Stepwise Pedometer vs Briskwalk
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Stepwise Pedometer
This app is a modern pedometer that tracks your daily activity, including steps, calories, distance, and active time. It helps you set and achieve fitness goals with progress visualization and optional motivational messages. Integrates with Apple Watch and HealthKit for enhanced accuracy.
- Set fitness goals
- Track steps, calories, distance, active time
- Visualize progress
- Start and track trips
- Share activity with friends
- Apple Watch and HealthKit integration
- Today Widget
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A powerful yet simple pedometer that tracks your activity and motivates you to achieve your fitness goals. Stepwise is a modern, fully featured pedometer with many useful features in a simple, intuitive interface: - Set your goal. - Track your steps, calories, distance, active time, speed and more. - See your progress. - Start a trip. - Share with friends. - Optional motivational messages. - Apple Watch app merges data for better accuracy. - Today Widget. - HealthKit integration. Stepwise is ad-supported. If you choose to purchase Stepwise Premium annual subscription to remove ads and export your data, payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscription automatically renews at the same cost unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period and account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period. Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's iTunes Account Settings after purchase. Stepwise requires motion and location access to accurately track your activity. Stepwise privacy policy and terms of use: https://www.stepwiseapp.com/privacy https://www.stepwiseapp.com/termsofuse
Briskwalk
This app creates personalized walking routines to help you lose fat and boost energy. It tracks your steps, summarizes weekly activity, and maps past workouts. Integrates with the Health app for accurate data and a clean interface.
- Custom walking routines
- Step count widget
- Weekly activity summary
- Workout mapping
- Health app integration
- Clean interface
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Walk briskly, see your progress and stay motivated. Briskwalk counts your steps and brisk minutes, maps every walk and guides you through interval walks that get a little harder as you improve. TODAY AT A GLANCE • Steps, distance and calories for the day, with a step goal you set • Swipe back through earlier days, or see your step history for the last 7 days, 30 days, 6 months or year • A daily streak and your brisk minutes for the week BRISK MINUTES Every minute you walk at 100 or more steps a minute counts as a brisk minute, the pace research uses for moderate-intensity walking. A weekly goal based on the WHO's recommended 150 active minutes keeps you on track. GUIDED BRISK INTERVALS • Three levels: Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced, with sessions from 22 to 55 minutes • Each session warms you up, mixes your normal pace with short brisk bursts and cools you down • Finish a level and you move up; after Advanced, every round gets 5% longer • A recorded voice coach announces each change and nudges you if you slow down EVERY WALK, MAPPED • Your route on a map, with distance, time, pace, steps, brisk minutes and calories • A calendar of your walks by week and month • Share a card of your walk and its route CHALLENGES Join a monthly distance challenge, hit 10,000 steps a day for a week or reach 150 brisk minutes. With Plus, set targets of your own for virtual walks and events. WORKS WITH APPLE HEALTH AND APPLE WATCH Briskwalk reads steps, distance and active calories from all your devices, including Apple Watch, and saves your walks to the Health app. Your walks are backed up to iCloud. Also: a step count widget, walk reminders on the days you choose, and no ads. Available in English, Spanish and Malay. BRISKWALK PLUS Step tracking, walk history, sharing and one challenge at a time are free, and you can try a guided session for free. Plus unlocks all guided brisk intervals, as many challenges at a time as you like, your own targets, yearly trends, exports and custom sounds. Briskwalk Plus is an optional auto-renewing subscription, billed monthly or yearly. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless it is canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel it in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://briskwalk.miklospavel.workers.dev/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Briskwalk at none against Stepwise Pedometer's shown. Stepwise Pedometer's advantage is review sentiment (83% vs 57%) and ratings volume (3.7K vs 79). 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. Stepwise Pedometer sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $5.49 per year and Briskwalk sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Stepwise Pedometer against 4.7 for Briskwalk. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Stepwise Pedometer has 3.7K ratings behind it against 79, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 83% of Stepwise Pedometer's written reviews are positive against 57% of Briskwalk's.
Stepwise Pedometer ships an update every 2 months, Briskwalk every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Stepwise Pedometer | Briskwalk |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (3.7K ratings) | 4.7 (79 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 83.4% of reviews — better | 57.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3.7K — better | 79 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 21 MB | 37 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Progress Concepts Limited | Miklos Pavel |
Customer experience
Stepwise Pedometer
Briskwalk
Bugs and requests
Stepwise Pedometer
Reported bugs
2 issues- Steps not recording properly on some days
- App crashes or freezes for some users
Requested features
3 requests- Add GPS functionality to track routes and elevation
- Improve graphs and data visualization
- Allow manual entry of steps for days when phone is not carried
Briskwalk
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Stepwise Pedometer
- Premium$5.491 Year
- Nice Tip$0.99
- Great Tip$1.99
- Awesome Tip$4.99
Briskwalk
- Monthly access to premium$4.991 Month
- Yearly access to premium7 Days trial$39.991 Year
Questions
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