Steps

What it is

Steps in Kinoku is more than a basic counter. Your daily steps join the same private record as your lifts, runs, Pulse, and badges.

Why does that help? Daily movement shapes the whole app. A step streak can show up on a share card. Pulse can read it as part of your recovery. Your watch can show it. A challenge can count it.

The live counter

Open the steps screen and the count ticks up as you walk. A small spring bounce fires on each step. The color shifts as you speed up: gray for a slow walk, blue for brisk, green for a jog, orange for a run. Your steps per minute and the zone name sit below the count. A buzz fires every 1,000 steps, so you feel each one without looking.

The screen only reads the sensor closely while it’s open. So the battery cost stays tiny the rest of the day. Android’s built-in counter handles the always-on count.

Filtering out car and train motion

Cars, trains, and bikes can fool a step counter. They shake the phone at a walking-like rate. Kinoku checks each batch of steps against three signs of real walking and drops the ones that look like a ride. It reads the hardware clock, not the time the steps arrived. So steps your phone saved during deep sleep still get sorted right when they show up.

Your history is safe

Losing a year of step history is a real fear in any fitness app. Kinoku guards your data five ways, so one broken path can’t take it all:

• On your phone. Turning step tracking off does not erase your steps. It only stops new ones.
• Auto Backup to Google Drive. Works on a Play Store install with the same Google account.
• Manual ZIP backup. Saves to a folder you pick. It survives any reinstall, any way you install.
• Health Connect mirror. Each step Kinoku writes to Health Connect carries a stable ID that lasts across reinstalls. Reinstall on the same phone and the Steps screen offers a one-tap Restore from Health Connect card if it finds your old records. To opt out: Settings, then Run Tracking, then “Mirror estimated steps to Health Connect”.
• CSV/ZIP import. Brings your data back with nothing lost. It skips steps you already have, rebuilds your daily totals, keeps your goal history with the right dates, and re-links steps to the run they came from.

You don’t have to pick a layer. They work together. The right one runs for your install on its own.

Why it matters

You may not want one app for walking, one for running, and one for lifting just to see how your week is going. Steps give Kinoku a simple daily view that still belongs to the rest of your training.