Comparison

Step Lynx Activity Tracker vs Dante Steps

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

Dante Steps

Features
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Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita — midway along the road of our life. Dante Steps is a literary pedometer: your real, everyday steps walk the road of Dante's Divine Comedy, from the dark wood to the White Rose. No account, no ads, no map — just your steps, fifteen stations, ten small relics to collect, and Gustave Doré's engravings along the way. THE DARK ROAD (free) Walk 20,000 steps from the dark wood through the gate, past the whirlwind and the frozen floor, out under the stars of Purgatory and up the great climb — to the place where the road itself burns: the Wall of Fire. BEYOND THE FIRE (one-time purchase) The second half of the journey is unlocked with a single in-app purchase. Past the flame: the green country of the Earthly Paradise, Beatrice, the rising heavens, the rings of angels, and — at 40,000 steps — the White Rose, and the love that moves the sun and the other stars. ALSO IN YOUR POCKET • Original Italian lines from the Commedia (Petrocchi edition), with new English renderings written for this app • Fifteen Doré plates, faithfully reproduced from public-domain engravings (1861–1868) • Ten relics of the road, from a laurel leaf to a star • Apple Watch companion: steps, stations and road-words on your wrist • Steps are counted on your device with Core Motion and never leave your iPhone Dante Steps is not a medical or fitness product. It is a way to read a very old book with your feet.

Screenshots

Step Lynx Activity Tracker4 screens
Dante Steps4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Dante Steps at every 2 days against Step Lynx Activity Tracker's every 2 weeks. Dante Steps also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 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. Step Lynx Activity Tracker sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Dante Steps sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Step Lynx Activity Tracker ships an update every 2 weeks, Dante Steps every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Step Lynx Activity Tracker versus Dante Steps: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStep Lynx Activity TrackerDante Steps
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS26.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB18 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDavid ConroyRIEKO NAITO

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Step Lynx Activity Tracker

One-time1
  • Pro Mode$0.99
1 purchases

Dante Steps

One-time1
  • Beyond the Fire$2.99

Questions

Is Step Lynx Activity Tracker free?
Step Lynx Activity Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Dante Steps free?
Dante Steps is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Step Lynx Activity Tracker or Dante Steps have ads?
Neither Step Lynx Activity Tracker nor Dante Steps shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Step Lynx Activity Tracker or Dante Steps?
Step Lynx Activity Tracker ships an update every 2 weeks, and Dante Steps every 2 days. Most recently, Step Lynx Activity Tracker was updated on October 10, 2026 and Dante Steps on October 8, 2026.

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