Comparison

StepShare vs Manpo Steps

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

Head to head
About

StepShare

This app allows you to share your daily step counts with family and friends, fostering a sense of connection and shared activity. It offers personalized goal setting, team challenges, and progress tracking, all while prioritizing user privacy by only accessing step data from HealthKit.

Highlights
  • Share daily step totals
  • Personalized step goals
  • Create or join private teams
  • Walking Journeys challenges
  • Sync with Apple Watch
  • View step history and rankings
Features
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StepShare helps family and friends share daily step totals and enjoy walking together at their own pace. Track daily steps, explore personal charts and view goals without an account. Your personal step goal adapts to recent activity and can also be set manually. Sign in with Apple only when you choose to share steps by creating or joining a private team with a 6-digit invitation code. Compare today's steps and rankings, and encourage your team with 15 fixed reaction stamps. In Walking Journeys, add your team's steps to reach checkpoints and take on weekly goals based on your recent pace. Review step history, sync steps from Apple Watch, and check your team's ranking from your wrist. Privacy StepShare reads only daily step totals from HealthKit. It does not access location, heart rate, or workout details. After you join a team, members can see your display name and daily step totals. You can stop sharing or delete your saved step history and account in the app. Health data is not used for advertising or user tracking.

About

Manpo Steps

Features
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The step counter you can trust. Manpo Steps shows one number, the same one Apple Health shows, and it can prove it. Tap the number to see the arithmetic: what your Watch counted, what your iPhone counted, the overlap Health removed. No other step counter shows its work. Streaks built for humans. Rest days keep your streak alive. Sick days and travel days pause it; they never break it. A day is judged in the timezone you actually lived it, so crossing an ocean cannot cost you a streak. A walk, live. Tap the sun and the walk counts on your Lock Screen, in the Dynamic Island and on your wrist. Turn on Count while locked and it keeps counting in your pocket, with distance and pace. Six faces, one obsession. Your day, six ways: a vertical rail, a station sign, a rising sun, the 1965 manpo-kei dial, a stamp-rally card, a station timetable. Inspired by the Japanese δΈ‡ζ­©θ¨ˆ, the 1965 pedometer that invented the 10,000-step goal. Honest everywhere. Widgets and Watch complications show the count and when it was last updated, never a stale number pretending to be live. Siri knows your steps today. Yours. β€’ No account. No ads. Nothing leaves your device. β€’ Export everything as CSV or JSON, free. β€’ Free, forever: the honest number and the proof behind it, streaks with rest days, widgets, complications, Siri, the rail and the sign faces, ninety days of history. β€’ Manpo Pro: every face and every face to come, a full year of history, your own rest-day allowance. A week, a year, or once, for good. Everything is unlocked for the first seven days. Manpo Steps reads steps, distance and flights from Apple Health. It writes nothing, except a walk you start on your Apple Watch, which is saved as a Walking workout. Terms of Use (Apple's standard EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://manposteps.app/privacy/

Screenshots

StepShare4 screens
Manpo Steps4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: StepShare at none against Manpo Steps's 3. StepShare also leads on iOS requirement (16.1 vs 18.0). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS

CostPrice Β· In-app purchases Β· Ads Β· Monetization

Both are free to download. Manpo Steps sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days. StepShare asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences Β· 6 level
StepShare versus Manpo Steps: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStepShareManpo Steps
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews100.0% of reviewsβ€”
Update frequencyEvery 3 daysβ€”
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo β€” betterYes
MonetizationFreeβ€”
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS16.1 β€” better18.0
Further details β€” not scored
Size25 MB10 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNaoki MiuraQuantum Digital Plus Pty Ltd

In-app purchases

None

StepShare

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Manpo Steps

Subscriptions2
  • Manpo Pro, weekly$0.997 Days
  • Manpo Pro, yearly$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • Manpo Pro, forever$39.99

Questions

Is StepShare free?
StepShare is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Manpo Steps free?
Manpo Steps is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do StepShare or Manpo Steps have ads?
Neither StepShare nor Manpo Steps shows ads.

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