Comparison

Daily Steps vs GlowWalk Lite

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Step counting
  • Activity tracking (distance, flights climbed, energy burnt)
  • Daily step targets
  • Progress visualization
  • Home and Lock Screen widgets
  • Apple Watch complications
  • Walking tips
Features
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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.

About

GlowWalk Lite

This app offers a streamlined approach to daily wellness tracking, focusing on steps and hydration. It integrates with Apple Health to provide a clear dashboard for monitoring progress towards your personal goals.

Highlights
  • Step tracking
  • Hydration logging
  • Daily goal setting
  • Apple Health integration
  • Progress visualization
  • Quick check-in dashboard
Features
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GlowWalk Lite brings steps, hydration, and daily goals together in one calm, easy-to-read dashboard. MOVE WITH CONTEXT See steps, walking distance, flights climbed, remaining progress, weekly totals, and monthly history from Apple Health. Review streaks, trends, personal bests, and conservative goal suggestions that only change after you confirm them. WALK WITH THE WEATHER Optionally connect approximate location to see the current temperature, rain chance, UV index, and a weather-aware Home background. Weather data is provided by Apple Weather with its required attribution and data-source link. HYDRATION THAT FITS YOUR DAY Log water in ounces, milliliters, or liters. Use quick-add controls in the app, interactive widgets, Apple Watch, Siri, or Shortcuts. Optional reminders offer several tones, plus actions to log 8 oz, snooze for 30 minutes, or finish reminders for the day. WIDGETS AND APPLE WATCH Choose Steps, Hydration, combined, large daily, Lock Screen, and Control Center surfaces. The Apple Watch app shows progress, logs water even when the iPhone is temporarily unavailable, and includes Steps, Water, and Today complications. A SMARTER DAILY CHECK-IN The Daily Brief summarizes your current pace and recent patterns. On supported devices, optional on-device intelligence can vary the wording. Curated local wording keeps every core feature available when that capability is unavailable. BUILT FOR PRIVACY No account is required. Every feature is included with the app. GlowWalk Lite contains no advertisements or tracking. Apple Health and approximate location access are optional and permission-based. Your Health data stays on your devices; GlowWalk Lite does not send it to Henry's Dev.

Screenshots

Daily Steps4 screens
GlowWalk Lite4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Daily Steps at Free against GlowWalk Lite's $2.99. Daily Steps also leads on ratings volume (1.7K vs 3). GlowWalk Lite's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 72%) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases 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

Daily Steps is free to download; GlowWalk Lite costs $2.99 up front. Daily Steps sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and GlowWalk Lite sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

GlowWalk Lite holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Daily Steps has 1.7K ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 72% of Daily Steps's written reviews are positive against 100% of GlowWalk Lite's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Daily Steps versus GlowWalk Lite: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDaily StepsGlowWalk Lite
PriceFree — better$2.99
Rating4.7 (1.7K ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews71.6% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1.7K — better3
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysEvery 10 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS17.4 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size16 MB17 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHarbour City Software Pty LtdOdir Henry Perez

Customer experience

Daily Steps

All ratings1,645 ratings
Positive92.3%
Neutral3.9%
Negative3.8%
Written reviews67 reviews
Positive71.6%
Neutral3.0%
Negative25.4%

GlowWalk Lite

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

GlowWalk Lite

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Daily Steps

Subscriptions2
  • Premium Monthly$0.991 Month
  • Premium Yearly7 Days trial$5.991 Year
1 purchases

GlowWalk Lite

One-time1
  • GlowWalk Pro$0.99

Questions

Is Daily Steps free?
Daily Steps is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is GlowWalk Lite free?
GlowWalk Lite costs $2.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Daily Steps or GlowWalk Lite?
GlowWalk Lite is rated higher. Daily Steps averages 4.7 out of 5 from 1.7K ratings, while GlowWalk Lite averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do Daily Steps or GlowWalk Lite have ads?
Neither Daily Steps nor GlowWalk Lite shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Daily Steps or GlowWalk Lite?
Daily Steps ships an update every 10 days, and GlowWalk Lite every 10 days. Most recently, Daily Steps was updated on November 11, 2026 and GlowWalk Lite on October 31, 2026.

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