Modern technology has made it truly easy to keep track of our physical activity and to stay in shape. Now we have not only smartphones at our disposal, but also our smartwatches to help us track a multitude of fitness metrics and reach our health goals.
If you’ve purchased a smartwatch that is running Wear OS, it’s good to know you can monitor your daily movement directly on your wrist. Depending on your wearable, you may find some preinstalled apps for that purpose. But if you really want to maximize your fitness tracking experience and enjoy additional features, it’s a good idea to try some third-party apps.
Without further ado, here’s a list of pedometer apps you can install on your Android Wear smartwatch to see how active you are:
ActivityTracker
ActivityTracker is a pedometer app for Android and Wear OS designed to track your daily activity. The app is simple to use and records automatically your movement without draining your battery, since it doesn’t use GPS. You can monitor various metrics, from your step count and distance to the calories burned and active time. To stay motivated, you have the chance to set a weekly target and see a daily goal based on that target. The good news is that you’re not limited to steps, you can also set your target for the distance or calories burned.
If you wish to analyze your walks directly on your wrist, ActivityTracker is available on Android Wear devices. The app offers various Complications for your Watch face and provides all the stats you may need. You can see your activity hour by hour, an overview of the day, as well as a summary of the last seven days. Additionally, ActivityTracker comes with completely customizable widgets and an app badge which shows the number of steps directly on the app icon. If you want to let others know about your achievements, you can easily share your daily progress on social media.
You can also import your data from Google Fit for an overview of your progress since the beginning.
- Price: Free (Subscription: $9.99/year)
- Download on Play Store
Google Fit
Google Fit comes standard with all Wear OS smartwatches using version 2.0 or higher. The app focuses on two main activity goals, which are designed to improve your overall health: Heart Points and Steps. You’ll get one heart point for a moderate-intensity activity like brisk walking and double points if you engage in a high-intensity activity, such as for instance running. Depending on your fitness level, you can set and adjust a daily goal for both Heart Points and Steps.
Google Fit is not restricted to walking and running. The app gives you the possibility to select the desired type of workout directly from your wrist. You can monitor diverse activities like cycling, pilates or rowing and see relevant statistics, including your heart rate, speed, pace or duration of your exercise. If you want to obtain more info regarding other health-related aspects, such as your nutrition or sleep, you can connect Google Fit with apps like Lifesum, MyFitnessPal or Sleep as Android.
- Price: Free
- Download on Play Store
Map My Walk
Map My Walk uses GPS to track and map all your workouts. And when we say all your workouts, we really mean it. This app is designed to monitor over 600 activities, including walking, running, gym training, riding your bike or yoga. Map My Walk offers a map of your route, which you can share with friends and followers, and allows you to discover new places to walk or run.
The app enables you to start, pause and stop a workout whenever you want and places at your disposal a wide array of customizable fitness metrics, which you can visualize on your smartwatch. These range from the duration of your walking session to your step count, pace, cadence, heart rate and elevation. With Map My Walk you have the opportunity to join a huge community of fitness enthusiasts and find the motivation to stay on track. You can enter friendly competitions, win prizes and share your accomplishments.
- Price: Free (Subscription: $5.99/month)
- Download on Play Store
Zombies, Run!
If you’re looking for a completely different approach to fitness tracking, then this is surely worth a try. Zombies, Run! is not your typical Android step tracker. No, this is an app developed to help you stay fit while getting away from fictional zombies. Once you hear the sound of these frightening creatures, it’s time to get moving. It doesn’t matter what exercise you do. You can go for a stroll in your neighborhood, run on the treadmill or jog in the park.
Zombies, Run! comes with over 600 missions, but only the first four are free to play. At the same time you can unlock one additional mission each week. For each mission you can visualize numerous fitness stats, both on your phone and smartwatch. You can see the distance covered, the total active time, the number of steps taken, your average pace, as well the number of essential supplies collected. The app provides a summary of your weekly, monthly and yearly activity and lets you share online your maps and stats.
- Price: Free (Subscription: $5.99/month)
- Download on Play Store
Outwalk
Outwalk is a Wear OS and Android step counter with a social twist. As opposed to other apps, which offers multiple stats, this one keeps track of two fitness metrics: the number of steps and the distance walked, jogged or ran. It’s worth mentioning that the app requires integration with Google Fit in order to gather fitness data from multiple sources, including third-party apps and wearables.
The fun part about Outwalk is tied to socialization. To make things more fun, you can invite your friends, enter step challenges, keep in touch through the built-in chat and see your position in the daily, weekly and monthly leaderboards. You can also unlock dozens of badges as you become more and more active. The app also enables you to move your data to another device through Facebook Backup.
- Price: Free (In-app purchases: $1.99)
- Download on Play Store
