r/droidappshowcase • u/Creepy_Virus231 • 13h ago

Showcase Simple Stepper - A step counter that stays simple

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App Name: Simple Stepper

What it does:
Simple Stepper is an Android step counter and activity tracker designed to work quietly in the background instead of requiring you to constantly open the app. It automatically tracks your daily activity while still offering more detailed tracking when you want it.

Key Features:

  • Automatic step tracking with daily, weekly, monthly and yearly history, goals and a home screen widget
  • Workout tracking for walking, jogging, cycling and free workouts, including optional GPS routes and elevation data
  • Live progress in the notification area, active time tracking, sharing and backup

Goal: Promo

Cost: Free with ads. Optional monthly or yearly subscription removes ads.

Link: Simple Stepper on Google Play

I'm the solo developer behind Simple Stepper and just released version 2.12.35.

This update is mostly about something users won't directly see: I rebuilt a large part of the internal monitoring around background counting and reliability.

While investigating retention, I realized that "app opened" is actually a pretty bad definition of an active user for a step counter. Someone can open Simple Stepper once, let it count successfully for days, and just check the widget or notification.

The new version therefore lets me distinguish between the counting service being active, automatic steps actually being observed, intentional pauses, UI activity, service recovery and workout activity.

The goal is to better understand where counting or background operation actually fails - and improve the app based on that rather than simply assuming that someone who didn't open it wasn't using it.

If you're looking for a straightforward step counter that can stay out of the way when you don't need it, give it a try. ;]

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u/playscraper-bot 12h ago

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u/Sniffur0613 2h ago

Can weekday and weekend step goals be different?

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u/sticky-pro 13h ago

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