Hello Steppinators! New: - Challenges. Pick a friend, pick a length and see who moves. Most steps, best goal percentage, or a shared target the whole group walks towards together. Anything from a single day up to a month. Finished ones stay in your archive so you can look up who won last summer. - Private nicknames and notes. Rename a friend to whatever you actually call them, and jot down who they are. Handy when you connect with someone on holiday and find yourself staring at the name a year later. Only you can see it. It follows you to your other devices. - A friendlier invite. Tap a friend's invite link and you get their name and avatar with a single Connect button, instead of a code to squint at. - Settings moved. They now live behind the gear on Home and the person icon on Friends. That freed up a tab, which Challenges promptly took. - Invite from the ranking. There is an invite button under the leaderboard now. With exactly one friend it also mentions that one more unlocks the podium. - Take back a request. A friend request you sent can now be withdrawn. Fixed: - Friends getting stuck out of sync. Two people could end up with one seeing a friendship while the other saw a request nobody could answer. The rules that decide who is connected now always reach the same answer on both phones. A test fails the build if that ever stops being true. - Removing a friend now clears both sides. Before this, the other person could be left with a pending row forever. Removing is also undoable for 15 minutes, in case of a misplaced thumb. - Notifications on all your devices. With an iPhone and an iPad, only one of them was getting friend requests and invites. Both do now. Happy Walking! The StrideWise Team

Hello Steppinistas! The Friends feature had been telling your friends how many steps you had taken at 7am and then going back to sleep for the rest of the day. This release wakes it up, and fixes the reason it was asleep. New: - A badge for friend requests. The Friends tab and the app icon now show how many people are waiting for an answer. It clears the second you accept or decline. - Old numbers admit they are old. If a friend's phone has been quiet for more than 12 hours, their row tells you when they last synced, instead of passing off a breakfast step count as tonight's. - Welcome back. Reinstall the app and StrideWise recognizes your profile before it asks for a name, then offers to keep the name and avatar you already had. Previously it handed you an empty field and a random avatar color, and then wrote both over your old profile. Fixed - Your steps reach your friends all day. The part of the app that wakes up when you walk was missing a permission and had been failing every single time, silently, for as long as the feature has existed. The daily 7am sync was doing all the work on its own. Your count now updates through the day, with the app closed, and your friends stop seeing your 7am total at dinner time. - Changing your goal changes your leaderboard. Your goal was recorded when you first created your profile and never looked at again. Friends were comparing you against a target you may have abandoned months ago. - Friends update when you open the app. Standings used to refresh only when you opened the Friends tab itself. - The goal hit rate survives the 1st of the month. It counted calendar months, so on the first of the month one good day read as 100 percent and one bad day as 0 percent. It now covers the last 30 days and says so on the card. - The Health setup screen gets to the point. iOS 27 asks how far back you want to share your data, and StrideWise needs all of it. The screen now walks you to "Full History" rather than leaving you to work it out after two paragraphs about magic calculations. - Tidier More tab. "Getting Started", "Contact Us" and "Common Questions" were the only entries in Title Case. The section headings were also inconsistent between languages, so German said "StrideWise" while English shouted "STRIDEWISE". - Room to breathe in onboarding. Skip and Customize sat almost touching the button above them, close enough to look like part of it. Happy Walking! The StrideWise Team

Hello Stepinators! New: - Friends. Add someone with a code or a link and your steps line up next to theirs on a shared leaderboard. Suddenly the evening walk has a point. - Pick your period: today, yesterday, this week, this month, or the whole year. Rank by steps, goal, or streak, depending on which one flatters you most. - A podium for the top three, because a plain list never made anyone walk further. - Your own profile, with a name, a colour, and an emoji that says more about you than you intended. - A friend code you can share as a link. Tapping it opens StrideWise, or the App Store if they have not seen the light yet. - The FAQ has a whole Friends section now, including why a friend sometimes shows a dash instead of a number. - "Suggest a feature" in the More tab, for the ideas you have been muttering at your phone. Fixed: - Percentages no longer round up. 9,966 steps against a 10,000 goal is 99 %, not the 100 % it used to claim. You were robbed of the truth, and possibly of 34 steps. - Relative dates now speak your language instead of quietly reverting to English. - The App Store is two words. It has always been two words. (inside joke) Happy Walking! The StrideWise Team

