Comparison

Stepwise vs Borneo Walks

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

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Stepwise

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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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Borneo Walks

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Borneo is a step and wellness tracker with a cute bear. He helps you walk more, sleep better, drink enough water and spend less time on your phone. WHAT YOU CAN DO WITH BORNEO • Track your steps, distance and progress toward a daily step goal • Lock distracting apps until you reach your goal, or every night at bedtime • Count a proper workout as today's goal • See your sleep. After a short night, Borneo makes today's goal a little smaller • Log glasses of water with a tap, in the app or on your Home Screen • Do guided breathing sessions that are saved to Apple Health as mindful minutes • Get a nudge when you have been sitting for more than two hours • Get reminders before your deadline • Have Borneo find a free spot in your calendar and add a walk to it • Run a timer from 1 to 60 minutes for workouts, stretches or walks • Earn honey for extra steps and spend it on treats, a day off or a chat with Borneo • Start step challenges with friends, family or coworkers • Look back at statistics, personal records and notes for each day • Keep Borneo on your Home Screen, Lock Screen, Dynamic Island and Apple Watch HE HOLDS YOUR APPS HOSTAGE Pick a step goal, a time to reach it by, and the apps you'd rather not open all evening. Miss the deadline and those apps stay locked until you reach your goal. Hit the goal and they open again, and Borneo cheers up. You can also keep apps locked from morning until you've walked enough, or lock them every night so there's no TikTok at 1 a.m. You decide every part of the deal, and you can change it any time. HE HAS A MOOD, AND YOU CAN SEE IT Borneo is happy, worried, grumpy, panicking or fast asleep, depending on how your day is going and how much time is left. You'll find him in a Home Screen widget, on your Apple Watch, and in a Live Activity while a timer runs. Poke him to see how he feels about it, but every poke adds a few steps to your goal. HE NOTICES WHEN YOU HAVE SLEPT BADLY Borneo reads last night's sleep and lowers today's goal a little after a short night. If a goal ignores how you slept, you'll soon start ignoring the goal. MORE THAN STEPS Tap the water glass next to Borneo each time you finish a glass. Breathe with him for three minutes, using box, calm, steady or 4-7-8 breathing. He'll tell you when you've been sitting for too long, and he can look at your calendar and add a walk to a free slot. WALK FURTHER AND EARN HONEY Steps beyond your goal turn into honey. Feed it to Borneo, take a day off with nothing locked, or buy a day of conversation. On iPhones with Apple Intelligence, Borneo talks back and tells you what he thinks of your week. The chat runs entirely on your iPhone. CHALLENGES Create a step challenge, choose the dates and the daily goal, and send the link to friends, family or coworkers. Everyone picks the name they want to show up as. You get a leaderboard and a day-by-day chart comparing you with anyone you choose. Winning a challenge of a week or longer earns honey. Only your steps for those dates are shared, and only after you join. A TIMER THE BEAR HOLDS FOR YOU Set a timer from one to sixty minutes. Borneo holds his stopwatch while it runs, counts down on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, and plays a loud alarm when time is up. STATISTICS THAT FIT ON ONE SCREEN Weeks, months, sleep, personal records and the days you reached your goal. Add a note to any day, and share a card of anything you see. YOUR DATA STAYS WITH YOU No account. No sign-up. No analytics, no ads, no third-party SDKs of any kind. Your health data is read on your iPhone, used on your iPhone and never sent anywhere. Challenges use your own iCloud account. There's no Borneo server to send anything to, because there is no Borneo server. Available in English, German and Ukrainian. Borneo needs Apple Health and Screen Time permission to work. Chatting with Borneo requires an iPhone with Apple Intelligence.

Screenshots

Stepwise4 screens
Borneo Walks4 screens

Verdict

The call

Stepwise and Borneo Walks are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Stepwise ships an update every 3 days, Borneo Walks every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Stepwise versus Borneo Walks: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStepwiseBorneo Walks
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 5 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS26.026.0
Further details — not scored
Size50 MB19 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer璇 冯Oleksandr Krasnoshchok

In-app purchases

None

Stepwise

No in-app purchases

None

Borneo Walks

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Stepwise free?
Stepwise is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Borneo Walks free?
Borneo Walks is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Stepwise or Borneo Walks have ads?
Neither Stepwise nor Borneo Walks shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Stepwise or Borneo Walks?
Stepwise ships an update every 3 days, and Borneo Walks every 5 days. Most recently, Stepwise was updated on October 15, 2026 and Borneo Walks on October 24, 2026.

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