u/Creepy_Virus231

Greetings outdoors hikers and walkers!

I am an Indie Dev working on multiple projects (apps). My first one, Simple Stepper, a minimalistic step tracker just got a new feature:

• Vertical Distance Measurement: Workouts now offer the user to track also the vertical distance by using GPS or barometer (device dependent)

I added some screenshot for better understanding: The first screenshot is showing the height-profile of recorded track of a short workout. Above is the GPS tracked height-profile (blue) and and below is the barometer tracked height-profile (orange).

If you look closely you can see a little drift in the barometer track - which I have not fully solved yet. Below in the screenshot are the different timings of the track in- and excluding breaks basically, steps, active time, calories and horizontal distance + pace, speed and the promoted vertical distance.

The other screenshots are for better understanding and show the GPS tracked map of the same workout, the MainScreen with progress and "History Ring" and the HistoryScreen with the progress of all tracked days and workouts.

Key ideas behind Simple Stepper are:

• clean and minimal interface
• fast startup (no heavy dashboards)
• daily step tracking at a glance
• separate workouts with or without barometer (vertical distance) tracking feature (currently on Android only)
• separate workouts with or without GPS tracking feature
• simple history view with a lot of detailed stats
• optional widgets (currently on Android only)
• no account required
• privacy-friendly (no cloud account needed)

The new feature is currently only available for the Android version. But I'll integrate it in iOS soon.

If you're curious, try for yourself

Links:

Simple Stepper on Google Play

Simple Stepper on Apple App Store

Constructive brutally honest feedback is welcome! ;]

Greetings campers and hikers!

I am an Indie Dev working on multiple projects (apps). My first one, Simple Stepper, a minimalistic step tracker just got a new feature:

• Vertical Distance Measurement: Workouts now offer the user to track also the vertical distance by using GPS or barometer (device dependent)

I added some screenshot for better understanding: The first screenshot is showing the height-profile of recorded track of a short workout. Above is the GPS tracked height-profile (blue) and and below is the barometer tracked height-profile (orange).

If you look closely you can see a little drift in the barometer track - which I have not fully solved yet. Below in the screenshot are the different timings of the track in- and excluding breaks basically, steps, active time, calories and horizontal distance + pace, speed and the promoted vertical distance.

The other screenshots are for better understanding and show the GPS tracked map of the same workout, the MainScreen with progress and "History Ring" and the HistoryScreen with the progress of all tracked days and workouts.

Key ideas behind Simple Stepper are:

• clean and minimal interface
• fast startup (no heavy dashboards)
• daily step tracking at a glance
• separate workouts with or without barometer (vertical distance) tracking feature (currently on Android only)
• separate workouts with or without GPS tracking feature
• simple history view with a lot of detailed stats
• optional widgets (currently on Android only)
• no account required
• privacy-friendly (no cloud account needed)

The new feature is currently only available for the Android version. But I'll integrate it in iOS soon.

If you're curious, try for yourself

Links:

Simple Stepper on Google Play

Simple Stepper on Apple App Store

Constructive brutally honest feedback is welcome! ;]

Greetings treadmill walkers!

I am the Indie Dev behind Simple Stepper: The minimalistic step and activity tracker. I think it could be interesting for you, if you look for an app with a minimalistic UI and a portable device to track your progress with.

You enjoy some walks, runs or hikes outside? Even better, Simple Stepper just got a new feature:

• Vertical Distance Measurement: Workouts now offer the user to track also the vertical distance by using GPS or barometer (device dependent)

Key ideas behind Simple Stepper are:

• clean and minimal interface
• fast startup (no heavy dashboards)
• daily step tracking at a glance
• separate workouts with or without barometer (vertical distance) tracking feature (currently on Android only)
• separate workouts with or without GPS tracking feature
• simple history view with a lot of detailed stats
• optional widgets (currently on Android only)
• no account required
• privacy-friendly (no cloud account needed)

You like to do some

If you're curious, try for yourself

Links:

Simple Stepper on Google Play

Simple Stepper on Apple App Store

Constructive brutally honest feedback is welcome! ;]

Happy Stepping!

