Steps vs Swim wise iWatch
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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
Swim wise iWatch
Track your swimming performance with real-time stroke detection and detailed post-swim analysis. Improve your technique and pace with visual feedback and historical data comparisons. Available for Apple Watch, with companion iPhone and iPad apps.
- Real-time stroke and lap detection
- Swimming style analysis
- Pace comparison with speed trackbar
- Heart rate monitoring
- Post-swim detailed statistics and insights
- Technique improvement tracking
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SWim-WiSe.app Apple Watch is your first step into a journey exploring the SWimmer within you! You can become a better SWimmer every time you get in the water. Whether you’re a beginner, amateur, or professional, have more fun and SWim smarter. Apple Watch detects your SWimming style and precisely tracks every stroke while you SWim. Our sophisticated Watch app records your SWimming data and displays averages of your SWimming speeds compared to your last 4 SWimming laps. Full feature: - While SWimming will display: Clock, SWimming Time, Distance, Heart Rate, Laps counter After each turn od new SWimming direction detected will display Speed TrackBar analyzer - Your first bar will display only after 4 swimming laps completed - Next bar will appear after each lap completed - Red Bar - Your SWimming pace getting slower - Blue Bar - You SWim on your average pace (in a range of +/-10% of your average speed) - Green Bar - Your SWimming pace getting better (Swum last 4 laps faster by 10% of average speed) - X-axis guideline on graph (based on last SWimming session) displays: slowest SWimming pace (red) avg. (gray)SWimming pace fastest (green) Apple Watch detects your SWimming style and precisely tracks every stroke while you SWim. Our sophisticated Watch app records your SWimming data and displays averages of your SWimming speeds compared to your last 4 SWimming laps. Soon on App store - SWim-WiSe app for iPhone - Be prepared to be amazed! Download SWimWiSe iPhone app - where the magic happens Full feature list: www.SWim-Wise.app After each SWimming session, the SWim-WiSe app., with its built-in coaching features, delivers amazing SWim metrics and insights for your whole session and breaks down each SWimming technique you performed. All this data gets magically delivered to your iPhone or iPad just (right) after you get out of the water. SWimming summaries include detailed statistics, highlights, technique improvements, new records achieved, encouragement tips, and great analytics based on your past swimming sessions. SWim better
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Swim wise iWatch at none against Steps's 1. Swim wise iWatch also leads on ads (none vs shown) and rating (5.0 vs 4.8). Steps's advantage is ratings volume (136K vs 1). On price, update cadence 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
Both are free to download. Steps sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Swim wise iWatch asks for nothing beyond the download.
Swim wise iWatch holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Steps has 136K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Steps ships an update fortnightly, Swim wise iWatch every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Steps | Swim wise iWatch |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (136K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 67.8% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 136K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 12.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 58 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Year of Code, LLC | YGL LIVING WELL |
Customer experience
Steps
Swim wise iWatch
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
Swim wise iWatch
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Steps
- Pro Upgrade$3.99
Swim wise iWatch
No in-app purchases









