Comparison

GotSteps vs Just Steps.

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

Head to head
About

GotSteps

Turn your walks into fun, competitive battles with friends, family, or colleagues. This app offers private group challenges with automatic tracking and various fair play modes for engaging fitness motivation.

Highlights
  • Private group challenges
  • Automatic HealthKit sync
  • Step or calorie battles
  • Fair competition modes
  • Real-time leaderboards
  • Battle recaps
  • Shareable challenge banners
Features
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Transform your daily walks into competitive battles with friends, family, or coworkers. GotSteps makes fitness fun through private group challenges with automatic tracking and fair play modes. What You Can Do: • Create or join private battles with 6-character invite codes • Compete in step or calorie battles (1 day to infinite duration) • Automatic HealthKit sync—no manual entry, no cheating • Fair competition modes: Classic (highest total wins), Handicap (baseline-adjusted scoring), and Best Days (only your best N days count) • Real-time leaderboards with daily stats, streaks, and rankings • Battle recaps with winners, comebacks, and improvement highlights • Mark rest days that use baseline averages instead of actual steps • Share battle results and challenge banners on Instagram Stories • Send taunts to rivals with preset messages • Background step syncing keeps your progress updated automatically Perfect For: • Friends who want to motivate each other through friendly competition • Family members staying active together • Workplace wellness challenges and team building • Anyone who needs accountability to walk more Privacy First: All battles are private and invite-only. Your HealthKit data is used only to track your progress—never shared or sold. We use automatic syncing from Apple Health, so there's no manual entry and no way to cheat. How It Works: 1. Create an account with email and password 2. Grant HealthKit permission to sync your steps and calories 3. Create a private group or join one with an invite code 4. Start a battle (choose duration, type, and fair play mode) 5. Walk, sync automatically, and compete on real-time leaderboards Fair Competition: Not everyone walks the same amount. That's why we have Handicap mode (adjusts scores based on your baseline activity) and Best Days mode (only your best days count toward your total). Everyone can compete fairly, regardless of their starting fitness level. Start your first battle today and turn walking into a game.

About

Just Steps.

Features
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Finally an app that intuitively shows steps on your Apple Watch, for Free. Easily set a daily goal, view your step count and see how many steps you have left directly on your watch face, smart stack or in the app. The app runs entirely on your watch. WHEN YOU OPEN IT Front Page: You will see a big ring with step count in the middle and daily goal below it. Under the ring you can see how many steps you have left for the day. Daily Goal: Scroll once from front page to access daily goal. here you can quickly select a preset or click on the big number to dial in your exact step goal. Make sure to click "Set Goal" after selecting your desired amount. Analytics: Easily glance at the analytics of your step history. you can switch between "Day", "Week" and "Month" options. For each, you get the average daily step amount (days you did not wear your watch are left out of your averages, so a weekend off does not drag your numbers down.), and below it you have best day record. Click on the bar chart on any option, and a detailed list view is opened for you to find exact step data. Notifications: Last page, here you can turn on/off Goal Reached and Evening Nudge notifications. ON YOUR WATCH FACE Complications for every accessory slot watchOS offers, so the app should work with the face you already use: - Circular, with your step count inside a progress ring - Rectangular, with your count and how many are left, in two styles: text only, or text with a progress ring - Corner, with your count and remaining curving around the edge, also in two styles - Inline, for faces with a single line of text Every one of them turns green the moment you close your goal. IN THE SMART STACK Swipe up from your watch face and your steps are there, no complication required. Tap it to open the app. YOUR DATA STAYS ON YOUR WATCH Just Steps. reads one thing from Apple Health: your step count. - No account, no sign up, no email address - No servers. The app contains no networking code at all and makes no internet connections - No ad analytics, no tracking, no advertising, no third party code of any kind - Nothing is ever sold, shared or sent anywhere, nothing ever leaves your watch RATINGS Ratings are how a one person app gets found. If Just Steps. helps you every day, please leave a review. It means the world to me, thank you! FREE No subscription. No adverts. No in app purchases. No paywalls. Requires an Apple Watch running watchOS 10 or later.

Screenshots

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Verdict

The call

GotSteps and Just Steps. are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
GotSteps versus Just Steps.: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGotStepsJust Steps.
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS18.618.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size18 MB2 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperZORIX LLCDavud Osmanovic

In-app purchases

None

GotSteps

No in-app purchases

None

Just Steps.

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is GotSteps free?
GotSteps is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Just Steps. free?
Just Steps. is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do GotSteps or Just Steps. have ads?
Neither GotSteps nor Just Steps. shows ads.

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