Comparison

StepUp Pedometer Step Counter vs Upkeep Social

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

Head to head
About

StepUp Pedometer Step Counter

This app makes walking fun by connecting you with friends for step challenges. Track your activity, compete on leaderboards, and motivate each other to reach your fitness goals. It's completely free to use and integrates with various wearables.

Highlights
  • Automatic step, distance, and calorie tracking
  • Social challenges with friends and groups
  • Leaderboards and group chat
  • Syncs with Apple Health and wearables
  • Daily, weekly, and yearly progress reports
  • Widgets for step visibility
  • Competition with walking bots
Features
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StepUp makes walking surprisingly fun with friends! Hit your goals, build streaks, join challenges, cheer each other on and walk more together! And StepUp is completely FREE! No subscription needed. No features locked behind paywalls. TRACK YOUR ACTIVITY - Automatically track steps, distance, floors & calories burned - Use just your phone, or sync with wearables - See daily, weekly, monthly & yearly progress - Step up solo or with friends, whatever moves you! BETTER WITH FRIENDS - Get family, friends & colleagues moving together - See daily, weekly & monthly leaderboards - Cheer, taunt, chat and encourage each other - You control who can see your steps FREE STEP CHALLENGES - Great for friends, families, walking & run clubs, offices, teams, schools, gyms & communities - Private groups for a few friends or up to 15,000 people - Group chat to keep the friendly banter going - Set start & end dates, or keep it ongoing - Group admins can export detailed step reports - Hide today’s step counts until tomorrow with Mystery Mode WORKS ACROSS PHONES & WEARABLES - Compete across iPhone, Android & different wearables - See steps on the Apple Watch app & complications - Sync with Apple Health and most wearables like Apple Watch, Fitbit, Garmin, Oura, WHOOP, Withings, Mi Band, Amazfit, Google Fit & Samsung Health STAY MOTIVATED EVERY DAY - Crush your daily goal at your own pace - Build streaks & keep them going with Rest Days - Keep your steps visible with widgets - Set personal records & celebrate achievements - See your country & global ranking - Look back on monthly & yearly StepUp Recaps - Share your walking stats on beautiful photos BOTS KEEP YOU ON YOUR TOES Compete with our walking bots for extra motivation - Try to beat Active Bot or take it easy with Chill Bot - Beat your steps from this time yesterday with Yesterday Bot STOP SCROLLING, START STROLLING! We’re built to move and connect. Join over 10 million people stepping up on StepUp! Invite your friends, get moving and see who gets the most steps today! Contact: team@thestepupapp.com Terms: http://www.thestepupapp.com/terms Privacy: http://www.thestepupapp.com/privacy

About

Upkeep Social

This app helps you build consistent fitness habits by creating and joining step challenges. Track your progress, earn a consistency score, and compete with friends or solo to stay motivated and accountable.

Highlights
  • Create personalized step challenges
  • Compete solo, 1-on-1, or in groups
  • Automatic step syncing from Apple Health
  • Track consistency score and streaks
  • Daily verification to prevent cheating
  • Flexible challenge scheduling
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Upkeep Social is the fitness accountability app where your consistency is verified, ranked, and visible to the people who matter. Create step challenges for yourself or with friends. Set a daily step goal, pick your success criteria, and prove you can show up — day after day, week after week. Whether you're building a daily walking habit or defending a 10K-step streak, Upkeep tracks whether you kept your word. HOW IT WORKS Pick a daily step goal: 2K, 3K, 5K, 7K, or 10K. Choose your success threshold: hit your target 70%, 85%, or 100% of days. Go solo, challenge a friend 1-on-1, or compete in a group. Your steps sync automatically from Apple Health — no manual logging, no separate step counter. At the end of each week, see exactly who showed up and who didn't. YOUR CONSISTENCY SCORE Every verified day earns points toward your Consistency Score — a single number from 0 to 100 that represents your long-term commitment to showing up. Skip a week and your score decays. The score isn't just a stat. It becomes your fitness identity. Tiers: Getting Started → Building Momentum → Committed → Relentless → Elite → Legendary. CHALLENGE MODES Solo: Challenge yourself. No invite needed. Start immediately. Duel: Go head-to-head with one friend. Group: Compete with multiple people and follow the leaderboard. BUILT FOR ACCOUNTABILITY Daily verification confirms your steps are real — no shaking your phone to fake it. Leaderboards show who's on track and who's falling behind. Streak tracking rewards consistency with visual milestones. Share cards let you post your results to Instagram, WhatsApp, or anywhere you want proof. FLEXIBLE SCHEDULING Start a challenge now, tomorrow, or pick a specific day. No waiting for a fixed weekly window. MORE THAN A STEP TRACKER A pedometer counts your steps. A habit tracker takes your word for it. Upkeep Social does neither — it verifies your activity against Apple Health data and puts the result where your friends can see it. Your daily walk, your workout streak, your active days: all of it counts, none of it can be faked. WHY UPKEEP SOCIAL? Most fitness apps track what you do. Upkeep Social tracks whether you keep your word. The difference is accountability — and it changes everything. Free to use, with an optional Pro upgrade for deeper fitness insights and higher challenge limits. No ads. FOR TEAMS AND ORGANIZERS Running a step challenge for your office, club, campus, or community? Create the challenge, share one invite link, and your participants join free. Verification means the winner earned it — no manual honor-system spreadsheets, no disputed results. Free groups hold up to 15 people; with Pro, up to 250. Questions or feedback? Reach us at support@upkeep.social Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

