Steps vs Cyclorama
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
Cyclorama
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Cyclorama is an indoor cycling app for iPhone and iPad that turns your ride into a journey through history. Pick an era and pedal: every kilometre moves its calendar forward, and real, dated moments appear as you reach them, read aloud if you like. Already listen to something while you ride? This is history told aloud, and it moves with your pedalling. No account, no subscription, and it works without a sensor. SIX ERAS World War II, World War I (the Great War), the French Revolution, the American Civil War, Meiji Japan and the Viking Age. Each era is laid out along a route from its first day to its last, with nearly 3,000 moments across the six. TWO ROUTES FOR EVERY ERA • Sprint: 25 km, the key events. • Classic: the full story, 55 to 89 km depending on the era. Each route keeps its own progress, and your place is saved between rides, so a long era becomes a series of workouts. Free download, no subscription, and Sprint routes are free for good. AS YOU RIDE • Short cards appear at their date, each linked to the article it comes from. • Turn on narration and each card is read aloud in your device's own voice, so your eyes can stay on the road. • Missed one? "Moments you passed" lists every card you have ridden past. • Milestones mark the turning points, such as the storming of the Bastille or D-Day. • Swipe the timeline to look back at earlier moments. • Set a goal for today's ride by time or distance, or ride with no goal at all. History always follows the distance you ride. • Finish an era and keep a keepsake: the distance, the number of rides and the time it took you. YOUR BIKE Cyclorama reads standard Bluetooth sensors: smart trainers, bike speed and cadence sensors, and power meters. If the signal drops, history waits for you and the app keeps trying to reconnect. No sensor? Choose "Ride without a sensor", set the speed you pedal at, and the distance is estimated from it. Kilometres or miles, as you prefer. NO ACCOUNT, NO ADS There is nothing to sign up for and no ads. Cyclorama works offline, narration included. Your progress stays on your device; save a copy to a file whenever you like and restore it on a new phone or tablet. FOR EVERY RIDER Larger text, high contrast and reduced motion. Made for iPhone and iPad. WHERE THE HISTORY COMES FROM The cards are adapted from Wikipedia articles and are available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence (CC BY-SA 4.0). Every card links to its source. Some eras describe war and mass violence; their start pages say so before you ride. Spotted a mistake? Use Report a problem in Settings. Cyclorama is for riding for fun and fitness. It is not medical advice: check with a doctor before you start a new exercise routine.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Cyclorama at none against Steps's 1. Cyclorama also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 3 days vs fortnightly). On price 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. Cyclorama asks for nothing beyond the download.
Steps ships an update fortnightly, Cyclorama every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 13, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Steps | Cyclorama |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (136K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 67.8% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 136K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 58 MB | 41 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Year of Code, LLC | Ionut Mocanu |
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
Cyclorama
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Steps
- Pro Upgrade$3.99
Cyclorama
No in-app purchases






