StepChase vs Pedometer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
StepChase
This app transforms your daily step count into understandable insights and progress tracking. It allows for personal goal setting, achievement earning, and private group competitions with friends and family. Stay motivated with clear visualizations of your movement history and shared journeys.
- Understand daily movement patterns
- Set and track personal goals
- Earn achievements and milestones
- Engage in private group competitions
- Visualize progress with charts and insights
- Share weekly and monthly recaps
- Home screen widgets for progress visibility
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Your steps. A little rivalry. StepChase is a step counter for your daily progress and friendly competition. Track your steps with Apple Health, chase your goal, and give your friends something to catch. No ads. No subscriptions. Personal tracking works without an account. MAKE EVERY STEP COUNT See your Day, Week and Month at a glance. Follow your goal, see how today compares with your usual activity, and spot the patterns behind your progress. Personal bests show how far you've come. GIVE YOUR FRIENDS SOME COMPETITION Connect with friends or create a private group. Compare steps, improvement or goal progress, see who's ahead, and look back at the podium when the day, week or month is done. Send a little Momentum with ready-made encouragement or a playful taunt. CHALLENGE ACCEPTED Invite a friend to a one-on-one duel. Pick the duration, wait for their acceptance, and see who comes out ahead. Ready for another go? Send a rematch. Join StepChase challenges and work toward the same step target. Everyone who reaches it finishes. Challenge leaderboards show participants anonymously unless they choose to share their name and photo for that challenge. BUILD SOMETHING TOGETHER Private group journeys turn everyone's steps into progress toward a common milestone. See how far you've come and who's helped along the way. MAKE ROOM FOR TROPHIES Earn achievements, unlock titles, and find your next milestone. Your trophy room keeps the wins you've earned in one place. YOUR PROGRESS, WORTH SHARING Revisit your completed weeks and months with personal recaps. Share the big picture while your private hourly details stay on your device. Today and Week Home Screen widgets keep your progress close between visits. YOUR STEPS. YOUR CHOICE. Apple Health access is optional and read-only. StepChase never writes to or changes your Health data. Flights Climbed, hourly patterns and step-based distance, calorie and active-time estimates stay on your device. Optional product analytics require your consent and exclude Health values. Notifications are optional too. Available in English, French and Spanish. Your move.
Pedometer
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Pedometer counts your steps, distance, and flights climbed, and shows them as plain numbers and charts. It reads Apple Health, so if you wear an Apple Watch, its steps are included. TODAY Your steps against your goal, with what is left to go. Distance and flights climbed against their goals, with active energy and walking speed beside them. A chart shows today hour by hour, next to a usual day. GOALS Set a daily goal for steps, distance, and flights climbed. They start at 10,000 steps, 8 km or 5 miles, and 10 flights. HISTORY One chart per number, for the last week, month, or year. Each shows the daily average and how it compares with the period before. Touch a chart to read a single day, or a single week in the year view. Records show your step totals for every month and year, and your best day, week and month for steps, flights climbed and walking speed. WALKS AND RUNS Record a walk or run with GPS. The map keeps you in the middle and draws your route, with your time, distance, speed or pace, calories, elevation and climb. With AirPods Pro 3, Powerbeats Pro 2 or a Bluetooth heart rate strap, your heart rate shows live too (iOS 26). While you go, the numbers stay on the Lock Screen with a pause button. Each walk is saved to Apple Health with its route, and you can share a picture of it with the map and your numbers. WIDGETS • Lock Screen: steps and distance, each inside a ring that closes at your goal, and flights climbed, with a little figure that climbs a staircase to your goal. Above your steps, a figure goes from walking to running as you near your goal. • Home Screen: the same card as the app, small, medium or large. The large size adds today hour by hour. Touch and hold the widget to make it light or dark, or to show the steps alone. NO APPLE WATCH REQUIRED Your iPhone counts your steps on its own. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • Reads Apple Health, and writes to it only the walks and runs you record. • Your location is used only while you record, and stays on your iPhone. • Everything is counted and stored on your iPhone. Nothing is uploaded. • No account, no analytics, no tracking. Pedometer is not a medical device and does not give medical advice.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: StepChase at none against Pedometer's 3. Pedometer's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 4 weeks). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Pedometer sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. StepChase asks for nothing beyond the download.
StepChase ships an update every 4 weeks, Pedometer every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | StepChase | Pedometer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 54 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ryan Mohunlal | Fotios Avgidis |
In-app purchases
StepChase
No in-app purchases
Pedometer
- Small Tip$0.99
- Medium Tip$2.99
- Large Tip$4.99
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