Steps Widget & Smart Nudges4.7 - App Store

You spend most of your day sitting. You know walking is good for you, but between work, meetings, and life, it’s easy to forget. And most fitness apps ask for a big commitment: workout plans, memberships, calorie counting.

Steps Widget asks for much less. It puts your step count where your eyes already go, on your Home Screen, Lock Screen, and StandBy, and gives you a gentle nudge only when you’ve been sitting a little too long. Not every hour. Not on a fixed schedule.

A few hundred extra steps here and there soon become part of your day, and those small moments add up. You don’t need to become a different person. Just move a little more today than yesterday. That’s how healthy habits begin.

DESIGN IT YOUR WAY
A step counter you find ugly ends up on page three, and a buried reminder is no reminder. The style editor lets you pick colors, gradients, and layouts, give light and dark mode their own look, and save your favorite styles to reuse on any widget.

NEW: STYLE FROM A PHOTO
Pick a photo you love. Steps Widget can pull a matching color palette from it, or place the photo right behind your step count. Drag and pinch to frame it, then adjust blur and tone.

THE SMART NUDGE
When glancing isn’t enough, Nudge steps in. Instead of an hourly buzz you’ll mute within a week, it learns your routine right on your device and shows up once, only when you’ve actually gone still. One nudge, when it’s earned, and nothing otherwise.

KEY FEATURES
. Beautiful Widgets: For Home Screen, Lock Screen, and StandBy.
. Style Editor: Colors, gradients, and light and dark looks, saved as your own styles.
. Photo Styles: Turn any photo into a palette or a widget background.
. Smart Nudges: Learns your routine and alerts you only when you’re inactive, not on someone else's schedule.
. Standalone Apple Watch App: Runs on its own, with complications, progress rings, and move reminders on your wrist.
. Guilt-Free Tracking: No streaks to lose, no maps, no noise. Just a clean step counter.
NO GPS. BARELY ANY BATTERY.
Your iPhone already counts steps with its built-in motion sensors through Apple Health. Steps Widget simply shows that data-no background GPS location tracking, no constant polling, no battery drain.

PRIVATE BY DESIGN
Your health data stays on your device. The app collects no personal identity information.

FREE TO START
Default widget styles and goal reminders are free. A subscription is only needed when you want to change your style with the style editor or photo styles.

See your steps, get a gentle nudge. Move a little more every day.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Can I set my own daily walking goal?
Yes. Pick the number of steps a day that suits you, and the progress ring fills as you walk toward it.

Can it remind me to move if I've been sitting too long?
Yes. With the Nudge feature, Steps Widget nudges you when you've been still for a while or you're falling behind your daily goal.

Do I need an Apple Watch?
No. Steps Widget works on iPhone alone using Apple Health step data. With an Apple Watch you also get complications and move reminders on your wrist.

Does it show steps in StandBy mode?
Yes. Turn your charging iPhone sideways and your step count and progress ring appear in StandBy.

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Version History Compare steps with friends in Messages.

Start a step ranking in any chat. Each person adds today's steps with a tap, and the board updates as it is passed along. Nothing is uploaded: the ranking lives in the message itself.

Also in this update
• One place to share: your widget picture and your style card now sit side by side, with an option for a transparent background
• Layouts that adapt to iPhone Duo

Steps Widget is made by one person, and I read everything that comes in. If something isn't working, or there's a widget style or a feature you wish existed, there's a way to reach me in Settings under About. 4.7 1d ago Steps Widget on your Apple Watch.

If you have an Apple Watch without the app, Settings now shows you how to get it: see your steps on your wrist and add complications to your watch face.

Also in this update
• A reminder when you share a style to send the original image, since apps that resize pictures can lose the style or your message
• Fixed gradient styles showing as one flat color on widgets

Steps Widget is made by one person, and I read everything that comes in. If something isn't working, or there's a widget style or a feature you wish existed, there's a way to reach me in Settings under About. 4.6.1 5d ago Straighten and flip a photo style.

The photo editor gained the adjustments it was missing: rotate a crooked shot level, flip it horizontally or vertically, and the widget crops from the result.

Also in this update
• A shared style card now shows what's inside it — the photo, the framing and the colors — and you can add a short message before you send it
• The reminder editor shows the average steps that followed each falling-behind message, so you can see which wording actually gets you moving
• Your goal-reached note arrives even when the app hasn't been opened all day
• A note on the home screen when iCloud is full, since settings and reminder wording can't sync until there's room

Steps Widget is made by one person, and I read everything that comes in. If something isn't working, or there's a widget style or a feature you wish existed, there's a way to reach me in Settings under About. 4.6 Oct 3 Write your own reminders.

Every goal reminder can now be rewritten in your own words — the nudge when you're behind, the note when you're ahead, the cheer when you reach your goal. Placeholders fill in your numbers, and sections with several messages rotate so the nudges don't repeat. Where Apple Intelligence is available, you can also describe a voice — a sports coach, a witty friend — and have your messages restyled.

