Comparison

Stepwise vs Manpo Steps

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

Head to head
About

Stepwise

Features
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Make every step count. Stepwise is a clean, battery-friendly pedometer and GPS activity tracker that turns daily movement into lasting momentum—with 3D awards, customizable widgets, and 100% on-device privacy. Whether you're taking a mindful walk, commuting, hiking a scenic trail, or training for a run, get real-time metrics, precision GPS route tracking, interactive widgets, and collectible 3D awards—all in one battery-friendly, privacy-first experience. TRACK YOUR DAILY MOVEMENT & HABITS • Daily Activity at a Glance: Monitor steps, active calories, walking distance, flights climbed, and active minutes in real time. • Smart Goals & Streaks: Set personalized daily step targets and build motivating streaks. Need a rest day? Pause your goal without breaking your streak. • Interactive Trends & Visual Calendar: Explore daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly trends with fluid charts, or look back at any date using the visual calendar. • Meaningful Activity Insights: Uncover your most active hours, weekday patterns, and fun milestone comparisons as you move. • Smart Weather & Running Advisories: Check temperature, UV index, and conditions before stepping out, with smart advisories for great walking and running weather. RECORD OUTDOOR & INDOOR WORKOUTS • Multi-Sport Tracking: Track walking, running, cycling, and hiking with dedicated indoor and outdoor activity modes. • Precision GPS & Lock-Screen Routes: Follow your route, live pace, elevation, split times, and GPS signal strength—even with your phone locked. • Built-In Apple Music Player: Enjoy your favorite workout playlists and curated radio stations without ever leaving the app, with convenient lock-screen controls. • Brag-Worthy Share Cards: Add photos to your workouts, overlay your route and statistics, and share your achievements with friends. • Apple Health Two-Way Sync: Seamlessly sync workouts, steps, and distance with Apple HealthKit to keep your health data centralized. COLLECT 3D AWARDS & MEDALLIONS • Interactive 3D Medals: Celebrate achievements with beautifully rendered 3D medals that you can drag, rotate, and inspect up close. • Collector Ranks & Sneaker Drops: Unlock exclusive sneaker drops and level up your status from Novice Stepper all the way to Obsidian Legend. • Lifetime Milestones: Earn trophies for consistency, distance milestones, and special workout challenges. CRAFTED EXCLUSIVELY FOR APPLE • Live Activities & Dynamic Island: Glance at your active workout time, distance, and pace directly from your Lock Screen or Dynamic Island. • Home & Lock Screen Widgets: Keep your step progress and current streak front and center throughout your day. • Apple Watch Companion: Check daily steps, monitor activity metrics, and start workouts right from your wrist. • Thoughtfully Customizable: Choose between Dark and Light mode, pick custom app icons, select metric or imperial units, and set your preferred week start day. BATTERY EFFICIENT & PRIVACY FIRST • Gentle on Your Battery: Powered by Apple’s built-in motion coprocessor for all-day tracking without draining your battery. • 100% On-Device Privacy: Your health, motion, and location data stay safely on your device and inside Apple Health. No third-party data tracking or selling—ever. Supported Languages: English, Simplified Chinese (简体中文), German (Deutsch), Korean (한국어), Japanese (日本語), Traditional Chinese (繁體中文), French (Français), and Spanish (Español). Start moving, build lasting habits, and celebrate your progress—one step at a time.

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Manpo Steps

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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 万歩計, 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. • No account. No ads. Nothing leaves your device. • Export everything as CSV or JSON, free. • 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. • 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

Stepwise4 screens
Manpo Steps4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Stepwise at none against Manpo Steps's 3. Manpo Steps's advantage is iOS requirement (18.0 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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

Scorecard2 real differences · 4 level
Stepwise versus Manpo Steps: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStepwiseManpo Steps
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS26.018.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size50 MB10 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer璇 冯Quantum Digital Plus Pty Ltd

In-app purchases

None

Stepwise

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 Stepwise free?
Stepwise 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 Stepwise or Manpo Steps have ads?
Neither Stepwise nor Manpo Steps shows ads.

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