Comparison

Step Lynx Activity Tracker vs Steppies

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

Steppies

This app offers a straightforward way to track your daily steps, distance, calories burned, and floors climbed. It features a progress ring that fills as you approach your goal and provides historical data for weekly, monthly, and yearly views. Widgets are available for your home screen, lock screen, and Apple Watch.

Highlights
  • Live daily step count
  • Customizable daily step goal
  • Distance, active calories, floors climbed
  • Home and Lock Screen widgets
  • Apple Watch app and complications
  • Weekly, monthly, yearly history
Features
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Steppies is a beautifully simple step counter that keeps your health data where it belongs—with you. Set it up once, and you may never need to open the app again. Add Steppies premium widgets to your Lock Screen, Home Screen, or Apple Watch face to keep your live step count a glance away. See today’s steps, or pinch and zoom through years of history to see how far you’ve come. FEATURES • Set up in seconds—no account, ads, or hassle • Track steps, distance, floors climbed, and active calories • Choose your own daily step goal and watch the ring fill • Explore Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Yearly, and All Time history • Share your step count your way with custom visual cards and animations • Add beautiful widgets to your Home Screen and Lock Screen • Use the Apple Watch app and complications that fit right in TRY BEFORE YOU BUY Premium widgets and complications are included for 30 days. If you like them, Steppies Forever unlocks every current and future widget we release for a small, one-time purchase. PRIVACY FIRST Steppies reads your health data directly from your device and never sends it anywhere. Your personal information never leaves your iPhone or Apple Watch. No subscriptions. No ads. No notifications. Just steps. Built in San Francisco.

Screenshots

Step Lynx Activity Tracker4 screens
Steppies4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Steppies at none against Step Lynx Activity Tracker's 1. Step Lynx Activity Tracker's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs weekly). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. Steppies asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Step Lynx Activity Tracker against 5.0 for Steppies. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 6 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Step Lynx Activity Tracker ships an update every 3 days, Steppies weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Step Lynx Activity Tracker versus Steppies: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStep Lynx Activity TrackerSteppies
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings)5.0 (6 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings46 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS26.026.0
Further details — not scored
Size21 MB26 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDavid ConroyIsaac Consultants LLC

Customer experience

Step Lynx Activity Tracker

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Steppies

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Step Lynx Activity Tracker

One-time1
  • Pro Mode$0.99
None

Steppies

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 Steppies free?
Steppies is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Step Lynx Activity Tracker or Steppies?
Step Lynx Activity Tracker and Steppies are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 4 and 6 ratings respectively.
Do Step Lynx Activity Tracker or Steppies have ads?
Neither Step Lynx Activity Tracker nor Steppies shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Step Lynx Activity Tracker or Steppies?
Step Lynx Activity Tracker ships an update every 3 days, and Steppies weekly. Most recently, Step Lynx Activity Tracker was updated on October 24, 2026 and Steppies on October 25, 2026.

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