Comparison

ActivityTracker Pedometer vs Pedometer α

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

Head to head
About

ActivityTracker Pedometer

Effortlessly track your daily steps, active calories, distance, and more using just your iPhone or Apple Watch. Set personal goals, view hourly and daily progress, and stay motivated to increase your activity for a healthier lifestyle. Offers workout tracking with GPS and detailed activity maps.

Highlights
  • Track steps, calories, distance, active time, floors climbed
  • Hourly activity breakdown
  • Daily, weekly, and yearly trend graphs
  • Workout tracking with GPS
  • Route mapping and detailed activity stats
  • Apple Watch and Health app integration
Features
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Become your Best Self! Track your daily activity effortlessly — no fitness gadget, no battery drain, and complete privacy. "The interface is clean and clear and will help you set achievable goals for fitness" — MacWorld - bit.ly/MacWorldTop ActivityTracker keeps track of your steps, active calories, distance, active time, and flights of stairs climbed, just by carrying your iPhone or Apple Watch — which you already do. Research shows that simply being more active can make you healthier. Not everyone wants a vigorous exercise routine, so just increasing your daily activity can help you get in better shape. ActivityTracker automatically quantifies your daily and weekly activity and motivates you to be more active — completely free! General Features • Track your Steps, Active Calories, Distance, Active Time, and Floors Climbed; • Monitor what's most important to you: Steps, Calories, or Distance (PRO version); • Track your activity hour-by-hour in the Hourly view. Details such as steps, calories, distance, active time, and floors are shown per hour; • Set individual Targets for: Steps, Calories, and Distance (PRO version); • Today overview graph in Trends, with progress for the current day vs last days; • This Week overview graph in Trends, with progress for the current week vs last; • See the big picture with the Years summary in the Trends view; • See details per hour for any day by long tapping on that day in the Details view; • Long tapping on any Week/Month in Details, will get you to the first day of that interval; • Since not all days are the same, you will set a Weekly Target that we will also break down to a Daily Target; • Customize the interface with one of the seven Accent Colors (from which three are free); • Import/export feature to save your data or move it to another device (PRO version); • Week Overview to review your last week's progress at a glance (PRO version); • Fireworks & Confetti animations for reaching your targets (PRO version); • Easily share your daily stats with friends. Activities • New Activities feature to track your workouts with GPS! • Track activities such as Walking, Running, Cycling, and Hiking in great detail; • View a map overview of your routes, plus detailed stats such as Splits, Elevation, Speed, and more; • Monitor metrics such as Heart Rate (requires Apple Watch) and Weather conditions (PRO version); • [New] Edit your activities and explore your entire route in greater detail • Easily share your activity route & stats with friends. Apple Watch & Health • [New] Record activities with GPS route from your Watch! • [New] Sync between Watch and iPhone activities • Sync steps between your iPhone, Apple Watch and Health app (PRO version); • Real-time stats updates; • Import your historical data from Apple Health so you can have a complete overview of your activity from day one; • Awesome Apple Watch app with: today's overview, hour-by-hour stats & last 7 days! • Independent Watch app for watchOS 10+ with settings; • Multiple watchOS 10+ Complications for at a glance stats on your Watch (PRO version). iOS Integration • Live activities with your workout details; • [New] Siri with App Intents integration; • New zoom transition for iOS 18; • Beautiful Lock Screen Widgets, with graphs for Hours & Days; • In-App Events. Get engaged by participating in our monthly challenges; • Awesome Today widgets with customizable statistics and colors; • Progress notifications for target reached and target half-reached (PRO version); • Daily & Weekly notifications, that can easily be disabled in Settings; • App badge that shows the steps taken directly on the app icon; • Dark mode • iMessage app https://activitytracker.app/terms-of-service.html

About

Pedometer α

This application functions as a free and simple step counter, ideal for tracking walking and supporting diet goals. It automatically records your steps, calories burned, distance, and walking time, displaying this data in easily viewable graphs. Customize the app's appearance with themes and ensure accurate tracking by inputting personal details.

