MotivoSteps vs PaceBoard
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MotivoSteps
This app tracks your daily steps using your iPhone and Apple Watch. It motivates you with progress rings, inspiring quotes, and a variety of badges for reaching milestones. Visualize your progress with historical data and virtually explore iconic trails.
- Live step count and progress ring
- 7-day history and daily average
- 32 achievements and badges
- Streak and lifetime step milestones
- Virtual trail and landmark exploration
- Goal sync with Apple Watch
- Home and lock screen widgets
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MotivoSteps is your daily step tracking companion for iPhone and Apple Watch. Stay motivated, build healthy habits, and earn badges for every milestone along the way. TODAY VIEW See your live step count, a progress ring toward your daily goal, and an inspiring fitness quote to keep you moving. Your goal is always front and center. 7-DAY HISTORY Track your walking trends with a bar chart of the last 7 days. See your weekly total and daily average at a glance so you know exactly how consistent you have been. 32 ACHIEVEMENTS AND BADGES MotivoSteps turns your steps into a collection of badges you earn over time. Every badge has a name, a tier, and a story behind it. Streak and Goal Badges Earn these by building consistency. First Victory unlocks the first time you hit your goal. On a Roll rewards a 3-day streak. Week Warrior takes 7 days in a row. Monthly Champion requires 30 consecutive days. Overachiever fires when you hit 200 percent of your goal in one day. Early Bird unlocks when you reach your goal before noon. Lifetime Step Milestones Century at 100,000 steps. Half Million at 500,000. Million Steps at one million. These mark how far you have walked across your entire life with the app. Year Legend This badge evolves as you grow. Hit your goal for 365 cumulative days and earn the Bronze Year One badge. Reach 1,095 days and it upgrades to Silver Three Year Legend. At 1,825 days it becomes the Gold Five Year Legend. One badge, three chapters. Trail and Landmark Badges These badges let you virtually walk the most iconic trails and landmarks in the world using your lifetime step total. Walk the equivalent of real places, one step at a time. City Walks earn Bronze badges: The High Line in New York, the Freedom Trail in Boston, El Malecon in Havana, the Atlanta BeltLine, and the Embarcadero in San Francisco. National Park Hikes earn Silver badges: Bright Angel Trail at the Grand Canyon, Half Dome in Yosemite, Angels Landing in Zion, Emerald Lake in Rocky Mountain National Park, Old Rag Mountain in Shenandoah, the Caminito del Rey in Spain, and the Na Pali Coast in Kauai. Epic Long-Distance Trails earn Gold badges: the Grand Canyon Rim-to-Rim, the Camino de Santiago, the Great Wall of China hiking section, the Inca Trail in Peru, the Appalachian Trail, the Pacific Crest Trail, and Te Araroa in New Zealand. ACHIEVEMENT CELEBRATIONS The moment you unlock a badge, a full-screen celebration takes over with a confetti explosion bursting from the center of the screen, a spinning badge coin, and haptic feedback. Every celebration is color-matched to the badge tier. Tap anywhere or press Awesome to dismiss. GOAL SYNC WITH APPLE WATCH Set your daily step goal on iPhone and it syncs to your Apple Watch instantly. Change it on the Watch and it updates on iPhone. Both devices always stay in sync using all available WatchConnectivity channels. WIDGETS Add MotivoSteps widgets to your iPhone home screen or lock screen to see your step count and goal progress without opening the app. Apple Watch complications keep your progress visible on your watch face. MOTIVATIONAL QUOTES A curated collection of fitness and walking quotes appears on your Today screen to keep you inspired every day. You can turn this on or off in Settings. CUSTOM GOALS Choose from preset goals of 5,000 to 20,000 steps or set any number you want with the custom goal slider. Your goal syncs automatically to your Apple Watch the moment you save it. PRIVACY MotivoSteps reads your step data from Apple Health. Your data never leaves your device and is never shared with third parties. No account required. Every step counts. Keep going.
