BloomStep vs Acclimb
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.
Acclimb
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Climb Mount Everest with the steps you already take. Not a progress bar dressed up as scenery — an illustrated Everest that relights from dawn to midnight, drifts with high-altitude cloud, tilts with your phone, and holds your climber exactly where your body has earned. Completely free. No ads, no subscriptions, no in-app purchases. Acclimb turns your real Apple Health activity into a faithful expedition up Everest. Every flight of stairs, walk, run, hike and workout becomes vertical meters and distance along the real South Col route — from Base Camp to the summit at 8,848 m. WHAT YOU GET • A living Everest scene — sun-following sky, drifting cloud, parallax that answers your hand • Your route, traced — Base Camp, Camp I–IV, the Balcony, the South Summit, the Hillary Step • Per-workout credit — see how much that morning hike moved you up the face • Everyday stairs, counted — the flights you climb without thinking about it • Two ways to climb — Medium counts every metre the same; Hard thins the air near the top • Camp cinematics — reach a camp and the camera moves, with a keepsake card • Route briefings and landmark cards — the 1953 ascent, the Khumbu Icefall, the Death Zone • Real metrics — summit ETA, 7-day trend, momentum and a daily progress chart • A permanent Summit Log — every summit you reach is kept forever • Share cards — rendered entirely on your device, framing the camp you reached • A global Game Center leaderboard for your highest altitude — opt-in, off by default, and it shares only that one number HOW IT WORKS Real vertical counts most. Stairs and any workout that gains elevation count in full, at any pace — a hilly hike always beats an hour on flat ground. A workout's own elevation already credits any stairs climbed during it, so nothing is counted twice. Choose how hard the mountain is. On Medium every metre counts the same: climb 150 m on a trail and you climb 150 m on Everest. On Hard the air thins as you go, as on the real mountain — that same 150 m counts about 120 m near Camp III and about 100 m near the summit. Switch any time. Everything else still counts. Flat and indoor effort — a treadmill run, a spin class, a long city walk — is converted from active energy into equivalent meters and discounted, so it moves you without ever rivaling a real climb. You have to cover the ground too. Progress runs on two budgets, distance and height, and you stand at the furthest point where both are satisfied. No stair-climbing to the summit. And you can always see the math. A "What moves you up the mountain" view is one tap away and shows how every number was produced. No black box. NO STREAKS, NO GUILT There are no streaks to lose, no fail states, no red rings. Progress only ever moves forward. Take a week off and the mountain simply waits — a rest day is a rest day, and Acclimb will never tell you otherwise. There is no manual "add progress" button either: your body is the only input. Turn on Reduce Motion and Acclimb honors it: the tilt-parallax stops and the sky settles almost still. YOUR HEALTH DATA STAYS YOURS Acclimb reads from Apple Health with your explicit, per-type permission, and never writes back. There is no backend, no account to create and no analytics. Only your derived progress — your altitude and position on the route — syncs to your own private iCloud, which only you can read. Nothing is sold, shared or used for advertising. Acclimb is declared to Apple as "Data Not Collected." The whole experience works offline. The mountain does not need a signal. Requires iOS 26 and an iPhone. Apple Health access is optional, and Acclimb needs it to move you up the mountain. Acclimb is a wellness companion and a game about your movement — it is not a medical device. It does not diagnose, treat or interpret anything, and it makes no medical claims. The activity figures it shows are neutral mirrors of your own Apple Health numbers. For anything medical, consult a qualified professional.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Acclimb at none against BloomStep's 4. BloomStep's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 8 days) and iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads 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. Acclimb asks for nothing beyond the download.
BloomStep ships an update every 4 days, Acclimb every 8 days. Both last shipped on November 6, 2026.
| Parameter | BloomStep | Acclimb |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Every 8 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 82 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 依欢 孙 | Rudra Jikadra |
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
Acclimb
No in-app purchases









