Comparison

StepMax vs Weightfile

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

Head to head
About

StepMax

This app transforms walking into a game with characters, achievements, and leaderboards. It tracks steps, calories, and distance, offering detailed reports and motivating users to build consistent walking habits. Compete with friends and collect unique characters to enhance your fitness journey.

Highlights
  • Gamified step tracking
  • Collect and evolve characters
  • Achievements and daily streaks
  • Leaderboards and friend challenges
  • Walk timer with pace tracking
  • Detailed progress reports
  • Offline functionality
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A step counter that actually makes you want to walk. StepMax counts your steps, tracks calories and distance, and turns every walk into a game with companions, badges, achievements and leaderboards. STAY MOTIVATED → 172 achievements across 9 categories → Daily badges that climb from Starter to Mythic → Daily streaks that build real walking habits → Endless levels to climb → 30+ companions to collect and evolve → A weekly recap of how your week went → Set a daily step goal and crush it COMPETE WORLDWIDE → Daily, weekly, monthly and all-time leaderboards → Rank among friends, your country, your continent or the whole world → 1v1 step challenges with friends → Invite friends to earn VIP time and exclusive companions STEP TRACKING → Automatic step counting with your iPhone's motion sensor – no GPS needed, easy on the battery → Brings in your walking history from Apple Health → Calories, distance in km or miles, and CO₂ saved → Walk timer with time, pace and steps for every walk → Measure your real step length with GPS → Home Screen widgets with your companion, streak and hourly steps, plus Lock Screen widgets DETAILED STATISTICS → Hourly, weekly, monthly, yearly and custom range charts → Tap any bar to see the exact steps → Personal records and your full step history → Custom goals for any period MAP YOUR WALKS (VIP) → Record every walk with GPS and see your route on the map → Follow your walk live on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island → Share your route as a picture STEPMAX VIP → Walk map with GPS routes and the live Lock Screen tracker → No ads → Permanent 2x XP → Exclusive VIP companions Monthly or yearly subscription. It renews automatically; cancel anytime in your Apple Account settings. YOUR DATA, YOUR WAY → No account needed to get started → Sign in with Apple to back up and compete with friends → Back up to iCloud or your StepMax account, so you never lose your progress → Step counting works offline ALSO → Dark and light mode → Available in 8 languages: English, Slovak, Czech, Polish, German, Spanish, French and Portuguese Whether you want a simple pedometer, a daily activity tracker or a walking game with companions and achievements, StepMax has you covered. Download now and start walking. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://cinderhound.com/privacy/stepmax

About

Weightfile

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Most weight apps show you a number that lies. It jumps two pounds overnight because you ate late, and you spend the day feeling like you failed. Weightfile ignores the daily number. It tracks the 7-day trend — the only line that actually moves when your body does. ONE ENTRY A DAY Step on the scale, type the number, close the app. No food database, no barcode scanner, no logging every meal. Weight is required. Calories and macros are optional. THE TREND IS THE HERO Your raw daily entries sit in the background as faint data. The bold line is the 7-day rolling average, computed over calendar days — so a skipped weekend shows up as a gap instead of quietly disappearing. A FILE, NOT A FEED Your progress is kept as a case file with a status stamped on it: GETTING STARTED. ACTUALLY TRYING. VISIBLE EFFORT. PLATEAUED. OFF TRACK. The status is earned from your trend and your streak — not handed out for opening the app. A CLERK, NOT A CHEERLEADER Every day the file gets one line from a records clerk who has heard every excuse before: "Up a kilo overnight? That's last night's takeout, not fat. Come back tomorrow." "Plateau. The body's testing whether you actually mean it." "Trend's dropping. This was supposed to be a bulk, not an accidental cut." No emoji. No exclamation marks. No congratulating you for existing. CUT, BULK OR MAINTAIN Pick a goal and everything reads against it. A drop is progress on a cut and a problem on a bulk, and the app knows the difference. Change your goal later and your history isn't rewritten — every logged day keeps the goal it was logged under. ALSO IN THE FILE • Weigh-in streak, stamped on the dashboard • Calendar history, day by day • Optional calories, protein, fat and carbs against your own targets • Progress photos attached to the day • Reminders for the weigh-in, the macros, and a streak about to break • kg or lb • English and Polish YOUR DATA STAYS ON YOUR PHONE No account. No sign-up. No cloud. Every entry, photo and setting lives in an on-device store, and the whole app works in airplane mode. FREE, AND FREE WHERE IT COUNTS Logging your weight and watching the trend work is free forever, with no crippled math and no ads. A week of history comes with it. One optional purchase opens the full case file: unlimited history, calorie and macro logging, progress photos, switching between cut, bulk and maintain, and the complete clerk's voice. One payment, once. No subscription. Weightfile is a logbook, not medical advice. If something on the scale worries you, talk to a doctor, not a records clerk.

Screenshots

StepMax4 screens
Weightfile4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Weightfile at none against StepMax's shown. Weightfile also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.2). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. StepMax sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.49 per month and Weightfile sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

StepMax ships an update every 6 days, Weightfile weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
StepMax versus Weightfile: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStepMaxWeightfile
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 days — betterWeekly
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS26.217.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size65 MB12 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperIvan MlynekMateusz Czechowski

In-app purchases

2 purchases

StepMax

Subscriptions2
  • StepMax VIP$2.491 Month
  • StepMax VIP$11.991 Year
1 purchases

Weightfile

One-time1
  • Full Clearance$3.99

Questions

Is StepMax free?
StepMax is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Weightfile free?
Weightfile is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do StepMax or Weightfile have ads?
StepMax shows ads; Weightfile does not.
Which is updated more often, StepMax or Weightfile?
StepMax ships an update every 6 days, and Weightfile weekly. Most recently, StepMax was updated on October 20, 2026 and Weightfile on October 8, 2026.

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