Pedometer vs Walking Buddy
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pedometer
Track your daily steps, distance, and calories burned to build healthier habits and achieve your fitness goals. This app offers accurate, battery-efficient activity monitoring with easy-to-read summaries for daily, weekly, and monthly progress.
- Accurate step counting
- Track distance and calories
- Daily, weekly, monthly summaries
- Lightweight and battery-efficient
- Automatic tracking
- Clean design with easy stats
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Stay motivated and keep moving with Pedometer, a simple and accurate way to track your daily activity. Monitor steps, distance, and calories burned to build healthier habits and reach your fitness goals. Main Features: • Accurate step counting throughout the day • Track distance and calories burned • Daily, weekly, and monthly activity summaries • Lightweight and battery-efficient tracking • Easy-to-read stats and clean design Why You’ll Love It: • Stay active and motivated every day • Perfect for walking, jogging, and daily movement • Simple setup with automatic tracking • Ideal for all fitness levels Subscription Details: • Weekly Plan: $4.99/week with a 3-day free trial • Yearly $19.99/year Payment will be charged to your iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours before the period ends. You can manage or cancel your subscription anytime in your iTunes Account settings. Any unused portion of a free trial will be forfeited when a subscription is purchased. Privacy Policy - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jkC34PCFGhP2ezG2r_vLMNj7fLhQC7uz82H5Iq6A4-c/edit?usp=sharing Terms of Use - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yTF3AAWj-jQquFcuw_YYIb8ikMghhdU03ga_0BTET2Y/edit?usp=sharing
Walking Buddy
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Reminders that say how many steps to take and keep you moving through the day instead of one long walk in the morning or evening. Walking Buddy reads your steps from Apple Health, learns your usual pace, and nudges you when the day starts to slip. No account, no ads. STEPS THAT ADD UP See today's count from Apple Health on a ring with your goal, how far you are ahead of or behind pace, and where the steps landed hour by hour. REMINDERS SIZED TO YOUR DAY Instead of "walk more", each nudge tells you how many steps to take right now to stay on pace, and stops once the goal is done. Choose your active hours and days. Snooze a nudge or mark the day done straight from the notification. YOUR USUAL PACE Walking Buddy learns your typical day from the past four weeks and tells you whether today is ahead, on track or behind, with a projection of where the day will land. GOALS FOR EVERY KIND OF DAY Keep more than one goal active, each on its own days: 10,000 steps on weekdays and 6,000 at the weekend. A day without a goal is a rest day: no reminders, and your streak is safe. HISTORY THAT MEANS SOMETHING Week, month and year views, goal-met days, streaks with rest days that do not break them, and a Steps Log calendar back to your first recorded step. A weekly recap arrives every Sunday evening. ON YOUR APPLE WATCH Today's ring, steps to go and your pace on your wrist, with complications for the watch face and the Smart Stack. The watch app works on its own: it reads steps from the watch, keeps your goal, and lets you change the daily target with the Digital Crown. With the iPhone app installed, the goal stays the same on both. WALKING BUDDY PRO - Reminders on your schedule: every hour, twice an hour, fixed intervals, or your own times - Keep the nudges coming after the goal - Custom reminder messages - Vacation mode: plan the days you are away, with no reminders and your streak safe - Streak protection: one missed day a week does not break your streak - Trends and All Time: four-week trend, this week, month and year against the last, the year as a heat map, typical day with weekday and weekend averages, and every year since your first step - Apple Watch: pace and steps to go on the watch face (rectangular and corner complications), your usual pace and the day by hour PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account, no ads, no analytics. Step data is read from Apple Health and stays on your iPhone and Apple Watch. Goals are stored locally. Walking Buddy is a pedometer built on Apple Health: it works with iPhone step counting and with Apple Watch data that syncs to Apple Health. Pro is a subscription, monthly or yearly with a 7-day free trial, charged to your Apple ID and renewed unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the period ends. Manage it in Settings > Apple ID > Subscriptions. Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Walking Buddy at daily against Pedometer's weekly. Pedometer's advantage is iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.0). 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
Both are free to download. Pedometer sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days and Walking Buddy sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Pedometer ships an update weekly, Walking Buddy daily. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pedometer | Walking Buddy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Subscription | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 32 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Teodor Savchyn | Raphael Koebraam |
In-app purchases
Pedometer
- Step Counter3 Days trial$4.997 Days
- Step Counter$4.991 Month
- Step Counter$6.991 Month
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- Step Counter$19.991 Year
- Step Counter$29.991 Year
Walking Buddy
- Pro Monthly: Reminders, Trends$1.991 Month
- Pro Yearly: Reminders, Trends7 Days trial$19.991 Year









