Comparison

Steps vs Step Counter

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 automatically tracks your daily steps, distance, calories burned, and stairs climbed in the background. Set personalized daily goals for activity and monitor your progress over time with clear historical data. It's designed for effortless use and battery efficiency.

Highlights
  • Automatic step tracking
  • Distance and calorie monitoring
  • Flights of stairs climbed
  • Daily goal setting
  • Daily, weekly, monthly totals
  • Background operation
  • Apple Health data import
Features
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See your steps, distance, stairs, calories, and progress over time — automatically. Steps is a simple, easy-to-use step tracker that helps you stay active without extra setup. It tracks your daily activity in the background using Apple Health, so you can check your progress anytime without needing to start a workout or keep the app open. Set daily goals for steps, miles walked, flights climbed, and calories burned. Then track your progress throughout the day and build a routine that keeps you moving. Customize Steps with bold themes and app icons to make the app feel like yours. Why people love Steps: • Automatic step tracking — no setup needed • Simple, clean design • Steps, distance, flights climbed, and calories burned • Daily goals for steps, miles, stairs, and calories • Daily, weekly, and monthly totals • Historical activity imported from Apple Health • Theme and app icon customization • Designed to run quietly in the background Over a million downloads and counting. Terms of Use: https://pumpkincomputer.com/steps/terms

About

Step Counter

Track your daily walking activity, including steps taken, calories burned, distance covered, and time spent. This app uses your phone's accelerometer to conserve battery life and provides clear visual graphs of your progress. It's designed for anyone looking to monitor their fitness journey.

Highlights
  • Step tracking
  • Calorie counting
  • Distance monitoring
  • Time spent walking
  • Battery-efficient accelerometer use
  • Progress graphs
Features
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Step Counter - Pedometer - Calorie Counter is a free and professional app, your way to perfect health! Ideal for tracking your fitness progress! The advantage of this application is that it uses an accelerometer sensor instead of a GPS sensor, that way it prolongs the duration of your battery life. This easy to use Step Counter - Pedometer - Calorie Counter app records and displays not only the number of steps walked but also the number of calories burned, time spent walking and distance covered. All you have to do is push the play button and start walking! In the gym, on your home treadmill, or outside in the park, be conscious of your walking data anytime and anywhere. Let’s start walking!!! View graphs displaying the number of steps, calories burned, time, distance by touching on each icon respectively. For a precise number of calories burned, you will need to enter your height and weight values. If there is a mistake with the number of steps recorded, further sensitivity adjustments should be made. Thank you for taking the time to review our application.

Screenshots

Steps4 screens
Step Counter3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Step Counter at none against Steps's 10. Step Counter also leads on review sentiment (62% vs 49%) and update cadence (every 4 days vs every 9 days). Steps's advantage is ratings volume (19K vs 32). On price, rating, ads and monetization model 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 8 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days. Step Counter asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Steps holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Steps has 19K ratings behind it against 32, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 49% of Steps's written reviews are positive against 62% of Step Counter's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Steps ships an update every 9 days, Step Counter every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and September 20, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Steps versus Step Counter: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStepsStep Counter
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (19K ratings) — better4.4 (32 ratings)
Positive reviews48.9% of reviews62.1% of reviews — better
Number of ratings19K — better32
Update frequencyEvery 9 daysEvery 4 days — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.112.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size68 MB13 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPumpkin Computer Co., LLCSDG CODE DOO NIS

Customer experience

Steps

All ratings19,322 ratings
Positive90.0%
Neutral4.2%
Negative5.8%
Written reviews607 reviews
Positive48.9%
Neutral11.7%
Negative39.4%

Step Counter

All ratings32 ratings
Positive87.5%
Neutral6.3%
Negative6.3%
Written reviews66 reviews
Positive62.1%
Neutral10.6%
Negative27.3%

Bugs and requests

Steps

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Steps not accurately counted
  • App freezes or lags when opening
  • Steps/distance data resets or disappears

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add option to track calories burned
  • Provide weekly/monthly step history
  • Allow conversion between steps and distance (miles/km)
  • Implement a premium version to remove ads

Step Counter

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

8 purchases

Steps

Subscriptions8
  • Steps Pro Weekly3 Days trial$0.997 Days
  • Steps Pro Weekly3 Days trial3 variants$1.997 Days
  • Steps Pro Weekly3 Days trial$2.997 Days
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  • Monthly Pro3 Days trial$3.991 Month
  • Steps Pro Monthly3 Days trial$5.991 Month
  • Steps Pro Yearly3 Days trial$59.991 Year
  • Steps Pro Yearly3 Days trial$79.991 Year
  • Steps Pro Annual$79.991 Year
None

Step Counter

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Steps free?
Steps is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Step Counter free?
Step Counter is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Steps or Step Counter?
Steps is rated higher. Steps averages 4.6 out of 5 from 19K ratings, while Step Counter averages 4.4 from 32 ratings.
Do Steps or Step Counter have ads?
Both Steps and Step Counter show ads.
Which is updated more often, Steps or Step Counter?
Steps ships an update every 9 days, and Step Counter every 4 days. Most recently, Steps was updated on September 25, 2026 and Step Counter on September 20, 2026.

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