Health, home and travel decision
Steps: Workout & Pedometer
A capable developer can reimplement a useful local step-and-workout tracker with route playback and basic on-device coaching, but replicating the app's polished cross-device UX, App Store presence, and global real-time leaderboard at scale is non-trivial.
View on the App Store↗Not priced
No pricing page we fetched carried a figure, so there is nothing to compare against. The build side is still real.
$100one-off120 h to build
$30/mo6 h/mo upkeep
No published price to break even against.
No open-source build does this yet
Nothing published replaces this one, so a replacement starts from an empty file. Here is what it would have to cover.
What a replacement has to do
- Collect step and workout data from Apple HealthKit and CoreLocation; persist workouts and stats locally; display interactive charts, calendar heatmap and widgets; record and replay GPS routes with 3D playback; provide simple on-device AI feedback (rule-based or using on-device ML).
What it still won’t have
- Polish and design-quality of the App Store release (icons, animations, theme variants)
- Mature Apple Watch complication design and store-grade widgets
- A built-in global leaderboard with real-time ranking and hosting/scale handled
- Any proprietary on-device AI sophistication the app ships with
- App Store presence, ratings, and existing userbase
What remains hard
- Brand trust
AS SEEN AT WWDC 2026
First-year cost
No published price
Steps: Workout & Pedometer does not publish a price we could read, so there is nothing to compare against. What building costs is below.
Money you would actually spend
Time you would spend
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What you would spend
What we assumed
The verdict above measures whether you could build it. This one is only about money.
Runnable build prompt
Build an iOS fitness tracker in Swift using SwiftUI + Combine, HealthKit, CoreMotion, CoreLocation and WatchKit; store workouts and step history in Core Data; include: HealthKit sync (steps, workouts, HR), live workout recorder (GPS, pace, elevation), GPX export, local 3D route playback, interactive charts and calendar heatmap, home widgets and a basic on-device AI Coach implemented as rule-based analysis or a small Core ML model; include a simple Node.js + Express backend with Postgres to host an optional global leaderboard (flat REST API: submit workout summary, fetch top N), and map tile usage via Mapbox (configurable key); explicitly out of scope: App Store release tasks, payment/subscription handling, and a production-scale real-time ranking system; require error handling for HealthKit/Location permissions, unit tests for data layer and workout recorder, and end-to-end tests for workout saving and GPX export.
How we checked
How the score was reached
- Partly verdict base52
- Evidence score52
The base comes from the verdict. Everything under it is a check that either happened or did not, and each one is a fact frozen in this record rather than a judgement made at render time - so the same evidence always produces the same number.
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Every page the run actually retrieved.
- official productSteps: Workout & Pedometer on the App Store
Integrity checks
What held up, and what did not.
