Comparison

Step It Up vs Steps for Watch

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

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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

Steps for Watch

This app tracks your daily steps and heart rate directly on your Apple Watch. It offers detailed daily step analysis, a seven-day graph of your activity, and the ability to set personal step goals. All data is stored locally on your device for privacy.

Highlights
  • Daily step tracking
  • Heart rate monitoring
  • Digital Crown for detailed analysis
  • Seven-day activity graph
  • Complication support
  • Personal step goals
Features
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Track your Steps and Heart Rate in this standalone app for Apple Watch Key features: -Daily steps -Use the Digital Crown to examine daily steps in detail and compare your steps activity to heart rate measurements during the selected time period -Seven day graph with daily steps and heart rate averages -Complication with daily steps -Set your personal daily steps goal -In app tutorial (open menu by firmly pressing the screen) Privacy: Steps for Watch needs read access to Motion & Fitness Activity and Heart Rate data. Information read by Steps for Watch is only stored and used locally on your Apple Watch. If you have any questions please contact us at contact@sydvesti.com

Screenshots

Step It Up4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Steps for Watch at 75% against Step It Up's 28%. Steps for Watch also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1). Step It Up's advantage is rating (4.5 vs 3.6) and update cadence (monthly vs every 7 months). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Steps for Watch asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Step It Up holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Step It Up has 824 ratings behind it against 20, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 28% of Step It Up's written reviews are positive against 75% of Steps for Watch's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Step It Up ships an update monthly, Steps for Watch every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Step It Up versus Steps for Watch: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStep It UpSteps for Watch
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (824 ratings) — better3.6 (20 ratings)
Positive reviews28.0% of reviews75.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings824 — better20
Update frequencyMonthly — betterEvery 7 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size34 MB11 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperBean's Bytes, LLCSydvesti Oy

Customer experience

Step It Up

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

Steps for Watch

All ratings20 ratings
Positive70.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative30.0%
Written reviews16 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral6.3%
Negative18.8%

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

Steps for Watch

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

Steps for Watch

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Step It Up free?
Step It Up is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Steps for Watch free?
Steps for Watch is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Step It Up or Steps for Watch?
Step It Up is rated higher. Step It Up averages 4.5 out of 5 from 824 ratings, while Steps for Watch averages 3.6 from 20 ratings.
Do Step It Up or Steps for Watch have ads?
Neither Step It Up nor Steps for Watch shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Step It Up or Steps for Watch?
Step It Up ships an update monthly, and Steps for Watch every 7 months. Most recently, Step It Up was updated on October 15, 2026 and Steps for Watch on October 13, 2026.

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