Hello Stepinators! Two things you never knew you needed: a podium for your best years, and an app that refuses to show you blank graphs even when HealthKit is having a moment. One of those is more glamorous than the other. Both made the cut. New: - OK, to call this "new" is a bit of an exaggeration... it's rather an addition than a new feature. A new FAQ answers the question iOS 27 will ask you (after it came out for everyone) during Health setup in StrideWise. Fixed: - Your steps are back. Again. A rogue data loading bug meant your weekly chart, streak dots, and goal calendar were mostly staring into the void. We thought we fixed it. We fixed it more now. :-D The app now cross-checks two independent data sources on every load, and if they disagree, it keeps your last good numbers instead of replacing them with nothing. Quiet, invisible, and the correct amount of paranoid. - The yearly ranking list now handles large font sizes without quietly giving up. Previously, "projected" would truncate to "proj…" and the step average would get crowded out. Now the layout gracefully wraps: average drops to its own line when things get tight, and the step total does the same. No more ellipsis shame. - Tapping "Buy me a coffee" used to skip straight to the thank-you screen without ever asking you for money. Generous of us, but not ideal. A stuck transaction from a previous session was being handed back as an instant success. It is cleared now, and your wallet is once again at risk. :-P Happy Walking! The StrideWise Team

Hello Stepionaires! This one is less "new shiny thing" and more "everything that was quietly annoying you, fixed." New: - The app now speaks your language. Literally. Switch between English, Deutsch, and Português (Brasil) live, inside the app, without touching the system settings. - Appearance, your way. Light, Dark, or the eternal "Auto" for the chronically undecided. Both new options live in the Settings section on the More tab. - The Hall of Fame got a glow-up. Your yearly ranking now has a proper podium: gold for first, silver for second, bronze for third. Because numbers on a list were never going to capture the drama of your best year. Sort by rank or by year, and the current year shows up as "projected" so you know what you are working towards. Fixed: - Your steps are back. A rogue data loading bug meant your weekly chart, streak dots, and peak walking hours were mostly staring into the void. That was not a zen feature. It is fixed. - Streak grammar lesson. When you had exactly a 1 day streak, the app called it "1 days." Embarrassing. It says "1 day" now. Your streak deserves respect. - Health access revoked, explained. If you accidentally told your phone StrideWise cannot see your steps, you now get a helpful screen explaining what happened and where to go fix it. Previously the app just silently showed zeros and hoped you would figure it out. - Pull down to refresh. You could always do this. Now the FAQ knows about it too. Happy Walking! The StrideWise Team

