Steps vs >LOAD Steps
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
>LOAD Steps
Track your daily and weekly step counts using your iPhone's built-in pedometer. Set daily goals, monitor progress on the app icon, and challenge friends. Export your activity logs easily.
- Uses iPhone's built-in pedometer
- Minimal battery impact
- Logs daily and weekly steps
- App icon badge for current steps
- Export step logs
- Set daily step targets
- Supports landscape mode
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This app requires an iPhone 5s! >LOAD Steps uses the pedometer functionality built into the iPhone 5s to track your step counts daily and for the last week. This means it has almost zero battery impact. Set a step count target and see how you perform each day and challenge your friends. The current day's steps are shown as a badge on the app icon. Export your step log via email or message. Features: - Uses the 5s built-in accurate pedometer. - Zero battery impact. - Logs steps per day and last week. - Monitor current steps on the app icon. - Export log by email or message. - Set a daily target step count and see percentage performance. - Supports landscape.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: >LOAD Steps at none against Steps's 1. >LOAD Steps also leads on ads (none vs shown) and rating (5.0 vs 4.8). Steps's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 8 months) and ratings volume (134K vs 2). On price, review sentiment 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. >LOAD Steps asks for nothing beyond the download.
>LOAD Steps holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Steps has 134K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 67% and 67% positive.
Steps ships an update fortnightly, >LOAD Steps every 8 months. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and September 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Steps | >LOAD Steps |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (134K ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 67.5% of reviews — better | 66.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 134K — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 8 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.1 | 7.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 58 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Year of Code, LLC | Malcolm Hall |
Customer experience
Steps
>LOAD Steps
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
>LOAD Steps
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Steps
- Pro Upgrade$3.99
>LOAD Steps
No in-app purchases
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