Pedometer++

Description of App

Take advantage of the step counting capabilities in your iPhone to improve your health. Pedometer++ lets you easily keep track of your daily and weekly step counts, without any impact on your battery life. You can view your progress each day from either the iPhone app, Today View widget or Apple Watch app.

You can also set the app to dynamically show your current step count as the applications badge. This will update dynamically throughout the day.

** Requires an iPhone 5s, iPhone 6 or iPhone 6 Plus **

For best results make sure that you keep your iPhone on you as you move throughout the day, ideally in a trouser pocket close to your hips.

Pedometer++ integrates with the Health app in order to collect and display data collected by your Apple Watch. It can display your step count, walking distance, active calories and heart rate data.

Version

2.4.1

Free or Paid

Free

watchOS Version

3.0

Accessibility Comments

Most buttons are clearly labeled, and the app is easy to use. You can easily access your steps and distance by adding this app to the complications.

Usability

Mostly Accessible

Other Comments

It is a very simple pedometer app, and all of the necessary bottoms are labeled☆

Recommendations

1 people have recommended this app

Most recently recommended by mr grieves 7 months 2 weeks ago

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Comments

By Sounds2Good on Sunday, October 23, 2016 - 11:46

I have tried another, admittedly more complicated fitness app, which wouldn't give me current step counts unless background refresh was enabled in settings. I don't want to enable this because I don't want apps to update automatically on my iPhone.

Thanks.

By Seanoevil on Sunday, October 23, 2016 - 11:46

Hi
I am a bit confused. This seems to be an Apple Watch App but then the description states:
"For best results make sure that you keep your iPhone on you as you move throughout the day, ideally in a trouser pocket close to your hips."
If I need to keep my iPhone on me, with it's own inbuilt motion tracking chip, why do I need my Watch? Does this App collect data from the Watch itself or is the watch act merely as a handy display?

Regards,

@SeaNoEvil00

By Troy B on Tuesday, May 23, 2017 - 11:46

I've been using this app for a few weeks on my iPhone 7. In the app description it mentions counting steps and calories burned, but if that part is accessible what do I need to do to see how many calories I burn when I walk for exercise?

Yes, you can see that burn calories in the healthcare app. First grant access to the app in the settings. After that you can go to the health care app and check out your daily steps, burnt calories, and the, distance data.

My iPhone's language is set to Japanese, so I don't know if it would be the same with yours.
On my iPhone 7, I can show the active calories and total calories in the "Today" tab, below "Activity". I'm sorry if this doesn't solve the problem.

By Derek on Wednesday, June 23, 2021 - 11:46

I can’t get the complication to read out steps. Visually it shows the number of steps, but voiceover only reads out the number zero

I think it's because the app doesn't refresh fast enough. If you double tap on the complication and open the app, then return to the watch face, that should force it to update.

I found that the app does update periodically, but doesn't update if you bring VO focus on the complication.

By DPinWI on Wednesday, June 23, 2021 - 11:46

I too have the zero step count, even though it tells me an accurate percentage complete.

Tapping through the complication shows the step count, but returning to the watch face and looking at the complication, I still hear "zero steps."

By mr grieves on Tuesday, April 9, 2024 - 11:46

I heard about this on Double Tap so thought I would give it a try as I always found it a little frustrating that my step count was so buried. And now I can easily see my steps and distance as a complication on the watch. As far as I can tell so far, everything seems very accessible on watch and phone. Only want it for this small thing which should be on the watch anyway but it seems to be doing a good job. And nice I can easily see my steps for the last few days. Well, maybe, but now I feel a bit step shamed.

There seem to be a number of advanced features like being able to track workouts or plot routes and so on. Not sure I need a different way of working out than on the watch, unless this is for someone who only has the phone.

All in all, seems decent.