Greetings fellow runners!

Just restarted running last Friday after a five weeks break of sort of "hard to get motivated" + "tired legs" and it was a little pain in the ass, but afterwards it felt great. I even had to do some "walking breaks" but still, I even managed to do 7 kms instead of the usual 5 km track.

I shared two screenshots with GPS horizontal map and height-profile. As you can see, there is not too much height, but just for clarification.

Goal is to run a 10 km track in middle of June in sub 60 minutes. Today I had my second run, a 5 km track and the tempo was already a little better (see screenshots 3 and 4) although my legs felt terribly "heavy and tired", but the good feeling afterwards was priceless ;]

How did your "re-start" feel and went so far?

Happy running! ;]

Greetings just wanted to share my progress after a 5 weeks break, mostly due to being hard to motivate and "lazy" legs.

So I restarted last Friday evening with 7 kms, had to do 3 "walking breaks" and ended up with the data, you can see in the first two screenshots (with GPS track, and height-profile).

Saturday and Sunday was quite "aching" in the big leg muscles so I just did some bike riding.

Yesterday evening, still with the feeling of "heavy" legs, I pushed myself to go out and run (screenshots 3 and 4). This time I only had to do two small "walking breaks" and the speed already got better.

While the hot shower and relaxing afterwards "felt" still as the best part of those runs, I'm happy to restarted and am optimistic about upcoming runs.

Happy running everyone =]

Seid gegrüßt!

Da hier Viele ihre Erfolgserlebnisse posten, wollte ich das auch mal machen.

Ich hatte Anfang des Jahres, naja sagen wir, nach dem der "große Winter" endlich vorbei war eigentlich ganz gut angefangen, mit dem diesjährigen Training und dem Ziel: Mal wieder "locker" 10 km unter 60 Minuten zu schaffen - seit ich Lockdown bedingt ein paar kilos zugelegt hatte, fällt mir das nämlich recht schwer.

Ein paar 5 km Läufe, so um die 32 Minuten, hatte ich schon geschafft, aber dann wurden mir einfach die Beine "schwer" und ich konnte mich nicht mehr aufraffen — bis letzten Freitag: Da klappte es dann endlich wieder und sogar etwas weiter als die üblichen 5 km Runden, aber dafür auch mit drei kurzen Gehpausen. Wie ihr den Screenshots entnehmen könnte, komme ich aus dem und laufe bevorzugt im Nord-Ost-Deutschen "Flachland" ;]

Auf jeden Fall habe ich heute immer noch leichten Muskelkater, plane aber schon den nächsten Lauf.

Wollte das mal für alle teilen, die auch immer mal wieder Schwierigkeiten haben, "in Schwung" zu kommen.

Cheers

Hello, iOS development enthusiasts! ;]

Are you also frustrated by step and activity tracker apps that overload you with features you hardly need or use? Then there is a solution for you: Simple Stepper—the minimalist step and activity tracker. It tracks your steps and your activity—nothing more, nothing less.

I’ve shared a few screenshots to give you an idea:

1. The main screen displays your daily progress with the “HistoryRing” enabled. The “HistoryRing” shows you your progress over the past 28 days. If you don’t like it, just tap it once and it will disappear; tap it again and it will reappear. It’s that simple.
2. The screenshot shows “Workout Mode.” Here you can record specific workout sessions with GPS data and a map to analyze, share, or compare them later.
3. The screenshot shows the HistoryScreen with all your daily logs and all your workout logs. You have several filters that let you reorder and filter the logs as you like.
4. The screenshot shows the “Sharing Feature.” This lets you share your progress or specific workout results with anyone in your contacts via any installed messenger like Signal, WhatsApp, Telegram, or via email or other options your device offers. This is really great for motivating each other (at least this little virtual “kick in the butt” helps me every now and then ;])

And the 5th screenshot shows the profile screen, where you can enter your personal information (though you don’t have to) so that Simple Stepper can make better estimates of your energy consumption and the distances you’ve covered.

