Comparison

CoughTrack vs BlockStep

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

Head to head
About

CoughTrack

Features
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CoughTrack listens quietly through your Apple Watch and logs every cough and sneeze automatically โ€” no buttons, no manual tracking. HOW IT WORKS Wear your Apple Watch and start monitoring. CoughTrack uses on-device sound analysis to detect coughs and sneezes as they happen, scoring each one mild, moderate, or severe based on how loud it was. SEE YOUR PATTERNS โ€ข Today โ€” a running count of today's coughs and sneezes, broken down by severity โ€ข History โ€” browse every logged event โ€ข Trends โ€” track how your daily totals change over time MAKE IT YOURS Adjust the sensitivity to match how you actually cough โ€” catch more faint coughs, or cut down on false alarms. WORKS WITH APPLE HEALTH Optionally save your logged events to the Health app, so they sit alongside the rest of your health history โ€” and can easily be shared with your doctor if that's useful to you. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No accounts, no ads, no analytics. Sound analysis happens entirely on your Apple Watch โ€” raw audio is never recorded or sent anywhere. Only the detection result (cough or sneeze, severity, timestamp) reaches your iPhone to be logged. CoughTrack is a personal log, not a diagnostic tool. It doesn't diagnose, treat, or predict any medical condition โ€” it simply helps you notice your own patterns.

About

BlockStep

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BlockStep turns walking into building. Every step you take lays one block. Reach your daily Goal and the day's structure is complete; fall short and you keep exactly what you built โ€” the scaffolding stays where you stopped, honestly. A NEW STRUCTURE EVERY DAY Ninety-one authored pieces across thirteen chapters โ€” a cottage, a lighthouse, a locomotive, a hot air balloon, a kraken. Everyone walks the same order from their own first day, so what you meet on day four is a decision somebody made, not an accident of the calendar. YOUR GOAL, YOUR RESOLUTION Set it anywhere from 500 to 30,000 steps. The same structure is built at whatever detail your Goal implies โ€” a modest Goal makes a bolder, chunkier object; an ambitious one makes a finer, more detailed one. Nobody is building a worse version of anything. KEEP GOING A Streak counts the days you finished. Crown a structure by walking 150% of your Goal and you bank a Shield, which quietly saves a day you missed. Ill, or away? Mark the day โ€” your Streak holds where it is, and never pretends you walked. EXTRA STEPS GO SOMEWHERE Walked past your Goal? Point the overflow at an unfinished day from your Collection and finish that one too. The record keeps both truths: what you walked that day, and that a later day completed it. WHERE YOU LEFT IT Every past day is in your Collection: scroll it, open one, and turn it in your hand. Twenty Badges mark what the walking has earned โ€” firsts, streaks, hours, whole chapters โ€” and none of them can be un-earned. ON YOUR WRIST AND YOUR HOME SCREEN The watch app counts your steps on its own. The widget shows today's structure as it goes up. Walk mode puts it on your Lock Screen while you are out. IT FOLLOWS YOU Your Collection travels between your own devices through your own iCloud, so a new phone starts where the old one stopped. There is no account to make and nothing to sign in to. FREE, AND THE KIT The first fourteen Steps of the Sequence are free โ€” enough to see whether this is for you. After that the road begins again, and the Kit is a single $4.99 purchase that opens all ninety-one Builds and everything after them. No subscription, no ads, no second currency. Your walking counts either way: the Kit changes what gets built, never what gets recorded. PRIVACY BlockStep reads exactly one thing โ€” your step count โ€” and there is no server of ours for it to go to. No account, no analytics, no advertising, no tracking. Your Collection is mirrored into your own private iCloud database, which is yours: it lives in your Apple account and we have no key to it. A device that is not signed in to iCloud simply keeps its Collection locally.

Screenshots

CoughTrack3 screens
BlockStep4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: CoughTrack at none against BlockStep's 1. CoughTrack also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. BlockStep sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. CoughTrack asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 4 level
CoughTrack versus BlockStep: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCoughTrackBlockStep
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyโ€”Every 4 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo โ€” betterYes
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS17.0 โ€” better26.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size2 MB17 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperShamim PirzadaCaffeinated Code d.o.o.

In-app purchases

None

CoughTrack

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

BlockStep

One-time1
  • The Kit$4.99

Questions

Is CoughTrack free?
CoughTrack is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is BlockStep free?
BlockStep is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do CoughTrack or BlockStep have ads?
Neither CoughTrack nor BlockStep shows ads.

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