# Pedometer - step counter

> Pedometer helps you to reach your fitness goals

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/wako.pedometer.stepcounter](https://chrome-stats.com/d/wako.pedometer.stepcounter)

## Overview

- **ID:** `wako.pedometer.stepcounter`
- **Platform:** Android
- **Type:** Android app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Wako Development
- **Category:** HEALTH\_AND\_FITNESS
- **Downloads:** 2,659,882
- **Rating:** 4.23 / 5 (11,265 ratings)
- **Version:** 12.6
- **Last updated:** 2026-08-26
- **First published:** 2019-03-13
- **Publisher country:** NL
- **Size:** 6.06 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-13
- **Store listing:** [Google Play Store](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=wako.pedometer.stepcounter)
- **Website:** [https://www.androidpedometer.com](https://www.androidpedometer.com/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://reondesign.nl/wakopedometer](https://reondesign.nl/wakopedometer)

## Description

**Pedometer - Step Counter & Calorie Tracker** is a free and user-friendly Chrome extension designed to help you achieve your fitness goals by monitoring your daily physical activity. Utilizing your device's hardware step sensor, it provides precise step counts, distance traveled, and calories burned, all while minimizing battery consumption. This app supports both walking and running activities, encouraging a healthy lifestyle by promoting the recommended 10,000 steps daily.

Key features include an integrated calorie counter for weight management, automatic step recording to ensure you never miss tracking, and intuitive charts displaying daily, weekly, and monthly progress. You can customize personal goals and step size settings for the most accurate measurements. Additional functionalities like split counts for individual walks and strict privacy compliance (no account needed) make Pedometer a reliable companion in your fitness journey.

## Rankings

- #37,552 — Overall

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `android.permission.ACCESS_ADSERVICES_AD_ID`
- `android.permission.ACCESS_ADSERVICES_ATTRIBUTION`
- `android.permission.ACCESS_ADSERVICES_TOPICS`
- `android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE`
- `android.permission.ACTIVITY_RECOGNITION`
- `android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE`
- `android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE_HEALTH`
- `android.permission.INTERNET`
- `android.permission.POST_NOTIFICATIONS`
- `android.permission.READ_BASIC_PHONE_STATE`
- `android.permission.RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED`
- `android.permission.REQUEST_IGNORE_BATTERY_OPTIMIZATIONS`
- `android.permission.WAKE_LOCK`
- `com.google.android.finsky.permission.BIND_GET_INSTALL_REFERRER_SERVICE`
- `com.google.android.gms.permission.AD_ID`
- `wako.pedometer.stepcounter.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION`

## Review summary

Users commonly praise the app for being simple, showing step counts and progress, supporting fitness goals, and keeping history. The most frequent complaints are intrusive ads (banners and pop-ups that cover results), inaccurate or clearly wrong step readings, and reliability issues (not recording steps, data disappearing or misattributed days). These issues are mentioned repeatedly across reviews.

### Pros

- Simple and easy to use; intuitive for quick tracking
- Clearly displays step counts and daily progress
- Helps with health/fitness goals and motivation
- Keeps history so users can review past activity

### Cons

- Persistent, intrusive ads and pop-ups that block the screen/results
- Inaccurate or random step counts (including erroneous negative values)
- Fails to record or loses steps; data sometimes misattributed to the wrong day
- Information disappearing and other UI/visibility problems due to ads

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