StepsLink vs Walking Buddy
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
StepsLink
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A step counter that makes you want to walk. StepsLink counts your steps with Apple Health and turns your goal into a line to cross every day. YOUR DAILY LINE • Your goal becomes a line. You watch it get closer, then you cross it. • Your streak of good days, your calendar, your best day. • A 4-week program to build up gently, based on your real steps. • 15 badges to unlock. YOUR STATS • Steps, distance, calories, active minutes and floors. • Day hour by hour, week, month, year: trends, best day, typical day. TO KEEP GOING FOR THE LONG RUN • Join a group with a 6-character code, or create your own: up to 25 people, a leaderboard for today and for the week, your group's total up top. • A chat with replies, mentions and reactions. When someone crosses their line, the whole group sees it. • The world leaderboard: take on walkers around the world, by week or by month. The top 100 and your place. Optional: you only appear if you turn it on. YOUR HEALTH, IN ONE PLACE • Heart: resting and walking heart rate, VO₂ max and variability (depending on what your watch measures). • Sleep: duration, consistency, and sleep stages with an Apple Watch. • Weight: chart, goal, BMI. • Water: log a glass in one tap, saved to Apple Health. WITHOUT OPENING THE APP • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets: your steps, your streak, your group, your water. • Add a glass of water right from the widget. • Reminders you set yourself, quiet hours, and a recap every Sunday. YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS No ads, no data selling. StepsLink reads your data from Apple Health and only writes your weight, your height and the water you log. Your group sees your steps for the day; the world leaderboard is off by default. You can hide or report anyone in two taps. In English or French, in dark or light. For iPhone. SUBSCRIPTION StepsLink Premium, monthly or yearly, unlocks the whole app. New subscribers may be offered a free trial: its length is shown before you subscribe. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation. The subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel it in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use: https://stepslink.app/legal#terms Privacy Policy: https://stepslink.app/legal Apple EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Walking Buddy
This app provides personalized step count reminders throughout the day to help you reach your fitness goals. It learns your pace and offers flexible goal setting, with detailed history and Apple Watch integration. It prioritizes user privacy with no ads or analytics.
- Personalized step reminders
- Apple Health integration
- Customizable daily goals
- Pace learning and projection
- Detailed step history
- Apple Watch app and complications
- Privacy-focused design
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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 canceled 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 every 2 days against StepsLink's weekly. 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. StepsLink sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month 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.
StepsLink ships an update weekly, Walking Buddy every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | StepsLink | Walking Buddy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 64 MB | 32 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Romain Joulia | Raphael Koebraam |
In-app purchases
StepsLink
- StepsLink Coachee7 Days trial$3.991 Month
- Premium Monthly3 Days trial$4.991 Month
- StepsLink Coach7 Days trial$8.991 Month
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- StepsLink Coachee Yearly7 Days trial$34.991 Year
- Premium Yearly3 Days trial$44.991 Year
- StepsLink Coach Yearly7 Days trial$69.991 Year
Walking Buddy
- Pro Monthly: Reminders, Trends$1.991 Month
- Pro Yearly: Reminders, Trends7 Days trial$19.991 Year









