Comparison

Gym vs StepRight

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

Head to head
About

Gym

This interval timer is designed for athletes who want a simple, private workout experience that doesn't interrupt their music. It features a minimalist interface and runs seamlessly in the background.

Highlights
  • Completely free with no ads or subscriptions
  • Open source with community contributions
  • Minimalist and distraction-free interface
  • Seamless background operation with music apps
  • Intervals set in seconds
Features
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## **Description** Elevate your workout without the interruptions. **Gym-timer** is a lightweight, high-performance interval timer designed for athletes who value simplicity, privacy, and their own soundtrack. ### **The Music-First Timer** Most gym timers hijack your audio. Ours doesn’t. Whether you’re blasting metal or a podcast, **Gym-timer** runs seamlessly in the background, ensuring your music never stops while you train. ### **Key Features** * **Completely Free:** No subscriptions, no locked features, and absolutely **no ads**. * **Open Source:** Built with transparency in mind. Check out our code and contribute on [GitHub](https://github.com/Gary0302/Gym-timer). * **Minimalist Interface:** Set your intervals in seconds and get to work. No cluttered menus or unnecessary distractions. * **Music Friendly:** Keeps your workout rhythm going by working alongside your favorite music apps. ### **Why Open Source?** We believe fitness tools should be accessible to everyone. By keeping **Gym-timer** open source, we ensure the app remains community-driven, secure, and free forever.

About

StepRight

This app gamifies walking by turning your daily steps into a rewarding experience. Track progress with animated rings, unlock milestones, and maintain streaks. It offers detailed activity breakdowns, historical trends, and GPS tracking for walks, all while prioritizing user privacy.

Highlights
  • Animated progress rings
  • Daily streaks and milestones
  • Detailed activity breakdown
  • GPS walk recording
  • Privacy-focused data handling
  • Historical trend analysis
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Step Right makes walking feel like a game you actually want to play. Watch your progress fill a beautiful animated ring, chase daily streaks, unlock milestones, and celebrate goal-hit moments with a confetti burst. It's the friendliest way to build a walking habit — and it's completely free with no ads, ever. TODAY, AT A GLANCE A big animated progress ring shows your daily goal at a glance. Below it, live tiles surface everything that matters: • Steps, distance, average speed, and current walking speed • Calories burned and goal progress • Elevation gained and lost, from the barometer • A "since midnight" activity breakdown — walking, running, stationary, sleeping, driving • Current streak with the classic fire icon • Milestone seals at 2.5k, 5k, 7.5k, 10k, 15k, and 20k steps TRENDS THAT ACTUALLY TELL A STORY Beautifully animated bar charts across four ranges — Week, Month, 6 Months, and Year — with a goal line, best-day trophy, and a side-by-side comparison against the previous period. Track your progress over time and see whether you're trending up. AUTOMATIC WALK CAPTURE Turn on auto-capture and Step Right quietly organizes every walk you take, using HealthKit workouts and step-sample gaps. Each walk shows step count, distance, duration, elevation, and a source label so you know exactly where it came from. RECORD A WALK WITH GPS Start a walk and Step Right follows along with a live map, real-time route polyline, current pace, elevation, and step count. When you stop, everything is saved with a mappable route you can revisit later. WALK HISTORY, GROUPED BY DAY Every walk lives in a clean, day-grouped list. Tap any walk to see its route on the map, plus the full stats panel — steps, distance, duration, average speed, ascent, and descent. PRIVACY-FIRST Step Right reads from Apple Health on your device. Nothing leaves your phone — no accounts, no cloud, no tracking, no data collection. Your walks and steps are yours. COMPLETELY FREE. NO ADS. No subscriptions. No paywalls. No in-app purchases. No ads. Just a delightful, thoughtfully designed step tracker built for people who love to walk. Download Step Right and turn every step into progress worth celebrating.

Screenshots

Gym3 screens
StepRight4 screens

Verdict

The call

Gym and StepRight are too close to call on the numbers: across 8 compared parameters — price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Gym against 5.0 for StepRight. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 2 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Gym versus StepRight: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGymStepRight
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Number of ratings22
Update frequency—Every 3 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.217.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFu-Chun YangRoland Fernandez

In-app purchases

None

Gym

No in-app purchases

None

StepRight

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Gym free?
Gym is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is StepRight free?
StepRight is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Gym or StepRight?
Gym and StepRight are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do Gym or StepRight have ads?
Neither Gym nor StepRight shows ads.

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