Steps sync in the background, so nobody has to remember to log anything. Start a competition, send the link, and let the leaderboard do the arguing.
Your iPhone is already counting your steps. Lockstep puts the number on a leaderboard and lets someone beat you.
Start a competition with friends, send them a link, and walk. Steps sync in the background, so nobody has to remember to log anything.
HOW IT WORKS
- Sign in with Apple, pick a username, connect Health.
- Start a competition: a week, a month, a custom range, a head-to-head, or a race to a step target.
- Send the link. Whoever opens it is one tap away from joining.
- Steps sync in the background. The leaderboard updates itself.
- See what it takes: how far you are from the next place and from first, and how many steps a day would close the gap.
- Leave a note on your row - it disappears after 24 hours. Take a rest day and say so.
FIVE WAYS TO RUN A COMPETITION
- Weekly — Monday to Sunday. Most steps win.
- Monthly — a calendar month. Most steps win.
- Custom range — any two dates you choose.
- Head-to-head — exactly two people, shown as a duel.
- Race to target — first to reach a step target wins.
IT READS ONE THING
Lockstep asks Apple Health for permission to read your daily step total, and nothing else. Not routes, not locations, not workouts, not heart rate, not the time of day you walked. It requests no permission to write at all, so it cannot add, change, or remove anything in Health. The number in Lockstep matches the number in the Health app because it is the same number — counted once, after Health removes the double-counting between your iPhone and any watch or ring.
WHAT IT DOES NOT DO
- No ads, no tracking, no analytics, and no third-party SDKs.
- Nothing sold to anybody.
- No public profiles and no feed. Your steps are seen by the friends you add and the people in your competitions — nobody else.
- Blocking somebody hides each of you from the other straight away. In a competition you already share, you both still count, so rankings mean the same thing to everyone.
WHEN A DAY IS WRONG
Type it in by hand. Manual entries are marked as manual, and everyone in the competition can see which is which. The leaderboard is only worth having if it is honest.
DELETING YOUR ACCOUNT
Profile → Delete account. Your steps, notes, and photo are deleted, and your name and picture are removed from everything. Competitions you already finished keep their results, and you'll be shown as a former member.
Privacy policy: https://locksteptracker.app/privacy.html
Questions: support@locksteptracker.app — a person reads it.
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• What it takes: on a running competition, see how far you are from the next place and from first, and about how many steps a day would close the gap - or hold your lead.
• Archive finished competitions: swipe one left on your list, or tap Archive on its page. They're kept under Archived competitions, and a swipe brings one back.
• Your step history now reaches back to 1 January, so your chart, streak, and best day cover the whole year. If a day looks wrong, "Resync this year's steps" in Profile re-reads it all.
• Works with VoiceOver and Voice Control throughout.
• Larger Text: rows reflow at the biggest sizes instead of cutting off names.
• Higher contrast text, bigger tap targets, and support for Reduce Motion, Reduce Transparency, and Smart Invert.
• Offensive words are kept out of notes, names, and competition names.
• Screens show a spinner while they load, and a Try again if something can't load - never a blank screen.
• Pull to refresh updates the whole screen, drafts included.
• Competition names can be up to 40 characters, with a counter as you type.
• Adding a friend is easier to find on the Friends tab and in a draft, and the search box is ready as soon as it opens.
• A roomier note editor, a cleaner Friends board, and a streak calendar that starts on Sunday.
• Fixes: syncing no longer reports a failure when you pull to refresh or switch tabs, a finished competition can no longer be pinned, draft pages scroll smoothly, sharing a result is faster, finished weeks are filed under Finished, reports tell you they were sent, and a streak with no days shows 0.
Version 1.0.2
The developer, Candee Generations, LLC, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
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The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
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Information
Seller
Candee Generations, LLC
Size
11 MB
Category
Health & Fitness
Compatibility
Requires iOS 26.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 26.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 26.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.