Stride is a free iPhone app for tracking steps, recording walks and runs, and customizing your experience with collectible shoes, custom app icons, and Live Activities. It works with Apple Health.

Is there a step counter and daily step tracker in Stride?

Yes. Stride counts your daily steps and compares them with a goal you set, along with distance and estimated calories. You can see today, this week, this month, or any selected day.

How does Apple Health integration work?

With your permission, Stride reads relevant movement data from Apple Health, such as steps, distance, and workouts, so your totals reflect what your iPhone measures. Imported Apple Health workouts appear in your activity history, and heart rate shows on activities when it’s available. You can change access anytime in iPhone Settings.

Can I record walks and runs?

Yes. Start a walk or run, follow your distance, elapsed time, steps, speed, and elevation, and pause, resume, or finish whenever you like. Afterwards, review your route and stats. Free includes a limited number of recordings per day; Stride Pro makes recording unlimited.

Can I make a custom shoe in Stride?

Yes. With Stride Pro you can upload a photo of your shoe or paste a product link, and Stride creates a stylized custom shoe collectible. Name it, add it to your collection, and select it to track its mileage.

Can I customize my Live Activity?

Yes. Choose a design and one of seven colors for your Lock Screen and Dynamic Island. Stride Classic and Shoe Focus are free; Compact, Distance Focus, Stride Dashboard, Dashboard Minimal, and Shoe Spotlight come with Stride Pro.

How do AI shoe collectibles work?

Upload a photo of your shoe or paste a product-page link, and Stride creates a stylized collectible inspired by it. Name it, add it to your collection, and select it to track mileage. This requires Stride Pro, which includes 10 credits per paid subscription month. Generation runs on cloud services, not on your device.

What is included in Stride Pro?

Unlimited walk and run recording, every premium bundled shoe, premium themes, premium Live Activity designs, and AI shoe generation with 10 credits per paid subscription month. Some alternate app icons are marked Pro in the icon catalog. You subscribe and manage Pro inside the app.

Can I use miles instead of kilometers?

Yes. Choose metric or imperial units in Preferences.

Only people whose friend request you’ve accepted. If you choose to share, they see your activity totals — steps, distance, and calories — in rankings for today, this week, and this month. Friend activity syncs periodically, so rankings aren’t live. Friends require sign-in with Apple or Google.

Which permissions does Stride use?

Apple Health, to read relevant health and movement data. Location, to record your route during a walk or run. Motion & Fitness, for supported step and activity tracking. Notifications, only if you turn them on. Stride uses cloud services for your account, friends, and AI features.

Record a walk and see exactly where you went.

Stride lets you record a walk with GPS on iPhone. Follow your distance, elapsed time, steps, speed and elevation as you go, then review your route and stats when you finish.

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Stride recording a walk with live distance, time and route map

How to record a walk in Stride

Open Stride and start a walk recording.
Allow Location access so Stride can record your route.
Walk. Follow distance, time, steps, speed and elevation live, or glance at the Live Activity on your Lock Screen.
Pause or resume whenever you like, then finish the walk.
Review your route and stats in your activity history.

Why record your walks

Live stats

Distance, time, steps, speed and elevation while you move.

Your route on a map

See the path you walked after you finish.

Lock Screen Live Activity

Follow your walk without opening the app, in a design and color you choose.

Imported workouts too

Workouts from Apple Health appear in your activity history, with heart rate when available.

Frequently asked questions

Can I record a walk with Stride for free?

Yes. Free includes a limited number of recordings per day. Stride Pro makes walk and run recording unlimited.

Does Stride track my walking route?

Yes. With Location permission, Stride records your route during a walk and shows it on a map afterwards.

Can I pause a walk recording?

Yes. You can pause, resume, or finish a recording whenever you like.