Comparison

Steps vs Quick Steps

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

Head to head
About

Steps

This app tracks your daily walking distance and step count with a simple, visually engaging interface. Set personal goals and monitor your progress with changing colors, while also recording workouts and syncing with Apple Health.

Highlights
  • Step and distance tracking
  • Goal setting with visual progress
  • Calorie tracking
  • Workout recording with GPS
  • Apple Health integration
  • Widgets for iPhone and Apple Watch
  • Siri and Shortcuts support
Features
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Track how far you walk and how many steps you take. Always on, works on all iPhones. Steps is a pedometer and activity tracker. It shows you just how much you're moving in a simple, elegant way. Set a goal. As you walk, the colors change to show your progress like a sunrise. No noise, no extra gadget to wear and nothing to distract you. Everyone should walk 10,000 steps every day for their health, but many of us don't go that far. With Steps, you can easily track how far you go every day, set a goal, and get moving! WHY STEPS: - Clear, uncluttered design and changing color tells you at a glance how far you've gone today - Easily set and adjust goals - Calorie tracking, customized for your body and activity - Track and share your full activity history - Going for a walk? Record a workout, measure your performance and track your route using GPS - Integrated with Apple Health to combine data from your Apple Watch or other connected devices, share workouts and more - Check in quickly from your Apple Watch or one of our Widgets on your iPhone - Stay up to date from the Lock Screen with our Lock Screen Widgets - Customize to match your style with themes - Siri and Shortcuts support. Try asking "Hey Siri, how many steps today?" ALWAYS ON, WORKS WITH THE PHONE YOU HAVE: - Always on and tracking, no need to press start and stop buttons - Works anywhere on your body - Works with any iPhone running iOS 14 or greater

About

Quick Steps

This app helps runners improve their stride rate to increase speed and reduce injury risk. It provides audio cues to guide your pace and tracks your running activity, even when in the background. Customize your target cadence for personalized training.

Highlights
  • Improve running cadence
  • Audio step-sound cues
  • Customizable target cadence
  • Background activity tracking
  • Run summary with average cadence
  • Reduce injury risk
Features
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Quick Steps is a fitness app to help improve your running cadence (steps per minute). 180 steps per minute has been recognised as the ideal running cadence. By increasing your cadence, you will be able to run faster and will be less prone to certain types of injury. The free version of Quick Steps defaults to a cadence of 180 steps per minute and will display your current cadence and activity time. It will also play a step-sound at 180 beats per minute to allow you to synchronise your cadence to 180. Through in-app purchase, you can change the target cadence to suit your needs. Using this feature, you can ease towards 180 steps per minute. If you put Quick Steps in the background the sound will continue to play, allowing you to add cadence training to your workout alongside other fitness apps. Quick Steps still tracks your activity, even in the background. At the end of your run, hold down the stop button to finish and show a summary of your activity, including an average cadence.

Screenshots

Steps4 screens
Quick Steps4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Steps at 68% against Quick Steps's 0%. Steps also leads on rating (4.8 vs 1.0) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 13 months). Quick Steps's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (10.3 vs 17.0). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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. Steps sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Quick Steps sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Steps holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Steps has 134K ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 68% of Steps's written reviews are positive against 0% of Quick Steps's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Steps ships an update fortnightly, Quick Steps every 13 months. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Steps versus Quick Steps: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStepsQuick Steps
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (134K ratings) — better1.0 (8 ratings)
Positive reviews67.6% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings134K — better8
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 13 months
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS17.010.3 — better
Further details — not scored
Size58 MB17 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperYear of Code, LLCRichard Levy

Customer experience

Steps

All ratings134,392 ratings
Positive94.9%
Neutral2.3%
Negative2.8%
Written reviews1,588 reviews
Positive67.6%
Neutral8.6%
Negative23.8%

Quick Steps

All ratings8 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Bugs and requests

Steps

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Steps not recording properly
  • App crashing or freezing
  • Incorrect step counts
  • Syncing issues with Apple Health

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add ability to manually enter steps
  • Improve step counting accuracy
  • Enhance syncing with Apple Watch
  • Add more customization options
  • Improve history and data visualization

Quick Steps

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Steps

One-time1
  • Pro Upgrade$3.99
1 purchases

Quick Steps

One-time1
  • Change Target Cadence$0.99

Questions

Is Steps free?
Steps is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Quick Steps free?
Quick Steps is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Steps or Quick Steps?
Steps is rated higher. Steps averages 4.8 out of 5 from 134K ratings, while Quick Steps averages 1.0 from 8 ratings.
Do Steps or Quick Steps have ads?
Steps shows ads; Quick Steps does not.
Which is updated more often, Steps or Quick Steps?
Steps ships an update fortnightly, and Quick Steps every 13 months. Most recently, Steps was updated on October 10, 2026 and Quick Steps on October 3, 2026.

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