Step It Up vs Pedometer Plus
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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
Pedometer Plus
This app automatically tracks your daily steps, calculating distance, duration, and calories burned. It's designed to be battery-friendly and works in the background without GPS. Monitor your progress with detailed graphs and history to support your fitness goals.
- Automatic step recording
- Calculates distance, duration, and calories
- Battery-friendly operation
- Background tracking
- Advanced graphs and history
- Export step history to CSV
- Displays floors climbed
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Pedometer Plus counts your steps, calculating your approximate distance, duration and calories burned every day. Pedometer Plus can be used whenever you do exercise involving walking or running. Calculate and track your exercises in the right way with the accurate running and walking trackers. PERFECT COMPANION The app automatically records your steps using the built-in sensor on your device. That is why we are sure we have one of the neatest and precise count your steps and running pedometer that records any fitness activity! CALCULATES AND TRACKS THE IMPORTANT DATA While you doing any activity, Pedometer Plus works automatically and it calculates distance, duration and calories burned. With all the data from this step tracker app you’ll be able to finish your daily fitness goals. It’s an app that will support you in your healthy lifestyle. BATTERY FRIENDLY One of the best features of Pedometer Plus is that it is battery friendly and it doesn’t use GPS. Use it for hours or the whole day and don’t worry. Your steps will be counted and your much appreciated daily battery life will not be affected. PEDOMETER PLUS FEATURES - Automatically records your steps using the Apple Motion Co-processor (M7/M8/M9/M10/M11/M12/M13/M14). - Calculates your approximate distance, duration and calories burned - Works in the background all day without draining much battery - Widget, icon badge step and daily goal notification. - Advanced graph and history for steps: yearly, monthly, daily and hourly (click the circle) - Export your step history to a CSV file - Display floors climbed (Only iPhone 6 and later) - No GPS required - Import history data from Apple Health. See why we have been trusted by tens of thousands of users! Our running, activity tracker and walking meter is all you need to become the fittest person! NOTE: * App only works on devices that contain a step counter, such as iPhone 5s / 6 / 7 / 8 / SE / X / XS / XR / 11 / 12, include Pro, Plus and Max version. * Network connections require the app to be running in the background (requires "Background App Refresh"). * Before use you can open 'Settings', where you can set your step length, body weight, and body height for accurate calorie and distance calculation. * If you like this app then please support us - you can remove ads and unlock pro features from the menu. * We welcome your ideas and suggestions - please email us at: support+pedometerio@pvdapps.com * Follow our official Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pedometerplus/ or Twitter account: https://twitter.com/pvdapps
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Verdict
Step It Up and Pedometer Plus both sit at 4.5 stars, but that hides the real split: 81% of Pedometer Plus's written reviews are positive against 28% of Step It Up's. Pedometer Plus also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.0). Step It Up's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (823 vs 116). On price, rating, update cadence and in-app purchases 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. Step It Up sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Pedometer Plus sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for Step It Up against 4.6 for Pedometer Plus. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Step It Up has 823 ratings behind it against 116, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 28% of Step It Up's written reviews are positive against 81% of Pedometer Plus's.
Step It Up ships an update monthly, Pedometer Plus fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Step It Up | Pedometer Plus |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (823 ratings) | 4.6 (116 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 28.0% of reviews | 80.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 823 — better | 116 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 34 MB | 18 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Bean's Bytes, LLC | Ngo Na |
Customer experience
Step It Up
Pedometer Plus
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
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Step It Up
- Step It Up Plus$4.99
Pedometer Plus
- Remove Ads and Pro features$1.99
Questions
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