Comparison

Step Step vs Yaoki

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

Yaoki

This app helps you maintain your daily step goal by tracking your progress and allowing manual edits to preserve your streak. It focuses on privacy, keeping your data on your device. Achieve your fitness goals with a clean, distraction-free interface.

Highlights
  • Step count at a glance
  • Detailed daily metrics
  • Streak tracking
  • Manual streak editing
  • Clean design
  • Privacy-focused
Features
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Yaoki takes its name from the Japanese proverb 七転び八起き — "fall down seven times, get up eight." It's a simple, private step tracker built around one idea: your streak should reflect your effort, not a missed sync or a forgotten phone. FEATURES • See today's step count at a glance, read from Apple Health • Shows steps, distance, active minutes, energy and flights climbed for each day • Track how many days in a row you've hit your goal • Edit your streak manually — if you walked but your phone stayed home, set the record straight • Clean, distraction-free design PRIVACY Yaoki reads step data from Apple Health only to show it to you. Your data stays on your device and in your own iCloud account — the developer never sees it. No accounts, no ads, no tracking. Get up one more time than you fall. Keep walking.

Screenshots

Step Step4 screens
Yaoki4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Yaoki at none against Step Step's 5. Yaoki also leads on iOS requirement (17.6 vs 26.0). Step Step's advantage is ratings volume (4 vs 1). On price, rating, review sentiment and update cadence 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. Yaoki asks for nothing beyond the download.

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 Yaoki. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 1 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Step Step ships an update every 3 days, Yaoki every 4 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Step Step versus Yaoki: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStep StepYaoki
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings4 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 4 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS26.017.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size115 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGwilym JamesSteven Sienkiewicz

Customer experience

Step Step

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

Yaoki

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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
None

Yaoki

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Step Step free?
Step Step is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Yaoki free?
Yaoki is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Step Step or Yaoki?
Step Step and Yaoki are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 4 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Step Step or Yaoki have ads?
Neither Step Step nor Yaoki shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Step Step or Yaoki?
Step Step ships an update every 3 days, and Yaoki every 4 days. Most recently, Step Step was updated on October 31, 2026 and Yaoki on October 31, 2026.

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