Having a pedometer app in your Android phone is something you should definitely consider – not just because it has become a trend, but because it can turn out to be a great motivator, helping you become more active and healthier. With such an app you’ll gain valuable insights into your activity levels and have the chance to set your own fitness targets such as taking 10,000 steps on a daily basis. At the same time, you’ll be able to see your progress in real-time and over time and gain a sense of accomplishment once you achieve your goals.
The Play Store is packed with free apps that will track your steps, but not all offer what you’d expect and need in terms of accuracy, efficiency, range of features and usability. That’s why we decided to make your task significantly easier and create a list of the 10 best Android apps for the job. Keep reading and see which one meets your requirements.
ActivityTracker
ActivityTracker is a free pedometer app for Android designed to be easy to use and battery-efficient. The app will automatically record your movement throughout the day with the aid of your phone’s built-in motion sensors. There’s no GPS usage, which translates into a minimal impact on the battery life. ActivityTracker will keep track of several fitness metrics: your steps, distance, the calories burned and active time.
To encourage you to walk more, the app enables you to set a weekly target and will display a daily goal based on that target. You’ll be able to set your target not only for the number of steps, but also for the distance and calories burned. To keep you up-to-date with the progress made, the app can send various notifications, including for target reached and half-reached. If you’re a fan of stats, you’re in for a treat. ActivityTracker places at your disposal plenty of data, from your hourly averages for the last seven days to daily, weekly and monthly totals.
The app gives you the possibility to import your history from Google Fit and to save or transfer your data to another device. You can quickly check out your step count from the multiple widgets available or the app badge. If you want to track your steps from your wrist, ActivityTracker offers an independent app for Wear OS watches with various Complications and hour-by-hour summary.
- Price: Free (Subscription: $9.99/year)
- Requirements: Varies with device
- Download Link: Google Play
Google Fit
Google Fit focuses on two essential activity goals to help you stay active and healthy: Heart Points and Steps. The app rewards you with one point for each minute of moderate-intensity exercises, such as brisk walking, and double points if you engage in high-intensity workouts, such as running. Google Fit uses the motion sensors in your Android phone or the heart rate sensors in your Wear OS watch to monitor your walks. It will display various real-time stats, from your step count to your speed and pace.
The app lets you choose from a wide range of sports and physical activities and set an individual goal for the desired parameter: steps, distance, active time, calories burned and more. You can sync your data with other apps and wearables to get an overview of your fitness level and health. These include nutrition apps like MyFitnessPal, running and fitness apps like Strava or fitness trackers like Withings and Xiaomi Mi. If you want to view your daily stats at a glance, just add one of the widgets on your home screen or a complication on your Wear OS watch.
- Price: Free
- Requirements: Varies with device
- Download Link: Google Play
Fitbit
If you didn’t know it, you can install the Fitbit app for Android and use it as a pedometer without having a Fitbit tracker or smartwatch. The mobile app will independently track your movement through the Mobile Track option. This option allows Fitbit to tap into your phone’s low-power motion sensors and directly count your steps. Of course, if you do have a wearable device, data will be synchronized between that device and the mobile app.
Fitbit can be regarded as a central hub for fitness, nutrition and health tracking. The Android app allows you to monitor exercises like walking, hiking or cycling with GPS mapping, to log your food and water intake, access video-guided workouts, monitor your sleep or manage stress with audio mindfulness sessions. You can set multiple health goals, customize the main dashboard with your preferred stats and view detailed progress charts. Multiple widgets await you for quick viewing and logging.
- Price: Free (Subscription: $9.99/month)
- Requirements: Varies with device
- Download Link: Google Play
Pedometer by Simple Design
This is an Android step counter app developed to track your walking activity. Pedometer by Simple Design leverages your phone’s sensors to count your steps throughout the day without consuming a substantial amount of energy. Tap on the Start button and the tracking will begin. Optionally, you have the possibility to record a separate walking session by entering the training mode. In this mode, which is GPS-based, the app will separately monitor your active time, distance and calories burned and display your route on a map.
To make walking more stimulating, Pedometer allows you to set and adjust a daily step goal. Reaching your goal consecutively (two days or more) will start a streak. You can then check out your streak stats in a dedicated chart. If you want to analyze your progress over time, the app saves a history of your weekly and monthly stats. Additionally you can resort to the various walking and fitness plans, which provide daily exercises based on your specific objective: lose weight, stay fit, relieve stress and more. A basic, but useful widget will show your step count on your phone’s home screen.
- Price: Free (In-app purchases: $2.99 – $39.99)
- Requirements: Android 5.1 or later
- Download Link: Google Play
Step Tracker by Leap Fitness
Step Tracker by Leap Fitness Group offers two methods to monitor your physical activity. In the power-saving mode, which is activated by default, the app works as a standard pedometer. It uses the phone’s motion sensors to detect and record your movement. In the optional GPS tracking mode, the app will allow you to visualize your route on a map and gain access to various fitness stats, including your walking pace. You can pause and resume step counting at the desired moment, and even reset the count to 0.
