Comparison

Cadence vs Pedometer Pro

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

Head to head
About

Cadence

Track your daily steps, distance, floors climbed, and calories burned with a focus on simplicity and privacy. Set custom weekday and weekend goals and visualize your activity patterns with interactive heatmaps. Integrates seamlessly with Apple Watch.

Highlights
  • Daily step, distance, floors, and calorie tracking
  • Customizable weekday and weekend goals
  • Interactive hour-by-hour heatmaps
  • Apple Watch app and complications
  • Private by design, no account required
  • Automatic iCloud history restore
Features
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Step tracking that stays out of your way Cadence helps you build a consistent walking habit without the usual noise. No social feed. No gamification. No upsells. Just an honest, clear picture of how you move every day. Weekday and Weekend Goals Most days aren't the same, so your goals shouldn't be either. Set separate targets for weekdays and weekends. Cadence automatically applies the right goal each day, and your history always reflects the target that was active on that specific day. Past records are never rewritten. Changed your mind about a goal? You can apply any update retroactively across your entire history with a single tap. Heatmaps You Can Actually Explore See your walking rhythm hour by hour. Scrub through today's heatmap to pinpoint exactly when you were most active, or zoom out to spot long-term patterns across weeks, months, and years. Beautifully color-coded and easy to understand. No chart reading required. Steps, Distance, Floors, and Calories Every day shows your full activity picture — steps, walking distance, flights climbed, and active calories. See how your week is shaping up with a projected end-of-week step total based on your current daily pace. Apple Watch and Complications A native three-page Apple Watch app gives you today's steps and progress, your full week chart, and goal settings directly on your wrist. Eight thoughtfully designed complications work beautifully on any watch face. Goals sync instantly between iPhone and Watch in both directions. Private by Design No account. No sign-up. No ads. Your health data stays on your device and syncs privately through your own iCloud. No analytics. No tracking. Your History, Restored Install Cadence on a new device signed into the same iCloud account and your complete history restores automatically — goals included. No exports or manual backups needed. Core step tracking, the Apple Watch app, and all complications are completely free and will always remain free. There's an optional tip jar if you'd like to support ongoing development.

About

Pedometer Pro

Track your daily activity and build a walking habit with this step counter. Monitor steps, distance, and flights climbed, and set personalized daily goals. Your data is kept private on your device with no account required.

Highlights
  • Daily step tracking
  • Walking and running distance
  • Flights climbed monitoring
  • Personalized daily goals
  • Walking habit building
  • Activity history and streaks
Read full description

Make every step count with Pedometer Pro, a simple way to see your daily activity and build a walking habit. Follow today's steps toward a goal you choose. See your walking and running distance, flights climbed, and current streak at a glance. Explore your daily step history and past-week totals, celebrate goal days, and earn streak badges along the way. Set a daily goal that fits you and choose miles or kilometers. Pedometer Pro reads your activity from Apple Health. With Motion & Fitness permission, it can show live iPhone steps as you walk. Your goal, preferences, and a protected copy of your displayed activity stay on your device. No account is required. Distance, flights climbed, and live-step availability depend on the data and sensors available on your iPhone and in Apple Health.

Screenshots

Cadence4 screens
Pedometer Pro3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Pedometer Pro at none against Cadence's 5. Cadence's advantage is ratings volume (4 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. Cadence sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Pedometer Pro 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 Cadence against 5.0 for Pedometer Pro. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 1 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Cadence versus Pedometer Pro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCadencePedometer Pro
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings4 — better1
Update frequencyFortnightly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.6 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperVlad GankinJordan Fields

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Cadence

One-time5
  • Small Coffee$0.99
  • Medium Coffee$1.99
  • Large Coffee$2.99
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  • Coffee & Muffin$3.99
  • You're too kind$4.99
None

Pedometer Pro

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Cadence free?
Cadence is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Pedometer Pro free?
Pedometer Pro is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Cadence or Pedometer Pro?
Cadence and Pedometer Pro are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 4 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Cadence or Pedometer Pro have ads?
Neither Cadence nor Pedometer Pro shows ads.

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