Top 10 Pedometer Apps for Apple Watch – ActivityTracker

Tracking our daily activity through pedometer apps can be truly beneficial. Apps can play a major role in our quest to increase our physical activity, to get fitter and hence healthier. How? It’s simple. They allow us to set realistic fitness goals, to monitor our progress along the way and motivate us to stay on the right track. Basically apps help us not only implement healthy habits, but, most importantly, stick to them.  

Today we can track our physical activity in a lot of ways, including with the aid of the Apple Watch. Apple’s health care tool provides support for a multitude of apps particularly developed to help us monitor and improve our fitness level.

In this article we’ve compiled a list of ten apps for Apple Watch, ideal to motivate you to keep moving.

ActivityTracker

ActivityTracker is a pedometer app for Apple Watch designed to automatically monitor your daily activity. The app takes advantage of the motion processor to record your movement and provides relevant stats about your physical activity throughout the day. These include the number of steps taken, the distance covered, the amount of calories burned, the active time or the flights of stairs climbed.

The app for Apple Watch comes with a fresh and intuitive interface that provides hourly stats, a Today’s overview and a summary of your last seven days. ActivityTracker offers colored Complications for a quick view of your progress on the Watch face and the possibility to synchronize steps between your iPhone, Apple Watch and the Health app. 

If you want to stay highly motivated, you have the opportunity to set a weekly target and see a daily goal based on that target. You can set the target not only for the steps, but also the distance or the calories burned. The app can provide notifications for target reached and half-reached and also allows you to share with others your daily progress.  

• Price: Free (Subscription: $14.99/year)
• Requirements: iOS 12.0 or later
• Download Link: App Store

Pedometer++

Pedometer++ is designed to help you easily monitor your daily movement. You can analyze your results from within the app, from the available widgets or from your Apple Watch. The app syncs with Apple’s Health app and can display on your wrist useful data, such as the steps taken, distance covered, calories burned, your speed or heart rate information.

Pedometer++ comes with a map-based workout mode for your Watch and allows you to select the activity you’re about to start, whether it’s running, hiking, outdoor or indoor walking. The app offers a multitude of built-in Complications, so you can customize your Watch face as you please. You can set various fitness goals for yourself and earn badges when you reach certain milestones, such as for instance streaks, lifetime steps, lifetime miles or floors. 

• Price: Free (Subscription: $19.99/year)
• Requirements: iOS 15.0 or later
• Download Link: App Store

Pacer

Pacer offers the necessary motivation to become more active by allowing you to join a large community and compete with other fitness enthusiasts. Depending on your fitness level and the challenge type, you can set a daily step goal or opt for a long-term step target. With this app you can create your own walking groups with family and friends and compare your daily stats in real-time.

The app for Apple Watch is simple to use and allows you to quickly visualize how far away you are from reaching your step target. Additionally you can see how many calories you’ve burned, the distance covered or the total active time. Pacer offers customized exercise plans and the opportunity to track your blood pressure, BMI and weight over time. You can sync steps and calories with MyFitnessPal and link data to Apple Health.

• Price: Free (Subscription: $49.99/year)
• Requirements: iOS 11.0 or later 
• Download Link: App Store

Steps

Steps is a pedometer for Apple Watch developed with a clear, uncluttered interface. The app displays how far you’ve gone during the day in an interesting manner. How? During your walks, it changes colors and shows the progress made in the form of a sunrise. The Apple Watch app comes with numerous Complications to choose from and lets you set a goal for the steps, distance or perhaps active time.

Optionally, Steps gives you the possibility to record your walking workouts using GPS and therefore see a map of your route. If you want to periodically know how you’re doing, the app can send you multiple notifications during the day with regard to your progress. Steps save a history of your activity, provides Siri and Shortcuts support and offers an option to share your workouts with others.

• Price: Free (IAP $1.99)
• Requirements: iOS 14.0 or later
• Download Link: App Store

Goals

Goals is an interesting alternative, since it’s designed to help you reach a series of fitness targets. The app enables you to set a daily goal for a wide range of stats: the steps taken, distance covered, the calories burned, the elevation or duration of your workout. You can also select the type of physical activity: normal or Nordic walking, running, biking or mountain biking.

