StepUp Pedometer Step Counter

I have used StepUp for approximately 2 years, but in the past 2 months, my friends have disappeared from my screen and I cannot get them back. Your app is telling me that I am offline, but I am not. I sent this review a week or so ago. And you published a message saying you would have a fix fir this problem in a week. Still no fix, and you are not responding to me. What is the problem and why aren’t you fixing it?

This app is, like many others, a competent step counter. The idea of a “lazy bot,“ is what makes this app *potentially* so brilliant. The app makes you want to stay ahead of the lazy bot while also giving you something to try to pass (a more ambitious sibling). That said, the lazy but does not seem to get any better. The developer should program the lazy bot to stay hot on your heels behind you, sometimes even passing you. There is quite a lot that could be done with this gamification. This would be the first app with a fun built-in incentive to get faster... which means to get a better walking workout! The app deserves three stars without the bottom, 10 stars with a fully functioning smart bot (this does not require A.I. or anything, just some simple algorithms). Anyway, I split the difference and gave it four stars. More than stars, I would happily give dollars to an app that made walking fun all by yourself. And if the developer took it to the next level, with directionality and using the screen for a simple video game type scenario… Wow! This deserves to be much more.

There aren’t enough words to describe how excited I was to get this app. I scrolled through every search result from google; went in the App Store an read reviews and they all fell short. I was so pumped to see my watch connected right away. It was a match made in heaven. Then I tried to add my wife only to find out I had to have Facebook. I don’t have it and don’t desire to have it. 😭 I thought I finally found the platform to compete with family/friends without using Facebook. I know this app is great, unfortunately I won’t be able to enjoy it to its fullest extent without succumbing to Facebook.

I love it although it would be better suited for my daily count if I could change the time for my 24 hour count. I work at night. My shift starts at 6:30 pm till 8:00 am. Meaning I'm in bed by 10:00 am and don't get up until 3:00pm. But my steps change over at midnight to 0 again. I need to count my steps from 3:00 pm until 10:00 or 11:00 am. And different on my off days.

Clean interface not muddled by worthless ads. If you just want to count steps in real time (Apple Health seems to update step count whenever it feels like it), this is the app for you. Customizing stride length for more accurate distance measuring and step counting would be a great addition but not sure if the extra precision would be that much more helpful. Overall an excellent app for its elegant simplicity.