Pedometer App StepCard Offers a Terrific Complication for Apple Watch

Are you looking for a good pedometer app? Pedometer++ is decent, although the small complication shows a visual representation of your progress instead of actual numbers. Heathview has the best looking and most useful pedometer complication, with the step count written out even in the small complication spot. However, it might be more app (and more money, at $.99) than some people need if they just want a simple pedometer app.

Enter StepCard, which is currently free on the App Store. When you first open the app, you get a dashboard which gives you more information about your daily progress. It shows your steps so far today, step goal, percentage to step goal you’ve met, yesterday’s steps, and your weekly average number of steps. Swipe to the next page to see your nine day history. Swipe again to the last page, which allows you to set up your step goal and complication style. This last page is actually where you want to start when you first download the app.

You have some options how you want to set up the complication. First, choose your step goal. Then choose how you want the complication displayed: Goal %, Steps, Text, or Combo. Frankly, the complication looks much the same regardless of how you set it up, you just get more detail (via a decimal point) if you choose the last option. At any rate, rather than writing out the whole number like Healthview does, StepCard just tells you how many thousands of steps you have taken if you use the small complication. In the Modular face photo above, in the bottom center spot, you can see it says 3.6. That means as of that moment, I’d taken roughly 3,600 steps. The circle around the number indicates the percentage of my goal I’ve reached so far.

If you can spare a larger complication for the app, you’ll get more detail, as you can see in my Minnie Mouse face above. You get the precise number of steps and the exact percentage of your goal you’ve hit.

What makes this app stand out is that the complication is updated more frequently than any other pedometer app I have tried. It’s not perfect, or live, but it’s the closest I’ve found. Grab StepCard while it’s free on the App Store now and try it for yourself.