Also in this update
• Share a photo style as a card; opening it in Steps recreates the style
• Ask Siri or Shortcuts for your steps over a day, week, month or year

Steps Widget is made by one person, and I read everything that comes in. If something isn't working, or there's a widget style or a feature you wish existed, there's a way to reach me in Settings under About. 4.5 Sep 26 Photo backgrounds are easier to read.

On a photo background, the chart, progress bar and smaller labels now use the same color as your step count instead of a faded shade of it, so they stand out against the picture just as clearly. Photo styles you've already saved pick this up the next time you edit them.

Steps Widget is made by one person, and I read everything that comes in. If something isn't working, or there's a widget style or a feature you wish existed, there's a way to reach me in Settings under About. 4.3.1 Sep 19 Setting up Steps Widget is simpler.

New installs now start with a short three-step guide: connect Apple Health, turn on goal reminders, and you're ready to go.

Also in this update
• Send feedback by email right from Settings

Steps Widget is made by one person, and I read everything that comes in. If something isn't working, or there's a widget style or a feature you wish existed, there's a way to reach me in Settings under About. 4.3 Sep 18 Framing a photo feels steadier.

In the photo editor, dragging and pinching now work together without the picture jumping, and zooming keeps whatever sits in the middle of the widget in place.

Also in this update
• Duplicate for This Widget now always makes a separate copy of the style
• Deleting a style only resets the widgets it was saved to
• Photo styles are marked in the style picker, so they're easy to spot

Steps Widget is made by one person, and I read everything that comes in. If something isn't working, or there's a widget style or a feature you wish existed, there's a way to reach me in Settings under About. 4.2 Sep 16 Share a photo style, and the photo comes with it.

When the widget you share is wearing one of your photo styles, the rest of the picture now spreads out around it, so the card reads as one photograph instead of a widget on a blank background.

Also in this update
• Swapping a style's photo keeps the framing and adjustments you already made
• Pinch to zoom works on iPad as soon as a photo opens
• Photo styles sync their pictures to your other devices more reliably
• Large photos keep more of their detail, and zoom in further

Steps Widget is made by one person, and I read everything that comes in. If something isn't working, or there's a widget style or a feature you wish existed, there's a way to reach me in Settings under About. 4.1 Sep 13 Make a widget style out of one of your photos.

Pick a picture and Steps builds a style from it: either a palette drawn from its colors, or the photo itself behind your step count, framed how you like. Saved styles go to a library you can come back to and edit, and they follow you to your other devices along with the pictures.

Also in this update
• The app icons have been redrawn
• Accent colors are corrected for contrast, so the numbers stay readable on any style
• You can write your own caption when sharing a widget
• Custom colors no longer reset your Apple Watch widget styles

Steps Widget is made by one person, and I read everything that comes in. If something isn't working, or there's a widget style or a feature you wish existed, there's a way to reach me in Settings under About. 4.0 Sep 8 Reminder messages are now translated into six more languages.

The new reminder wording added in the last update was still appearing in English. It now shows in German, Spanish, French, Japanese, Portuguese, and Chinese.

Also in this update
• Fixed a button on the goal card that could be hard to read with some widget colors

Steps Widget is made by one person, and I read everything that comes in. If something isn't working, or there's a widget style or a feature you wish existed, there's a way to reach me in Settings under About. 3.10.1 Aug 29 Widgets keep up with you better.

Every widget on screen now shares a single reading instead of each fetching its own.

Also in this update
• Steadier complications on Apple Watch
• Chart gridlines line up with the clock in Last 24-Hour mode

Steps Widget is made by one person, and I read everything that comes in. If something isn't working, or there's a widget style or a feature you wish existed, there's a way to reach me in Settings under About. 3.10 Aug 27 Widgets keep up with you better.

Every widget on screen now shares a single reading instead of each fetching its own.

Also in this update
• Steadier complications on Apple Watch
• Chart gridlines line up with the clock in Last 24-Hour mode
• A new iMessage sticker icon

Steps Widget is made by one person, and I read everything that comes in. If something isn't working, or there's a widget style or a feature you wish existed, there's a way to reach me in Settings under About. 3.9.2 Aug 24 Hit your goal, and the nudging stops.
When your steps cross your daily goal, that day's reminder arrives as a
congratulation instead of a nudge — and it's the last you'll hear from it
until tomorrow.
Also in this update
• A refreshed app icon
• Goal reminders now count the steps your iPhone has sensed but Health
hasn't synced yet, so they stop nudging you when you've already walked
• Fixes across the app, widgets and Apple Watch
Steps Widget is made by one person, and I read everything that comes in. If
something isn't working, or there's a widget style or a feature you wish
existed, there's a way to reach me in Settings under About. 3.9.1 Aug 20 Goal reminders learn better, and now they share what they learn.

The model behind your reminders reads the last 24 hours as a rolling window and works forward hour by hour, instead of guessing your total in one jump. It picks up daily, weekly and monthly patterns, and keeps adjusting as your routine moves.

