BloomStep vs Emberling
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BloomStep
This app encourages outdoor walking by tracking steps, distance, and active time. It uses your Apple Health data to grow a virtual garden as a reward for reaching daily goals and completing challenges. Record outdoor walks and runs with location tracking to visualize your routes.
- Step tracking via Apple Health
- Daily step goal setting
- Virtual garden growth reward
- Outdoor walk/run recording with GPS
- Challenges and achievement badges
- Home screen widget support
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Go outside. Take a walk. Let each step count. BloomStep is a gentle outdoor walking companion. Use Apple Health data to bring your steps, walking distance, and active time into one place. Set a daily step goal, turn movement into visible progress, and let a virtual garden grow as a calm reward for getting outside. WALK OUTSIDE, ONE STEP AT A TIME • Turn step count and walking distance into in-app energy • Set a daily step goal and track your progress • Collect unclaimed walking energy for up to seven days • Review daily activity, weekly totals, streaks, and calendar history RECORD WALKS AND RUNS OUTDOORS • Start an outdoor walking or running session with location tracking • See your route, distance, and duration while you move • Pause, resume, and save completed routes to your activity history • Keep your active session visible with a Live Activity CHALLENGES, CHECK-INS, AND BADGES • Complete weekly and monthly step-goal challenges for extra rewards • Claim daily check-in rewards and streak milestones • Unlock achievements for steps, active days, energy, plants, and blooms • Earn badges for monthly challenges and consistent 30-minute walks GROW A GARDEN THAT REWARDS YOUR WALKS • Choose from eighteen plant varieties and nurture each through five growth stages • Unlock and collect six garden scenes • Earn coins through walking goals, check-ins, challenges, and achievements • Create a full-bloom milestone card with your activity summary STAY IN YOUR RHYTHM • Add a Home Screen widget for today's steps, progress, and plant growth • Choose gentle walking reminders that suit your routine • Explore your activity history and celebrate milestones DESIGNED WITH PRIVACY IN MIND BloomStep reads Apple Health step count, walking distance, and exercise time to show your progress and create in-app energy. Location is used only while you record an outdoor walk or run to draw your route. Your Health data stays on your device and is never used for advertising. OPTIONAL PURCHASES You can earn coins as you use BloomStep. Optional coin packs and a full content unlock are available for users who want to unlock plants and garden scenes sooner. PRIVACY & TERMS Privacy Policy: https://sunheihei.github.io/app-policie/bloomstep-privacy-policy.html Terms of Use: https://sunheihei.github.io/app-policie/bloom-step-terms-of-use.html Start with one small step outside. Keep walking, and let your progress grow with you.
Emberling
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A habit tracker that bends when your life does. Emberling gives you a small companion who hatches from an egg and grows as you show up. On a hard week it doesn't break your streak and lecture you — it offers you a smaller version of the plan, and only changes something if you say yes. YOUR DAY, SHAPED IN 2 MINUTES Answer a few warm questions and Emberling builds your plan from your own words — small habits placed in your real rhythm. Night owls welcome. YOUR MORNING, ALREADY READ Connect Gmail and Google Calendar and wake up to the Morning Post: the few things from your inbox that actually needed you, sitting beside today's meetings. Tap a headline to turn it into a to-do for the day. Everything else stays unread, on purpose. A PLAN THAT RESIZES ITSELF Emberling watches how the week is really going. After a run of hard days it offers the five-minute version of a habit instead of the twenty. After a strong stretch it offers to grow one. It always asks first — nothing is ever resized behind your back, and finishing everything on a rough day never costs you a thing. SOMEONE TO TALK TO Chat with your companion about your day. It remembers what you told it, asks how things went, and can reschedule, resize, or pause a habit right there in the conversation. MOVEMENT THAT COUNTS ITSELF Connect Apple Health and your morning walk stops needing a second tick. When Health records a walk or a workout, your Emberling notices and offers to complete the habit it matches — you just confirm. Read-only, never shared. LETTERS AND NOTES A sealed letter every morning, and affirmations written for the day you're actually having. Every one is kept, so you can go back whenever you need it. SUNDAYS AND MONTH ENDS A quiet page that shows what actually changed — three real numbers. No dashboards, no red. YOUR YEAR IN PIXELS A soft grid of every day you showed up. Misses are never red — just quiet squares waiting for tomorrow. PLANNED AROUND YOUR REAL DAY Connect Google Calendar or Todoist and your Emberling plans habits around the day you actually have. MAKE IT YOURS Change the scenery behind your companion — beach at dawn, mountain campfire, starlit library, the aurora — and dress them from the Ember Store with what you've earned. FREE FOREVER 5 daily habits, daily chats with your companion, and your full year-in-pixels grid — free. EMBERLING PRO Unlimited habits, unlimited chat, every scene. 7 days free on either plan, then $9.99/month or $49.99/year. Cancel anytime. Regional pricing available. Emberling is a wellbeing tool, not a medical service. Privacy: https://emberling.app/privacy Terms: https://emberling.app/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Emberling at daily against BloomStep's every 4 days. 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
Both are free to download. BloomStep sells 4 one-off in-app purchases and Emberling sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
BloomStep ships an update every 4 days, Emberling daily. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | BloomStep | Emberling |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 82 MB | 84 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 依欢 孙 | Krish Parekh |
In-app purchases
BloomStep
- Small Coin Pack$0.99
- Medium Coin Pack$4.99
- Large Coin Pack$9.99
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- Unlock All Plants$29.99
Emberling
- Emberling Pro Monthly7 Days trial$9.991 Month
- Emberling Pro Annual7 Days trial$49.991 Year








