Pebble has teamed-up with Misfit to bring additional fitness capabilities to its popular smart watch. Thanks to the new Misfit watchapp — available today from the Pebble appstore — users can rely on Pebble to count steps and track their activity without a smartphone.

Misfit, which makes the fitness and sleep monitor device Shine, has applied its expertise with user experience and algorithms to the Pebble ecosystem. This in turn allows Pebble owners to use their smart watch as a pedometer, and track such metrics as calories burned and distance traveled.

According to Pebble, this is just a first step in their partnership with Misfit and overall Activity tracking on the Pebble watch. Going forward, the company will unveil additional functionalities in future updates…