Comparison

Cloudless Steps vs Daystride.

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

Head to head
About

Cloudless Steps

This app tracks your daily steps and workouts locally on your device, prioritizing privacy by not using GPS. It offers automatic tracking, daily goals, historical trends, and home screen widgets, with an optional one-time upgrade for full history via Apple Health Sync.

Highlights
  • Automatic step tracking
  • Local data storage
  • Daily step goals
  • Workout tracking
  • Historical trends
  • Home screen widgets
  • Dark mode support
Features
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Step tracker with all-local data!!! Track your health, not your location. WHY CHOOSE CLOUDLESS? Battery Saver: Because we don't use GPS, Cloudless Steps uses a fraction of the battery of other fitness apps. 100% Private: Your data stays on your iPhone. We don't know where you walk, only how much you walk. 22 Languages: Designed for global use. KEY FEATURES: Automatic Tracking: Just put your phone in your pocket and go. Daily Goals: Set your step target and close your ring. Workouts: Track your daily workouts and see success over time. Historical Trends: See your weekly and monthly progress as you step into the future... Home Screen Widgets: See your progress at a glance. Dark Mode Support: Beautiful design that's easy on the eyes. SIMPLE PRICING: What You Get with The initial download: - Track your daily steps and see your current progress. - 7-Day History: Review your recent week of activity. Unlock Everything: - one time upgrade to unlock full step history via Apple Health Sync Download Cloudless Steps today and start walking safely and privately, without the cloud, cloudless.

About

Daystride.

Features
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One number. One quiet ritual. Daystride is a small, quiet space for the one number that matters: today. Pedometer apps tend to grow into workouts, routes, training plans, badges, and weekly subscription stacks. Daystride does the opposite. One number. One chart. One feeling when the bar warms. THE WHOLE APP, ONE SCREEN Open Daystride and you see today's steps, a warm ring filling toward your goal, and a 7-day strip beneath. That's it. The bar warms when you cross. HISTORY WITHOUT HOMEWORK Week, month, year — three views, three taps. Past goals stick: change today's goal and yesterday stays evaluated against yesterday's. Future days render as ghost stubs and quietly wait their turn. THREE ACCENTS, ONE YOU'LL KEEP Pick once. Glow (warm coral into gold), Meadow (forest into citrus), or Sky (royal blue into seafoam). Ring, bars, particles — even your home-screen icon — retint instantly. WIDGETS FOR EVERY SURFACE Five iOS widgets: Home Small (ring + count), Home Medium (ring + 7-day mini histogram), and three Lock Screen sizes (Circular, Rectangular, Inline). They retint with your accent. PRIVACY BY ABSENCE • Reads steps from Apple Health. Never writes back. • No account. No login. No email collection. • No analytics. No third-party SDKs. • Zero outbound network calls. • Free, with no in-app purchases or subscriptions. The fastest way to be private is to never receive the data in the first place. Daystride has no backend, so there is nothing to leak, subpoena, or sell. TEN LANGUAGES English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Italian, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish. REQUIREMENTS iPhone with iOS 17 or later. Reads from Apple Health. Made quietly in Luxembourg by TK Media.

Screenshots

Cloudless Steps4 screens
Daystride.4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Daystride. at none against Cloudless Steps's 1. Daystride. also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.1). On price, update cadence, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Cloudless Steps sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Daystride. asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Cloudless Steps ships an update every 4 weeks, Daystride. fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Cloudless Steps versus Daystride.: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCloudless StepsDaystride.
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 weeksFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS26.117.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperROBERT EVAN GAYNORTun Keltesch

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Cloudless Steps

One-time1
  • Unlock Apple Health$1.99
None

Daystride.

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Cloudless Steps free?
Cloudless Steps is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Daystride. free?
Daystride. is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Cloudless Steps or Daystride. have ads?
Neither Cloudless Steps nor Daystride. shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Cloudless Steps or Daystride.?
Cloudless Steps ships an update every 4 weeks, and Daystride. fortnightly. Most recently, Cloudless Steps was updated on October 7, 2026 and Daystride. on September 30, 2026.

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