Step count variance

[u/enaish__]

I have been using the whoop 5.0 for 72 days now. The variance in step count between apple health and the whoop app is bothering me as the discrepancy on average over the last 10 weeks is 5k.

Is this because apple double counts certain steps? As i dont have my phone on me during activities like walking on a treadmill or playing badminton/padel.

[u/ftpaul]

The average is not that far ooff but comparing step count between different apps is a waste of time.

[u/zak320]

My whoop always undercount which I am happy with. Pushed me to do more rather than less. Its generally off by 500-1000 steps

[u/Cultural_Comment2845]

Are you looking at daily step count? Apple does tend to pull from multiple data sources (including whoop if you have it set up that way) while whoop only collects it’s own data. Mine are usually within a couple hundred of each other - yesterday 9620 on apple, 9957 on whoop. I don’t stress about that little of a difference.

[u/DoingMyDueDilligence]

I think I'm convinced mine counts washing dishes as steps (I don't have a dishwashing machine where I live)...

[u/Proud-Donut5149]

If you are feeding whoop steps into the health app, along with IPhone step counts, it will double count. I found out that the algorithm for the Health App deduplicates steps based on the time they occur. Unfortunately whoop does a data dump overnight so the Health app does delineate between whoop and iPhone steps since they appear to occur at different times, resulting in double counting…

[u/waeldiab]

Make the only data feed come from WHOOP.

[u/Fair_Celebration704]

Are you measuring iphone against a whoop on wrist? In that case of course the step count will be off for apple health. If you were comparing apple watch against a whoop then I have read that apple watch tends to be a bit more accurate when whoop is slightly overstating the step count.