Stride

What's inside 🚶 Counting that actually works A foreground service keeps counting with the screen off and survives a reboot. The hardware counter does the work in silicon, so the battery cost is close to nothing.

📊 A dashboard worth opening A wavy ring that fills as you walk, an odometer that rolls digit by digit, and distance, calories and active minutes underneath. Distance uses a stride length calibrated from your height (with a manual override), not a guess.

⚖️ You choose which source to trust A phone in a pocket under-counts against a watch on a wrist; a phone with Google Fit writing beside it can double-count the same walk. Rather than guess, Stride puts Step source in Settings — Automatic, this phone, or Health Connect — and shows both of today's counts side by side, so you pick between two real numbers.

🔄 Health Connect, both ways Stride reads from Health Connect, and can write back to it. Write-back is off by default; turn it on and your steps, distance and calories reach your other health apps. Calories are filed as active, never total, so they can't inflate anyone else's figures.

📅 History at a glance A weekly bar chart and a monthly calendar heatmap, with any day tappable for the detail.

🏅 Streaks and 14 achievements Each a morphing Material shape rather than another gold star — from First Steps to Millionaire at 1,000,000 lifetime steps.

🔔 Live Updates on Android 16 A promoted ongoing notification puts your progress in the status bar. Support is patchy across manufacturers, so Stride tells you honestly whether your ROM renders it — and falls back to its own island-style overlay when it doesn't.

🖼️ Share cards, three ways Renders your day as a Story (1080×1920), Post (1080×1350), or Square (1080×1080) image, gradient and all, ready for wherever you post things.

🎨 Theming, seriously Light, dark, system, or pure-black AMOLED. Material You wallpaper colours. Four hand-tuned palettes, five colour styles, and seven bundled variable fonts you can actually tell apart.

🧩 A home-screen widget Four sizes, from a two-cell strip to a tile carrying the week's bars. Steps, goal progress, distance and calories, drawn in your palette and your light/dark setting, and it opens the app when tapped.

💾 Backups that are just a file Everything exports to a single JSON you can read, keep, and import on another phone. No cloud in the middle.

🔄 Built-in updater Checks GitHub Releases on your own schedule — daily, weekly, monthly, or manual — with an in-app changelog dialog. No Play Store dependency. Builds installed from Google Play leave this out and update through the store instead, as Play requires.

🌐 8 languages English, Arabic, German, Spanish, French, Hindi, Portuguese, and Russian, with an in-app l