Some warnings 1 confirmed warning. Checked: 500 reviews, the store listing and the privacy label.
From our automated analysis, 27 Oct 2026. Every label links to its evidence in the full report below.
This analysis describes version 4.10.36 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-27 .
The store currently lists version 4.10.36, updated 2026-03-27.
Store screenshots supplied by the developer.
Stepz is a convenient step counter app that leverages the clever Apple Motion Coprocessor which collects your motion data automatically in the background while saving battery life. This simple pedometer app has been specifically developed for the iPhone and Apple Watch.
Do you move enough throughout the day? Learn more about your daily activity and get fit by reaching your step goal! To provide you with a complete overview of your fitness progress, Stepz can import all your past steps from the Apple Health app.
Stepz respects your privacy: all your personal fitness data is stored internally on your device and never shared via a network connection without your explicit consent.
* Featured by Apple on the App Store Home Page under Best New Apps in 22 countries (April 2015) *…
From the developer’s store description.
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The evidence, sources, measurements and versions behind every label above.
Findings that met the published evidence standard.
Aggressive ad load: raised by 29 distinct reviewers (about 1 in 17 reviews we read)
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
500 reviews read for this analysis. Each observation keeps the sample and store it was based on.
Raised by 29 distinct reviewers — about 1 in 17 reviews we read on this store leg (App Store).
Sooooo many ads — Can’t get to the steps because the ads never go away or let you skip. The only option is to go to the App Store for the advertised game. Very annoying and bad user experience. Been trying to delayer my account but can’t…
Ads — TOO MANY ADS TO OPEN APP!!!!!
So annoying! — I have used the app for years to track my steps both at work and in my daily walks, but I cannot stand the endless ads that pop up constantly now! I’ll be in the middle of looking at my stats and the ads pop up and you have…
A sampled review illustrates one person’s experience. It does not establish a finding on its own.
“Not assessed” means we could not measure it. It is never a zero and never a pass.
No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence, not a finding.
Supporting measurements: not a complete list of possible harms or positives. Measurement vocabulary 1.4 · how these are measured
This analysis describes version 4.10.36 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-27 .
The store currently lists version 4.10.36, updated 2026-03-27.
Each store’s release notes, as the developer wrote them. They are the developer’s words, not ours.
We've taken care of a couple of bugs to give you the experience you deserve. If you're going to be your best selves, then we need to be OUR best selves. Thanks for using app! Keep crushing it!
Appworthy
stepzAssessed 2026-10-27 from 500 user reviews, the store listing and its privacy label. We have not scanned the app's package, so nothing on this page was read from inside the app itself.
What the stores publish. Store ratings are the stores’ numbers, not Appworthy’s, and are never averaged across stores.
From the store listing. Billing terms are read from each purchase’s name — the stores don’t publish them — so treat them as a strong hint, not a disclosure.
These are really on sale; we just can’t tell from the name whether they recur.
This assessment is produced automatically. Three independent signals are read — user reviews, the store listing and the store privacy disclosure — and each candidate finding is filed under the sources that support it.
No charge stands on one kind of evidence — with one published exception. A finding is either a measured fact that anyone can reproduce (an ad SDK is in the package; every subscription bills weekly; the privacy label omits a tracker we can see), or it is an interpretation — and an interpretation needs independent sources to agree before it reaches the catch list. The exception is a harm only users can see: a charge may publish from reviews alone, as “Reported by N users”, once enough reviewers raise it to clear that charge’s own published bar. That agreement rule is what replaced the human reviewer, not a model’s confidence.
There is no overall score, on purpose. A 0–99 number was published here until 2026-09-15. It was withdrawn because it discriminated too weakly to be the instrument — 44.7% of every pair of apps tied — and because a single number is a verdict where a count is an observation. What publishes instead is a row of measurements, each of which says what was counted and, where we could not look, says that instead.
Findings under One source only are real reports we do not stand behind as findings. They are shown because withholding them entirely would hide a genuine complaint, and labelled because publishing them as charges would be an accusation off a single source.
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