StepUp Pedometer Step Counter4 screens
Upkeep Social4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Upkeep Social at none against StepUp Pedometer Step Counter's shown. Upkeep Social also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 73%) and monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). StepUp Pedometer Step Counter's advantage is ratings volume (150K vs 10) and rating (4.8 vs 4.5). On price, update cadence, 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

Both are free to download. StepUp Pedometer Step Counter sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $1.00 per month and Upkeep Social sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

StepUp Pedometer Step Counter holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: StepUp Pedometer Step Counter has 150K ratings behind it against 10, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 73% of StepUp Pedometer Step Counter's written reviews are positive against 100% of Upkeep Social's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

StepUp Pedometer Step Counter ships an update every 3 days, Upkeep Social every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
StepUp Pedometer Step Counter versus Upkeep Social: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStepUp Pedometer Step CounterUpkeep Social
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (150K ratings) — better4.5 (10 ratings)
Positive reviews73.3% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings150K — better10
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 5 days
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
Best chart rank#25 — better—
DevicesiPhone, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size70 MB52 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperPratik StephenImperial Engineering Labs

Customer experience

StepUp Pedometer Step Counter

All ratings149,768 ratings
Positive96.7%
Neutral1.6%
Negative1.8%
Written reviews1,467 reviews
Positive73.3%
Neutral7.4%
Negative19.4%

Upkeep Social

All ratings10 ratings
Positive90.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative10.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

StepUp Pedometer Step Counter

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Steps not updating correctly
  • Randomly adding extra steps
  • Unable to add friends
  • Frequent app crashes

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add Apple Watch support
  • Implement a chat feature
  • Allow changing step length settings
  • Provide more detailed leaderboard information
  • Add option to change daily start/end time

Upkeep Social

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

9 purchases

StepUp Pedometer Step Counter

Subscriptions5
  • Support StepUp$1.001 Month
  • Support StepUp2 variants$2.001 Month
  • Support StepUp$6.001 Year
Show 2 more
  • Support StepUp$10.001 Year
  • Support StepUp$12.001 Year
One-time4
  • Support StepUp$5.00
  • Support StepUp$15.00
  • Support StepUp$20.00
Show 1 more
  • Support StepUp$25.00
4 purchases

Upkeep Social

Subscriptions3
  • Upkeep Pro Monthly7 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • Upkeep Pro Yearly14 Days trial$49.991 Year
  • Upkeep Pro Annual Plan$49.991 Year
One-time1
  • Creator Pass$4.99

Questions

Is StepUp Pedometer Step Counter free?
StepUp Pedometer Step Counter is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Upkeep Social free?
Upkeep Social is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, StepUp Pedometer Step Counter or Upkeep Social?
StepUp Pedometer Step Counter is rated higher. StepUp Pedometer Step Counter averages 4.8 out of 5 from 150K ratings, while Upkeep Social averages 4.5 from 10 ratings.
Do StepUp Pedometer Step Counter or Upkeep Social have ads?
StepUp Pedometer Step Counter shows ads; Upkeep Social does not.
Which is updated more often, StepUp Pedometer Step Counter or Upkeep Social?
StepUp Pedometer Step Counter ships an update every 3 days, and Upkeep Social every 5 days. Most recently, StepUp Pedometer Step Counter was updated on November 6, 2026 and Upkeep Social on October 31, 2026.

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