Counting your steps is a great way to hold yourself accountable, to find the motivation to stay active and reach new fitness goals. This will allow you to see the progress made in time and will most surely boost your self-confidence.
You can easily track your steps with the aid of your smartphone, which you have on you most of the time. Why spend extra money on a fitness tracker when you can simply download and install, free of charge, a pedometer app. Without further ado, here are some of the best apps you can get from the Google Play Store:
ActivityTracker
ActivityTracker is a step counter app for Android that offers everything you need. It comes with a modern, nicely-designed interface and has a minimum impact on your battery (no GPS). The app uses the built-in motion sensors to automatically record your movement and displays multiple fitness metrics: your step count, the distance walked, the active calories burned and the active time. You can set a personal weekly target for the metric that’s most relevant to your needs: steps, distance or calories.
ActivityTracker does a great job of providing info regarding your current and overall progress. You can see your activity on an hourly basis for the current day, but also analyze your results in time with daily, weekly and monthly stats available. The app offers various progress notifications, fully customizable widgets and a badge to see the number of steps directly on the app icon. Additionally you have the possibility to share your results with friends, import your historical data from Google Fit and save or transfer your fitness data to another device.
Pacer
Pacer is more than a simple step tracker app. This is rather an advanced tool designed to help you be more physically active, lose weight and improve your overall health. The app works as a classic pedometer and will automatically record your activity as long as you have your phone on you. If you want, you can additionally enable the GPS mode and track your outdoor walking sessions on a map.
Pacer gives you the possibility to create walking groups with friends and family, start competitions and motivate each other to take more steps and burn more calories each day. The app comes with a weight loss, BMI and calorie tracker and offers daily exercise plans based on your fitness level and health goal. You’ll benefit from detailed stats, charts and performance analysis and also be able to sync your activity data (steps and calories) with Fibit and Garmin.
Leap Fitness Step Counter
Step Counter by Leap Fitness Group is another alternative for tracking your daily physical activity. The app will start counting your steps once you hit the Start button and will allow you to pause, resume and even reset your daily steps. You can also edit the number of steps for the current day, a feature which may come in handy in certain scenarios.
Leap Fitness Step Counter tracks your walks and provides report graphs about your daily totals and averages, as well as your weekly and monthly history. The bonus is that it will monitor not only your walking activity, but also your water intake, weight and BMI progress. The app offers a widget for a quick glance at your progress and options to sync data with Google Fit and back up and restore your fitness data. It’s worth mentioning that the all above-mentioned features are 100% free (the app is supported by ads).
Pedometer by ITO Technologies
If you happen to be in the search of a simple solution to track steps on Android, this one is worth a try. Pedometer by ITO Technologies doesn’t come with advanced features like some of its competitors, nor the most appealing design. Instead, if you’re looking for a basic app that will efficiently monitor your walks without draining your phone’s battery, this is a suitable choice.
Pedometer places at your disposal several tracking modes (standard, energy-saving and hardware), based on your step accuracy/battery consumption preferences. You can manually start and stop a walking session or automate the process, as well as edit your step count for a certain date. The app will show daily, weekly and monthly totals for the steps, calories, distance, duration and speed and let you share your progress with others.
Samsung Health
Samsung Health is designed with a large variety of features to improve your overall health. Its main goal is to help you develop healthy habits and stick to them in the long run. The app gives you the possibility to track numerous physical activities, including daily walking, running and cycling. Samsung Health will automatically record your workout and allow you to add various health records directly on your home screen, including your step count and active time.
You can record your daily meals and snacks and gain insight into your nutrition. At the same time you’ll have access to guided fitness videos for stretching, building muscle mass and more. Besides physical activities, the app offers the opportunity to use meditation tools to relieve stress and to monitor your sleep patterns with the aid of the Galaxy watch.
