Stair climbing isn’t about counting floors. It’s about how many meters you actually went up. Stair Climb Log: Meters & HR measures your climb in meters, watches your heart rate from your wrist, and keeps a record of how high you’ve climbed over the whole year.
Most stair counters give you a floor number and leave you to guess how much climbing that really was. Stair Climb Log: Meters & HR uses the iPhone’s barometer to add up every rise, so the number you see is a height in meters. Going back down doesn’t subtract anything, and a small filter ignores the tiny pressure jitters that would otherwise add fake height. Floors are shown as a secondary number, taken from the step counter.
Each result is also put next to something you can picture: a percentage of the Statue of Liberty, a number of Eiffel Towers, a fraction of Mount Everest. The reference is a fixed 3 meters per floor, and only one is shown at a time.
On Apple Watch, tap Start and the climb begins with a live heart rate and meter count. Set a lower and an upper limit, and your wrist tells you when you cross one: two firm taps when you’re above the upper limit, one long, lighter buzz when you drop below the lower limit. You don’t have to look at the screen on the stairs. There’s a minimum gap between alerts (30 seconds, 1 minute or 2 minutes) so it doesn’t keep buzzing.
You can set the zone as a percentage of your maximum heart rate, using the age you type in the app, or enter your own lower and upper limits. It doesn’t depend on a birthday stored in Health. Heart rate comes from Apple Watch; a climb recorded on the iPhone alone has no heart rate.
The iPhone’s barometer can’t record while the app is in the background or the screen is locked. When you come back, the app asks the step counter how many floors you climbed in that gap and adds them at 3 meters per floor. That part is an estimate, and the record says so, for example “includes 12 m estimated from floors.” On Apple Watch the workout keeps running with the screen off, so a watch climb has no such gap.
Every climb adds to a monthly calendar where darker days mean more meters, plus your current streak. The statistics page shows week, month, quarter, half-year and year totals with a bar chart, total meters, floors, days climbed and average heart rate. You can log your weight by hand or read it from Health and see it as a line chart. A vertical share card, with your total meters and a reference landmark, can be saved to Photos or shared.
There’s no account, no sign-in, no server and no third-party SDK. Everything is stored on your iPhone only, and the app doesn’t send your data anywhere.
The permissions it asks for are tied to specific features:
It doesn’t ask for location and has no maps or GPS tracks.
Recording on Apple Watch or iPhone, the calendar, week-to-year statistics, heart rate zones with alerts, a basic share card and weight logging are free. Pro adds custom date ranges, a fuller share card (calendar grid, streak and heart rate), weight-versus-climbing overlay and CSV export of all your records. Pro is available as a monthly or yearly subscription, or a one-time purchase, and Restore Purchases is in Settings.
Use “Send Feedback” in the app’s Settings to write to us. The Privacy Policy and Terms of Use are linked from the Settings page and from the Pro screen.