Hello, Step Nerds! Buckle up, because this is without a doubt the biggest, most massive update to the StrideWise interface since the very beginning. We didn't just tinker with the gears; we did a complete ground-up overhaul of the entire experience. If you love tracking your progress, this one is a total game-changer. Here is what landed in this release: The Big Screen Update StrideWise is Now Universal StrideWise is officially a universal app, built from the absolute ground up for iPad alongside iPhone. iPad supports all four orientations, because you never really know which side is supposed to be up. Desktop Flair for Power Users Added pointer hover effects and keyboard shortcuts for iPad and Mac Catalyst users. You can now use Cmd+1 through Cmd+4 to switch instantly between the Home, Stats, Share, and More tabs, and Cmd+E to open the goal-change sheet directly from the Home tab. The Grand Redesign & Brand New Statistics Home View: Fully Reimagined The main screen has a completely fresh visual structure. You will find today's tally beautifully showcased with a brand new step-progress ring, a week-at-a-glance steps card with a detailed per-day breakdown, and sleek metric cards laid out perfectly to give you an instant snapshot of your day. Stats View: The Ultimate Dashboard for Step Nerds We threw out the old statistics page and replaced it with a gorgeous, card-based dashboard. We have packed this full of deep insights, fresh metrics, and charts that will make any data enthusiast incredibly happy. Here is what you can now dive into: - Today Overview: See exactly how your day is shaping up with a brilliant hourly breakdown chart. - Current Streak: Track your consistency with a dedicated streak display. - Goal Hit Rate & Calendar: Visualize your success with a hit-rate percentage and a beautiful heatmap calendar showing every single day you smashed your target. - When You Walk: A clever part-of-day breakdown showing whether you are a morning mover or a night owl. - Year to Date & Year Totals: Track your cumulative progress for the current year alongside complete historical totals. - Trend Summaries: New trend cards with visual pills that summarize your performance across this week, this month, and this year. - Year-End Prediction: A powerful forecast section that projects your total steps for the year based on your current averages (and, if available, compares it to previous years to show you the closest competitors to your current efforts). The Fixes & Polish Adios, Outdated Info Removed The outdated FAQ entry claiming StrideWise had no iPad app, since that is obviously no longer the case. A Touch of Breathing Room & Performance Boosts Added a touch of breathing room between the animated icon and the text on the loading screen, on both iPhone and iPad. It just looks a bit nicer. Coincidentally, we have also made the loading screen appear only when absolutely necessary. Most of the data updates and calculations now happen seamlessly in the background without you noticing, right until the fresh numbers pop up. Stay awesome and keep stepping! Happy Walking! The StrideWise Team

G'day, Stepinators! Small update this time. No big fanfare, no confetti cannon. Just three things that were a bit off, now fixed. Grab a flat white and read on. New — Stats tab picker labels are now localised T, W, M, J, 12M — finally. The D / W / M / Y / 12M range picker in the stats tab was stubbornly showing English abbreviations no matter what language your phone was set to. In German, "Tag" starts with T and "Jahr" starts with J — so showing "D" and "Y" was, frankly, a bit rude. The picker now shows the correct abbreviations per language. German gets T / W / M / J / 12M, Brazilian Portuguese gets D / S / M / A / 12M. All five are distinct in each language, so no more squinting at two tabs that look suspiciously identical. Fix — Stats tab now shows a loading screen Not just staring at the void anymore. The home tab had a lovely animated loading screen while your step data came in. The stats tab had absolutely nothing — just sat there in silence like it was having an existential crisis. Both tabs now show the same animated loading screen on startup. We pulled the loading view out of its home-tab corner, gave it a more sensible name, and put it to work on stats as well. Bout time. Fix — Link colours on the support screen Less "tap here to buy something", more "this is just a link, mate". The Terms of Use link and the Restore Purchases button on the support screen were rendered in the accent colour — a bright blue that made them look like they were desperately trying to get your attention. They now show up in black on light mode, white on dark mode, matching the rest of the app. They still work. They're just not yelling about it anymore. Stay on your feet. The StrideWise Team.

Greetings, Step Legends! Buckle up your sneakers, because StrideWise just went through a full-blown glow-up. We're talking complete rebuild, zero survivors from the old codebase. Our "engineers" basically Marie Kondo'd the entire app — if it didn't spark joy (or compile cleanly on iOS 26), it's gone. Here's what landed: The Big One: Liquid Glass Everything (I know, we are late to the game) We melted the app and poured it into something beautiful StrideWise now looks like it was designed by someone who actually has taste. We've embraced Apple's Liquid Glass design system, which means translucent layers, gorgeous depth, and the kind of UI that makes you want to take more steps just to look at the stats screen. You're welcome. New: Graph Views, Because One Size Fits Nobody Day • Week • Month • 12M • Y — pick your poison The stats page now lets you switch between five different graph views. Day for the obsessives, Week for the planners, Month for the big-picture thinkers, 12M for the annual scholars, and Y for people who like to feel good about January and then forget the rest. New: Tap a Bar, See the Number Revolutionary concept, we know Tapping (and holding!) on a bar in the graph now actually shows you the number for that bar. Clearly. Unambiguously. Not a refreshed average that makes you question reality. The number. The real one. For the bar you tapped. We're as proud of this as we are exhausted by the fact that it needed fixing. Under the Hood You won't see it, but you'll feel it The entire app was rewritten from scratch for iOS 26. Swift 6.2, modern concurrency throughout, zero legacy cobwebs, and enough architectural cleanliness to make a senior engineer weep with joy. The app is faster, leaner, and no longer held together by deprecated APIs and wishful thinking. Stay awesome and keep stepping! Happy Walking! The StrideWise Team

