Stral vs Stepwise
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side ā with what reviewers say about each.
Stral
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It's not your fault your habits don't stick. It's the app's fault. Miss just one day and a 100-day streak resets to zero. Traveling? Sick? Too bad. That's how every other habit app works. Stral is different. ā Streak Recovery -- Break it, then bring it back If your streak breaks, just start again the next day and you'll enter "recovery mode." Complete a short recovery period and your full streak is restored. No more starting over from zero. ā Habit Lifecycle -- Take a break without losing progress Pause: Set a pause period for travel or illness. Your streak stays safe. Exclusion days: Need to skip just today? No problem. It won't count against you. End & Resume: Archive completed habits. Your records are kept forever. Features no other habit app offers. Only in Stral. ā All of this is free Up to 6 habits 4 tracking modes (Check / Negative / Count / Timer) Streak recovery Habit lifecycle management (Pause / Exclusion days / End / Resume) Apple Health auto-tracking (Steps, Exercise, Calories, Water, Sleep, Weight, Mindfulness, and 11 categories total) Apple Watch support Home screen widget iCloud sync Smart notifications 3 themes Features that other apps charge for are completely free in Stral. ā 4 modes for any habit Check: Did you read? Floss? Journal? One tap to record. Negative: Quit smoking, no drinking, skip the snacks. Days you didn't do it build your streak. Count: 8 glasses of water, 50 push-ups. Tap +1, auto-complete at your target. Timer: 10 min meditation, 15 min stretching. Built-in countdown timer. Works in the background. ā Automatic Apple Health integration Steps, exercise minutes, calories burned, water intake, sleep, weight, mindfulness, workouts, walking distance, swimming distance, stand hours. 11 categories of data are read automatically to complete your habits. Just exercise with your Apple Watch -- no need to even open the app. ā Go Pro and make it yours (just 2 cents a day) Unlimited habits 15 rich themes (the entire look and feel of the app changes) Unlimited motivation photos Pro isn't about unlocking features behind a paywall. It's about making an already fully functional app even more personal and fun. Try it free for 7 days. Stral is the habit tracker that helps you keep going. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Stepwise
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Your steps. One huge number. Nothing else in the way. Stepwise is a step counter for people who just want to know how far they have walked today ā without dashboards, feeds, sign-ups, or a tutorial to sit through. Open it and the number is already there, big enough to read at arm's length. WHAT YOU GET ⢠Today's steps, huge and instant Your step count fills the screen in a clean, rounded typeface you can read in a glance while walking. The number animates as it climbs, so you can watch it move. ⢠Draw your steps on your own map Tap the orange Record button and a blank map fills in behind you as you walk, one road at a time. It keeps recording with the screen locked, and a Live Activity on your Lock Screen shows your time, distance and steps, with a Stop button. See how many new roads you have found, save the walk to My map, and watch it grow. Show faint streets or a colorful map under your trail, or keep it blank. ⢠Distance, automatically in your units Right below your steps you get the distance you have covered, in kilometres or miles depending on your region. No settings to dig through. ⢠A daily goal that actually celebrates you Set any goal from 1,000 to 100,000 steps. Hit it and the screen bursts into confetti ā once a day, when you have earned it. Not a badge buried in a profile tab. ⢠Home Screen widget Small, medium, or large. Your step count sits on your Home Screen and stays current, so most days you never need to open the app at all. ⢠Hour-by-hour stats Tap Stats for a clean bar chart of today and yesterday, broken down by hour. See when you actually move ā the morning commute, the afternoon slump, the evening walk ā and compare today against yesterday at the same hour. ⢠Light and dark, your call Follow your system appearance or lock it to light or dark from the menu. BUILT ON APPLE HEALTH Stepwise reads your step count from Apple Health, so it counts the steps your iPhone is already recording ā including the ones you took before you installed it. There is no separate tracker running in the background and no extra battery drain from a second counter. If you carry your phone, your steps are counted. PRIVATE BY DESIGN ⢠No account, no sign-up, no email ⢠Your step history stays on your device ⢠Location is used only while you record a walk, and your trails stay on your device ⢠Read-only access to Health ā Stepwise never writes to your Health data ⢠Everything is saved only on your device, and ads follow your tracking choice WHO IT IS FOR If you have tried a fitness app and quit because it wanted your weight, your goals, your notifications and your subscription before showing you a single number ā this is the opposite of that. Stepwise does one thing. Walk, glance, done. Whether you are working toward 10,000 steps a day, keeping a walking habit alive, getting back on your feet after an injury, or just curious how far you actually go in a day, Stepwise keeps the number in front of you and stays out of your way. GETTING STARTED Open Stepwise and allow access to your steps in Apple Health Tap the gear icon and set your daily step goal Add the widget to your Home Screen: long-press anywhere, tap +, search for Stepwise That is the whole setup. There is no step four. Requires an iPhone with step data in Apple Health. Recording a walk uses Location. Terms of Use: https://sites.google.com/view/yoav-sabag-policy-ios/terms-of-use Privacy Policy: https://sites.google.com/view/yoav-sabag-policy-ios/privacypolicy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Stral at none against Stepwise's shown. Stral also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (18.6 vs 26.5). On price, update cadence and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Stral sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Stepwise sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | Stral | Stepwise |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No ā better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch ā better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 ā better | 26.5 |
| Further details ā not scored | ||
| Size | 14 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Nichful | Yoav Sabag |
In-app purchases
Stral
- Stral Pro$0.991 Month
- Stral Pro$4.991 Year
Stepwise
- Remove Ads$4.99









