The Best iPhone Apps For Counting Steps [2023 Edition]

Best iPhone Step Counting Apps

Pedometer++

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• The app’s official description: Use your iPhone as a step counter. Pedometer++ lets you easily keep track of your daily and weekly step counts, without any impact on your battery life. You can view your progress each day from either the iPhone app, Today View widget or Apple Watch app.
• What it does: Pedometer++ is one of the oldest step counters for the iPhone, but it’s still one of the best. The simplicity of the app makes it approachable even for novice walkers. Make this your first download.
• How to get it: iOS

Pacer Pedometer & Step Tracker

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• The app’s official description: Pacer is like having a walking buddy and health coach in one app. You can track all your activities in one beautifully intuitive interface. And you’ll get motivation and support from our amazing Pacer community. Pacer’s fun challenges, amazing data insights, outdoor routes, personalized fitness plans and guided workouts will help you achieve your unique fitness goals. Be active and feel great anywhere, any time!
• What it does: Pacer Pedometer & Step Tracker is a great app for step counting. Not only does it track your steps, but it can also map them, and the app even motivates you with challenges.
• How to get it: iOS

Walkmeter Walking & Hiking GPS

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• The app’s official description: Walkmeter is the most advanced application for walkers and hikers. Built for iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and iCloud, it makes your iPhone a powerful fitness computer — with maps, graphs, splits, intervals, laps, announcements, zones, training plans and more.
• What it does: An oldie but goldie, Walkmeter has been around for ages now–and that’s a very good thing because it tells you how much love is put into this app. Not only does it track your walks and dozens of other metrics about them (like calories burned), this app has an AMAZING privacy policy: all your data is stored on your phone, no account required.
• How to get it: iOS

Stepz – Step Counter & Tracker

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• The app’s official description: Stepz is a convenient step counter app that leverages the clever Apple Motion Coprocessor which collects your motion data automatically in the background while saving battery life. This simple pedometer app has been specifically developed for the iPhone and Apple Watch. Do you move enough throughout the day? Learn more about your daily activity and get fit by reaching your step goal! To provide you with a complete overview of your fitness progress, Stepz can import all your past steps from the Apple Health app.
• What it does: Another super-simple app that allows you to quickly track your steps automatically. It’s kind of like Pedometer++, but allows you to connect with your friends in the app.
• How to get it: iOS

Accupedo Pedometer

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• The app’s official description: Accupedo is simple and easy to use. It automatically tracks your daily walking. With easy to read charts and history logs, monitor your steps, calories burned, distance, and time. As your best walking buddy, Accupedo will motivate you to walk more! Set up your daily goal and step towards a healthier you with Accupedo pedometer. Accupedo counts your steps regardless of where you put your phone like your pocket, waist belt, or bag. Be healthy by setting up your daily goal and accurately monitoring your steps with Accupedo.
• What it does: Accupedo Pedometer is another all-encompassing step tracker, but what we really love is its widget and smart messages feature that keeps you motivated.
• How to get it: iOS

ActivityTracker Pedometer

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• The app’s official description: Ac­tiv­i­ty­Track­er will keep track of your steps, active calories, dis­tance, ac­tive time, and flights of stairs climbed just by car­ry­ing your iPhone or Apple Watch around, which you al­ready do! Re­search has shown that just by be­ing more ac­tive you will also be health­i­er. Not every­one wants a vig­or­ous ex­er­cise rou­tine so just in­creas­ing your dai­ly ac­tiv­i­ty will get you in bet­ter shape. Ac­tiv­i­ty­Track­er will auto-mag­i­cal­ly quan­ti­fy your dai­ly and weekly ac­tiv­i­ty and mo­ti­vate you to be more ac­tive for free!
• What it does: A beautifully designed step-tracking app that also offers an Apple Watch app and has stunning iOS 14 home screen widgets.
• How to get it: iOS

Pedometer – α Step Counter

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• The app’s official description: “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!
• What it does: There’s something hypnotic about this app’s interface. It’s a great way to see your step activity at a glance.
• How to get it: iOS

Steps – Activity Tracker

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• The app’s official description: Track how far you walk and how many steps you take. Always on, works on all iPhones. Steps is a pedometer and activity tracker. It shows you just how much you’re moving in a simple, elegant way. Set a goal. As you walk, the colors change to show your progress like a sunrise. No noise, no extra gadget to wear and nothing to distract you.
• What it does: A simple, minimalist step tracker. It also has an accompanying Apple Watch app.
• How to get it: iOS

Walkster: Walking Weight Loss

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• The app’s official description: Lose the weight you’ve always wanted to lose. Join our community of millions of happy walkers that are dropping pounds, staying healthy, looking and feeling better than ever – by purposely walking. Our health experts and physical therapists create custom plans for you to follow, so you can reach your weight goals and live your best life!
• What it does: One of the more full-featured step trackers. Users rave about its walking plans that help them achieve their weight loss goals.
• How to get it: iOS

Movesum

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• The app’s official description: For most of us, the problem is that we need to move more, not faster. Movesum is a brand new step-counting concept that helps you find the motivation to exercise. The beautifully designed app provides you with a simple and effective way to set movement goals, stay committed, and connect your activity with the way you eat. Use the smart notifications to reach your daily goal and build streaks, so that you can become healthier. Movesum will not only help you take your daily exercise to the next level, it will give you a clearer view of how the food you eat is effected by your exercise.
• What it does: This app makes the list because it’s made by the same people who brought us the excellent dieting app, Lifesum. While Movesum is pretty barebones right now, it does offer an Apple Watch app and even iMessage stickers.
• How to get it: iOS