Step Totals vs Walking Buddy
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
Walking Buddy
This app provides personalized step count reminders throughout the day to help you reach your fitness goals. It learns your pace and offers flexible goal setting, with detailed history and Apple Watch integration. It prioritizes user privacy with no ads or analytics.
- Personalized step reminders
- Apple Health integration
- Customizable daily goals
- Pace learning and projection
- Detailed step history
- Apple Watch app and complications
- Privacy-focused design
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Reminders that say how many steps to take and keep you moving through the day instead of one long walk in the morning or evening. Walking Buddy reads your steps from Apple Health, learns your usual pace, and nudges you when the day starts to slip. No account, no ads. STEPS THAT ADD UP See today's count from Apple Health on a ring with your goal, how far you are ahead of or behind pace, and where the steps landed hour by hour. REMINDERS SIZED TO YOUR DAY Instead of "walk more", each nudge tells you how many steps to take right now to stay on pace, and stops once the goal is done. Choose your active hours and days. Snooze a nudge or mark the day done straight from the notification. YOUR USUAL PACE Walking Buddy learns your typical day from the past four weeks and tells you whether today is ahead, on track or behind, with a projection of where the day will land. GOALS FOR EVERY KIND OF DAY Keep more than one goal active, each on its own days: 10,000 steps on weekdays and 6,000 at the weekend. A day without a goal is a rest day: no reminders, and your streak is safe. HISTORY THAT MEANS SOMETHING Week, month and year views, goal-met days, streaks with rest days that do not break them, and a Steps Log calendar back to your first recorded step. A weekly recap arrives every Sunday evening. ON YOUR APPLE WATCH Today's ring, steps to go and your pace on your wrist, with complications for the watch face and the Smart Stack. The watch app works on its own: it reads steps from the watch, keeps your goal, and lets you change the daily target with the Digital Crown. With the iPhone app installed, the goal stays the same on both. WALKING BUDDY PRO - Reminders on your schedule: every hour, twice an hour, fixed intervals, or your own times - Keep the nudges coming after the goal - Custom reminder messages - Vacation mode: plan the days you are away, with no reminders and your streak safe - Streak protection: one missed day a week does not break your streak - Trends and All Time: four-week trend, this week, month and year against the last, the year as a heat map, typical day with weekday and weekend averages, and every year since your first step - Apple Watch: pace and steps to go on the watch face (rectangular and corner complications), your usual pace and the day by hour PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account, no ads, no analytics. Step data is read from Apple Health and stays on your iPhone and Apple Watch. Goals are stored locally. Walking Buddy is a pedometer built on Apple Health: it works with iPhone step counting and with Apple Watch data that syncs to Apple Health. Pro is a subscription, monthly or yearly with a 7-day free trial, charged to your Apple ID and renewed unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the period ends. Manage it in Settings > Apple ID > Subscriptions. Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Step Totals at none against Walking Buddy's 2. Step Totals also leads on ratings volume (8 vs 1). Walking Buddy's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs weekly). On price, rating, ads 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
Both are free to download. Walking Buddy sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Step Totals asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Step Totals against 5.0 for Walking Buddy. 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.
Step Totals ships an update weekly, Walking Buddy every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Step Totals | Walking Buddy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (8 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 32 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Michael Haren | Raphael Koebraam |
Customer experience
Step Totals
Walking Buddy
In-app purchases
Step Totals
No in-app purchases
Walking Buddy
- Pro Monthly: Reminders, Trends$1.991 Month
- Pro Yearly: Reminders, Trends7 Days trial$19.991 Year









