Watch Your Steps vs Step Step
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
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.
- 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
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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
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Verdict
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
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.
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.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Watch Your Steps | Step Step |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (5 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days | Every 3 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 115 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Cody Kerns | Gwilym James |
Customer experience
Watch Your Steps
Step Step
In-app purchases
Watch Your Steps
No in-app purchases
Step Step
- Step Step Pro$2.991 Month
- Step Step Pro7 Days trial$19.991 Year
- Step Step Pro Family7 Days trial$24.991 Year
- 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









