Pedometer (PFA)

Counts steps and provides overview on walked steps.

App info

Version :

3.1.0

Category :

Health & fitness

Update :

April 20, 2025

Installs :

25,083

Developer :

Karlsruher Institut für Technologie

Requires Android :

Android 4.2+

Content Rating :

Everyone

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App description

Android App Analysis and Review: Pedometer (PFA), Developed by Karlsruher Institut für Technologie. Listed in Health & fitness Category. Current Version Is 3.1.0, Updated On 20/04/2025 . According to users reviews on Google Play: Pedometer (PFA). Achieved Over 25 thousand Installs. Pedometer (PFA) Currently Has 234 Reviews, Average Rating 3.5 Stars

Privacy Friendly Pedometer can count your steps in background, provides you an overview about your walked steps and allows you to define custom walking modes and notifications if the achievement of your daily step goal is in danger. The app requires minimal permissions (Run at startup and prevent phone from sleeping). It belongs to the Privacy Friendly Apps group developed by the research group SECUSO at Technische Universität Darmstadt. More information can be found an secuso.org/pfa

Privacy Friendly Pedometer can count your daily walked steps while it runs in background. It gives you an overview about your walked steps, distance and about the calories you have burned while walking. You can add and choose different walking modes with different step lengths, such as walking or running, to improve the calculation of distance and calories.

In a special training mode you can track your training sessions. To each training session additional information, such as feeling or a description, can be added.

What makes Privacy Friendly Pedometer different from other pedometers?

1. Minimal amount of permissions:
* Run at startup: This permission is required to restart the step counting when your phone boots.
* prevent phone from sleeping: On some devices the processor falls asleep and prevents counting steps. With this permission the app can keep the processor awake while counting steps.

Most of Pedometer Apps in the Google Play Store require additional permissions. E.g. accessing the network or Internet which is mostly used to display advertisement. Some apps have access to GPS or telephony data.

2. No advertisement.
Many other free apps in the Google Play Store dazzle annoying advertising and also shortens battery life.

You can reach us via
Twitter - @SECUSOResearch (https://twitter.com/secusoresearch)
Mastodon - @SECUSO_Research@bawü.social (https://xn--baw-joa.social/@SECUSO_Research/)
Job opening - https://secuso.aifb.kit.edu/english/Job_Offers_1557.php

We are currently offering version 3.1.0. This is our latest, most optimized version. It is suitable for many different devices. Free download directly apk from the Google Play Store or other versions we're hosting. Moreover, you can download without registration and no login required.

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What's New

- Update translations
- Bug fixes and improvements

Rate and review on Google Play store

3.5

234 total

5 48.3

4 12.1

3 3.9

2 15.9

1 19.8

Total number of installs (*estimated)

Estimation of total number of installs on Google Play, Approximated from number of ratings and install bounds achieved on Google Play.

Recent Comments

Steve White

Nice and clean, no ads, no tricks. However, unless your phone has a hardware step counter, it doesn't really count steps. It tries to guess how far you walked, then divides by your guess of a step length. Too bad. It wouldn't have been hard to make it really work.

Kyrylo Sovailo

It is definitely a pedometer. It counts steps. Nothing more, nothing less. Something you want to buy one time and use forever, like in good old times. Countrary to what people are saying, it counts steps and estimates distance (instead of measuring distance and estimating step count). I didn't measure precision, but I honestly don't care enough.

Ed

App is accurate, to calibrate it to your step length; you go to Settings - Walking Modes - then adjust the step length to match the distance you walked. If you don't have a measured mile somewhere, you can use your car to measure a mile or some shorter distance if you are not up to miles yet or possibly google maps and walk it. then adjust your steps to match the distance. Have a good time getting out.

Kay M

This app is great! It does everything and maintains my data privacy. The only thing I would tweek is when I want to scroll backwards by weeks, days or months; if it was a dial function or something to make it easier to then scroll back to the present calendar. Ps. Do you make a calculator app? I swapped my broken phone for a replacement but the replacement was missing many of the usual apps ☹

John Blumberg

Worked well until it suddenly stopped working in December 2021. Fooled around with the settings. Worked sporadically. Help is rudumentary and inadequate. Checked info at Secuso website. Right now, I think this app may have been the victim of an app update or an operating system update. I like the idea of a private open source pedometer so much I'm going to reinstall it and try some more to get it to work dependably. Sadly, it's not yet suitable for the casual Android phone user.

Unagi Sf

I really appreciate an app that doesn't spy on you. Still having some problems with mysterious halts in function though. --This app was really great till the spring update basically killed it. The latest is a bit better but more like less bad, basically useless. Big interface problem too, the play/pause button that does the opposite of what it should, and should be a setting instead. Sheesh! A private app was a big public service, who are the fools who were allowed to destroy it?

Abigail Harger

I've used this for a while because it's minimal and doesn't need a subscription. There is only a pedometer, no integrated maps, trackmaker, etc. It works best when your phone has a step tracker in its sensors; on a low-grade phone without the correct sensor, I had to turn up the accelerometer sensitivity to very high.

Ben Hyde

You need to manually grant it two permissions: Physical Activity and Location. Search for App Permissions in the phone's settings, and then find this app. Great app, Sad it took me so long to realize why it stopped working! I suspect there aren't any dev's working on this anymore; but if so maybe then can make this less obscure.