Goals allows you to begin a certain activity directly from your Apple Watch and provides live charts so you can visualize your performance in real time. You can see directly on your wrist numerous fitness stats, including your heart rate. The app places at your disposal training plans for walking and running (beginner, intermediate, advanced) and at the same time lets you create an individual interval and heart rate zone training.

• Price: Free (Subscription: $7.99/month)
• Requirements: iOS 13.0 or later
• Download Link: App Store

Stepz

Stepz is an easy-to-use alternative to count your daily steps. The app uses the motion processor to record your activity and keeps you always updated, including on an hourly basis, with your progress. Stepz gives you the possibility to unlock various achievements when you complete certain milestones and therefore can help you boost your motivation level.

The app allows you to connect with your friends, to have an automatic goal or set and adjust a daily step goal based on your preferences. The Apple Watch app is fairly simple to use and displays useful fitness data, such as your step count, distance and calorie burn. You can fully integrate Stepz with Apple Health in case you want to visualize your overall fitness activity. 

• Price: Free (Subscription: $3.99/week)
• Requirements: iOS 11.2 or later
• Download Link: App Store

Accupedo

Accupedo is an option to take into account if you want to track your daily steps. The app can be used as a classic pedometer, but at the same time you have the option of activating the GPS mode. This way you’ll be able to track multiple activities, such as walking, running and cycling, and see right on your wrist all the relevant fitness stats, from your step count to the time spent physically active.

Accupedo allows you to set a personal goal for the number of steps and displays a percentage to see how much of that specific goal you have achieved at the moment. If you want to have an overview of your progress, the iPhone app keeps a history of your daily, weekly, monthly and yearly activity. To boost your motivation, the developer offers daily smart messages and inspirational quotes. 

• Price: Free (Subscription: $9.99/year)
• Requirements: iOS 15.1 or later
• Download Link: App Store

Track My Steps

If you’re looking for simplicity when it comes to measuring your daily activity, Track My Steps could be the answer. This app uses the motion processor to automatically monitor your movement and displays all the relevant stats on your wrist: the steps taken, distance, time, as well as the amount of calories burned during your walk.

Of course, you can set an individual step goal and change it if necessary. The app also shows a step history directly on your Apple Watch, in case you want to compare your fitness achievements for the last seven days. Track My Steps offers integration with the Health app and lets you share your results with friends and followers on popular social networks.

• Price: Free (Subscription: $59.99/year)
• Requirements: iOS 12.0 or later
• Download Link: App Store

Stepwise

Stepwise Pedometer is another step tracker app for Apple Watch that motivates you to get and stay in shape. The app allows you to set a personal goal for each day and updates you periodically on your progress and even sends you motivational messages to keep going. 

Stepwise shows on your Watch all you need to know about your daily movement: your step count, the walking distance, the entire time you were active and the total calories burned. The app offers Apple Watch Complications for a quick outlook at your activity and integration with HealthKit. The downside of Stepwise Pedometer is that the app is ad-supported.

• Price: Free (Subscription: $5.49/year)
• Requirements: iOS 11.0 or later
• Download Link: App Store

Step It Up

Step It Up is an Apple Watch step counter not to be neglected. Why? Well, because it’s user-friendly and because it comes with numerous useful features. The Watch app offers multiple Complications and allows you to quickly see data regarding your step count for the day and the past hour, the distance covered or today’s heart rate trends.

Step It Up provides support for wheelchair users, which means it counts the number of pushes and the distance pushed as steps. Another useful feature, also available right on your wrist, is the standometer, which shows you the time spent standing during the day. The app lets you set a daily step goal and provides detailed stats, such as how many steps you’re averaging per day or week or how are your results in comparison to the past months.

• Price: Free (Pro version: $4.99)
• Requirements: iOS 14.0 or later
• Download Link: App Store