Comparison

Stepsee vs Stride

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

Head to head
About

Stepsee

Transform your daily steps into engaging visual comparisons. See your distance represented by fun, everyday objects or landmarks. Share your activity in unique formats and discover a new perspective on your movement.

Highlights
  • Track steps, distance, and active calories
  • Convert walking distance into fun comparisons
  • Browse food, landmark, and animal equivalents
  • View 7-day activity trend
  • Create and share custom activity cards
  • Choose visual styles and premium templates
Features
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Your steps are more than a number. Stepsee turns your everyday walk into something you can actually see, imagine, and share. Check your steps, distance, and daily goal—then discover what your movement adds up to. Maybe today’s walk was 12,400 fries lined up end to end. Maybe it was a few Eiffel Towers, a very long drive-thru, or an elephant’s afternoon stroll. Stepsee gives your real activity a playful new perspective. SEE TODAY DIFFERENTLY • Check your steps, daily goal, distance, and active calories • Turn your walking distance into fun everyday comparisons • Browse food, landmarks, and animal equivalents • Keep a simple view of your recent 7-day activity trend • See whether you reached today’s goal MAKE IT YOURS • Choose the result that best tells the story of today’s walk • Create a share card with your steps and favorite equivalent • Switch between Story and square formats when available • Try different visual styles, including premium templates • Save your card to Photos or share it with other apps WALK, THEN SEE WHAT IT BECAME Stepsee is designed to make ordinary movement feel a little more rewarding. It does not turn your walk into a competition or tell you that one number defines your health. It simply gives you another way to notice what you did today. STEPSEE PRO Stepsee Pro unlocks more ways to explore and express your activity, including: • All available fun equivalents • Freedom to choose any result every day • Premium share templates • Additional supported share formats Stepsee offers auto-renewable Monthly and Yearly subscriptions. If a free trial is offered and you are eligible, payment is charged to your Apple Account after the trial ends unless you cancel before then. Your subscription renews automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel your subscription in your Apple Account settings. Prices, trial eligibility, and availability may vary by region. Stepsee reads activity information from Apple Health only after you grant permission. Stepsee does not write data back to Apple Health. Please review the app’s Privacy Policy for details about data handling. Privacy Policy: https://stepsee.rotless.app/pages/privacy/index Terms of Use: https://stepsee.rotless.app/pages/terms/index

About

Stride

Compete with friends in step-based challenges and leagues. Turn your daily walks into races and track your progress with real-time updates and historical data. Offers customizable features and privacy controls.

Highlights
  • Weekly step leagues
  • Head-to-head friend races
  • Daily goal streaks
  • Home and Lock Screen widgets
  • Step history tracking
  • Private by default data
Features
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Step challenges with friends, on a real race track. Stride is a step counter with a finish line. Your friends run beside you on a real track, each one a different-colored Bib, and the finish line is your daily goal. Stride also turns the steps you already walk into a weekly competition against real people. Every Monday you join a league group of up to 30. Every Sunday the top finishers move up and the bottom ones move down. No equipment, no workouts to log — just walk. WEEKLY LEAGUES Twelve leagues, Bronze to Immortal, stacked like floors of one mountain. Your daily step total is your score. Watch the board move in real time, see exactly how many steps put you in the promotion places, and find out where you finished when the season closes. RACE A FRIEND Challenge anyone to a head-to-head: most steps over three days, first to 50,000, or a weekend sprint. Everyone runs on a real track — each friend a different-colored Bib, the finish line at the target — so you see who's ahead, down to the last step. STREAKS AND MARKS Hit your daily goal to build a streak. Bib, your running buddy, will let you know — loudly — when it's about to break. Earn marks for the milestones that actually took effort. WIDGETS WITH PRO Today's progress, your league rank, your streak and your race, on the Home Screen and the Lock Screen, updated through the day. STEP HISTORY Every day you've walked since you installed Stride, week by week, with your goal line drawn through it. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT Stride reads one thing from Apple Health: your daily step count. No workouts, no location, no routes. No ads, no trackers, no data sold. Delete your account in Settings and everything goes with it. STRIDE PRO Monthly, yearly (starting with a 7-day free trial) or once for life. Streak freezes (miss a day, keep your streak) and a monthly streak repair, a League Shield (stay in your league once a month), Home and Lock Screen widgets, your own Bib — colour, headband, shirt, shades, a cap or a crown, and your friends see it — unlimited races, advanced statistics and the full history. The leagues, streaks and friend races are free forever. Subscriptions renew automatically until cancelled in Settings › Apple Account › Subscriptions. Terms of Use: https://mosamir01.github.io/stride/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://mosamir01.github.io/stride/privacy.html Walking is more fun when someone's chasing you.

Screenshots

Stepsee4 screens
Stride4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Stride at every 5 days against Stepsee's every 10 days. On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. Stepsee sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Stride sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Stepsee against 5.0 for Stride. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Stepsee ships an update every 10 days, Stride every 5 days. Both last shipped on November 6, 2026.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Stepsee versus Stride: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStepseeStride
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings12 — better
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFreemium
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size35 MB30 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer凡燕 曾Mohamed Aboushady

Customer experience

Stepsee

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Stride

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Stepsee

Subscriptions2
  • Stepsee Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Stepsee Pro Yearly7 Days trial$19.991 Year
3 purchases

Stride

Subscriptions2
  • Stride Pro — Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Stride Pro — Yearly7 Days trial$14.991 Year
One-time1
  • Stride Pro$19.99

Questions

Is Stepsee free?
Stepsee is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Stride free?
Stride is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Stepsee or Stride?
Stepsee and Stride are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do Stepsee or Stride have ads?
Neither Stepsee nor Stride shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Stepsee or Stride?
Stepsee ships an update every 10 days, and Stride every 5 days. Most recently, Stepsee was updated on November 6, 2026 and Stride on November 6, 2026.

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