PaceBoard
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Your couch called. It says it'll be fine without you. PaceBoard turns Apple Health into a dashboard that shows exactly how much you ran, walked and stepped today. Or didn't. We'll both know. On your Home Screen, Lock Screen and Apple Watch. No account, no feed, nobody watching except your shoes and the friends you pick. Set goals, keep your streak alive, and let the progress bar judge you quietly. Lovingly. FRIENDS Race your friends every week, without a feed. Turn on Friends and your Activity screen shows your Game Center friends next to you: this week, the last 30 days, longest run and all-time distance, plus run streak and best 1K, 5K and 10K times. Tap a friend for a head-to-head, see exactly how far it is to the next place, or challenge them to a distance duel or a faster 5K. No PaceBoard account, no public leaderboard, and only your friends can see you. Only scores are shared, never routes, workouts or Health data, and it stays off until you turn it on. Quiet mode hides the ranks if you'd rather not know. With Plus you can rearrange your home screen around the cards you care about. WIDGETS & APPLE WATCH Check your progress without opening the app, because opening apps is cardio you didn't sign up for. A foam-track bar shows how much is left to your goal. A Friends widget shows your rank this week. The Apple Watch app has a full dashboard and workout recording that logs workouts to your default pair (pick any pair on the watch with Plus). SHOE CLOSET Every pair gets a photo and a mileage counter. A Retire soon warning in the app tells you when they're worn out, before your knees file a complaint. Every Apple Watch workout counts toward your default pair. DISCOVERY MAP Your whole city is covered in fog, and clearing it is your problem now. Every street you run or walk gets revealed, with a coverage percentage and explored area in km² or mi². Yes, it's addictive. No, we're not sorry. DASHBOARD Running, walking or steps, by day, week, month or year. Recent workouts, goals and today's training plan workout on one screen. Zero scrolling for excuses. WORKOUT RECORDING Start a run or walk from your iPhone or Apple Watch. Live distance, pace, heart rate zones, elevation and calories on your Lock Screen and Dynamic Island. Your GPS route is saved to Apple Health, so the evidence is safe. TRAINING PLANS Beginner 5K all the way to Marathon, with week-by-week schedules, coach notes, tempo runs, intervals and long runs. Your couch will take it personally. STREAKS & ACHIEVEMENTS Streaks reward showing up, and they remember when you don't. Compare year over year, collect medals for records, step milestones and lifetime distance, and follow your Road to Marathon from 1K to 42.2K. SHARING Workout cards, weekly summaries, Year Wrapped visuals and medals, for when you want to brag. Never required. IPHONE DUO Unfold it and PaceBoard unfolds with you: dashboard, map, plans, shoes and medals get two-pane layouts that use both halves of the screen. Twice the screen, same number of excuses. KM OR MILES Pick one and it applies everywhere: app, widgets, Apple Watch. We don't take sides. PACEBOARD PLUS Free to use. Plus unlocks home screen customization, the run streak and best 1K/5K/10K friend boards, monthly widget timeframes, dynamic widget backgrounds, the unlimited discovery map, extra training plans, unlimited shoes, the Apple Watch shoe picker, and the month view on Apple Watch and its complications. Subscribe monthly or yearly, or pay once with Lifetime: one payment, not a subscription, and no guilt-trip notifications. That's the streak's job. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://thundering-ketchup-fee.notion.site/Privacy-Policy-PaceBoard-3f3ed39e6413819ab096f79a4e617d96
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Verdict
MotivoSteps and PaceBoard are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. MotivoSteps sells 5 one-off in-app purchases and PaceBoard sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
MotivoSteps ships an update weekly, PaceBoard every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MotivoSteps | PaceBoard |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 — better | 27.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 120 MB | 20 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Recognica, LLC | Raul Carlos Petru Petruta |
In-app purchases
MotivoSteps
- Small Coffee$0.99
- MotivoSteps Pro$1.99
- Medium Coffee$2.99
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- Lunch$4.99
- Generous Tip$9.99
PaceBoard
- PaceBoard: Run & Walk Tracker7 Days trial$6.991 Month
- Plus Year7 Days trial$49.991 Year
- PaceBoard: Run & Walk Tracker$24.99








