You can swipe left and right to see other days, but none of the data in this view is interactive-that is, tapping on it doesn’t show you any other info. The Steps tab shows you a step count for the day, for the week, and the month, in black text on a white background. I was initially attracted to Pedometer for M7 – Steps for its incredibly clean interface. The day I used all the apps at once, you can see how the iPhone 5s apps that use the M7 data had similar (sometimes identical) step counts, and the iPhone 4s apps lagged behind. Oh, and a few charts to give you a side-by-side comparison of the step data. Here’s the breakdown of each app’s features and flaws. Then I took (a lot) of walks, including a few where I literally counted each step in order to compare results. Apple’s M7 processor, currently in the iPhone 5S, iPad Air, and iPad mini with Retina display, collects data from the device’s sensors (accelerometer, gyroscope, and compass) and then provides that data to the apps.īut how accurate is an M7 processor at counting steps? To find out, I downloaded six popular step-counting apps on both an iPhone 5s and an iPhone 4s, and then carried both phones to track my steps over a few weeks. Add to that list “count my steps,” as newer smartphone models often double as fitness trackers.īoth Apple and Samsung have recently added hardware to their smartphones to help leverage the dozens of fitness apps available in their app stores. Now that smartphones have supplanted everything from compasses and Rolodexes to voice recorders and watches, we rely on them to do dozens of things. It seems really weird to think back to a time when your mobile phone couldn’t do the jobs of a dozen other devices.

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