This Android step tracker enables you to set a daily goal for the steps, distance, calories burned or duration, unlock diverse achievements when you reach your target and analyze your daily, weekly and monthly stats through modern report graphs. The app is equipped with a useful health tracker feature, which can keep track of other fitness metrics, such as your weight trends or water intake. It’s also worth mentioning that Step Tracker supports synchronizing data with Google Fit for a clear overview of your fitness activity.
- Price: Free (In-app purchases: $2.99)
- Requirements: Android 5.1 or later
- Download Link: Google Play
Pedometer by ITO Technologies
Pedometer by ITO Technologies is equipped with some characteristics that make it an interesting alternative. It monitors your walking activity with the aid of the sensors in your Android phone, it displays all the important stats in clear charts and offers all the available features free of charge (ad-supported). On the downside, it lacks an important option to set your own goals, as well as a widget to directly display all the relevant data on your home screen.
Pedometer requires you to manually press a button in order to start recording and stop your activity (no pause option). The app is designed with a basic UI and will highlight your step count in the main view, along with the rest of the fitness metrics: calories burned, distance, active time and speed. You can adjust its interface to your liking by selecting from a multitude of themes and back up/restore your data in case you need to move it to another device.
- Price: Free (Ad-supported)
- Requirements: Android 6.0 or later
- Download Link: Google Play
Pedometer King
Pedometer King is a battery-friendly solution to count steps on Android devices. Instead of GPS, it uses your phone’s accelerometer, a method which significantly conserves power. The app requires to manually start tracking your walks and offers the opportunity to pause and resume counting. The option can come in handy in certain scenarios, such as for instance to avoid counting steps while driving.
Pedometer King allows you to set daily and weekly step goals, analyze your daily, weekly and monthly totals and compare your activity trends. An interesting feature is the activity tracker, which clearly shows your walking, rest, idle or tilt data in percentages. The app is also equipped with a series of eye exercises to combat eyestrain symptoms. If you opt to sign in with your Google account, you can additionally access the Achievement and Leaderboard options and see your ranking based on your step count.
- Price: Free (Subscription: $4.99/month)
- Requirements: Android 6.0 or later
- Download Link: Google Play
EasyFit Pedometer
This is a free step tracker app for Android that includes all its features in the free standard version. The app is, however, supported by ads, which can be intrusive at times. EasyFit Pedometer keeps track of your step count, distance, calories burned and active time and displays all the information through modern, animated stats. Additionally, it integrates a water tracker feature to help you remain hydrated and provides data regarding your BMI and weight loss progress.
EasyFit Pedometer motivates you to walk more by taking part in challenges grouped in three categories: Willpower, Consistency and Elite. The app rewards users who are physically active with various badges, saves your history and gives you the option to export it. There’s little impact on your phone’s battery, since EasyFit Pedometer uses the built-in sensors instead of GPS. The app offers customization options, including various themes, and provides a home screen widget to conveniently display the current step count and daily badge.
- Price: Free (Ad-supported)
- Requirements: Android 5.0 or later
- Download Link: Google Play
StepUp
StepUp is not your typical Android pedometer app. This one was conceived with the aim of making step counting a truly fun and social activity. The app gives you the possibility to invite your friends through Facebook and Google integration and start step challenges together. You can create and manage groups, see who’s taken the most steps and who is currently in the lead, compare your results with someone in particular and cheer, support or taunt one another.
StepUp uses Google Fit to track steps on your phone, but it can also retrieve step data from wearables and other apps. In that sense, you can sync it with Android Health Connect to read steps from Fitbit, Garmin, Xiaomi Mi Band, Oura, Samsung Health and other Wear OS watches. The app enables you to set a daily step goal and keeps you updated with your step count, distance, active and/or total calories burned. You can see your stats for the current day and yesterday, as well as averages for the last week and month.
- Price: Free
- Requirements: Android 8.0 or later
- Download Link: Google Play
Pedometer by REPS
Pedometer by REPS is a simple solution to count steps on Android. It doesn’t have the most comprehensive list of features, but it provides all the basic elements you need in order to monitor your walking activity. The app uses your phone’s motion sensors to record your movement and displays the number of steps, calories burned, distance covered and active time. You can see totals and averages for each day, week and month, as well as your best day since you started tracking.
Pedometer by REPS allows you to set a daily step goal, to add/remove steps for a specific date, to pause or reset step counting. To encourage you to walk more, the app enables you to unlock various achievements, such as Conqueror for walking 10,000 steps or Warrior for reaching your target three days in a row. Pedometer is free to use, but it’s supported by advertising. The ads can be invasive, too long at times and disrupt the tracking experience.
- Price: Free (Ad-supported)
- Requirements: Android 5.0 or later
- Download Link: Google Play