Comparison

Stepa vs Route Rally

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

Head to head
About

Stepa

This app focuses on tracking daily steps and competing with friends, rather than calorie counting or weight goals. It helps you find walking routes and maintain daily step streaks with encouraging nudges.

Highlights
  • Social step tracking
  • Friend challenges and duels
  • Customizable walking route planner
  • Daily step streak maintenance
  • Integration with Apple Health
  • No calorie or weight tracking
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Stepa is a walking app for walking with friends and finding walking routes near you. Race your mates every week, pick a ready-made loop on the map, or make one that starts and ends at your door. RACE YOUR MATES, ALL WEEK Every week there's one shared route, and everyone's weekly steps move them along it. See your mates as photos on the track, follow the race as it happens, and find out on Monday who made the podium. Then a new route starts. No mates on Stepa yet? Race the Stepa pacer and last week's you. WALKING ROUTES NEAR YOU The Atlas is a map of ready-made walking loops around you. Each one is a circular route on real paths, with distance, time and steps before you set off. Tap a line, see the loop, walk it. MAKE YOUR OWN LOOP Choose how long you want to walk and Stepa plots a loop that starts and ends where you are. Three free loops a month. Stepa Pro gives you unlimited loops plus More options: pick the terrain or drop a pin to start somewhere else. FOCUS WALK A short walk of 10 to 30 minutes, phone in your pocket. It ends when the time is up or you hit the steps. Ending early is fine. Every step still counts towards your race. WIDGETS Today's steps, your race with your mates, a loop from your door, a one-tap Focus walk, and a map of where you walked today, on your Home Screen and Lock Screen. YOUR WALKS, SAVED Saved walks keep the route and the height you climbed, so you can walk a favourite again. STEPS THAT MATCH YOUR iPHONE Stepa reads steps from Apple Health, including your Apple Watch, so your count matches what your iPhone shows. WALK AS YOU WALK No calorie counting, no weight targets, no closing rings and no telling you off. Stepa counts what you walk and gives you good reasons to walk a bit more. FREE • The weekly mates race • The Atlas of loops near you • Three loops of your own a month • Focus walks and widgets • Your step history for the last 30 days STEPA PRO • Unlimited loops, with terrain and start-point options • Plan group walks with your mates, who join free • Download loops for walks without signal • Two streak saves a month • Your full step history Stepa Pro is available as an auto-renewing subscription. Payment is charged to your Apple Account. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel any time in your App Store account settings. Terms: https://getstepa.com/terms Privacy: https://getstepa.com/privacy

About

Route Rally

Features
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Your real-world miles, turned into an epic journey you take on with friends. Route Rally maps the miles you already cover onto famous long-distance routes. Every ride, run and walk carries you further along the map, from Land's End to John o'Groats to the Pan-American Highway and beyond. No virtual worlds, just your real effort powering a journey worth finishing. BETTER WITH FRIENDS Pick a route, invite your friends and race to the finish together. The leaderboard shifts with every workout, so you can chase down whoever's ahead and see who crosses the line first. CONQUER A ROUTE Take a route on as a Conquest and finishing it stamps your Passport. Or keep it Casual, just for the race, and switch it to a Conquest later if you change your mind. STAMP YOUR PASSPORT Every route you conquer, and every country a Conquest takes you through, earns a collectible stamp in your Passport, laid out on an interactive world map. Build a travelogue of everywhere your fitness has taken you, and share it. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Take on famous long-distance routes, and line up your next Conquest to start when the current one ends • Create your own rallies and challenge friends on a shared route • Join community rallies with people around the world • Live leaderboards, daily targets and ahead/behind tracking • Collect route and country stamps in your world Passport • Earn achievements and keep daily streaks • Your activities sync automatically from Strava and Apple Health, with no manual entry MADE FOR REAL MILES Whether you're training for an event, building a habit, or just want your miles to mean something, Route Rally turns the distance you already cover into a goal worth chasing. FREE AND PAID PLANS Five Starter routes are free on every plan, as often as you like, as Casual rallies or Conquests, with up to 4 friends in a rally. Every other route needs a Standard or Pro subscription. Standard opens every route and adds the Awards, Records and Streaks tabs in your stats. Pro adds rallies of up to 20 and lets you import your own routes with GPX and KML. Some community rallies are for subscribers. Ride the world. One rally at a time. Terms of Use: https://app.route-rally.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://app.route-rally.com/privacy

Screenshots

Stepa4 screens
Route Rally4 screens

Verdict

The call

Stepa and Route Rally are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Stepa sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days and Route Rally sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Stepa ships an update every 5 days, Route Rally weekly. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Stepa versus Route Rally: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStepaRoute Rally
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews92.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS15.115.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size109 MB162 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperSocialClimb Marketing LTDASEY LABS

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Stepa

Subscriptions3
  • Stepa Pro · Weekly$1.997 Days
  • Stepa Pro · Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Stepa Pro · Annual7 Days trial$24.991 Year
One-time1
  • Stepa Pro · Lifetime$49.99
4 purchases

Route Rally

Subscriptions4
  • Route Rally Standard$1.991 Month
  • Route Rally Pro14 Days trial$3.991 Month
  • Route Rally Standard$11.991 Year
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  • Route Rally Pro14 Days trial$24.991 Year

Questions

Is Stepa free?
Stepa is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Route Rally free?
Route Rally is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Stepa or Route Rally have ads?
Neither Stepa nor Route Rally shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Stepa or Route Rally?
Stepa ships an update every 5 days, and Route Rally weekly. Most recently, Stepa was updated on October 31, 2026 and Route Rally on October 31, 2026.

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