Key ideas behind Simple Stepper are:

• clean and minimal interface
• fast startup (no heavy dashboards)
• daily step tracking at a glance
• separate workouts with or without GPS tracking feature
• simple history view with a lot of detailed stats
• no account required
• privacy-friendly (no cloud account needed)

And the best part is, you can try Simple Stepper completely free of charge and without any distractions for three days. After that, it’s ad-supported. If that bothers you, or if you’d like to support the continued development of Simple Stepper, you can also sign up for an affordable subscription to remove the ads.

If you want to try it out yourself, get it here:

Link:

Simple Stepper on Apple App Store

Constructive, brutally honest feedback is always welcome too! ;]

Hello, iOS app marketers!

Are you also frustrated by step and activity tracker apps that overload you with features you hardly need or use? Then there is a solution for you: Simple Stepper—the minimalist step and activity tracker. It tracks your steps and your activity—nothing more, nothing less.

I’ve shared a few screenshots to give you an idea:

1. The main screen displays your daily progress with the “HistoryRing” enabled. The “HistoryRing” shows you your progress over the past 28 days. If you don’t like it, just tap it once and it will disappear; tap it again and it will reappear. It’s that simple.

2. The screenshot shows “Workout Mode.” Here you can record specific workout sessions with GPS data and a map to analyze, share, or compare them later.

3. The screenshot shows the HistoryScreen with all your daily logs and all your workout logs. You have several filters that let you reorder and filter the logs as you like.

4. The screenshot shows the “Sharing Feature.” This lets you share your progress or specific workout results with anyone in your contacts via any installed messenger like Signal, WhatsApp, Telegram, or via email or other options your device offers. This is really great for motivating each other (at least this little virtual “kick in the butt” helps me every now and then ;])

And the 5th screenshot shows the profile screen, where you can enter your personal information (though you don’t have to) so that Simple Stepper can make better estimates of your energy consumption and the distances you’ve covered.

Key ideas behind Simple Stepper are:

• clean and minimal interface
• fast startup (no heavy dashboards)
• daily step tracking at a glance
• separate workouts with or without GPS tracking feature
• simple history view with a lot of detailed stats
• no account required
• privacy-friendly (no cloud account needed)

And the best part is, you can try Simple Stepper completely free of charge and without any distractions for three days. After that, it’s ad-supported. If that bothers you, or if you’d like to support the continued development of Simple Stepper, you can also sign up for an affordable subscription to remove the ads.

If you want to try it out yourself, get it here:

Link:

Simple Stepper on Apple App Store

Constructive, brutally honest feedback is always welcome too! ;]

Greetings hikers!

I am an Indie Dev working on multiple projects (apps). My first one, Simple Stepper, a minimalistic step tracker just got a new feature:

• Vertical Distance Measurement: Workouts now offer the user to track also the vertical distance by using GPS or barometer (device dependent)

I added some screenshot for better understanding: The first screenshot is showing the height-profile of recorded track of a short workout. Above is the GPS tracked height-profile (blue) and and below is the barometer tracked height-profile (orange).

If you look closely you can see a little drift in the barometer track - which I have not fully solved yet. Below in the screenshot are the different timings of the track in- and excluding breaks basically, steps, active time, calories and horizontal distance + pace, speed and the promoted vertical distance.

The other screenshots are for better understanding and show the GPS tracked map of the same workout, the MainScreen with progress and "History Ring" and the HistoryScreen with the progress of all tracked days and workouts.

Key ideas behind Simple Stepper are:

• clean and minimal interface
• fast startup (no heavy dashboards)
• daily step tracking at a glance
• separate workouts with or without barometer (vertical distance) tracking feature (currently on Android only)
• separate workouts with or without GPS tracking feature
• simple history view with a lot of detailed stats
• optional widgets (currently on Android only)
• no account required
• privacy-friendly (no cloud account needed)

The new feature is currently only available for the Android version. But I'll integrate it in iOS soon.

If you're curious, try for yourself

Links:

Simple Stepper on Google Play

Simple Stepper on Apple App Store

Constructive brutally honest feedback is welcome! ;]

Greetings hikers!

