Pedometer for M7/M8/M9 - Steps with Widget +4

I needed a simple pedometer app to track all of my daily steps while my iPhone 5s lives in my pants pocket. This one works. It reads motion data stored continuously by iPhone in the background, so the app doesn't need to be running and it doesn't use additional battery power. Also the 5s keeps 7 days of motion history, so as soon as you install Steps it can tell you how many steps you've taken each day for the 7 days prior to installing this app.

I tested the accuracy briefly by walking up and down the hall with the phone in my pocket. It was spot on. Don't yet know about erroneous steps counted while sitting or driving.

This is a no frills app. There's not much to customize. All you get is a step counter and daily/weekly totals. You can remove the ads by paying $2, which I did to support the maker of this app. I would recommend this to anyone with an iPhone 5s who needs a simple accurate pedometer and would rather not carry yet another device.

I'm so happy I found this app! I love how simple it is. This is the app Apple should have included with the 5s to show off the new M7 chip. Now I totally understand how useful it is.

This app doesn't need to be running and takes no power. It just reads the data from the chip. I got a history of several days steps on the first day I installed!

This app relies on the M7 coprocessor to track steps, which means the app doesn't need to be open or using battery to track steps. The downside is that it will only work with devices that have the M7 chip, like the iPhone 5s. The step counting is fairly accurate and it will display the data in a graph form if you want, also. The reason I gave it only four stars is that it seems text in the app has been translated into English… poorly. Sometimes it's hard to understand what the app is telling you, but those moments are rare.