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.

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.

A step tracker for iPhone that keeps it simple.

Q: Can I use miles instead of kilometers?

Yes. Choose metric or imperial units in Preferences.

Stride is a step tracker and step counter app for iPhone. It shows your daily steps, walking and running distance, and estimated calories against a daily goal you set, using movement data from Apple Health.

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Stride step tracker home screen showing today’s steps, distance and calories

How to track your daily steps with Stride

Download Stride from the App Store.
Allow access to Apple Health so Stride can read your steps and distance.
Set a daily step goal that suits you.
Open Stride to see today’s steps, or switch to this week, this month, or any selected day.

Why use Stride as your daily step counter

Steps, distance and calories

Your totals reflect what your iPhone measures, measured against a goal you choose.

Today, week, month

Look back at any day, or zoom out to the week or month to see your pattern.

Kilometers or miles

Choose metric or imperial units in Preferences.

Friendly motivation

Add friends and compare steps in rankings for today, this week and this month.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best way to count steps on iPhone?

Your iPhone already measures steps through Motion & Fitness and Apple Health. Stride reads that data and presents it as a simple daily step counter with a goal, so you don’t need extra hardware.

Is Stride a free step counter?

Yes. Tracking daily steps, distance and calories is free. Stride Pro adds extras such as unlimited walk and run recording and premium shoes.

Can I set a daily step goal?

Yes. You set a daily goal and Stride measures your steps against it.