Comparison

PaceBoard vs Just Steps.

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

Head to head
About

PaceBoard

Features
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WHY ARE YOU NOT RUNNING before GTA VI? PaceBoard turns your Apple Health data into a clean, glanceable dashboard for running, walking, and step tracking. No account required โ€” your data stays on your device. See your distance, pace, heart rate zones, and streaks โ€” all in one place. Set daily, weekly, and monthly goals, then watch your progress update across your Home Screen widgets, Lock Screen, and Apple Watch. DASHBOARD Your activity at a glance. Switch between running, walking, and steps. View stats by day, week, month, or year. See your recent workouts, current goals, and today's training plan workout โ€” all from one screen. WORKOUT RECORDING Start a run or walk directly from your iPhone or Apple Watch. See live distance, pace, heart rate with zone tracking, elevation gain, and calories. Your route is mapped via GPS and saved to Apple Health. DISCOVERY MAP Explore your city street by street. A fog-of-war map reveals every road you've run or walked, with a coverage percentage to motivate you to discover more. HISTORY & STREAKS Browse your full activity history with daily, weekly, and monthly views. Track your current streak, best day, and recent momentum. Compare year over year to see your progress. ACHIEVEMENTS Earn medals for single-run records, daily step milestones, and lifetime distance totals. Follow your Road to Marathon journey from 1K to 42.2K. Share your medals with friends. TRAINING PLANS Follow structured programs from Couch to 5K through Marathon. Each plan includes week-by-week schedules, coach notes, and workout types like tempo runs, intervals, and long runs. SHOE TRACKING Log your shoes, track their mileage, and get notified when they're worn out. Select which shoe to wear before each workout. See how far each pair has carried you. WIDGETS & APPLE WATCH Beautiful Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets show your daily and weekly progress at a glance. Apple Watch app with full dashboard, workout recording, and shoe management. SHARING Create and share workout cards, weekly summaries, Year Wrapped visuals, and medal achievements with your friends and running community. PACEBOARD PLUS Unlock monthly timeframes on widgets, dynamic widget backgrounds, unlimited shoe pairs, mid-workout shoe switching, and Apple Watch complications. https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Just Steps.

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Finally an app that intuitively shows steps on your Apple Watch, for Free. Easily set a daily goal, view your step count and see how many steps you have left directly on your watch face, smart stack or in the app. The app runs entirely on your watch. WHEN YOU OPEN IT Front Page: You will see a big ring with step count in the middle and daily goal below it. Under the ring you can see how many steps you have left for the day. Daily Goal: Scroll once from front page to access daily goal. here you can quickly select a preset or click on the big number to dial in your exact step goal. Make sure to click "Set Goal" after selecting your desired amount. Analytics: Easily glance at the analytics of your step history. you can switch between "Day", "Week" and "Month" options. For each, you get the average daily step amount (days you did not wear your watch are left out of your averages, so a weekend off does not drag your numbers down.), and below it you have best day record. Click on the bar chart on any option, and a detailed list view is opened for you to find exact step data. Notifications: Last page, here you can turn on/off Goal Reached and Evening Nudge notifications. ON YOUR WATCH FACE Complications for every accessory slot watchOS offers, so the app should work with the face you already use: - Circular, with your step count inside a progress ring - Rectangular, with your count and how many are left, in two styles: text only, or text with a progress ring - Corner, with your count and remaining curving around the edge, also in two styles - Inline, for faces with a single line of text Every one of them turns green the moment you close your goal. IN THE SMART STACK Swipe up from your watch face and your steps are there, no complication required. Tap it to open the app. YOUR DATA STAYS ON YOUR WATCH Just Steps. reads one thing from Apple Health: your step count. - No account, no sign up, no email address - No servers. The app contains no networking code at all and makes no internet connections - No ad analytics, no tracking, no advertising, no third party code of any kind - Nothing is ever sold, shared or sent anywhere, nothing ever leaves your watch RATINGS Ratings are how a one person app gets found. If Just Steps. helps you every day, please leave a review. It means the world to me, thank you! FREE No subscription. No adverts. No in app purchases. No paywalls. Requires an Apple Watch running watchOS 10 or later.

Screenshots

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Just Steps. at none against PaceBoard's 3. Just Steps. also leads on iOS requirement (18.0 vs 27.0). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. PaceBoard sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. Just Steps. asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 4 level
PaceBoard versus Just Steps.: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPaceBoardJust Steps.
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 6 daysโ€”
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo โ€” better
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch โ€” better
Requires iOS27.018.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size16 MB2 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperRaul Carlos Petru PetrutaDavud Osmanovic

In-app purchases

3 purchases

PaceBoard

Subscriptions2
  • PaceBoard: Run & Walk Tracker7 Days trial$6.991 Month
  • Plus Year7 Days trial$49.991 Year
One-time1
  • PaceBoard: Run & Walk Tracker$24.99
None

Just Steps.

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is PaceBoard free?
PaceBoard is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Just Steps. free?
Just Steps. is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do PaceBoard or Just Steps. have ads?
Neither PaceBoard nor Just Steps. shows ads.

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