ActivityTracker Pedometer vs Ascend
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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
Ascend
This app visually tracks your daily stair climbing by using your Apple Health data. Set goals, monitor your progress with dynamic charts, and earn achievements for your efforts. It offers personalized themes to customize your experience.
- Integrates with Apple Health
- Dynamic tracking charts and graphs
- Daily, weekly, monthly, and lifetime tracking
- Personal record tracking
- Real-life equivalent achievements
- Personalized themes and icons
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Ascend is a visually dynamic way to track the stairs you climb each day. By interpreting your Apple Health data, Ascend helps you set goals and track progress. With this app, you’ll see just how high your steps can take you; even all the way to the moon. Features: · Integrates with Apple Health · Dynamic tracking charts and graphs · Daily, weekly, monthly, and lifetime tracking · Personal record tracking · Real life equivalent achievements · Personalized themes and icons
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: ActivityTracker Pedometer at 4.8 against Ascend's 4.2. ActivityTracker Pedometer also leads on ratings volume (102K vs 14) and review sentiment (97% vs 78%). Ascend's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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
Both are free to download. ActivityTracker Pedometer sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Ascend sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
ActivityTracker Pedometer holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ActivityTracker Pedometer has 102K ratings behind it against 14, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 97% of ActivityTracker Pedometer's written reviews are positive against 78% of Ascend's.
ActivityTracker Pedometer ships an update every 6 weeks, Ascend every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on September 26, 2026 and September 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ActivityTracker Pedometer | Ascend |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (102K ratings) — better | 4.2 (14 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 97.3% of reviews — better | 77.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 102K — better | 14 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 28 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Bits&Coffee | Eddie Koranek |
Customer experience
ActivityTracker Pedometer
Ascend
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
Ascend
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
ActivityTracker Pedometer
- ActivityTracker PRO$4.991 Month
- ActivityTracker PRO7 Days trial$29.991 Year
Ascend
- Small Tip$0.99
- Feature Unlock$1.99
- Coffee sized tip$2.99
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- Feature Unlock$2.99
- Feature Unlock$3.99
- Lunch sized tip$4.99
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