Gait
Free
- Today's steps as a trail that fills toward your goal
- Distance, walking speed, cadence and floors climbed
- Pick a daily goal: 5,000, 8,000, 10,000 or 12,000
- One source, so one number
Steps, counted on your iPhone.
One source, one number, nothing to reconcile. No Health permission, no account, no ads.
No Health permission
Gait reads the motion sensor in your iPhone. It never asks for access to Health, because it never needs it.
No account
Nothing to sign up for and nothing to sync. Your steps stay on your phone.
No ads
Free, and free of everything that usually comes with free. There is a tip jar if you want one.
Two apps
Gait counts. Gait Pro explains. They share a look, a trail and a step counter; what differs is how far back you can see, and whether you want to know how you walk rather than just how much.
Gait Pro
$4.99, bought once
- The eight walking measurements Apple Health records
- Thirty days of history for each, with the noise marked
- Your steps by week, month, quarter or year
- Everything on your device, nothing sent anywhere
How you walk
Your iPhone and Apple Watch already measure eight things about the way you walk. Apple Health records them and rarely explains them. Gait Pro groups them by what produces them, so when something is missing you learn what to do about it instead of staring at an empty chart.
Walking pattern
Measured by your iPhone
Walking speed, step length, walking asymmetry and double support. Measured during steady walking on flat ground, so they need the phone in a pocket.
Balance
Measured by your iPhone
Apple's walking steadiness, reported with Apple's own OK, Low and Very Low labels. It needs about two weeks of walking before it appears.
Endurance
Measured by your Apple Watch
Six-minute walk distance: Apple's estimate of how far you could walk on flat ground in six minutes.
Stairs
Measured by your iPhone
How fast you climb a flight and how fast you come back down, recorded when you take the stairs with your phone in a pocket.
Apple publishes how small a change each of these can reliably detect. Gait Pro shades that range on every chart and says plainly when a month's variation falls inside it, so you are not reading meaning into noise.
Nothing leaves your device
Neither app has an account, a server or an analytics SDK. Gait has no HealthKit entitlement at all, so it could not read your health data even if it tried. Gait Pro reads the measurements Apple Health has already recorded, on your device, and writes nothing back.
Gait Pro reads and visualises measurements taken by Apple Health. It does not measure anything itself. It is not a medical device and does not diagnose anything. Talk to a doctor before making decisions about your health.