# StepUp Pedometer Step Counter

> Social step challenge tracker

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id979101825](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id979101825)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id979101825`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Pratik Stephen
- **Category:** Health & Fitness
- **Rating:** 4.80 / 5 (136,125 ratings)
- **Version:** 8.0.55
- **Last updated:** 2026-09-18
- **First published:** 2015-11-18
- **Size:** 61 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-21
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/stepup-pedometer-step-counter/id979101825)
- **Website:** [https://www.thestepupapp.com](https://www.thestepupapp.com/)
- **Privacy policy:** [http://www.thestepupapp.com/privacy](http://www.thestepupapp.com/privacy)

## Description

**StepUp Pedometer Step Counter** makes walking more motivating with social step challenges, leaderboards, streaks, goals, and friendly competition. Automatically track steps, distance, floors, and calories using your iPhone, Apple Watch, or connected wearables. Sync with Apple Health, Fitbit, Garmin, Oura, WHOOP, Withings, Google Fit, Samsung Health, and more.

Create or join free private challenges for friends, families, offices, schools, clubs, gyms, and communities. Chat, cheer, compare progress, set personal records, view rankings, use widgets, and compete with motivation bots. With no subscription or paywalled features, StepUp helps more than 10 million people stay active and walk together.

## Rankings

- #2,825 — Overall
- #1 — setup
- #58 — counter

## Review summary

Users praise StepUp for motivation, social play with friends, hands-off daily tracking, and solid Apple Health integration. Top recurring issues are inaccurate or inconsistent step counts and poor wearables syncing (Garmin, Apple Watch, Fitness app), data delays, and intrusive ads, plus occasional bot-driven fluctuations. Overall it’s motivating and free, but users want more reliable accuracy and smoother wearables support.

### Pros

- Strong motivation and social features (friends and friendly competition)
- Automatic daily step tracking that records progress without needing to open the app
- Good integration with Apple Health and helpful notifications
- Accessible and motivating for older users (e.g., keeps seniors active)
- Free and simple to use — it just works

### Cons

- Inaccurate step counts and inconsistent alignment across devices (Garmin, Apple Health, Fitness app)
- Wearable sync issues causing missing steps and data gaps
- Intrusive full-page ads with no easy way to close
- Bot algorithm changes causing step counts to fluctuate/deflate
- Slow data upload and no in-app refresh button to pull wearable data

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id979101825)