A tour of StepKit
StepKit is a pedometer for iPhone and Apple Watch. This is what it looks like in use — four screens, what each one is for, and where the free app ends.
Published September 23, 2026
The day, on one screen
The app opens on today: steps so far, the share of your goal, and — the number that actually moves anyone — how many are left and roughly how long that is on foot. Under it, distance, active minutes, the week as bars, calories, and at the bottom the one control the screen is built around: start a walk. The streak sits in the corner next to the date, small, because a streak is a reason to walk and not the point of walking. Everything here is counted by the iPhone's own motion sensor; no account, and the history stays on the phone.
One walk, while you are on it
Start a walk and the screen becomes the walk: steps since you started, elapsed time, distance, pace, calories, and cadence over the last sixty seconds as a row of bars. Cadence is the one a phone in your pocket can measure honestly, and it is the one that tells you whether you are strolling or moving. The same walk on Apple Watch is a real workout — it keeps recording with your wrist down, reads your heart rate, and saves itself to Apple Health when you end it.
Where the day goes afterwards
History opens on the week: your average day, how many days hit the goal, and the seven days as bars with a dashed goal line across them — the day in progress still pale, tomorrow not there yet. Under it, sixteen weeks as a grid of squares — four months as a shape rather than a number, so the stretch where you stopped is visible without anyone having to count. Below that, every day in a list. The Pro card sits between them, and it is honest about what it is: the year view, all-time records and export, for the years before this one.
What the walking adds up to
Forty-four awards across six categories — streaks, goal days, big days, weeks and months, all-time steps, and walks — each a ladder of real milestones rather than a badge for opening the app. Earned ones carry the month they were earned; locked ones say what they need, and the one you are closest to says how far: twenty-six days to go. Awards are free, all of them.
Free and Pro
Free, permanently
- Step counting by the iPhone, with no account
- The Apple Watch app, and a walk recorded as a real workout
- Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets, plus two watch complications
- Optional Apple Health sync, which fills in the days before you installed it
- A daily goal from 2,000 to 30,000 steps, and a streak
- All forty-four awards
- Notifications at halfway, at 80% and at your goal, plus a weekly recap
StepKit Pro
- Trend charts, with what they say written out in words
- All-time records, celebrated the day you beat them
- A year view for every year, with a card to share
- CSV export of your whole history
- An adaptive goal whose step you choose
Pro is a monthly or yearly subscription, or a one-time purchase, and there is no free trial. Everything the phone and the watch do — counting, the workout, the widgets, the goal, the awards — is free and stays free: what Pro adds is what StepKit makes of a history you have already walked.
Try it
StepKit is on the App Store for iPhone and Apple Watch. The product page has the full feature list, the FAQ and the privacy details.