I am an Indie Dev working on multiple projects (apps). My first one, Simple Stepper, a minimalistic step tracker just got a new feature:

• Vertical Distance Measurement: Workouts now offer the user to track also the vertical distance by using GPS or barometer (device dependent)

I added some screenshot for better understanding: The first screenshot is showing the height-profile of recorded track of a short workout. Above is the GPS tracked height-profile (blue) and and below is the barometer tracked height-profile (orange).

If you look closely you can see a little drift in the barometer track - which I have not fully solved yet. Below in the screenshot are the different timings of the track in- and excluding breaks basically, steps, active time, calories and horizontal distance + pace, speed and the promoted vertical distance.

The other screenshots are for better understanding and show the GPS tracked map of the same workout, the MainScreen with progress and "History Ring" and the HistoryScreen with the progress of all tracked days and workouts.

Key ideas behind Simple Stepper are:

• clean and minimal interface
• fast startup (no heavy dashboards)
• daily step tracking at a glance
• separate workouts with or without barometer (vertical distance) tracking feature (currently on Android only)
• separate workouts with or without GPS tracking feature
• simple history view with a lot of detailed stats
• optional widgets (currently on Android only)
• no account required
• privacy-friendly (no cloud account needed)

The new feature is currently only available for the Android version. But I'll integrate it in iOS soon.

If you're curious, try for yourself

Links:

Simple Stepper on Google Play

Simple Stepper on Apple App Store

Constructive brutally honest feedback is welcome! ;]

Hello everyone!

I’m an independent developer from Germany looking for opportunities to collaborate with YouTubers.

Ideally, you have a growing community interested in various types of Android and iOS apps, such as fitness/sports, games, and lifestyle.

Right now, I’d like to start with my app “Simple Stepper,” since it just got a new “Vertical Distance Measurement” feature that lets users track not only horizontal positions and distances but also vertical positions and distances during their workouts using GPS and/or a barometer (depending on the device).

I’ve included some screenshots above to give you a good idea of what Simple Stepper looks like and some of its features.

Key ideas behind Simple Stepper are:

• clean and minimal interface
• fast startup (no heavy dashboards)
• daily step tracking at a glance
• separate workouts with or without barometer (vertical distance) tracking feature (Currently only for Android)
• separate workouts with or without GPS tracking feature
• simple history view with a lot of detailed stats
• optional widgets (Currently only for Android)
• no account required
• privacy-friendly (no cloud account needed)

If you want to try it out yourself, get it here:

Links:

Simple Stepper on Google Play

Simple Stepper on Apple App Store

If you think we could work together, feel free to leave me a comment or send me a direct message.

Constructive, brutally honest feedback is always welcome too! ;]

Hello to everyone who’s also looking to make some extra money on the side! ;]

In my last post, I shared a few insights into the life of a solo developer with lots of ideas and enthusiasm, and wrote about how motivation can change over time—with its ups and downs—as I work toward my goal: becoming an independent developer of apps that I truly love.

While chatting with another Redditor today, it occurred to me that I find it quite easy to come up with new ideas for features, like such showed in the screenshots above: the “vertical distance measurement” using GPS and a barometer to track a height-profile on workouts (horizontal GPS track in the next screenshot for clarification), a “History Ring” that displays progress from the past few days, and a “sharing” feature to share progress with friends—it would naturally take some time to implement and test, but still, I’d say it’s feasible since it seems fairly straightforward. It basically comes down to programming, testing, debugging, and tweaking.

On the other hand, when it comes to choosing the right marketing strategy, monetization strategy, ad placement, subscriptions, and so on, it’s exactly the opposite. That’s because you can’t just click “compile” and see the results; you have to wait—sometimes just a few days, but sometimes weeks. Of course, I’d read before that you’re supposed to run A/B tests and that it can take an unpredictable amount of time for measures to actually take effect, but I wasn’t aware of how that feels and how frustrating it can be not to know whether certain adjustments are working or not. And while AIs are a big help in almost everything, following their tipps and tricks here did not help mostly.