It also travels. Your iPhone and Apple Watch now share a single model through iCloud, so whichever device does the training, the other gets the result — instead of each one learning you separately.

Also in this update
• Settings shows when your model was last updated, and lets you reset it
• The style picker now says which widget suits the way you read your day
• Fixes across the app, widgets and Apple Watch

Steps Widget is made by one person, and I read everything that comes in. If something isn't working, or there's a widget style or a feature you wish existed, there's a way to reach me in Settings under About. 3.9 Aug 18 Your widget can now show the hours you stood.

When your Apple Watch is recording stand hours, they appear as a row of dots under the chart — one for every hour, filled in for the ones you got up. A glance now shows not just how far you walked, but how the day was spread out.

Also in this update
• Steps Widget works without Health access: if you'd rather not connect the Health app, your steps can come straight from your iPhone's motion sensor instead
• The chart moves instead of jumping — the line and the hours animate as your steps come in
• Fixes across the app, widgets and Apple Watch

Steps Widget is made by one person, and I read everything that comes in. If something isn't working, or there's a widget style or a feature you wish existed, there's a way to reach me in Settings under About. 3.8 Aug 12 A small fix-up release.

Steps Widget is made by one person, and I read everything that comes in. If something isn't working, or there's a widget style or a feature you wish existed, there's a way to reach me in Settings under About. A good part of this app started as someone else's suggestion. 3.7.1 Aug 10 This one is a round of polish.

• Start of Day is easier to find, and now says what it does — steps before it count toward yesterday
• A new Guide link in Settings opens the full documentation
• What a one-time widget purchase includes is spelled out more clearly: design your widget once, and pay again only if you want a new look
• Fixes and refinements across the app, widgets and Apple Watch 3.7 Aug 5 Insight

Every week, Steps Widget finds the one thing worth noticing in your last seven days — a personal best, a milestone crossed, your steadiest week yet, or the hour when you do most of your walking. One headline, one card, and the chart behind it.

Goal reminders that keep up with you

When your walking routine shifts, the widget lets you know, and your reminders retrain around your new hours.

Also in this release
• Fixed an issue that could prevent access to Health data
• A clearer explanation of one-time widget purchases, and yearly savings shown up front
• Refinements across the Apple Watch app and widgets 3.6 Aug 1 A bug-fix update, with thanks to everyone who reported these.

• Fixed an error some people saw when granting Apple Health access — the permission prompt now works reliably.
• Apple Watch: the Health access request and your step count load properly in the watch app again.
• Steps refresh right away when you reopen the app on iPhone or Apple Watch.
• Fixed the "time ago" label on widgets so the last-updated time stays accurate.
• Wording and translation polish in every language.

If Steps Widget has earned its spot on your Lock Screen, a rating or a short review really helps a small indie app get found. Something still off? Tell us in the app — tap "Could be better" when we ask how it's going, and describe what happened. Every report gets read. 3.5.1 Jul 26 New Features, Enhanced Tracking, and Smoother Performance

We updated the widget and tracking engine to make staying active effortless:

• NEW WIDGET DESIGNS: Customize your Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets with sleek color palettes and layout options.
• APPLE WATCH SYNC: Instant real-time step and distance synchronization between your watch and iPhone.
• SMART MOVE REMINDERS: Personalized sedentary alerts timed to help you reach your daily step goals.
• BATTERY OPTIMIZATION: Lower background power consumption for all-day pedometer tracking.

Enjoying Steps Widget? Please take a moment to leave a 5-star review on the App Store to support future updates. 3.5 Jul 24 Enjoying Steps Widget? A quick App Store review helps other walkers find us — thank you!

What's new:
• Smarter widget refresh — learns when you move and when you check, so your count stays fresh while saving battery
• Faster updates on Apple Watch while you're on the move
• Translation updates and small fixes 3.4 Jul 20 • New "Day Ends At" setting keeps after-midnight steps on the
previous day — perfect for night owls.
• Widgets & complications refresh smarter: fresher when you're
active, lighter on battery when you're not.
• Redesigned watch layout and hourly-tracking fixes.

Love the app? Please leave a rating or review — it really helps! 3.3.1 Jul 17 • New "Day Ends At" setting lets night owls keep after-midnight
steps on the previous day.
• Widgets and complications now refresh smarter — fresher when
you're active, lighter on battery when you're not.
• Redesigned watch layout and hourly-tracking fixes. 3.3 Jul 16 • Apple Watch: Goal reminders now run directly on your watch, so you'll get notified even when your iPhone isn't nearby
• Apple Watch: Unlock premium styles right from your wrist — purchases sync with your iPhone automatically
• iMessage: Redesigned share card with a cleaner activity ring look
• Widgets: The rectangular lock screen widget now shows your stand hours at a glance
• Widgets: New "last updated" display options (exact time or time ago)
• Improved translations across all supported languages
• Bug fixes and performance improvements, including a logging fix on Apple Watch 3.2 Jul 13 - Add more options for widget configuration.
- Add a monthly report.
- Add iMessage support. 3.1 Jul 11