Steps - Activity Tracker 4+

This game motivates me to go outside and run all day every day. Instead of playing other games, when I’m bored I go outside and start jogging with my best friend who also has the app. Believe or not, even though you don’t actually play any sort of game on this app, it’s actually kind of fun just running around the neighborhood. You also never know if you might meet a friend while running or jogging. I also love the fact that you can change the colors in the background. In addition, you can see the number of miles you’ve ran and how long you’ve been running for. You’re also able to change you’re goal for steps in a day. And you can pay just $1.99 to see the amount of calories you’ve burned for the day. Finally, you can check you’re history to see if the number of steps you’ve taken in a day has gone up compared to other days. I motivate everyone to get this app! I love it and you’ll love it too!

This app survived 1 workout because the UI is as advertised - attractive, clean, easy to see and understand. HOWEVER, it’s missing so so much. I use Apple Watch. During workout, there’s no 3rd page to control music - not even AppleMusic. I could launch music separately but had to fumble between apps during my workout. Very distracting. Therefore, I also can’t set a playlist to start with a workout. Can’t select to hide the map. No announcements for intervals. No audible reminder to turn the workout off. No auto-pause. Best I could figure, settings is virtually non existent because there really aren’t any of the expected workout control settings. Nope, no stat preference selection or customizations I could find. I wanted simplicity, which this certainly delivers and is beautiful to look at but it’s so simple that it’s missing vital features - at least for my use case. I really wanted something akin to Apple ‘s native activity tracker but with step counts. This would be my goto if I could control music and hide maps and/or any metrics I’m not interested in. Love the app. It’s just a wee lite to use the way I want.

A couple of times I found that the app just stopped counting my steps at less than 20% of my total steps during a ‘Workout’. The other thing is, if you forget to hit ‘Finish’, merely pausing it won’t stop the time from accumulating so, even though you finished all of your walk for example in a planned “workout“, it won’t credit you the steps for the day you walked if you forgot to end that particular workout. Then, those step show up on the chart for the next day, but are not counted towards the next day’s steps either. So you don’t get credit for those steps, because they were really part of a work out that you did the day before, but it bled over into the next day because you forgot to turn hit ‘Finish’ that particular work out. Now, there are 2500 steps or so in this particular work out I’m talking about that are showing up for the following day because it was after midnight before I terminated the work out or ‘finished’ the work out, but they’re not showing up on the steps total for the next day, either. It would be very nice if we could go in and manually correct the finished time of a work out.