Angel Step vs Pedometer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Angel Step
This app visualizes your daily step count with a dynamic sky that opens as you walk towards your personalized goal. It syncs with your health data, offering widgets for your home and lock screens without requiring sign-up or an Apple Watch.
- Home and lock screen step widgets
- Personalized daily step goals
- Dynamic sky visualization
- Syncs with Health app
- Calories and distance tracking
- Goal achievement rewards
- Social walking feature
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A step counter with a sky — your steps big on your home and lock screen, over clouds that open as you walk. Your daily goal isn't 10,000. You pick a number that means something to you — 3,333, 7,777, 11,111 — and each one has its own sky. It starts quiet in the morning, widens as you walk, and opens when you arrive. WHAT YOU GET • Your steps on the home screen — four widgets to pick from • Your steps on the lock screen, under the clock • Calories and distance, on a quiet second line • A row of your past days, right under the number • The same number as the Health app — one count, everywhere FREE WHERE IT MATTERS The widget is free. Both screens, every style. No ads, anywhere in the app. No account, no sign-up, nothing to log in to. No Apple Watch needed — your iPhone has been counting all along. NOTHING TO SET UP Your iPhone counts your steps on its own, all day, in the background. Angel Step reads that count from the Health app, so the number here is the number there. You don't have to open the app for it to work. A DAY OFF DOESN'T BREAK IT Nothing turns red. Nothing tells you that you failed. If you have walked enough days in a row, the sky covers the gap for you, and you find out the next morning. There is no countdown, no ranking against anyone, and no line that says you are behind. THINGS THAT STAY Days you reach your goal leave something behind — small objects that gather on a shelf that is only yours. Nothing is bought, nothing expires, and nothing disappears if you stop for a while. WALK WITH SOMEONE Give someone your invite code. When they take their first walk, a sky opens for both of you — one neither of you could have opened alone. No leaderboard, no names, no scores. PRIVACY Your steps never leave this phone. Angel Step reads your steps from the Health app and sends them nowhere. There is no account, and no analytics about your walking. PREMIUM Angel Step is free, and it is whole without paying. Premium adds more skies to walk under, your sky out on the widget, and five covered days instead of three. Subscriptions renew until you cancel in Settings; the one-time purchase never renews. Terms: https://angelstep.app/terms · Privacy: https://angelstep.app/privacy
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 iOS requirement: Pedometer at 17.0 against Angel Step's 26.0. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Angel Step sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $8.99 per month and Pedometer sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Angel Step ships an update every 4 days, Pedometer every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Angel Step | Pedometer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 52 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | dmytro shynkarov | Fotios Avgidis |
In-app purchases
Angel Step
- Monthly$8.991 Month
- Yearly$44.991 Year
- Forever$88.99
Pedometer
- Small Tip$0.99
- Medium Tip$2.99
- Large Tip$4.99








