Just Walk vs StepMate
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Just Walk
This app guides you through interval walking using haptic cues on your Apple Watch, helping you maintain target paces without needing to look at your phone. It offers a 4-week adaptive program, tracks real-life brisk walking, and provides insights into your progress and consistency.
- Haptic interval coaching
- Adaptive 4-week program
- Automatic real-life walk crediting
- Progress and consistency tracking
- Forgiving daily step streaks
- Heart-rate guided Fat Burn Zone walks
- Post-meal walks
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The Japanese interval walking method, coached from your wrist. Three minutes fast, three minutes slow. It's almost impossible to pace correctly on your own. Just Walk is the coach: haptic cues on your Apple Watch keep your fast intervals actually fast, without audio, without looking at your phone. WHAT MAKES JUST WALK DIFFERENT • CADENCE COACHING — Live steps-per-minute with a target band for every fast interval. Fall off the pace and your wrist tells you. Hit it and you'll know. • A SCREEN YOU READ AT A GLANCE — When you do look, the whole screen is the stretch you're in: green for fast, blue for slow, with a tide that rises as it runs and a countdown into every change. In fast stretches, a dot swings at your target pace. Your Lock Screen and Dynamic Island carry the same colour, the time left and what's next. • SEE HOW IT WENT — After an interval walk, a chart shows each fast stretch against your pace band, with one plain sentence that sums it up. • THE 4-WEEK PROGRAM — Start at 3 cycles, and the plan adapts to how you actually walk: finish strong and it levels up; struggle and it repeats the week. Miss a day? The program waits for you. • WE NOTICE REAL LIFE — Walked briskly to the train for 14 minutes? That counts. Just Walk credits walking you did without opening the app. • HOW IT'S GOING — Two honest numbers. Showing Up counts the walking you did. Ease watches whether walks are getting easier for your body — compared to one person only: you, weeks ago. Most weeks it says Steady, because that's the truth. It isn't a grade or a medical measurement, just a mirror we hold steady. • STREAKS THAT FORGIVE — Daily step streaks with 4 shields a month (bank up to 8) for the days life happens. If a shield can cover a missed day, your streak waits on Today, dimmed, until you decide. Use one and you see it land on the day it saved. Free for everyone. BUILT FOR IPHONE DUO Just Walk fits both screens. Closed, it's the Just Walk you know on the outer display. Open it upright for the same layout at full size, or turn it sideways to see your step ring beside your day. Half-folded like a laptop mid-walk, the phase and time sit on the top half and your pace and controls on the bottom, clear of the crease. ALSO IN JUST WALK • Step tracking that matches Apple Health • Tap your step ring to see about how many minutes of walking are left, at the pace of your recent walks (a steady walk until you have some) • VoiceOver announces each new stretch of an interval walk, with its time and what's next • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets • Fat Burn Zone walks with live heart-rate guidance (Apple Watch) • Post-meal walks: 10 minutes on your feet after you eat • Full Apple Watch app with complications TRY THE COACHING FREE Every interval walk comes with live cadence coaching, including your free weekly walk. The first 7 days of the program are free too, and your How it's going numbers are free, always. Just Walk Pro unlocks the full 4-week program, unlimited coached walks, and the story behind your numbers: full history, your weekly Ease readings, and a note from your coach about why they moved. Eligible new subscribers can start with a 7-day free trial on the annual plan. No account. No ads. Your step counts and other health data stay on your devices, in Apple Health; iCloud syncs your streaks and walks without them. Terms of Use (EULA): https://onworld.tech/just-walk/terms Privacy Policy: https://onworld.tech/just-walk/privacy
StepMate
This app helps you monitor your daily steps and activity progress with a clear, simple interface. View your recent activity, track goal achievement, and stay motivated with visual progress indicators. It also offers Apple Watch integration for convenient wrist-based tracking.
- Daily step tracking
- Clear daily goal progress
- Last 7 days overview
- Improved history view
- Percentage progress above 100%
- Apple Watch support
- Light and dark mode
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StepMate helps you keep your daily movement clear, simple, and easy to follow. Track your steps, complete your daily goals, and see how your activity develops over time. The app shows your current daily progress and now also displays the last 7 days directly on your phone screen. This gives you a quick overview of your recent activity, the days when you reached your goal, and how consistent you have been throughout the week. The history view has also been improved to make your past results easier to read and understand. StepMate also supports Apple Watch. With the watchOS app and new Apple Watch widgets, you can follow your progress directly from your wrist. A quick glance at your watch is all you need to see how close you are to reaching your daily step goal. The app is designed to be simple, fast, and pleasant to use every day. The refreshed design brings a cleaner look, better readability, and a more natural way to view your activity data. Percent values now also show progress above 100%, so you can clearly see when you have exceeded your daily goal. You can personalize StepMate in the settings. Choose light mode, dark mode, or follow your system appearance. You can also select the app language to make StepMate feel more comfortable for you. StepMate is ideal for anyone who wants to stay aware of their daily movement, build healthier habits, and stay motivated through simple progress tracking. Main features: - daily step tracking - clear daily goal progress - last 7 days overview - improved history view - percentage progress above 100% - Apple Watch support - new Apple Watch widgets - light and dark mode - app language selection - simple and clean design StepMate helps make movement a natural part of your day. Track your progress, reach your goals, and keep your steps always within reach.This version brings new features, a refreshed design, and several improvements to make tracking your daily movement clearer and more enjoyable.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: StepMate at none against Just Walk's 3. Just Walk's advantage is ratings volume (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.2). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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. Just Walk sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. StepMate asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Just Walk against 5.0 for StepMate. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively.
Just Walk ships an update every 4 days, StepMate weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Just Walk | StepMate |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 26.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | On World Tech LLC | Patrik Portes |
Customer experience
Just Walk
StepMate
In-app purchases
Just Walk
- Just Walk Pro (Monthly)$0.991 Month
- Just Walk Pro (Annual)7 Days trial$9.991 Year
- Just Walk (Streak Shield)$2.99
StepMate
No in-app purchases









