Comparison

TheDailySteps vs Fawnly

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

Head to head
About

TheDailySteps

This app helps you track your daily steps and stay motivated to reach your fitness goals. Set personal targets, maintain streaks with flexible rest days, and join challenges for extra motivation. Receive gentle reminders to keep you moving throughout the day.

Highlights
  • Step tracking via Health data
  • Apple Watch compatibility
  • Personal step goal setting
  • Streak system with rest days
  • Fitness challenges
  • Encouraging reminders
Features
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The Daily Steps – Move More, Stay Consistent! The Daily Steps uses your iPhone's Health data to track your steps throughout the day, and is fully compatible with Apple Watch. Set a personal step goal and stay on track with a built-in streak system. Life happens, so you can choose up to 3 rest days that won't break your streak — giving you flexibility without losing your progress. Ready to push further? Enroll in a challenge and take your step game to the next level. Each challenge has its own rules around rest days and step targets, so make sure to read them before enrolling. And if a challenge doesn't go as planned, don't give up — you can always re-enroll and try again. Your personal step goal and streak are always yours to keep, no matter what happens with a challenge. Throughout the day, The Daily Steps sends gentle, encouraging reminders to keep you motivated toward both your personal goal and any active challenge goal. Your journey, your pace — one step at a time.

About

Fawnly

Track your daily steps, distance, and calories with a beautiful, pressure-free interface. Understand your progress over time with detailed insights and customize your experience with unique themes. Share your achievements with friends.

Highlights
  • Daily step, distance, and calorie tracking
  • Progress review and historical insights
  • Customizable themes and fonts
  • Shareable activity cards
  • Apple Health integration
  • No account or cloud sync required
Features
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Fawnly is a calm and beautiful way to understand your daily movement and build a walking habit without pressure. YOUR DAY AT A GLANCE See your steps, walking distance, active calories, floors, and daily goal progress in one simple screen. With Fawnly Plus, you can also make distance your main Home metric. WIDGETS FOR YOUR HOME SCREEN AND LOCK SCREEN Keep today's steps and goal progress in view with small and medium Home Screen widgets and round, rectangular, and inline Lock Screen widgets. They refresh from Apple Health on their own throughout the day. With Fawnly Plus, widgets can wear your illustrated theme. UNDERSTAND YOUR PROGRESS Review your recent activity and weekly progress. Fawnly Plus unlocks Month and Year views, older history, daily averages, best days, and longer-term insights. MAKE FAWNLY YOURS Choose from thoughtfully designed themes. Fawnly Plus includes premium illustrated themes and custom fonts for your main activity number. SHARE YOUR MOVEMENT Create a beautiful card from any day and share it with friends. Fawnly Plus unlocks Week and Month cards, along with additional sharing options. APPLE HEALTH, WITH YOUR PERMISSION On iPhone, Fawnly can read your step count, walking and running distance, active energy, and flights climbed from Apple Health. Access is read-only. Your activity history and preferences stay on your device. Fawnly has: • No account requirement • No ads • No advertising tracking • No Fawnly cloud sync FAWNLY PLUS An optional Fawnly Plus subscription unlocks: • Premium and illustrated themes • Month and Year history • Access to older weeks and months • Distance as your main Home metric • Week and Month sharing cards • Custom hero fonts • A weekly step-card recap PLEASE NOTE Fawnly is not a medical device and does not provide medical advice. Activity values are displayed as provided by Apple Health. When a value is unavailable, Fawnly shows it as unavailable rather than estimating it. SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION Fawnly Plus is available as an auto-renewable monthly or yearly subscription. Pricing is shown before purchase. Payment is charged to your Apple ID when you confirm your purchase. Your subscription renews automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current subscription period. You can manage or cancel your subscription in your device Settings. Terms of Use: https://getfawnly.com/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://getfawnly.com/privacy/

Screenshots

TheDailySteps4 screens
Fawnly4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: TheDailySteps at none against Fawnly's 2. On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Fawnly sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. TheDailySteps asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for TheDailySteps against 5.0 for Fawnly. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 3 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

TheDailySteps ships an update every 11 days, Fawnly every 8 days. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
TheDailySteps versus Fawnly: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTheDailyStepsFawnly
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings23 — better
Update frequencyEvery 11 daysEvery 8 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS17.616.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size42 MB89 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperAndrea MonroyKaustubh Kajave

Customer experience

TheDailySteps

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Fawnly

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

TheDailySteps

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Fawnly

Subscriptions2
  • Fawnly Plus Monthly$1.991 Month
  • Fawnly Plus Yearly$9.991 Year

Questions

Is TheDailySteps free?
TheDailySteps is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Fawnly free?
Fawnly is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, TheDailySteps or Fawnly?
TheDailySteps and Fawnly are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 3 ratings respectively.
Do TheDailySteps or Fawnly have ads?
Neither TheDailySteps nor Fawnly shows ads.
Which is updated more often, TheDailySteps or Fawnly?
TheDailySteps ships an update every 11 days, and Fawnly every 8 days. Most recently, TheDailySteps was updated on October 24, 2026 and Fawnly on October 24, 2026.

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