Comparison

StepHub vs StepKeep

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

StepHub

Features
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StepHub makes daily movement feel clear, calm, and rewarding. Connect Apple Health and instantly understand your walking, running, workouts, streaks, recovery context, and long-term progress. Start an outdoor walk, jog, or run from iPhone or Apple Watch, follow live pace and distance, and revisit real routes and splits afterward. MOVE WITH CLARITY • See steps, distance, active time, calories, flights, streaks, records, and weather in one thoughtful dashboard • Explore daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, yearly, and lifetime trends • Build sustainable goals that can adapt to your history • Log mood and understand movement, sleep, and recovery context without medical claims TRAIN YOUR WAY • Choose eight distinct walking, habit, 5K, 10K, half-marathon, and marathon calendars with progressive recovery and race tapering • Choose your weekdays for a progressive custom plan, start one of six workout presets, or build a custom interval workout • Record walks, jogs, and runs with live GPS, pace, elevation, heart rate, haptics, and voice prompts • Review pace-colored maps and genuine kilometer splits when route data was recorded ENCOURAGEMENT WITHOUT OVERSHARING Create invite-only friend circles and groups. Community syncs only the alias and conversation you choose to share—never HealthKit samples, GPS routes, mood, sleep, or workout metrics. Encourage posts, comment, block, report, or delete your content at any time. EVERYWHERE YOU MOVE Use StepHub on iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Home Screen, Lock Screen, StandBy, Live Activities, and Dynamic Island. StepHub Premium unlocks advanced long-range analytics, custom plans, custom workouts, and saved routes. Prices and any introductory offer are displayed by the App Store before purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel in your App Store account settings. StepHub provides fitness information and is not a medical device. Always consider your own condition and professional guidance before changing your activity. Privacy Policy: https://stephub.us/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

StepKeep

This app synchronizes with Apple Health to provide an accurate, verifiable step count. It displays real-time data, offers historical trends, and includes features like goal setting and challenges. It prioritizes privacy by not uploading data or requiring an account.

Highlights
  • Accurate step count synced with Apple Health
  • Timestamped data for verification
  • History restoration and streak preservation
  • Goal setting, streaks, and rest days
  • Weekly, monthly, and yearly trends
  • Challenges and badges
  • Heart rate estimation (for reference)
  • Apple Watch app and complications
Features
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Most step counters show you a number you cannot check. Open the Health app and it says something different, and nobody tells you which one is right. StepKeep shows the number Health shows. Every day, on every screen, next to the time it was last updated. Why the number holds up: • One authoritative total, read straight from Apple Health and deduplicated across iPhone and Apple Watch. Never re-counted, never estimated from your weight or your stride. • Steps still waiting to sync get their own line, so the big number never runs ahead of Health. • Every screen is timestamped. If the data is more than two hours old, StepKeep says so instead of pretending it is live. • A source breakdown shows which device contributed what, and how many duplicate steps were removed. Key Features: • History restored: the first launch brings your past days back from Health, so your record and your streak survive a new phone. • Goals, streaks and rest days: set a daily goal, build a streak, and spend a rest day when life gets in the way. The streak stays alive. • Trends: week, month and year, with a calendar heat map and your best day. • Insights that admit what they do not know: how today compares with your usual pace, how this period compares with the last, and the hours you are most active. Too little data, and StepKeep says so rather than inventing a number. • Challenges and badges: daily, weekly, monthly, or your own target and length. Finish it and the badge is yours. • Calories, distance, floors and exercise minutes, all read from Health so they match too. • Heart rate: your Health heart rate and resting rate in one chart, plus a quick estimate with the rear camera. For reference only, not a medical device. • Apple Watch app and complication: today, the last 7 days and your goal on your wrist, and it works offline. • Widgets and Live Activity: Home Screen, Lock Screen and Dynamic Island. • Manual entry: treadmill, stroller, phone left on the table. Add those steps yourself; they stay on this device. • Wheelchair mode: counts pushes and wheelchair distance, read from Health like everything else. • Reminders: a nudge when you are close, a word when you hit the goal. Works with your devices StepKeep reads from Apple Health, so it already includes Apple Watch, Garmin, Oura, Whoop, Polar, Amazfit and Withings. Anything that writes to Health is already counted. No extra setup, no extra account. Private by design No ads. No third-party SDKs. No account to create. Your steps never leave your iPhone: nothing is uploaded to a server, and nothing goes to iCloud. Free forever: today's steps, the 7-day chart, week trends, goals, streaks, rest days, challenges, badges, every widget, the Live Activity and the Watch complication. StepKeep Plus adds month and year trends, camera heart rate measurement, and CSV export of your whole history. Fully usable with VoiceOver and Dynamic Type. Available in 15 languages. Terms of Use: https://sites.google.com/view/stepkeep-terms Privacy Policy: https://sites.google.com/view/stepkeep-privacy

Screenshots

StepHub4 screens
StepKeep4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: StepKeep at every 5 days against StepHub's every 2 weeks. StepKeep also leads on iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.0). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. StepHub sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month and StepKeep sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

StepHub ships an update every 2 weeks, StepKeep every 5 days. Both last shipped on November 6, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
StepHub versus StepKeep: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStepHubStepKeep
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Freemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS18.016.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size13 MB15 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperRahimi Enterprises LTD月梅 孙

In-app purchases

2 purchases

StepHub

Subscriptions2
  • StepHub Premium Monthly3 Days trial$7.991 Month
  • StepHub Premium Yearly3 Days trial$29.991 Year
4 purchases

StepKeep

Subscriptions3
  • StepKeep Plus Monthly$6.991 Month
  • StepKeep Plus Yearly Offer$14.991 Year
  • StepKeep Plus Yearly7 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • StepKeep Plus Lifetime$39.99

Questions

Is StepHub free?
StepHub is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is StepKeep free?
StepKeep is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do StepHub or StepKeep have ads?
Neither StepHub nor StepKeep shows ads.
Which is updated more often, StepHub or StepKeep?
StepHub ships an update every 2 weeks, and StepKeep every 5 days. Most recently, StepHub was updated on November 6, 2026 and StepKeep on November 6, 2026.

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