# Pedometer (PFA) (open-source fitness and health app)

> Pedometer (PFA) is a free, open-source fitness and health app for Android. (SECUSO) Counts your steps in the background. It has 295 GitHub stars and is released under the GPL-3.0-or-later license, and you can install it from F-Droid.

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 Karlsruhe Intitute of Technology. 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.

## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Repository | https://github.com/SecUSo/privacy-friendly-pedometer |
| Platforms | Android |
| Built with | Java |
| GitHub stars | 295 |
| License | GPL-3.0-or-later (open source) |
| F-Droid | https://f-droid.org/packages/org.secuso.privacyfriendlyactivitytracker/ (package org.secuso.privacyfriendlyactivitytracker) |
| F-Droid anti-features | none flagged |
| Google Play | not linked |
| App Store | not linked |
| Website | https://secuso.aifb.kit.edu/english/Pedometer.php |
| Official | no |
| Category | Fitness & health |
| Latest release | v3.1.2 (Aug 2, 2025) |
| Last commit | Apr 26, 2026 |

F-Droid builds its apps from source and flags anti-features: https://f-droid.org/en/docs/Anti-Features/

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