Screen, Home Screen, and Apple Watch. It offers clear progress visualization, goal streaks, and customizable notifications to keep you motivated without overwhelming you.

Highlights
  • Live step count, distance, and calorie tracking
  • Lock Screen and Home Screen widgets
  • Apple Watch app and complications
  • Goal rings and streaks
  • Badge collection for milestones
  • Optional daily check-in nudges
  • Privacy-focused with no account required
Features
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Step Lynx is a clean, focused step counter and activity tracker that lives where you actually look — your Lock Screen, your Home Screen, and your Apple Watch. No dashboards to wade through. Just clear progress, real streaks, and goals you can actually feel yourself moving toward. WHAT YOU GET • Live step count, distance, flights climbed, and active calories pulled straight from Apple Health. • Goal rings for every metric. Enable the ones you care about, hide the ones you don't. • Lock Screen widgets so your progress is always one glance away. • Home Screen widgets in every common size, from a single number to a full activity ring layout. • Apple Watch app and complications that mirror your iPhone, with goals that sync automatically. • Beautiful trends view so you can see your week, month, and lifetime at a glance. STREAKS THAT MEAN SOMETHING • Daily goal streaks for steps, distance, flights, and active calories — each one tracked separately. • Your best streak stays on record when a missed day resets the current one. • A growing badge collection for first miles, big-step days, big stair days, big burn days, week-long streaks on every metric, and the rare "Triple Threat" days where you hit steps, distance, and flights all at once. CELEBRATIONS YOU'LL ACTUALLY NOTICE • Crisp haptic feedback every time you cross a goal. • A bigger "All Goals Crushed" celebration with a stronger haptic on days you sweep every enabled goal. • A clean badge detail view that explains what each award means and shows you exactly how close you are to the next one. NUDGES, NOT NOISE • Optional daily check-in: pick any time of day and get one friendly push with your live progress. The message adapts to where you actually are — gentle on quiet mornings, motivating on near-misses, congratulatory on early sweeps. • Goal-met notifications fire only once per day per metric, so you never get spammed. • All notifications are off by default. You decide when we speak up. PRIVACY • Health data stays on your device. Step Lynx reads from Apple Health, never sends your data to a server, and has no third-party analytics. • No account required. Open the app, grant Health permission, done. WHAT'S FREE AND WHAT'S PRO The core experience — live counts, goal rings, basic widgets, daily streaks, and the milestone badges most people care about — is free forever. Step Lynx Pro unlocks the full badge collection (week-long streaks on every metric, the rare "Triple Threat", deeper milestones), advanced widgets, and the lifetime stats view. One-time purchase, no subscription required for the core upgrade. KEEP MOVING Whether you're chasing a 30-day streak, climbing more flights than you did last month, or just trying to stand up more, Step Lynx makes it easy to see where you are and feel good about getting there. Thanks for using Step Lynx.

About

LockStepper

Features
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Lock your apps. Walk your steps. Earn them back. LockStepper locks your chosen apps behind daily step milestones you set yourself. Hit your steps throughout the day and your apps unlock automatically. Less willpower, more walking. WALK BEFORE YOU SCROLL Choose the apps that pull you in and assign each one to a step milestone. Set an easier unlock for a work app, a higher unlock for a social app, and your toughest milestone for the apps you want to earn last. YOUR RULES, YOUR MILESTONES Set your daily step goal. Build your milestone ladder. The more you walk, the more you unlock. Each day starts fresh at your reset time. BUILT FOR ACCOUNTABILITY - Milestone ladder tracks your progress all day - Streak system rewards daily consistency - Banked rest days for days you need a break - Apple Watch complication for glanceable progress - Automatic HealthKit sync, no manual logging - Lock Screen widget shows progress at a glance FREE TO START. PRO WHEN YOU WANT MORE. Start with included app locks, then upgrade to Pro for unlimited app milestones and advanced accountability tools. Pro is available as a monthly subscription (with a free trial), yearly subscription, or one-time lifetime purchase. Walk first. Earn your apps back. Privacy Policy: https://techbasi.com/lockstepper/privacy-policy Terms of Use: https://techbasi.com/lockstepper/terms-of-use

Screenshots

Step Lynx Activity Tracker4 screens
LockStepper4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Step Lynx Activity Tracker at every 3 days against LockStepper's every 3 weeks. LockStepper's advantage is iOS requirement (17.6 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. Step Lynx Activity Tracker sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and LockStepper sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Step Lynx Activity Tracker ships an update every 3 days, LockStepper every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Step Lynx Activity Tracker versus LockStepper: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStep Lynx Activity TrackerLockStepper
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS26.017.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size21 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDavid ConroyTechBasi LLC

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Step Lynx Activity Tracker

One-time1
  • Pro Mode$0.99
3 purchases

LockStepper

Subscriptions2
  • LockStepper Pro Monthly7 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • LockStepper Pro Yearly$14.991 Year
One-time1
  • LockStepper Pro Lifetime$29.99

Questions

Is Step Lynx Activity Tracker free?
Step Lynx Activity Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is LockStepper free?
LockStepper is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Step Lynx Activity Tracker or LockStepper have ads?
Neither Step Lynx Activity Tracker nor LockStepper shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Step Lynx Activity Tracker or LockStepper?
Step Lynx Activity Tracker ships an update every 3 days, and LockStepper every 3 weeks. Most recently, Step Lynx Activity Tracker was updated on October 24, 2026 and LockStepper on October 31, 2026.

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