Comparison

Steps vs Stepwell

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

Head to head
About

Steps

This app offers a beautiful and comprehensive way to track your daily steps, distance, calories, and active minutes. It provides detailed charts, goal setting, and motivational features to keep you moving. You can also track outdoor workouts with GPS and compete with friends.

Highlights
  • Live step count with progress ring
  • GPS outdoor workout tracking
  • Streaks, goals, and personal bests
  • Weekly and monthly trend charts
  • Social leaderboards and challenges
  • Customizable themes and widgets
  • Apple Health and Apple Watch integration
Features
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Steps is the cleanest, most beautiful step tracker for iPhone. Whether you're working toward 10,000 steps a day or training for a marathon, Steps keeps you motivated with real-time data, stunning charts, and social competition. DAILY TRACKING • Live step count with animated progress ring • Distance, calories, active minutes & floors climbed • Hourly breakdown chart — see exactly when you were active • Automatic sync with Apple Health STREAKS & GOALS • Set your own daily step goal • Build and protect day streaks • Personal best detection with confetti celebration • Motivational messages that adapt to your progress TRENDS & HISTORY • Weekly and monthly charts with goal markers • Full calendar history — tap any day for hourly detail • Monthly and weekly recap cards GPS WORKOUTS • Track outdoor walks, runs, cycling, hiking & trail runs • Live route map with pace, splits & elevation • Auto-pause, voice coach & detailed post-workout summary FRIENDS & CHALLENGES • Leaderboard — compare steps with friends daily, weekly or monthly • Send challenges and nudges to keep each other moving • XP levels and achievement badges BEAUTIFUL & CUSTOMISABLE • 5 accent colour themes • Light, dark & automatic appearance • Home screen and Lock Screen widgets • Apple Watch companion app Steps respects your privacy. All health data stays on your device and is only shared with Apple Health.

About

Stepwell

Features
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Stepwell is a step counter and pedometer for iPhone that turns everyday walking into a habit you can see. It reads your steps straight from Apple Health, then breaks the day into calories, distance, active minutes and a streak you will not want to break. There is no account and no sign-in — open the app and your walking is already counted. STEP COUNTER AND PEDOMETER Your daily steps sit in the middle of the home screen as a progress ring that fills as you walk. Stepwell reads the step count Apple Health already records, so the pedometer keeps working whether the iPhone rides in a pocket or a bag, and steps your Apple Watch writes to Apple Health are counted too. HOURLY, WEEKLY AND MONTHLY CHARTS See which hours you actually move in with an hour-by-hour bar chart, compare the last seven days side by side, and open the month calendar to spot the weeks where walking slipped. The walking tracker history stays there to look back on. STREAKS AND DAILY GOALS Set a daily step goal that fits your life, then keep the streak alive. Stepwell counts every consecutive day you reach the goal and shows the run on the home screen and in your report. WALKING REPORT The report screen collects your averages, your record day, your all-time totals and the trend across steps, calories, distance and walking time — the numbers a step tracker should give you without being asked. CALORIE COUNTER AND DISTANCE Every walk is turned into calories burned, distance covered and minutes on your feet, using the height and weight you enter, so the calorie counter reflects your body rather than an average one. WEIGHT TRACKER Log your weight, watch the chart move and scroll back through the full history. The weight tracker sits next to your walking data, so you can see what daily steps do to the line over weeks and months. BMI CALCULATOR Enter your height and weight and Stepwell returns your BMI and the range it falls in, for men and women. The BMI calculator is built in, so there is no second app to open. HOME SCREEN WIDGET Put your step count on the iPhone home screen. The widget shows today's steps and goal progress at a glance, so you can check the pedometer without opening the app. PRIVACY Stepwell has no account and asks for no sign-in. Your steps, weight and body measurements stay on your iPhone and in Apple Health, where you decide what is shared. BATTERY FRIENDLY Stepwell does not run GPS to count steps. It reads the motion data Apple Health already collects, so a walking tracker running all day costs almost nothing in battery. APPLE HEALTH Steps, weight and body measurements sync with Apple Health, so the step counter sits alongside the rest of your health and fitness apps instead of replacing them. UNITS AND LANGUAGES Switch between metric and imperial units, and use Stepwell in 10 languages including English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Russian, Arabic, Hindi, Bengali, Chinese and Vietnamese. WHAT STEPWELL INCLUDES - Step counter with a daily goal ring and live progress - Pedometer readings from Apple Health, with no GPS drain - Walking tracker with hourly, weekly and monthly charts - Calorie counter, distance and active minutes for every day - Streaks that count each day you reach your step goal - Weight tracker with full history, plus a BMI calculator - Home screen widget showing today's steps and goal IMPORTANT NOTE Step, calorie and distance figures are estimates produced by the motion sensors in your iPhone and the data stored in Apple Health. Accuracy depends on where you carry the phone and how you walk, so treat the numbers as a guide rather than a measurement. Stepwell needs permission to read steps from Apple Health: if the count stays at zero, open Settings, then Health, then Data Access & Devices, and allow Stepwell to read Steps. Stepwell is not a medical device. It does not diagnose, treat or prevent any condition. Speak to a doctor before changing your activity level or your weight.

Screenshots

Steps4 screens
Stepwell4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Steps at none against Stepwell's shown. Stepwell's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 6 weeks) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Steps ships an update every 6 weeks, Stepwell every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Steps versus Stepwell: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStepsStepwell
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB51 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDejvi KacolljaNgoc Mai Nguyen

In-app purchases

None

Steps

No in-app purchases

None

Stepwell

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Steps free?
Steps is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Stepwell free?
Stepwell is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Steps or Stepwell have ads?
Stepwell shows ads; Steps does not.
Which is updated more often, Steps or Stepwell?
Steps ships an update every 6 weeks, and Stepwell every 2 weeks. Most recently, Steps was updated on October 31, 2026 and Stepwell on October 28, 2026.

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