Steps
Traka reads the step sensor built into your phone and shows your day at a glance. Distance and calories are worked out from your steps and fit you better if you add your height and weight (both optional), so read them as estimates.
Step tracker for Android
Make every walk count.
Traka counts your steps, times your walks and runs, and checks your pulse with the camera. Collect badges, keep your streak alive and see your progress build, day by day.
- No sign-in needed
- Heart rate with your camera
- Badges and streaks
Count your steps. Time your walks and runs. Check your pulse. Earn badges and keep your streak alive.
What it does
Everything you need to keep moving.
Simple tools that fit into your day, with nothing to set up and nothing in the way.
Sessions
Start a session, choose walking, jogging or running, and Traka times it and counts every step. Pause or finish from the notification, and the timer keeps going with the screen off.
Heart rate
Cover the rear camera and flash with a fingertip and hold still for 15 seconds. The number is a rough estimate for general wellness and shouldn’t be used to make medical decisions.
History
A day-by-day log of steps, distance, calories and active time, with a weekly total and a count of how many days you’ve been active.
Badges and levels
From First Steps and 5K Day to streaks and Century Club. Sessions earn the badges and keep your streak alive, and each badge you unlock moves your level up.
Gentle reminder
One optional notification a day, at a time you pick, and only on days you haven’t reached your goal. It’s off until you switch it on in Settings.
Privacy
Your data stays on your phone.
No sign-in, no ads and no analytics. Traka asks for a permission only when a feature needs it, and you can say no to any that Android asks you about.
No sign-in, no email
There’s no password and no email address to enter. A short setup asks for a username, a goal and a daily target, and all of it stays on your phone.
Stored on the device
Your steps, sessions, readings and badges sit in a database on your phone, in storage other apps can’t read.
Erase it any time
One step in Settings wipes everything from the phone straight away.
What it asks for, and when
Motion & fitness
Detecting steps and whether you’re walking, jogging or running.
On the last setup screen. You can tap Not now.
Camera
The heart-rate check, and only while that screen is open.
The first time you open the heart-rate screen.
Notifications
The daily reminder and badge alerts, and the pause and finish buttons during a session.
Right after motion access on the last setup screen, and again if you start a session or switch reminders on.
Session notification
Keeps a session you start running while the app is closed or the screen is off, with a notification for as long as it runs.
Never. It’s a standard permission with no prompt.
Run at startup
Puts back the daily reminder and all-day step counting after your phone restarts or Traka updates.
Never. It has no prompt and does nothing else.
Keep awake
Stops the session timer freezing when the screen turns off. Held only while a session runs.
Never. It’s a standard permission with no prompt.
Read the full privacy policy and terms of service.
Help
Quick answers.
My steps look too low
Traka reads your phone’s step sensor. With “Count steps all day” on in Settings, it takes a quiet reading every half hour or so, and whenever you open the app. Steps taken in a session are counted live. Also check that motion access is allowed in your phone’s settings, and remember Android resets the step sensor after a restart, so the count can look low for a few minutes.
The heart-rate reading failed
Cover both the camera lens and the flash fully with a fingertip and hold still for the whole 15 seconds. Pressing too hard spoils the reading, and bright light can interfere, so try again somewhere dimmer. The result is an estimate, not a medical measurement.
I changed phones and my history is gone
Traka keeps its data on the device and opts out of Android’s backup, so it can’t be restored onto a new phone. There’s nothing on a server to recover it from, and the new install starts from zero.
Need more help? Visit Support or email sageofblademw@gmail.com.