Comparison

Step It Up vs Pedometer Plus

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

Pedometer Plus

Track your daily steps with a simple and elegant pedometer designed for iPhone and Apple Watch. This app prioritizes your privacy by not collecting any personal data.

Highlights
  • Step tracking
  • iPhone compatibility
  • Apple Watch compatibility
  • Widget support
  • Complication support
  • Privacy-focused
Features
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A simple and beautiful pedometer for iPhone and Apple Watch. This application does not collect personal data.

Screenshots

Step It Up4 screens
Pedometer Plus3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Step It Up at Free against Pedometer Plus's $0.49. Pedometer Plus's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and review sentiment (52% vs 28%). On rating, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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

Step It Up is free to download; Pedometer Plus costs $0.49 up front. Step It Up sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Pedometer Plus asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for Step It Up against 4.6 for Pedometer Plus. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 823 and 922 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 28% of Step It Up's written reviews are positive against 52% of Pedometer Plus's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Step It Up ships an update monthly, Pedometer Plus every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
Step It Up versus Pedometer Plus: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStep It UpPedometer Plus
PriceFree — better$0.49
Rating4.5 (823 ratings)4.6 (922 ratings) — better
Positive reviews28.0% of reviews51.6% of reviews — better
Number of ratings823922 — better
Update frequencyMonthly — betterEvery 5 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
Best chart rank—#132 — better
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS17.016.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size34 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBean's Bytes, LLCMartin Roeder

Customer experience

Step It Up

All ratings823 ratings
Positive87.2%
Neutral6.6%
Negative6.2%
Written reviews50 reviews
Positive28.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative52.0%

Pedometer Plus

All ratings922 ratings
Positive89.0%
Neutral5.6%
Negative5.3%
Written reviews91 reviews
Positive51.6%
Neutral16.5%
Negative31.9%

User reviews

Step It Up

From 823 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Accurate step tracking
  • 🚀 Great for Apple Watch
  • 💡 Useful features like step goals and rest days

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Issues with real-time updates on Apple Watch
  • 🐛 Inconsistent data display and syncing
  • 🔋 High battery drain on Apple Watch
  • 🤔 Paid version doesn't offer much additional value

Pedometer Plus

From 922 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Simple and nice app
  • 🚀 Straightforward pedometer
  • 🚀 Good watch complication
  • 👍 Minimalistic design

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Inaccurate step counting
  • 🐛 Sync issues between phone and watch
  • 🐛 App stopped working after updates
  • 🐛 Inconsistent data across platforms

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

Pedometer Plus

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Discrepancy between phone and watch step counts
  • App stops updating after certain updates
  • Incompatibility with newer devices/OS versions

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add color customization options
  • Provide more detailed weekly/monthly stats
  • Allow adjusting step goals
  • Improve Apple Watch complication

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Step It Up

One-time1
  • Step It Up Plus$4.99
None

Pedometer Plus

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Step It Up free?
Step It Up is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Pedometer Plus free?
Pedometer Plus costs $0.49, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Step It Up or Pedometer Plus?
Pedometer Plus is rated higher. Step It Up averages 4.5 out of 5 from 823 ratings, while Pedometer Plus averages 4.6 from 922 ratings.
Do Step It Up or Pedometer Plus have ads?
Neither Step It Up nor Pedometer Plus shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Step It Up or Pedometer Plus?
Step It Up ships an update monthly, and Pedometer Plus every 5 weeks. Most recently, Step It Up was updated on October 7, 2026 and Pedometer Plus on October 13, 2026.

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