Greetings, Step-inators! Your trusty step-counting sidekick, StrideWise, just got a snazzy new upgrade. Our engineers have been toiling away like T-800s in the depths of Skynet, making sure your step-tracking journey is more accurate and enjoyable. Here's what's new in today's update: Annual Accuracy Overhaul: The Missing Day Mystery Solved! - We've unearthed a hidden bug (okay, no one noticed it) where the last day of the previous year wasn't counted in your step totals. Our bad! We've now fixed it, ensuring every single step, even those on December 31st, gets the recognition it deserves. Past Steps Spotlight: Yearly Comparison, Amplified! - Introducing some shiny new boxes that showcases your steps from every available years, going all the way back to the dawn of your step-tracking era. Just swipe horizontally on the stats page to relive your past glories—left to right, from the current year to the golden oldies. Streamlined, Sleek Stats: Cleaner Code, Leaner App! - We've tidied up our codebase, removing the digital cobwebs to ensure your StrideWise app is faster and more efficient. Think of it as giving your app a workout—leaner and meaner, just like your step count! Stay awesome and keep stepping! Happy Walking! The StrideWise Team

Greetings, Step Enthusiasts! We’ve been hard at work in the StrideWise lab, and we’re excited to bring you a fresh batch of updates. Prepare for a smoother, funnier, and more multilingual step-tracking experience! Here’s what’s new: New Features and Enhancements: Multilingual Marvel: • German Language Support • Jawohl! StrideWise now speaks German! Set your iPhone to Deutsch and enjoy tracking your steps in the language of poets and thinkers. Instant Step Refresh: • Get New Steps and Recalculate on Reopen • No more waiting around! When you reopen the app, it now magically refreshes your steps and recalculates your totals. Instant gratification for your walking stats! ^At least I hope it works instantaneously. Honestly, I haven’t done a single step as I’m implementing this feature. #teufelskreis Thank You! We hope you enjoy these updates as much as we enjoyed making them. Keep stepping, stay awesome, and don’t hesitate to switch to German for a bit of linguistic fun! Happy Walking! The StrideWise Team

Greetings, Step Enthusiasts! Today’s update brings you a bundle of delightful tweaks, ensuring your step-tracking journey remains as smooth as a freshly paved sidewalk. Here’s what’s new: New Features and Enhancements: Fancy Footwork for Reviews - Now, when you click on “Write a Review on the AppStore,” it magically whisks you away to our app’s review page in the App Store, ready for you to pen down those glorious words of praise. Bug Fixes: Tausendertrennzeichen Awesomeness - Numbers across the app will now display according to your region settings. Germans will see their beloved dots, and Americans will continue enjoying their commas. No more formatting faux pas! Usability Improvements: Guided Goal Setting - Not sure about your step goal? We’ve added a helpful (and humorous) fine print suggesting you start with any number and adjust it later. Find more about setting the right goal in our common questions section. User Interface Polishing: Sleeker Onboarding - The onboarding screen now gently encourages new users to set a step goal without feeling the pressure. Plus, it’s a bit more fun and inviting with a new placeholder and guidance text. Miscellaneous: Tidied Up Codebase - Cleaned up some unnecessary code snippets and improved performance behind the scenes. Your StrideWise app is now leaner and meaner! We hope you enjoy these updates as much as we enjoyed making them. Keep stepping and stay awesome! Happy Walking! The StrideWise Team