Comparison

Watch Your Steps vs Step Step

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

Head to head
About

Watch Your Steps

This app displays your daily step count and goal progress on your iPhone and Apple Watch. Track your activity with customizable widgets and view historical data with hourly charts. It integrates with Apple Health for seamless step tracking.

Highlights
  • Step count and goal progress on watch face
  • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets
  • Customizable daily step goals
  • 30 days of historical step data
  • Live Activity progress
  • Shortcuts and Siri integration
Features
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Watch Your Steps keeps your daily steps and goal progress visible across your iPhone and Apple Watch—from your watch face and Home Screen to the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island. Set a daily step goal that works for you, choose from personalized suggestions based on your recent activity, and follow your progress throughout the day. Browse up to 30 days of step history, including hourly activity charts that show when you moved most. Features: • Apple Watch app with today’s steps, goal progress, steps remaining, and Health status • Apple Watch complications for step count and visual goal progress • Home Screen widgets for steps, goal progress, steps remaining, percentage complete, and seven-day trends • Lock Screen widgets in inline, circular, and rectangular layouts • Themed progress widgets with eight styles, including Retro Sunset, Neon Grid, Vaporwave, Arcade, and Ocean • Custom daily goals with personalized suggestions based on recent activity • Thirty days of historical step data with hourly activity charts • Automatic Goal Sprint Live Activities when you reach 75% of your goal • Live Activity progress on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island • Shortcuts and Siri actions for checking steps, setting your goal, and refreshing widgets • Simple setup and goal syncing between iPhone and Apple Watch Watch Your Steps reads step data from Apple Health only to calculate and display your totals and goal progress. There are no accounts, no social feeds, and no clutter; just a clear, motivating view of your steps wherever you’re most likely to see it.

About

Step Step

Track your daily steps, workouts, and weight with a visually engaging night-sky dashboard. Earn medals, build streaks, and fill your moonlit ring as you move. Your health data remains private on your device.

Highlights
  • Daily step ring with live count and historical views
  • Adaptive streaks and streak protection shields
  • Medal cabinet with over 40 awards
  • Weight, body fat, and waist logging with trend lines
  • GPS workout recording with route, heart-rate, and elevation
  • Workout calendar and year heat map
  • Apple Watch app and widgets for Home/Lock Screen
Features
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The step counter that makes every day feel like a small mission. Step Step turns your walks, workouts, fasts and weigh-ins into a beautiful night-sky dashboard, with streaks, medals and a moonlit ring that fills as you move. No accounts, no ads, and your health data stays on your iPhone. Step Step uses anonymous, opt-out analytics to help us improve the app. It never includes your health or personal data. NEW: FASTING • Start a fast in one tap with popular plans like 16:8, or set your own • A fasting timer that counts up or down, with every stage marked as you pass it • Keep an eye on your fast from the Lock Screen, Live Activity and Home Screen widgets • Log water as you go, with its own widget and a daily goal • Week and month calendars of every fast, and fasting challenges with friends STEPS & STREAKS • Daily step ring with live count, weekly chart and month and year views • Adaptive streaks that score each day against the goal you had back then, so raising your goal never breaks your past • Solar Flare Shields protect your streak on rest days, earned as your streak grows • Medal cabinet with 40+ awards: steps, streaks, distance, floors, workouts and hidden records • Challenges: daily, weekly and monthly step missions WORKOUTS • Record walks, hikes and runs with GPS route, heart-rate zones, splits and elevation • Route flyover: turn a GPS workout into a 3D flyover video, ready to share • Map Privacy hides the start and end of your routes before you share them • Plan workouts on future days and get a reminder when it's time to go • Workout calendar and year heat map for your full Apple Health history • Post-workout notes, photos, tags, effort rating and state of mind WEIGHT • Log weight, body fat % and waist with a swipe dial, trend line and goal checkpoints APPLE WATCH & WIDGETS • Watch app with its own workout recorder and Smart Stack widgets • Watch face complications, so you see your steps right on your watch face • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets: step ring, week bars, streak, weight, goals, fasting and water • Siri: ask for today's steps without opening the app APPLE HEALTH • Reads steps, workouts, heart rate, weight, sleep and water from Apple Health • Writes your weigh-ins, water and recorded workouts back, so Health stays the source of truth PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account. No sign-up. No ads. • Your health data never leaves your device. Step Step uses anonymous, opt-out analytics to help us improve the app, and it never includes your health data. STEP STEP PRO Some features require Step Step Pro (subscription or one-time lifetime purchase): advanced trends and comparisons, all-time records, extra accent themes, custom fasting plans and fasting trends, workout planning and reminders, unlimited route flyover videos, multiple body-metric goals and unlimited workout goals. The core experience is free: steps, streaks, shields, medals, fasting, water, weight logging and the workout recorder. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://step-step.app/privacy

Screenshots

Watch Your Steps4 screens
Step Step4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Watch Your Steps at none against Step Step's 8. On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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. Step Step sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Watch Your Steps 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 Watch Your Steps against 5.0 for Step Step. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 4 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Watch Your Steps versus Step Step: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWatch Your StepsStep Step
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (5 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings5 — better4
Update frequencyEvery 3 daysEvery 3 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS26.026.0
Further details — not scored
Size16 MB115 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCody KernsGwilym James

Customer experience

Watch Your Steps

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Step Step

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Watch Your Steps

No in-app purchases

8 purchases

Step Step

Subscriptions3
  • Step Step Pro$2.991 Month
  • Step Step Pro7 Days trial$19.991 Year
  • Step Step Pro Family7 Days trial$24.991 Year
One-time5
  • Solar Flare Shield$0.99
  • Shield 3-Pack$2.49
  • Shield Crate$3.99
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  • Step Step Pro — Lifetime$39.99
  • Step Step Pro — Family Lifetime$49.99

Questions

Is Watch Your Steps free?
Watch Your Steps is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Step Step free?
Step Step is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Watch Your Steps or Step Step?
Watch Your Steps and Step Step are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 5 and 4 ratings respectively.
Do Watch Your Steps or Step Step have ads?
Neither Watch Your Steps nor Step Step shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Watch Your Steps or Step Step?
Watch Your Steps ships an update every 3 days, and Step Step every 3 days. Most recently, Watch Your Steps was updated on October 24, 2026 and Step Step on October 28, 2026.

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