So my most important takeaway here is probably that patience isn’t exactly one of my strengths and I should definitely try to become more patient ;]

Or, to put it in the words of another Redditor: “... Development feels deterministic, while distribution feels probabilistic.hat delayed feedback loop messes with your head hard as a solo founder honestly".

Now I’d like to hear from those of you who are in a similar situation, or who have already successfully navigated this situation, about how you deal with these or similar problems and what your solution strategy looks like.

(Just to clarify: I develop apps for Apple (iOS) and Google (Android))

Cheers

Greetings everyone!

I am an Indie Dev working on multiple projects (apps). My first one, Simple Stepper, a minimalistic step tracker just got a new feature:

• Vertical Distance Measurement: Workouts now offer the user to track also the vertical distance by using GPS or barometer (device dependent)

The screenshot is showing the height-profile after a short workout. Above is the GPS tracked height-profile (blue) and and below is the barometer tracked height-profile (orange). If you look closely you can see a little drift in the barometer track - which I have not fully solved yet. Below in the screenshot are the different timings of the track in- and excluding breaks basically, steps, active time, calories and horizontal distance + pace, speed and the promoted vertical distance.

The other screenshots are included for clarity and show the horizontal GPS track overlaid on a map for the same workout, as well as the main screen of Simple Stepper.

Key ideas behind Simple Stepper are:

• clean and minimal interface
• fast startup (no heavy dashboards)
• daily step tracking at a glance
• separate workouts with or without barometer (vertical distance) tracking feature (Currently only for Android)
• separate workouts with or without GPS tracking feature
• simple history view with a lot of detailed stats
• optional widgets (Currently only for Android)
• no account required
• privacy-friendly (no cloud account needed)

If you're curious, try for yourself

Links:
Android: Simple Stepper on Google Play

iOS: Simple Stepper on Apple App Store

Constructive and brutally honest feedback is always welcome ;]

Hi everyone!

Last time I introduced my project "Simple Stepper" to you, a minimalistic step and activity tracker, focused on just the features needed for the job.

As some of you and other subreddits asked, if it was possible to include a way, of measuring the vertical distance my first thought was "Why would somebody even consider using it" ... well after some research and more feedback of runners, walkers and bikers, it turned out, that quite a lot people are interested in such data.

Long story short, I added the feature to the "workout mode" of Simple Stepper, meaning, the user can start a specific workout including GPS and or barometer measurement, if his device offers those.

The first screenshot above shows the vertical distance measurement of GPS (blue) and barometer (orange). The second screenshot shows the same track with the horizontal GPS measurement as a common map. And the third screenshot just shows the MainScreen with activated "History Ring", another new feature, I'll introduce in a different post.

As you can see there is a slight drift in the barometer, which seems to be normal, as the air pressure changes over time. But the results are still closer to actual height changes than measured by GPS. However I'm still working on improving calibration.

The new feature is currently only available for the Android version. But I'll integrate it in iOS soon.

Let me know what you think.

Links:

Simple Stepper on Google Play

Simple Stepper on Apple App Store

Constructive brutally honest feedback is welcome! ;]

Hallo zusammen!

Ich habe kürzlich mal einen Track samt Höhenprofil aufgezeichnet (Siehe Screenshots). Wie ihr seht war ich nicht all zu schnell unterwegs. Die Höhenprofile sind zwar ähnlich aber man kann bei der Barometer-Messung eine Drift erkennen, wovon ich auch schon gelesen hatte.

Prinzipiell war mir die Höhenmessung bisher immer ziemlich egal, aber kürzlich fragte ein User, ob ich nicht auch die "Stufen" wie Apple zählen könnte. Ich hab das jetzt erstmal, wie zu sehen, umgesetzt, bin aber persönlich, wie gesagt, noch nicht recht überzeugt von dem Nutzen.

Was meint ihr denn dazu? Nutzt ihr vertikale Streckenmessung bei euren Trainingseinheiten? Und falls ja, mit welchem Effekt?

Grüße