Comparison

Step Totals vs Treadwell

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

Head to head
About

Step Totals

Review your Apple Health activity data with a simple date-range summary. View daily step and distance totals, calculate averages, and compare periods. Add custom workouts and display your progress on your Lock Screen or Apple Watch.

Highlights
  • Daily step and distance totals
  • Custom date range summaries
  • Daily averages for selected ranges
  • Comparison of recent periods
  • Lock Screen and Apple Watch widgets
  • Add custom workouts as steps
Features
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Step Totals helps you review your Apple Health activity data with a fast, simple date-range summary. Use the app to: - view daily step totals - view daily walking or running distance - see totals across any selected date range - see daily averages for the selected range - compare recent periods with quick range shortcuts - add today's steps or distance to your Lock Screen, Home Screen, or Apple Watch face - add your own workouts as steps by activity and duration Step Totals reads your Apple Health step count and walking or running distance. With enhanced counting it combines every source without double-counting. Workouts you add are saved to Apple Health as manual step entries.

About

Treadwell

Accurately measures your real treadmill speed and distance using your phone's camera and LiDAR sensor. It helps you understand discrepancies between treadmill displays and actual performance, and can calibrate machines for precise training.

Highlights
  • Real-time speed and pace measurement
  • Treadmill calibration
  • Workout tracking with pause/resume
  • Accurate distance reporting
  • LiDAR sensor integration
Features
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Your treadmill said 5 miles. You actually ran 4 miles, and your watch said something else entirely. You'd never have known. A treadmill doesn't measure your speed. The display shows the number it was told to hit, from motor RPM and an assumed belt size. Belt slip, wear, and drift push your real speed off that number, and the belt slows a touch every time your foot lands. So the "6.0" you're staring at is really a guess, and your watch just copies it. Treadwell measures the belt itself. Hold your phone steady over the running belt for a few seconds. Using the camera and the LiDAR sensor on your iPhone Pro, the app watches the belt surface move and works out how fast it's actually traveling, then shows you your true pace and distance. WHAT YOU GET • Quick Measure: point, hold for a few seconds, get your real speed and pace. Tell it what your treadmill is set to and it shows you exactly how far off that number is. • Calibrate a treadmill: measure a few points once, and the app learns that specific machine. After that it tells you the true speed for any setting on the display, or which setting to dial in to hit a target pace. • Workout mode: lock in your measured speed and let the app track your time, distance, and pace for the run, with pause, resume, and change-pace on the fly. BUILT HONEST This app would rather tell you nothing than tell you a wrong number. If it can't get a clean read (bad angle, belt out of frame, phone not steady) it says so and asks you to try again. It never invents a number to fill the gap. So when it gives you a pace, you can trust it. WHO IT'S FOR Runners who train on a treadmill and want to know what they actually ran. If you've ever finished a "tempo run" wondering whether you really hit the pace, or watched the treadmill pile up more miles than your legs felt, this is for you. REQUIREMENTS Treadwell needs the LiDAR sensor, so it requires an iPhone Pro or Pro Max (iPhone 12 Pro or later). Best results on recent Pro models. iPhone only. The camera reads your treadmill belt's logo or markings as they pass, so it needs a belt with something visible on it. Nearly every gym treadmill has one; some plain home belts don't. Measuring works best at your usual running speed. One safety note: step to the side of the belt to measure. Never stand on a moving belt to hold your phone.

Screenshots

Step Totals4 screens
Treadwell4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Step Totals at none against Treadwell's 1. Step Totals also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (8 vs 1). On price, rating, ads and monetization model 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. Treadwell sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Step Totals 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 Step Totals against 5.0 for Treadwell. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Step Totals has 8 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Step Totals ships an update weekly, Treadwell every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Step Totals versus Treadwell: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStep TotalsTreadwell
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (8 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings8 — better1
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS17.6 — better26.4
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMichael HarenBryan Peralta

Customer experience

Step Totals

All ratings7 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Treadwell

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Step Totals

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Treadwell

One-time1
  • Treadwell Pro$14.99

Questions

Is Step Totals free?
Step Totals is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Treadwell free?
Treadwell is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Step Totals or Treadwell?
Step Totals and Treadwell are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 8 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Step Totals or Treadwell have ads?
Neither Step Totals nor Treadwell shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Step Totals or Treadwell?
Step Totals ships an update weekly, and Treadwell every 3 months. Most recently, Step Totals was updated on October 24, 2026 and Treadwell on October 16, 2026.

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