Comparison

Steps vs One Walk A Day

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

One Walk A Day

This app helps you build a consistent walking habit to improve your health and well-being. It offers daily tracking, motivating challenges, customisable reminders, and in-depth statistics to visualize your progress and maintain streaks.

Highlights
  • Daily walk tracking
  • Motivating challenges
  • Customisable reminders
  • In-depth stats & insights
  • Streak tracking
  • Detailed walk history
  • Per-walk analytics
Features
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One Walk a Day helps you build a daily walking habit. Record a walk with a live GPS route map, keep your streak going and watch your week add up, one walk at a time. RECORD EVERY WALK Tap Start and your route draws itself on the map while you walk. See time, distance and steps as you go, then pause, resume or finish whenever you like. Steps taken while a walk is paused are not counted, and a walk you forget to finish pauses itself. KEEP YOUR STREAK GOING Your streak counts the days you actually walk. Every seven walking days earns a grace day, and you choose when to use one if life gets in the way. Set a weekly target of walking days and see your progress on Today and in your widgets. A DAILY CHALLENGE THAT FITS YOU Each day brings a challenge based on your recent walks, so it stays achievable and still nudges you a little further. SHARE YOUR WALKS Turn any saved walk into a share card made from your real route. Choose a layout, colors, background and size, and decide exactly what to show, including whether the map appears. SEE YOUR PROGRESS Look back through your walk history with route maps, pace, elevation and splits. Stats shows streaks, weekly progress and your journey through every kilometer or mile you have walked. With Premium, explore week, month and year trends, personal bests and achievements. WALKS WITH NAMES Walks are named after the park or city where they happened, such as a lunchtime walk in the park. On supported devices, a short title and description are written on your device. WEEKLY, MONTHLY AND YEARLY RECAPS Look back at completed weeks and months, and at your whole year, then share the recap you are proudest of. WORKS ACROSS YOUR IPHONE AND IPAD - Today and Daily Walks widgets for the Home Screen and Lock Screen - A Live Activity on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, with Pause and Resume - Walk and Pause Walk controls for Control Center, the Lock Screen and the Action button - Siri and Shortcuts to start a walk or ask how your week is going - Spotlight search for your saved walks - Import walks from Apple Health PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your walks are stored on your device. Walk names and descriptions are created on your device, and share cards only include what you choose. Some features, including full history, trends, personal bests and achievements, need One Walk a Day Premium. Premium is offered as an in-app purchase. Payment is charged to your Apple Account, and any subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel it in your Apple Account settings. Privacy policy: https://addjam.com/privacy Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Steps4 screens
One Walk A Day4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: One Walk A Day at 100% against Steps's 49%. One Walk A Day also leads on ads (none vs shown). Steps's advantage is update cadence (every 9 days vs every 3 weeks) and iOS requirement (16.1 vs 26.0). 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 8 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days and One Walk A Day sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Steps ships an update every 9 days, One Walk A Day every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Steps versus One Walk A Day: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStepsOne Walk A Day
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (19K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews48.9% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings19K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 9 days — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS16.1 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size68 MB87 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPumpkin Computer Co., LLCAdd Jam

Customer experience

Steps

All ratings19,322 ratings
Positive90.0%
Neutral4.2%
Negative5.8%
Written reviews609 reviews
Positive48.9%
Neutral11.7%
Negative39.4%

One Walk A Day

Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

One Walk A Day

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
6 purchases

One Walk A Day

Subscriptions6
  • Premium Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Secret Discount$4.991 Year
  • Premium$6.991 Year
Show 3 more
  • Premium$9.991 Year
  • Premium Six Months$14.996 Months
  • Premium7 Days trial$19.991 Year

Questions

Is Steps free?
Steps is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is One Walk A Day free?
One Walk A Day is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Steps or One Walk A Day have ads?
Steps shows ads; One Walk A Day does not.
Which is updated more often, Steps or One Walk A Day?
Steps ships an update every 9 days, and One Walk A Day every 3 weeks. Most recently, Steps was updated on October 30, 2026 and One Walk A Day on October 25, 2026.

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