Steps vs The Pedometer
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
The Pedometer
Track your daily, monthly, and annual steps with detailed graphs to monitor progress towards your goals. This app also offers features for creating walking routes, breathing exercises, and managing water intake, weight, and calories. Stay motivated with daily reminders and access healthy lifestyle content.
- Step counting (daily, monthly, annual)
- Progress graphs and goal tracking
- Walking route creation and sharing
- Breathing exercises
- Water diary, weight tracker, calorie counter
- Daily motivational notifications
- HealthKit data integration
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The Pedometer application, which counts your steps using the M7 and M8 (motion processor) motion processor in iPhone5S and higher model devices, will be your biggest assistant for a healthy life! Features you can find in the application: ● With the application, you can measure how many steps you take daily, monthly and annually. Moreover, thanks to the graphs in the application, it is possible to measure how close you are to your goal and how far you have travelled. ● You can create and share walking routes. ● You can do breathing exercises. ● You can also easily use the Water Diary, Weight Tracker, Calorie Counter features of the Pedometer application and get one step closer to your goals. ● You can reach your goals with us thanks to the daily notifications that encourage you to drink water and walk. ● You can access the content we prepare for you every day with categories such as healthy content to help you lose weight, exercise plans and healthy life under the Blog tab. ● You can also share your steps, distance travelled and calories burned on social media. ● The Pedometer will be able to access your HealthKit data in order to transfer your movement data to the application.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Steps at 4.6 against The Pedometer's 3.9. Steps also leads on ratings volume (19K vs 17) and update cadence (every 9 days vs every 3 weeks). The Pedometer's advantage is review sentiment (82% vs 49%) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Steps sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days and The Pedometer sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Steps holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Steps has 19K ratings behind it against 17, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 49% of Steps's written reviews are positive against 82% of The Pedometer's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Steps ships an update every 9 days, The Pedometer every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and August 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Steps | The Pedometer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (19K ratings) — better | 3.9 (17 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 48.9% of reviews | 82.4% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 19K — better | 17 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.1 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 68 MB | 181 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Pumpkin Computer Co., LLC | MUTLU ISLER TEKNOLOJI VE ILETISIM HIZMETLERI TICARET LTD STI |
Customer experience
Steps
The Pedometer
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
The Pedometer
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
The Pedometer
- Premium$4.991 Month
- Premium$39.991 Year
Questions
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