Comparison

Step Lynx Activity Tracker vs Stroll

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. • Best streak protection so a single missed day or a metric you turn off can never erase a personal record. • 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

Stroll

Features
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Some of your clearest thinking happens on a walk — and then it's gone by the time you're home. Stroll is a calm place to keep it. Leave your phone behind, take an unplugged walk (a sunrise one is lovely), and when you're back, write down the thoughts that surfaced. That's the whole app. No feeds, no streaks that punish you, no noise. WALK FIRST, PHONE SECOND The best walks are unplugged, so Stroll is built to work even when your phone never came along. Just enter how long you were out when you get home. Prefer to time it? Bring your phone on airplane mode — the timer keeps perfect time even with the screen locked and no signal. ONE NUMBER THAT ONLY GROWS Stroll adds up every walk into a single, quiet total: the time you've spent walking and thinking. It never resets and never guilts you. It just grows. A GENTLE PLACE TO REFLECT • A simple, notebook-style space for what came to mind • A calm prompt to get you started • Your past reflections, gathered by day • A quiet "look back" months later, so you can see how your thinking has changed PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No login. No ads. No analytics. Your reflections live on your device — they're never sent to a server, and no one (including me) can read them. Optional iCloud Backup keeps a private copy in your own iCloud so your words survive a new phone. FREE, AND IT'LL STAY FREE Stroll is free with nothing locked away. If it's helped you, you can leave a one-time tip to support an independent maker — but there's no pressure, and tipping never unlocks anything. Take a walk. Let your mind wander. Keep what it brings back.

Screenshots

Step Lynx Activity Tracker4 screens
Stroll4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Stroll at none against Step Lynx Activity Tracker's 1. Stroll also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 2 weeks) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 26.0). On price, ads 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. Stroll asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Step Lynx Activity Tracker ships an update every 2 weeks, Stroll every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on September 8, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Step Lynx Activity Tracker versus Stroll: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStep Lynx Activity TrackerStroll
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS26.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB51 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDavid ConroyConnor Burns

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Step Lynx Activity Tracker

One-time1
  • Pro Mode$0.99
None

Stroll

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Step Lynx Activity Tracker free?
Step Lynx Activity Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Stroll free?
Stroll is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Step Lynx Activity Tracker or Stroll have ads?
Neither Step Lynx Activity Tracker nor Stroll shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Step Lynx Activity Tracker or Stroll?
Step Lynx Activity Tracker ships an update every 2 weeks, and Stroll every 2 days. Most recently, Step Lynx Activity Tracker was updated on September 8, 2026 and Stroll on September 22, 2026.

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