Step Bro vs Pacer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Step Bro
This app transforms daily walks into friendly competitions. Automatically track your steps and compete with friends on leaderboards, join fun challenges, and earn achievements. It syncs with Apple Health to keep you motivated and accountable.
- Daily leaderboards
- Themed walking challenges
- Lifetime step statistics
- Achievement system
- Friend comparisons
- Apple Health integration
- Dark mode interface
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Step Bros turns walking into a daily competition with your friends. Track your steps automatically with Apple Health integration, then see how you stack up on the daily leaderboard. Challenge your crew, climb the ranks, and turn every walk into a reason to move more. FEATURES: • Daily Leaderboards — See who walks the most each day among your friends • Fun Challenges — Join themed walking challenges like Route 66, Walk Every Dog in Manhattan, and more • Lifetime Stats — Track your total steps, yearly history, streaks, and personal records • Achievements — Unlock badges and level up as you walk • Friends — Add friends, compare steps, and keep each other accountable • Apple Health — Syncs automatically with your existing step data • Beautiful Design — Dark mode with a clean, modern interface Whether you walk 5,000 or 50,000 steps a day, Step Bros makes every step count. Download now and start walking with your bros.
Pacer
This app helps you achieve your daily step goals by tracking your progress in real-time. It intelligently spreads your goal across your active hours, providing immediate feedback on whether you're ahead or behind pace. Receive gentle nudges to stay on track throughout the day.
- Live ahead/behind step count
- Customizable active hours
- Watch-face complications
- Gentle pace nudges
- Privacy-focused (no data collection)
- Built for Apple Watch
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Most step counters tell you you're behind at 10pm. Pacer tells you at 10am. Pacer spreads your daily step goal across your active hours and shows whether you're ahead or behind pace right now, on every glance. A 10,000-step goal isn't a midnight cliff. By 3pm you can know if you're on track. WHAT YOU GET • A live ahead/behind number on your wrist — "+420" or "-180", not a percentage. • Three watch-face complications: rectangular (steps + delta + pace bar), Pacer Steps (circular), and Pacer Delta (circular). • Custom active hours. Active from 10am? Winding down by 6pm? Set it once. • Gentle behind-pace nudges if you slip off pace PRIVACY Pacer collects nothing. HealthKit step counts stay on your watch — no servers, no accounts, no analytics, no third-party SDKs. DESIGNED FOR APPLE WATCH Built with SwiftUI and Swift 6 for smooth, battery-friendly performance. HOW IT WORKS Set a daily goal and an active window (default 9am–8pm). Every minute Pacer computes your on-pace target, a moving line from 0 at your start time to your goal at your end time. The delta between your actual steps and that target is your dashboard, your complication, your nudge. PERFECT FOR • Walkers who want nudges, not alarms • Shift workers with non-standard hours • Anyone trying to get their steps in for the day, every day
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Step Bro at Free against Pacer's $3.99. Step Bro also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (20 vs 1). Pacer's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and device support (3 vs 1). On ads and in-app purchases 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
Step Bro is free to download; Pacer costs $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Pacer holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Step Bro has 20 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Step Bro ships an update daily, Pacer every 2 months. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | Step Bro | Pacer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $3.99 |
| Rating | 4.7 (20 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 20 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Daily — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 34 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sixty Seven LLC | Aditya Gupta |
In-app purchases
Step Bro
No in-app purchases
Pacer
No in-app purchases









