Steps vs Forever
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Automatic step tracking
- Distance and calorie monitoring
- Flights of stairs climbed
- Daily goal setting
- Daily, weekly, monthly totals
- Background operation
- Apple Health data import
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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
Forever
This app tracks your daily and total step count using HealthKit. Monitor your walking activity and see your progress over time.
- Track daily steps
- Track total steps
- Uses HealthKit API
- Displays step history
- Simple interface
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Forever Steps allows you to see how many steps you have taken. Walk outside and track your steps today! This app uses the HealthKit API and displays the number of steps you have taken today as well as total number of steps you have taken since you began using it.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Forever at 100% against Steps's 49%. Forever also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 10) and ads (none vs shown). Steps's advantage is ratings volume (19K vs 5) and update cadence (every 9 days vs every 6 weeks). 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 8 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days. Forever asks for nothing beyond the download.
Forever holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Steps has 19K ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 49% of Steps's written reviews are positive against 100% of Forever's.
Steps ships an update every 9 days, Forever every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Steps | Forever |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (19K ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 48.9% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 19K — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.1 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 68 MB | 67 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Pumpkin Computer Co., LLC | Forever Today Inc. |
Customer experience
Steps
Forever
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
Forever
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Steps
- 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
Forever
No in-app purchases
