Comparison

Step Step vs Fember

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, 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

About

Fember

Features
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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/

Screenshots

Step Step4 screens
Fember4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Step Step versus Fember: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStep StepFember
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 daysEvery 3 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS26.018.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size115 MB2 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperGwilym JamesBerkay Ozcan

In-app purchases

5 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-time2
  • Step Step Pro — Lifetime$39.99
  • Step Step Pro — Family Lifetime$49.99
2 purchases

Fember

Subscriptions2
  • Fember Monthly14 Days trial$6.991 Month
  • Fember Annual14 Days trial$49.991 Year

Questions

Is Step Step free?
Step Step is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Fember free?
Fember is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Step Step or Fember have ads?
Neither Step Step nor Fember shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Step Step or Fember?
Step Step ships an update every 3 days, and Fember every 3 days. Most recently, Step Step was updated on October 31, 2026 and Fember on October 29, 2026.

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