Step Obsessed vs Footfall
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
Step Obsessed
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STEP OBSESSED โ The step tracking app for people who don't do things halfway. Whether you're chasing 10,000 steps a day or 10 million lifetime miles, Step Obsessed turns your Health data into a sleek, data-rich experience that keeps you motivated, accountable, and โ yes โ a little obsessed. YOUR DASHBOARD At a glance: your live step ring updates in real time, showing today's progress against your daily goal with color-coded feedback. Hit green. Stay green. See your distance, calories burned, and steps-per-hour alongside a mini weekly bar chart and your current streak counter. 10+ POWERFUL CHARTS Dive deep into your data with a full suite of visualizations: - Daily Steps Bar Chart โ Every day of the week or month, color-coded green (goal met), yellow (close), or red (below target) - Hourly Activity Heatmap โ See exactly when you move most. Morning walker or evening pacer? The grid reveals all. - Moving Average Lines โ 7-day and 30-day rolling averages overlaid on raw data to cut through the noise and show your true trend. - Streak Timeline โ A calendar heatmap of consecutive goal days, ranked streak runs, and all-time records. - Year-in-Pixels Calendar โ Your full year at a glance. Every square colored by step count โ seasonal patterns and slumps exposed instantly. - Steps vs. Distance/Calories Scatter Plot โ Visualize the correlation between your steps and output, with real-time correlation score. - Weekday vs. Weekend Comparison โ Are you a weekday warrior or weekend wanderer? Side-by-side averages and day-of-week breakdowns tell the truth. - Cumulative Yearly Progress โ Watch your annual steps stack up toward your goal, with live end-of-year projection. - Pace of Life Chart โ Steps per awake hour each day โ the cleanest measure of how active your life actually is. - Monthly Step Distribution โ Pie breakdown of days under 5k, 5โ10k, 10โ15k, and over 15k steps for the month. GOAL SETTING Set four independent goals: Daily, Monthly, Yearly, and Streak. Each goal has its own progress card with a live ring, remaining steps counter, and a celebration when you hit it. Edit any goal at any time. SEARCH & QUERY Eight precision queries let you dig into your history like a data scientist: - Days above or below any step threshold - Your top 20 (or any N) all-time days - Statistical outlier high-performance days - Lowest 10 days this year โ the honesty check - Streak runs longer than X days over X steps - Monthly year-over-year comparison Every query returns a results summary with total, average, and day count. 21 AWARDS Six categories of achievement badges track your long-term progress: Streak Flames โ Spark (7 days) through Eternal Flame (100+ days) Daily Peak Tiers โ Bronze Peak (15k) through Diamond Overachiever (personal record +20%) Lifetime Milestones โ Voyager (1M steps) through Eternal Walker (50M steps) Perfect Month Medals โ Hit your daily goal every single day, from one month to twelve consecutive Consistency Constellations โ 90%, 95%, and 98% consistency over 30, 90, and 365 days Hall of Fame โ Step Sage, Obsession Overlord, and the legendary Walking Deity DESIGN Dark-mode-first, card-based UI with bold typography, animated progress rings, and a focused palette of black, white, and vivid signal colors. No clutter. No ads. Just your data, beautifully rendered. PRIVACY Step Obsessed reads step count, walking distance, and active calories from Apple Health. Your data never leaves your device. No accounts. No tracking. No servers. Your steps. Your data. Your obsession.
Footfall
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Footfall shows the steps your iPhone already counted, and almost nothing else. It has no step counting algorithm of its own, and that is the point. It reads the daily totals from Health, the one place on iOS where an iPhone and an Apple Watch are added up without the same walk being counted twice. The number here is the number there. No second opinion, no arguing with your watch about this morning. The rest of the app puts that number in front of you. A widget on the Home Screen. A circle or a rectangle on the Lock Screen. A medium widget for the week. They refresh through the day, and say so rather than pass off yesterday's total as today's. ON YOUR WRIST Ten years after the first Apple Watch, no built-in complication shows a step count as a number. Footfall does, in four shapes, on any face with room for one. The watch reads Health on the watch, so the count is right even when the iPhone stayed at home, and there is nothing to fall out of sync. The complications are free, like every other widget here. ONE SCREEN, TOP TO BOTTOM A ring that warms from clay to amber and turns gold at your goal, with the count rolling in the middle. The shape of the day: twenty four hourly bars that show when you walked, not only how much. The week in seven bars you can tap, and tapping one moves the top of the screen to that day. The month as dots, each one sized by its steps, and a swipe back through the months before it. Then four numbers: your seven day average, your thirty day average, your best day, and the days you met your goal. NOTHING YOU DID NOT ASK FOR No account. No ads. No analytics. No notifications, no badges, no levels. The streak stays off until you turn it on, because a streak nobody asked for turns into a debt. The app opens no network connection at all, so nothing can leave the phone. Nothing is written back into Health either. FOOTFALL PLUS Counting, the widgets, the watch complications, the goal, kilometers or miles, the day, the week and the month are free and stay free. Footfall Plus is one payment, once, and it adds every past month one by one, the full year day by day, your rhythm by day of the week, records and totals from the first day Health holds, and a CSV export. No subscription. Nothing renews. WHAT IT NEEDS Permission to read steps and walking distance from Health, and nothing else. iOS has been recording those since you got the phone, so your history is usually there the first time you open the app. If you have never walked with the iPhone on you, Footfall will show you an honest empty day. Available in 45 languages. iPhone, iOS 18 and later. Apple Watch, watchOS 11 and later.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Step Obsessed at none against Footfall's 1. Step Obsessed also leads on iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.0). On price, update cadence, ads and device support there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. Footfall sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Step Obsessed asks for nothing beyond the download.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Step Obsessed | Footfall |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No โ better | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 โ better | 18.0 |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ian SMITH | THEO MARTIN |
In-app purchases
Step Obsessed
No in-app purchases
Footfall
- Footfall Plus$4.99









