Comparison

SmileLine vs Footfall

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

Head to head
About

SmileLine

Effortlessly track your mood with intuitive gestures. Simply slide on your iPhone or rotate the Digital Crown on your Apple Watch to log your feelings. Gain instant insights into your emotional patterns with a clean, minimal interface.

Highlights
  • Gesture-based mood logging
  • Minimalist one-screen interface
  • iPhone and Apple Watch compatibility
  • Instant emotional pattern insights
  • Haptic feedback on Apple Watch
Features
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A dial, a slide, your mood. The simplest mood tracker. No tapping. No typing. Just a smooth turn of the Digital Crown or a gentle slide on your screen. On iPhone: Slide up or down. That's it. Your mood, captured in one effortless gesture. On Apple Watch: Rotate the Digital Crown. Feel the haptic feedback as you move through your emotions. It's intuitive, discreet, and takes just seconds. Why SmileLine? Truly minimal: One screen. One motion. No clutter. Works everywhere: Use it on your iPhone or Apple Watch—seamlessly. Instant insights: Watch your emotional patterns emerge over time, without the effort. Your feelings matter. Tracking them shouldn't feel like work. Download SmileLine – free. Just move the dial.

About

Footfall

Features
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Footfall shows the steps your iPhone already counted, and almost nothing else. It has no step counting algorithm of its own, and that is the point. It reads the daily totals from Health, the one place on iOS where an iPhone and an Apple Watch are added up without the same walk being counted twice. The number here is the number there. No second opinion, no arguing with your watch about this morning. The rest of the app puts that number in front of you. A widget on the Home Screen. A circle or a rectangle on the Lock Screen. A medium widget for the week. They refresh through the day, and say so rather than pass off yesterday's total as today's. ON YOUR WRIST Ten years after the first Apple Watch, no built-in complication shows a step count as a number. Footfall does, in four shapes, on any face with room for one. The watch reads Health on the watch, so the count is right even when the iPhone stayed at home, and there is nothing to fall out of sync. The complications are free, like every other widget here. ONE SCREEN, TOP TO BOTTOM A ring that warms from clay to amber and turns gold at your goal, with the count rolling in the middle. The shape of the day: twenty four hourly bars that show when you walked, not only how much. The week in seven bars you can tap, and tapping one moves the top of the screen to that day. The month as dots, each one sized by its steps, and a swipe back through the months before it. Then four numbers: your seven day average, your thirty day average, your best day, and the days you met your goal. NOTHING YOU DID NOT ASK FOR No account. No ads. No analytics. No notifications, no badges, no levels. The streak stays off until you turn it on, because a streak nobody asked for turns into a debt. The app opens no network connection at all, so nothing can leave the phone. Nothing is written back into Health either. FOOTFALL PLUS Counting, the widgets, the watch complications, the goal, kilometers or miles, the day, the week and the month are free and stay free. Footfall Plus is one payment, once, and it adds every past month one by one, the full year day by day, your rhythm by day of the week, records and totals from the first day Health holds, and a CSV export. No subscription. Nothing renews. WHAT IT NEEDS Permission to read steps and walking distance from Health, and nothing else. iOS has been recording those since you got the phone, so your history is usually there the first time you open the app. If you have never walked with the iPhone on you, Footfall will show you an honest empty day. English and French. iPhone, iOS 18 and later. Apple Watch, watchOS 11 and later.

Screenshots

SmileLine4 screens
Footfall4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: SmileLine at every 10 days against Footfall's monthly. SmileLine also leads on device support (4 vs 2) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 18.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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. SmileLine sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Footfall sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SmileLine ships an update every 10 days, Footfall monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
SmileLine versus Footfall: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSmileLineFootfall
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 10 days — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS14.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size34 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer伟 沈THEO MARTIN

In-app purchases

1 purchases

SmileLine

One-time1
  • SmileLine LifeTime Access$4.99
1 purchases

Footfall

One-time1
  • Footfall Plus$4.99

Questions

Is SmileLine free?
SmileLine is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Footfall free?
Footfall is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do SmileLine or Footfall have ads?
Neither SmileLine nor Footfall shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SmileLine or Footfall?
SmileLine ships an update every 10 days, and Footfall monthly. Most recently, SmileLine was updated on October 28, 2026 and Footfall on October 24, 2026.

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