Fitness Reframed vs Basho Steps
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Fitness Reframed
This app transforms your daily steps into progress on virtual journeys, from real-world trails to fantasy worlds. Connect your health data to track your movement and earn in-app currency to unlock new destinations. Walk at your own pace and explore diverse landscapes.
- Step-driven progress on 25+ journeys
- Walk real trails or fantasy realms
- Earn and spend in-app currency
- Tap-to-expand journey cards
- Connects with Apple Health
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Every step is a step somewhere. Fitness Reframed turns the steps you already take, on a treadmill, on a sidewalk, on a hike, into progress along long-distance journeys. Walk the perimeter of the moon. Cross a coast-to-coast trail. Climb a fantasy mountain. Trek through worlds inspired by the games and shows you love. Connect Apple Health and Fitness Reframed only counts steps you take from this moment forward, no past history, no surprise leaderboards. You pick the journeys, you walk at your pace, the world moves under your feet. KEY FEATURES • Step-driven progress across 25+ legendary distances, real trails, fantasy realms, sci-fi rings, planetary loops • Earn units as you walk, spend them on new locations or top up your balance • Tap-to-expand journey cards with steps walked, steps remaining, and pace • Built for left- or right-handed use Walking is the world's oldest journey. Fitness Reframed just gives it somewhere to go.
Basho Steps
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Walk, and Basho's journey moves with you. In 1689 the poet Matsuo Basho set out from Edo on foot and walked the deep north for about 150 days. This pedometer turns your own steps into that road. Each milestone opens a new station of Oku no Hosomichi, with the original hokku and a fresh English rendering written for this app. THE FIRST ROAD - TO MATSUSHIMA Leave the grass door at Fukagawa. Pass Senju, Nikko, the barrier at Shirakawa, the twin-trunk pine, and the morning bell at Shiogama. At 18,000 steps you reach Matsushima Bay - the most beautiful place on the journey, and the one where the master wrote no poem at all. Some places are already poems. You only walk into them. THE OKU ROAD - ONE PURCHASE, THE DEEP NORTH Past the bay the road bends inland: the summer grass of Hiraizumi, the stillness of the mountain temple, the gathered rains of the Mogami, the rough sea at Izumozaki, the scent of the springs at Yamanaka, and the clam-shell parting at Ogaki, where the journey ends by beginning again. WHAT THIS APP IS - Real hokku by Basho in the original, with original English renderings - Your steps only, counted on your iPhone and kept on your iPhone - An Apple Watch companion that sends each station to your wrist - A travel pack of ten things you cannot use, and are glad to have WHAT THIS APP IS NOT No ads. No account. No tracking. No data collection. No location. No health claims - this is a book that happens to count steps, not a fitness program. One purchase opens the second half forever. There is no subscription.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Fitness Reframed at daily against Basho Steps's weekly. Fitness Reframed also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, ads, 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
Both are free to download. Fitness Reframed sells 6 one-off in-app purchases and Basho Steps sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Fitness Reframed ships an update daily, Basho Steps weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Fitness Reframed | Basho Steps |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Daily — better | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 80 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Noah Perkins | RIEKO NAITO |
In-app purchases
Fitness Reframed
- 100 units$0.99
- 250 units$1.99
- 800 units$4.99
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- 2000 units$9.99
- 5000 units$19.99
- 10000 units$34.99
Basho Steps
- The Oku Road$2.99









