Comparison

Fawnly vs Basho Steps

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

Head to head
About

Fawnly

Track your daily steps, distance, and calories with a beautiful, pressure-free interface. Understand your progress over time with detailed insights and customize your experience with unique themes. Share your achievements with friends.

Highlights
  • Daily step, distance, and calorie tracking
  • Progress review and historical insights
  • Customizable themes and fonts
  • Shareable activity cards
  • Apple Health integration
  • No account or cloud sync required
Features
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Fawnly is a calm and beautiful way to understand your daily movement and build a walking habit without pressure. YOUR DAY AT A GLANCE See your steps, walking distance, active calories, floors, and daily goal progress in one simple screen. With Fawnly Plus, you can also make distance your main Home metric. WIDGETS FOR YOUR HOME SCREEN AND LOCK SCREEN Keep today's steps and goal progress in view with small and medium Home Screen widgets and round, rectangular, and inline Lock Screen widgets. They refresh from Apple Health on their own throughout the day. UNDERSTAND YOUR PROGRESS Review your recent activity and weekly progress. Fawnly Plus unlocks Month and Year views, older history, daily averages, best days, and longer-term insights. MAKE FAWNLY YOURS Choose from thoughtfully designed themes. Fawnly Plus includes premium illustrated themes and custom fonts for your main activity number. SHARE YOUR MOVEMENT Create a beautiful card from any day and share it with friends. Fawnly Plus unlocks Week and Month cards, along with additional sharing options. APPLE HEALTH, WITH YOUR PERMISSION On iPhone, Fawnly can read your step count, walking and running distance, active energy, and flights climbed from Apple Health. Access is read-only. Your activity history and preferences stay on your device. Fawnly has: • No account requirement • No ads • No advertising tracking • No Fawnly cloud sync FAWNLY PLUS An optional Fawnly Plus subscription unlocks: • Premium and illustrated themes • Month and Year history • Access to older weeks and months • Distance as your main Home metric • Week and Month sharing cards • Custom hero fonts • A weekly step-card recap PLEASE NOTE Fawnly is not a medical device and does not provide medical advice. Activity values are displayed as provided by Apple Health. When a value is unavailable, Fawnly shows it as unavailable rather than estimating it. SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION Fawnly Plus is available as an auto-renewable monthly or yearly subscription. Pricing is shown before purchase. Payment is charged to your Apple ID when you confirm your purchase. Your subscription renews automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current subscription period. You can manage or cancel your subscription in your device Settings. Terms of Use: https://getfawnly.com/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://getfawnly.com/privacy/

About

Basho Steps

Features
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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 FREE 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.

Screenshots

Fawnly4 screens
Basho Steps4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Basho Steps at every 4 days against Fawnly's every 11 days. 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Fawnly sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Basho Steps sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Fawnly ships an update every 11 days, Basho Steps every 4 days. Both last shipped on October 7, 2026.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Fawnly versus Basho Steps: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFawnlyBasho Steps
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 11 daysEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS16.4 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size70 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKaustubh KajaveRIEKO NAITO

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Fawnly

Subscriptions2
  • Fawnly Plus Monthly$1.991 Month
  • Fawnly Plus Yearly$9.991 Year
1 purchases

Basho Steps

One-time1
  • The Oku Road$2.99

Questions

Is Fawnly free?
Fawnly is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Basho Steps free?
Basho Steps is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Fawnly or Basho Steps have ads?
Neither Fawnly nor Basho Steps shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Fawnly or Basho Steps?
Fawnly ships an update every 11 days, and Basho Steps every 4 days. Most recently, Fawnly was updated on October 7, 2026 and Basho Steps on October 7, 2026.

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