Spreads your daily goal across your active hours.
See if you’re on track, right now.
A 10,000-step goal isn’t a midnight cliff.
By 3pm you can know if you’re on track.
PRICE $3.99 once. No subscription. No IAP. SIZE 2.4 MB PLATFORM Apple Watch · watchOS 26.2+ PRIVACY No accounts. No analytics. No networking. COMPLICATIONS 3 kinds — rectangular + 2 circular PACE FORMULA target = (goal / active_minutes) × elapsed
Set a daily goal and an active window (eg 9am–8pm). Every minute Pacer computes your on-pace target — a moving line from 0 at your start time to your goal at your end time. The delta between your actual steps and that target is your dashboard, your complication, your nudge.
I kept blowing past 7pm at 4,000 steps without realizing. Activity Rings showed me the damage at midnight, by which point dinner was over and the rings stayed broken. I wanted something that told me at 2pm “you’re behind by 800 steps right now” — early enough that a 15-minute walk could fix it. So I built Pacer. It’s closed source, paid once, with no analytics on you. You can get it on the App Store.
— Aditya Gupta, solo dev
Pacer is a watchOS-only step tracker that shows whether you’re ahead or behind your daily step goal in real time, not at end of day. It spreads your goal across your active hours and surfaces a live ahead/behind number on a watch-face complication.
Activity Rings show your step total at end of day. Pacer shows whether you are ahead or behind your goal right now, mid-day, so you can correct course while there is still time.
No. Pacer collects nothing. HealthKit step counts stay on your watch — no servers, no accounts, no analytics, no third-party SDKs.
Pacer is $3.99 once on the App Store. No subscription, no in-app purchases, no ads.
Pacer runs on Apple Watch with watchOS 26.2 or later. It is watch-only — there is no iPhone companion app.
The app itself is closed source. This marketing site is open source on GitHub.