Comparison

Step Step vs Simple Calorie Tracker

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

Head to head
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 and weigh-ins into a beautiful night-sky dashboard — 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. FEATURES • Daily step ring with live count, weekly chart and month & year views • Adaptive streaks that score each day against the goal you had back then — 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 • Log weight, body fat % and waist with a swipe dial, trend line and goal checkpoints • Record walks, hikes and runs with GPS route, heart-rate zones, splits and elevation • Workout calendar and year heat map for your full Apple Health history • Post-workout notes, photos, tags, effort rating and state of mind • Challenges: daily, weekly and monthly step missions APPLE WATCH & WIDGETS • Watch app with its own workout recorder and Smart Stack widgets • Watch face complications — see your steps right on your watch face • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets: step ring, week bars, streak, weight and goals • Siri: ask for today's steps without opening the app APPLE HEALTH • Reads steps, workouts, heart rate and weight from Apple Health • Writes your weigh-ins and recorded workouts back — 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, multiple body-metric goals and unlimited workout goals. The core experience — steps, streaks, shields, medals, weight logging and the workout recorder — is free. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://step-step.app/privacy

About

Simple Calorie Tracker

This app uses AI to help you track your calorie and macro intake. It offers features like barcode scanning, food search, and weight tracking. It also syncs with health platforms and provides personalized insights based on your data.

Highlights
  • AI meal photo scan
  • Barcode scanning
  • Food database search
  • Manual macro logging
  • Weight tracking with trend line
  • Apple Health & Google Health sync
  • Home and Lock Screen widgets
Features
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Calvin is a simple calorie, macro, fitness, and health tracker that keeps the basics free. Track food, calories, macros, weight, workouts, steps, sleep, recovery, and health trends in one place — without ads or requiring an account. Barcode scanning and food search are free. Most calorie trackers moved them behind a subscription. Calvin does not. FREE, AND STAYING FREE • Barcode scanning for packaged foods • Food search with USDA Branded and Open Food Facts • Calorie, macro, protein, carb, fat, fiber, sugar, and sodium tracking • Fast manual logging, common foods, recents, usuals, one-tap repeat logging, and copy yesterday's log • Custom recipes • Weight tracking with a smoothed trend line and adaptive maintenance calories based on your real weight trend • Fitness tracking for workouts, steps, distance, and active time • Apple Health integration and automatic compatible smart-scale weigh-ins • Body fat and lean mass trends when available • Google Health connection • Sleep, HRV, resting heart rate, personal baselines, and a daily recovery score • Weekly and monthly recaps, plus year in review • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets • Apple Watch app and complication • Siri, Shortcuts, and CSV export FAST FOOD LOGGING Start typing a food and Calvin surfaces foods you've logged before. One tap logs it again. The built-in pantry makes everyday staples like eggs, apples, rice, and chicken quick to add. CALORIES & MACROS, YOUR WAY Calories stay front and center while macros and nutrients are there when you want them. Choose which metrics appear throughout the app. Turn calorie numbers off for a simpler on-track-or-over view. FITNESS, WEIGHT & MAINTENANCE CALORIES Keep workouts and daily activity alongside nutrition. Track weight with a smoothed trend line, and let Calvin adapt your maintenance-calorie estimate over time based on your real weight trend. HEALTH & RECOVERY Bring together sleep, HRV, resting heart rate, breathing rate, activity, and other available health signals. Calvin compares supported metrics with your recent baseline. Your daily recovery score summarizes how you're doing and highlights the signals that changed. APPLE HEALTH & SMART SCALES Connect Apple Health to bring supported fitness and health data into Calvin. Compatible smart-scale weigh-ins can appear automatically, including body fat and lean mass when your scale provides them. Connections are optional. APPLE WATCH Check calories remaining, your chosen macros, and recovery from the Calvin Apple Watch app and complication. NO ACCOUNT NEEDED. NO ADS. Use Calvin without creating an account. Your food log lives on your device, not on a Calvin server. Connecting Apple or Google is optional and does not upload or restore your food log. WEEKLY, MONTHLY & YEARLY TRENDS See patterns across nutrition and health data with weekly and monthly recaps and a year in review. CALVIN PLUS — AI MEAL SCANNER Calvin Plus adds AI-powered meal photo scanning and deeper insights. Take a photo and Calvin identifies foods on your plate and estimates their nutrition. It can account for things a photo may miss, like cooking oil, and asks before keeping uncertain additions. Adjust portions, add a missing item, or make a correction without starting over. Monthly and annual plans are available in your local App Store currency with a 3-day free trial. Barcode scanning, food search, calorie and macro tracking, fitness, weight, health features, and the other core features above remain free. SIMPLE BY DESIGN Calvin helps you understand nutrition, fitness, weight, and health without turning every meal into homework. Track what matters. Ignore what doesn't. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://calvinhealth.com/privacy

Screenshots

Step Step4 screens
Simple Calorie Tracker4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Step Step at 4 against Simple Calorie Tracker's 1. Simple Calorie Tracker's advantage is iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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 and Simple Calorie Tracker sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Step Step against 5.0 for Simple Calorie Tracker. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Step Step ships an update every 3 days, Simple Calorie Tracker every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Step Step versus Simple Calorie Tracker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStep StepSimple Calorie Tracker
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 daysEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFreemium
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS26.018.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size60 MB18 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperGwilym JamesKevin Miguel Estrada Garcia

Customer experience

Step Step

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

Simple Calorie Tracker

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

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
2 purchases

Simple Calorie Tracker

Subscriptions2
  • Calvin Plus3 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • Calvin Plus Annual3 Days trial$49.991 Year

Questions

Is Step Step free?
Step Step is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Simple Calorie Tracker free?
Simple Calorie Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Step Step or Simple Calorie Tracker?
Step Step and Simple Calorie Tracker are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 4 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Step Step or Simple Calorie Tracker have ads?
Neither Step Step nor Simple Calorie Tracker shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Step Step or Simple Calorie Tracker?
Step Step ships an update every 3 days, and Simple Calorie Tracker every 2 days. Most recently, Step Step was updated on October 6, 2026 and Simple Calorie Tracker on October 15, 2026.

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