Comparison

Step Step vs Caffeine 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

Caffeine Tracker

Features
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How much caffeine is actually in your body right now? Coffy answers that with a live half-life curve — not a list of cups you drank and forgot about. WATCH IT LEAVE YOUR SYSTEM Every drink you log is plotted on a real metabolic curve. Coffy shows the milligrams still active in your body at this moment, and tunes the half-life to your own sensitivity: 4, 5 or 7 hours. YOUR CUT-OFF TIME Set your bedtime and Coffy works out the last safe cup of the day — the point after which you would still be above the 50 mg sleep threshold when your head hits the pillow. It also projects how many mg you will have left at bedtime, before you pour the next one. TAPER INSTEAD OF QUITTING COLD TURKEY Pick a starting point and a goal, and Coffy builds a weekly taper plan — around 50 mg less each week — then tracks you against this week's target. Cut back without the headaches. Pause or adjust the pace whenever life gets in the way. NUMBERS YOU CAN ACTUALLY TRUST Caffeine values come from USDA FoodData Central, the FDA and peer-reviewed studies, and every drink shows you its source. Espresso, americano, latte, cappuccino, cortado, macchiato, mocha, matcha, tea, cola and energy drinks are built in — add your own for anything else. WATER TOO Track glasses of water alongside your caffeine, with gentle reminders through the day. HISTORY THAT MEANS SOMETHING Week, month and year views, your daily average, how it compares with the period before, and how many days you went over your limit. Day streaks and badges for days under your limit and nights with no late cup. REMINDERS THAT RESPECT YOUR SLEEP A cut-off alert, water reminders and an evening check-in — each one switchable. APPLE HEALTH & CSV Sync your caffeine intake to Apple Health, and export everything to CSV whenever you want it. Coffy is not trying to make you quit. It is here so you can time it right: full energy when you need it, clean sleep when you want it. Payment & Subscription Information: - Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. - Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. - Your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. - You can manage your subscriptions and turn off auto-renewal in your account settings after purchase. - No refund is provided for the unused portion of a subscription. Privacy Policy: https://desing304.github.io/caffeine-tracker-legal/privacy.html Terms of Use: https://desing304.github.io/caffeine-tracker-legal/termsofuse.html

Screenshots

Step Step4 screens
Caffeine Tracker4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Step Step at every 3 days against Caffeine Tracker's weekly. Caffeine Tracker's advantage is iOS requirement (16.4 vs 26.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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 Caffeine Tracker sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Step Step ships an update every 3 days, Caffeine Tracker weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Step Step versus Caffeine Tracker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStep StepCaffeine Tracker
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size60 MB79 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGwilym JamesEMIR YAVCIN

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
3 purchases

Caffeine Tracker

Subscriptions2
  • Premium Weekly$3.997 Days
  • Premium Yearly3 Days trial$24.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime Premium$39.99

Questions

Is Step Step free?
Step Step is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Caffeine Tracker free?
Caffeine Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Step Step or Caffeine Tracker have ads?
Neither Step Step nor Caffeine Tracker shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Step Step or Caffeine Tracker?
Step Step ships an update every 3 days, and Caffeine Tracker weekly. Most recently, Step Step was updated on October 6, 2026 and Caffeine Tracker on September 30, 2026.

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