Step Step vs Fember
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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
Fember
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Fember is the private companion for perimenopause and hormone therapy — one-tap symptom logging, reminders for every kind of regimen, and a calendar that actually shows you patterns. No account. No ads. Your data never leaves your iPhone. EVERY REGIMEN, REMEMBERED Patches, gels, pills, sprays, injections, pessaries, coil — including phased and cyclical schedules and multiple medications at once. Reminders that respect your sleep and adapt when your prescription changes. ONE TAP, TIME-STAMPED A hot-flash button in the app and on your Home Screen widget. Time, intensity, and trigger captured in a second — so frequency patterns are finally visible. THE CALENDAR YOU'VE BEEN ASKING FOR Month heat views with dose-change markers. See what actually changed after the change — night sweats before and after the new patch, in one glance. WALK IN WITH PROOF One tap builds a clean PDF for your appointment: adherence, symptom trends, labs, and the questions you want to ask. PRIVATE BY ARCHITECTURE No account. No sign-in. No data sold — ever. Everything lives on your iPhone and syncs through your own iCloud. Export everything as CSV or PDF whenever you want. Fember is free to download, and full access requires a Fember Plus subscription. Every feature described above is included with the subscription, which starts with a 21-day free trial, then $6.99/month or $49.99/year. Subscriptions auto-renew until cancelled; manage or cancel anytime in Settings. Fember is a tracking tool, not a medical device, and does not provide medical advice. Privacy policy: https://bozdevsupport.github.io/fember-landing/privacy.html Terms of use (Apple standard EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Fember at 18.0 against Step Step's 26.0. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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 5 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Fember sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Step Step | Fember |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days | Every 3 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 18.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 115 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Gwilym James | Berkay Ozcan |
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
- Step Step Pro — Lifetime$39.99
- Step Step Pro — Family Lifetime$49.99
Fember
- Fember Monthly14 Days trial$6.991 Month
- Fember Annual14 Days trial$49.991 Year









