Comparison

Step Counter & Pedometer Stepp vs PaceBuddy

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

Head to head
About

Step Counter & Pedometer Stepp

Features
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Stepp is a step counter and walking tracker that makes every step more exciting by turning daily movement into a global country challenge. Track your steps, follow your daily progress, build streaks, and see how your country ranks against others around the world. Whether you are walking to class, work, the gym, or just around your neighborhood, Stepp helps you stay motivated one step at a time. With a simple dashboard, live step tracking, country rankings, goal progress, distance, and calorie estimates, Stepp makes walking feel more fun, competitive, and meaningful. WHY YOU’LL LOVE STEPP • Track your daily steps • Join the global country leaderboard • Help your country climb the ranking • Set and follow daily step goals • Build streaks by staying active • View estimated calories and distance • Check your walking progress anytime • Use guest mode for simple tracking • Sign in to contribute to your country • No wearable device required WALK FOR YOURSELF. WALK FOR YOUR COUNTRY. Most step counter apps only show your personal step number. Stepp gives your steps a bigger purpose. Every step you take can help your country move higher in the global ranking. Small walks add up. A short walk today, a longer walk tomorrow, and a daily habit after that — Stepp helps you stay consistent by making progress easy to see and fun to follow. PERFECT FOR • Daily walking • Fitness motivation • Step counting • Country leaderboard competition • Building healthy walking habits • Tracking activity without a wearable • Staying consistent with daily goals HOW IT WORKS Keep your phone with you while you walk. Stepp counts your steps and shows your daily progress. If you choose to sign in, your steps can help your selected country compete on the global leaderboard. Start walking today and see where your country ranks.

About

PaceBuddy

This app acts as a personal running coach, allowing you to race against your past performances on familiar routes. It provides real-time feedback on your pace and distance, with advanced features for accurate tracking on varied terrain and integration with smartwatches.

Highlights
  • Race against past runs or personal bests
  • Live ahead/behind pace feedback
  • Falling-behind alerts (vibration, beep, spoken)
  • Accurate distance and elevation tracking
  • Calorie calculation with climbing cost
  • Apple Watch standalone workouts
Features
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Everyone has a route they do over and over — the same loop, the same hill, the same trail. PaceBuddy is built on one idea: on that route, the only pace worth chasing is your own. It replays your last run beside you, second by second, and tells you whether you're ahead or behind and by how far. Race your last attempt, or your best. RACE YOURSELF, NOT A STRANGER • Live ahead/behind against your own past run on the same route • Choose your last run or your personal best as the target • Works even if you start the loop from a different point each day • Falling-behind alerts by vibration, beep, or spoken callout • Distance announcements at every kilometre or mile • Lap splits with distance, time, pace and calories BUILT FOR REAL TERRAIN • Elevation from the barometer, not GPS altitude — far more accurate on hills • Distance from GPS Doppler speed with step-based stride calibration, so it holds up under tree cover and on switchbacks • Calories that account for the metabolic cost of climbing, not just distance • Heart-rate zones when you wear an Apple Watch APPLE WATCH, WITH OR WITHOUT YOUR IPHONE • Standalone workouts — leave the phone at home • Create routes on your wrist; they sync back automatically • Live heart rate and heart-rate zones • Lap splits and alerts on the watch too PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No ads — ever • No subscription. One purchase, yours forever • No account, no sign-up, no tracking, no analytics • No third-party SDKs PaceBuddy has no servers and makes no network connections. Your workouts, routes and settings stay on your devices — aside from heart-rate and workout data you choose to sync through Apple Health. TRY IT FIRST PaceBuddy is free for 14 days, with everything unlocked. After that, a single one-time purchase keeps it. No subscription, no renewal, and the workouts you recorded stay readable either way. A NOTE ON HOW IT WORKS Pace coaching compares you to your own history on a given route, so it appears from your second workout on that route onward — a first run has nothing to race yet. Workouts under 100 m are treated as accidental starts and discarded.

Screenshots

Step Counter & Pedometer Stepp4 screens
PaceBuddy4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Step Counter & Pedometer Stepp at none against PaceBuddy's 1. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. PaceBuddy sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Step Counter & Pedometer Stepp asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Step Counter & Pedometer Stepp versus PaceBuddy: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStep Counter & Pedometer SteppPaceBuddy
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS15.1 — better16.2
Further details — not scored
Size68 MB35 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperINDRA PANDITShahab Karimi

In-app purchases

None

Step Counter & Pedometer Stepp

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

PaceBuddy

One-time1
  • Unlock PaceBuddy$6.99

Questions

Is Step Counter & Pedometer Stepp free?
Step Counter & Pedometer Stepp is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is PaceBuddy free?
PaceBuddy is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Step Counter & Pedometer Stepp or PaceBuddy have ads?
Neither Step Counter & Pedometer Stepp nor PaceBuddy shows ads.

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