Comparison

Step It Up vs StairClimbs

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Step It Up

This app tracks your daily steps, distance, stairs climbed, and active calories burned. It offers insights into your progress over time and allows for customization. Compatible with iPhone and Apple Watch, it provides a privacy-first approach to monitoring your activity.

Highlights
  • Track daily steps, distance, and stairs
  • Monitor active calories burned
  • View trends and insights for progress
  • Set daily step goals and track exercise minutes
  • Syncs with Apple Watch and Watch face complications
  • Home Screen Widgets for quick activity glance
Features
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Track Your Steps, Distance, and Workouts — Right from Your iPhone or Watch. Step It Up helps you stay active and motivated by tracking your steps, distance walked or run, flights of stairs climbed, workouts, active calories burned, and more. Built for iPhone and Apple Watch, it's a sleek and privacy-first way to stay on top of your daily movement. That big orange ring on your Home screen isn't just decoration — it's your whole day. Steps, miles, floors, and how close you are to today's goal, updated in real time. Hit it, and Step It Up tells you so. Step It Up also checks the weather so you don't have to. It'll nudge you toward the best window to get outside, and tell you why — so you're never guessing whether it's worth lacing up. Step It Up isn't just about daily numbers — it's about progress over time. With built-in trends and insights, you can see your weekly average, how many days you hit your goal, and whether you're trending up or down over the last month, so you can build habits that actually stick. Running, cycling, walking — Step It Up records your workouts properly: pace, heart rate, calories, and distance live, with a clean history you can view as a list or on a map. Not sure what your step goal is or how this week compares to last? Just ask. Step It Up's built-in AI answers in plain language, right where you're already looking. Features: • View your daily steps, distance, flights climbed, and steps from the past hour. • Get a weather-smart nudge for the best time to walk. • Set a daily step goal and track your weekly exercise minutes. • Adaptive Step Goal that changes based on your activity, so you're always ready for a challenge or to take a break. • Record workouts — running, cycling, and walking — with live pace, heart rate, and calories. • Explore Insights and Trends to see how your fitness has changed over time. • Check your full History to review previous days' data. • Ask Step It Up's about your stats, goals, and more with built-in support for Apple Intelligence. • Built-in coach powered by Apple Intelligence to give you motivation as you go through your day. • Add Home Screen Widgets in a variety of sizes to quickly glance at your activity. • Syncs with Apple Watch, including support for Watch face complications so your data is always at a glance away. • Integration with Apple Weather so you always know when the weather is best to beat your goal. • Integration with Apple Music so you can have your playlist ready for your next workout. • Workout tracker with your step goal always visible so you can see how far you are from your goals. • Ability to upload your workouts to Strava. Step It Up is yours for good — one price, no subscription. Buy it once and get every feature, every update. Thank you for checking out Step It Up — I hope it helps you move a little more each day. — Casey

About

StairClimbs

This app tracks your daily floor climbs with a visual progress meter to help you reach your goals. It also includes a timer feature for timed challenges. Compatibility is limited to devices with specific motion processors.

Highlights
  • Tracks floors climbed
  • Visual progress meter
  • Daily goal setting
  • Timer for challenges
  • Motion processor compatibility
Features
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Designed with simplicity in mind, StairClimbs tracks the number of floors you’ve climbed in a day. The visual progress meter gives a clear representation of how close you are to reaching your daily stair-climbing goal. Like to climb against time? Take advantage of the timer feature and race against the clock. ***Compatibility Note*** StairClimbs will only work on devices containing the M7, M8, M9, or M10 motion processor and barometer. The combination of these features can only be found in iPhone 6 and newer devices. StairClimbs will not work on iPhone 5s, iPhone 5c, iPhone SE, or older devices.

Screenshots

Step It Up4 screens
StairClimbs3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Step It Up at 4.5 against StairClimbs's 2.9. Step It Up also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 5 months) and ratings volume (824 vs 10). StairClimbs's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads 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. Step It Up sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. StairClimbs asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Step It Up holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 2.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Step It Up has 824 ratings behind it against 10, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 28% of Step It Up's written reviews are positive against 20% of StairClimbs's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Step It Up ships an update monthly, StairClimbs every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Step It Up versus StairClimbs: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStep It UpStairClimbs
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (824 ratings) — better2.9 (10 ratings)
Positive reviews28.0% of reviews — better20.0% of reviews
Number of ratings824 — better10
Update frequencyMonthly — betterEvery 5 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS17.08.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size34 MB16 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBean's Bytes, LLCJustin Jemison

Customer experience

Step It Up

All ratings824 ratings
Positive87.3%
Neutral6.6%
Negative6.2%
Written reviews50 reviews
Positive28.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative52.0%

StairClimbs

All ratings10 ratings
Positive40.0%
Neutral10.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews10 reviews
Positive20.0%
Neutral10.0%
Negative70.0%

Bugs and requests

Step It Up

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • App crashing or disappearing from Apple Watch
  • Incorrect distance and calorie tracking
  • Inability to set or save user preferences

Requested features

3 requests
  • Ability to track weight and other fitness metrics
  • Competitive features like challenges with friends
  • More customization options for step goals and reminders

StairClimbs

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Step It Up

One-time1
  • Step It Up Plus$4.99
None

StairClimbs

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Step It Up free?
Step It Up is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is StairClimbs free?
StairClimbs is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Step It Up or StairClimbs?
Step It Up is rated higher. Step It Up averages 4.5 out of 5 from 824 ratings, while StairClimbs averages 2.9 from 10 ratings.
Do Step It Up or StairClimbs have ads?
Neither Step It Up nor StairClimbs shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Step It Up or StairClimbs?
Step It Up ships an update monthly, and StairClimbs every 5 months. Most recently, Step It Up was updated on October 15, 2026 and StairClimbs on October 7, 2026.

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