Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to iOS app to help me hit my daily step goals
In 2020, I started walking more and more. I was annoyed with having to constantly check my phone to see my step count and plotting a route that was sufficiently long enough. Over the next few weeks, I built Walking Route, which lets you generate a custom route of any length or quickly generate routes 5,000 steps or 10,000 steps in length. Plus, the route will always return you back to where you started from. I live in San Francisco and since it generates a new walking route every time, one of the unexpected consequences was that it helped me explore areas of the city I probably wouldn't have…
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. iOS app to help me hit my daily step goals launched in 2021; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Easily hit your 10K steps with our dynamic route generator
2021 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Walk Mate▲326Discover new walk paths while staying active.
Dec 2025 · walk-mate.app · its alternatives →
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Routeshuffle▲250Create random exercise routes, made by a 15 year old runner
2018 · routeshuffle.com · its alternatives →
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Step Journey▲164Where 10K steps unlock a piece of the world
2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Hey guys, I built a route planner that is mostly focused on bike touring and using existing bike infrastructure. For each request you're shown what bike tracks/trails your route uses and can further explore them by showing them on map or going to the official trail route. The main idea for the app is to have a friendly and easy to use planner that would make heavy use of official bike trails data (mainly from OpenStreetMap) and make it easy to plan a longer trip using the best possible bike routes out there. Currently the app only works for the Euro region but I'm planning to add North…
2024 · trailimap.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, I'm a solo developer and I built Steps: Workout & Pedometer, an iOS pedometer and workout tracker. Last week, two German iOS publications wrote about the app. I didn't pitch them. I didn't send a press release. I didn't even know it was happening. I woke up to a spike in downloads, checked the analytics, and traced it back to their articles. That coverage pushed the app past $1,000 in sales. I still have no idea how they found the app. I'm wondering if anyone here has experience getting featured in publications, whether organically or through outreach. What worked for you? Any tips…
Mar 2026 · getsteps.app · its alternatives →
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Gamified step tracker app, get motivated to walk every day
2024 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Hello HN, I made the web app that helps plan your routes/road trips. It has so many options that I don’t know how to explain in simple words :), so I’ll try like this. What is cool about it is that your routes are shareable and hackable. The routes come in the format ie. https://camptarget.com/London,Uk/Vienna,AT/Istanbul,TR/5h:6d, meaning we travel from London via Vienna to Istanbul, driving 5 hours daily while our total time budget would be 6 days. At given breakpoints (after 5 hours) we can explore the nearby locality in radius of some 30-40 miles, for…
2020 · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, My co-founders and I have been building GridTravel, a free iOS app for planning and sharing travel routes with turn-by-turn GPS nav. We just launched yesterday after App Store approval. We're three 21-year-old cofounders and best friends since middle school. We built GridTravel after years of frustration navigating new cities on every trip we took together. The idea: most people either search Google for "top 10 places to visit in…" lists or go on social media to get inspiration on where to go. GridTravel is built around user-generated routes — actual paths someone walked, that you…
May 2026 · gridtravel.app · its alternatives →
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Walk the World▲178Transform your daily steps into satisfying map milestones
2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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EarthQuest▲138Random adventure generator to motivate you to go outside
2022 · earthquest.net · its alternatives →
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Plan better walks, discover places along the way.
Jul 2026 · walkmodeapp.com · its alternatives →
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Simple, route-grouped workout tracking for runners n walkers
Jul 2026 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Disco Steps▲52A pedometer app to increase your walking mileage
2021 · codulis.com · its alternatives →
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The social step tracker that makes walking a daily habit
Dec 2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Shape Walk▲16Walk shapes to stay in shape: gamified fitness tracker
May 2026 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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See your steps clearly. Build better walking habits.
Dec 2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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