Daily Steps vs Activity Complications
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Daily Steps
Effortlessly track your daily steps, distance, and calories burned with a clean, intuitive interface. Set personal goals, view progress with helpful widgets, and receive walking tips to stay motivated. Integrates seamlessly with HealthKit for a comprehensive overview of your activity.
- Step counting
- Activity tracking (distance, flights climbed, energy burnt)
- Daily step targets
- Progress visualization
- Home and Lock Screen widgets
- Apple Watch complications
- Walking tips
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"This is an excellent idea, turns all the [health data] into a simple, easy to read summary." "Very clean and simple pedometer. Walking tips in app are well picked!" "Nothing is needed. Just download and open. Just awesome. Accurately track the steps. Cheers." Daily Steps brings elegant step counting to your iPhone and Apple Watch. Taking advantage of HealthKit, Daily Steps makes it easy as can be to keep on top of your step count! Features: • Clean and simple interface with no setup required. Just download and go. • Set a daily target and watch your progress fill throughout the day. • Track steps, distance moved, flights climbed, and energy burnt. • Widgets on iOS (Home and Lock Screen). • Complications on Apple Watch. • Targets and tips for meeting your daily step count goal. Is something missing? Got an idea? We're always looking for feedback or new ideas. Feel free to get in touch via the "Contact" button in the app. We'd love to chat! --- Daily Steps contains an optional yearly subscription. Payment is charged to your Apple ID account. Subscriptions and trials renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours prior to expiry of the current period. To turn off auto-renew, and/or to manage your subscription, visit your iTunes/App Store account settings. Privacy policy: https://harbourcitysoftware.com.au/dailysteps/privacy Terms:https://harbourcitysoftware.com.au/dailysteps/terms --- Daily Steps respects your privacy. Potentially sensitive information such as data read from or written to HealthKit doesn't leave your device.
Activity Complications
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Activity Complications is a standalone Apple Watch Application. Allows to track activities such as burned calories-active energy, exercise, steps, sleep and water from Health app through Integration. Optionally tracking limits could be integrated to Nutrition+ apps via https://glucoseplusapp.com user's account, thus adding an extra colour-coded complication to track an additional activity level. Allows to add water readings quickly to Health app and to Nutrition+ app. Allows to customize activities tracking limits for both apps used by the complication and rings. The complication could display any current activity as per user's convenience, the app automatically syncs the latest activity level keeping the complication updated both the text and the main colourful graphic Corner or graphic Circle complications among others. Apple Watch notifies accordingly to low levels of the current activity or water being tracked, also allows to change the time period to refresh the app data, also advises by voice when app is active. Finally it displays Apple activity rings and steps, sleep and water current activity level with individual colour-coded rings displaying its reached percentage.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Daily Steps at Free against Activity Complications's $2.99. Daily Steps also leads on update cadence (every 10 days vs every 2 months) and iOS requirement (17.4 vs 26.0). Activity Complications's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and chart position (#194 vs unranked). On 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
Daily Steps is free to download; Activity Complications costs $2.99 up front. Daily Steps sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Activity Complications asks for nothing beyond the download.
Daily Steps ships an update every 10 days, Activity Complications every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Daily Steps | Activity Complications |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $2.99 |
| Rating | 4.7 (1.6K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 71.6% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1.6K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Best chart rank | — | #194 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 17.4 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Harbour City Software Pty Ltd | Edison Cuenca |
Bugs and requests
Daily Steps
Reported bugs
3 issues- Steps not recorded during use
- Syncing issues between iPhone and Apple Watch
- Inaccurate step count data
Requested features
5 requests- Display distance in miles/kilometers
- Add goal setting and progress tracking
- Provide more detailed analytics and history
- Implement Apple Watch app and complications
- Improve widget functionality
Activity Complications
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Daily Steps
- Premium Monthly$0.991 Month
- Premium Yearly7 Days trial$5.991 Year
Activity Complications
No in-app purchases
Questions
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