Highlights
  • Step counting
  • Calorie tracking
  • Distance measurement
  • Walking time and speed
  • Historical data graphs
  • Customizable themes
Features
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A free, easy-to-use Pedometer app! Perfect for walking and dieting! "Pedometer" records the number of steps you have walked and displays them again along with the number of calories that you have burned, distance, walking time and speed per hour. It is easy to use. Simply carry around your smartphone as you normally would. Of course, it will continue to automatically record your steps even if you put it in your pocket or bag. You can view a graph with the number of steps you have walked and all other information anytime. Let's enjoy walking with this app! How to use - Touch on the number of steps, burned calories, distance, walking time, or speed to display the graph with that information. - Touch the graph to highlight information data for a specific time or date. - Swipe to the left to see the data recorded until the previous day. - If you want to change the look of the app, change the theme. - In order to display the correct number of burned calories, please enter your age, gender, weight and step length accurately. - In order to display the correct distance and speed, please enter your step length accurately. Pedometer recommended for the following people - If you want to check your step count. - If you want to try using a pedometer. - If you want to go on a diet. - If you go on walks or strolls. - If you go jogging. - If you want to use a popular pedometer. - If you want to post the pedometer screen to social media. - If you walk a lot for your job. - If you want an easy-to-use pedometer. - If you want to walk more. - If you want to form a habit of walking. - If you feel out of shape. - If you want to use a pedometer with a theme that you like. - If you want to use your smartphone instead of carrying around a handheld pedometer.

Screenshots

ActivityTracker Pedometer4 screens
Pedometer α4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Pedometer α at none against ActivityTracker Pedometer's 2. Pedometer α also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 6 weeks). ActivityTracker Pedometer's advantage is review sentiment (97% vs 86%). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. ActivityTracker Pedometer sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Pedometer α asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for ActivityTracker Pedometer against 4.9 for Pedometer α. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 102K and 170K respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 97% of ActivityTracker Pedometer's written reviews are positive against 86% of Pedometer α's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ActivityTracker Pedometer ships an update every 6 weeks, Pedometer α weekly. Both last shipped on October 12, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
ActivityTracker Pedometer versus Pedometer α: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterActivityTracker PedometerPedometer α
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (102K ratings)4.9 (170K ratings) — better
Positive reviews97.3% of reviews — better86.0% of reviews
Number of ratings102K170K — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksWeekly — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesAd-supported — better
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size28 MB32 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBits&CoffeeITO Technologies, Inc.

Customer experience

ActivityTracker Pedometer

All ratings101,655 ratings
Positive95.5%
Neutral2.7%
Negative1.8%
Written reviews2,971 reviews
Positive97.3%
Neutral0.8%
Negative1.9%

Pedometer α

All ratings169,919 ratings
Positive97.7%
Neutral1.2%
Negative1.1%
Written reviews1,690 reviews
Positive86.0%
Neutral4.1%
Negative9.9%

User reviews

ActivityTracker Pedometer

From 102K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Easy to use
  • 👍 Motivational
  • 📊 Detailed tracking
  • 🔋 Accurate step counting
  • 🤖 Seamless integration with Apple Watch

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Inconsistent step/floor tracking
  • 🔄 Syncing issues between phone and watch
  • 📉 Inaccurate calorie/distance tracking

Pedometer α

From 170K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Easy to use
  • 👍 Accurate step tracking
  • 👍 Motivates users to walk more
  • 👍 Provides daily/weekly/monthly stats
  • 👍 Simple and straightforward interface

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Inconsistent step/distance tracking
  • 🐛 Stops recording prematurely
  • 🔋 High battery consumption
  • 🔍 Lacks customization options

Bugs and requests

ActivityTracker Pedometer

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Steps not updating in real-time
  • App crashes on certain devices
  • Complications not working on newer Apple Watch faces

Requested features

3 requests
  • Monthly/annual step/distance summary
  • Manual data entry option
  • More customization options

Pedometer α

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Fails to enable required permissions
  • Displays incorrect step/distance data
  • Loses historical data when reinstalled

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add option to track stairs/floors climbed
  • Provide yearly step/distance history
  • Allow editing of recorded data
  • Integrate with fitness apps/devices

In-app purchases

2 purchases

ActivityTracker Pedometer

Subscriptions2
  • ActivityTracker PRO$4.991 Month
  • ActivityTracker PRO7 Days trial$29.991 Year
None

Pedometer α

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ActivityTracker Pedometer free?
ActivityTracker Pedometer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Pedometer α free?
Pedometer α is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, ActivityTracker Pedometer or Pedometer α?
Pedometer α is rated higher. ActivityTracker Pedometer averages 4.8 out of 5 from 102K ratings, while Pedometer α averages 4.9 from 170K ratings.
Do ActivityTracker Pedometer or Pedometer α have ads?
Both ActivityTracker Pedometer and Pedometer α show ads.
Which is updated more often, ActivityTracker Pedometer or Pedometer α?
ActivityTracker Pedometer ships an update every 6 weeks, and Pedometer α weekly. Most recently, ActivityTracker Pedometer was updated on October 12, 2026 and Pedometer α on October 12, 2026.

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