StepChain vs WalkingDoggo
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
StepChain
This app encourages a healthier lifestyle by tracking various physical activities and converting them into digital tokens. Users can redeem these tokens for rewards like gym memberships or electronics, and even donate them to charitable causes. It aims to motivate users to increase their activity levels and improve their overall well-being.
- Activity tracking (walking, running, cycling, etc.)
- Converts steps to STEP coins
- Redeem coins for gifts and memberships
- Donate coins to charity
- Progress and balance tracking
- Community chat feature
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StepChain is a responsible fitness app with a main purpose of making the world a better place by decreasing obesity and promoting a healthy way of living. This application tracks all of your physical activity from walking to running, swimming, cycling, dancing, climbing, rope jumping and many more. How? StepChain would be linked to Google Fit, retrieving data of steps walked, then converting them into tokens, STEP coins. StepChain will definitely motivate you to increase your physical activity, improving your health and lifestyle. Not only have that, your STEP coins could be redeemed with a variety of gifts like gym memberships, sports equipment’s, wearables and electronics. StepChain is not only for athletes, StepChain is for every lifestyle. You can benefit from StepChain’s rewarding system when carrying out your daily chores that involves a physical activity. All you have to do is download the app now, create an account and start exercising. To simplify it even more, StepChain is: Motivating – Encouraging you to increase your physical activity. Walk more, Earn more. Rewarding – Converting your steps into STEP coins. Challenging – Pushing you to your limits to challenge yourself and upgrade your fitness level. Giving – Donating your STEP coins to contribute in making the world a better place. Tracking your progress and balance – Keeping record of your advancement and STEP coin wallet. Socializing – Chatting and communicating with the vast StepChain Community. StepChain is currently available only in the free version which will allow you to walk and earn STEP points instantly. StepChain tracks your activity by using Apple's HealthKit, to be able to use StepChain you need to connect your apple account.
WalkingDoggo
Earn points by walking in your daily life. This project aims to help stray dogs globally by incentivizing physical activity.
- Earn points by walking
- Support stray dogs globally
- DAO (web 3.0) dApp project
- Incentivizes physical activity
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The WalkingDoggo project was initiated inspired by the mission to aid the countless stray dogs across the globe. WalkingDoggo's objective is for individuals to earn points by walking in their everyday lives.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: StepChain at 4.2 against WalkingDoggo's 2.0. StepChain also leads on review sentiment (70% vs 33%) and ads (none vs shown). WalkingDoggo's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.6). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
StepChain holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: StepChain has 99 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 70% of StepChain's written reviews are positive against 33% of WalkingDoggo's.
StepChain ships an update every 3 weeks, WalkingDoggo every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | StepChain | WalkingDoggo |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (99 ratings) — better | 2.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 69.7% of reviews — better | 33.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 99 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 54 MB | 39 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Absolutely Digital | WalkingDoggo |
Customer experience
StepChain
WalkingDoggo
Bugs and requests
StepChain
Reported bugs
9 issues- App stuck on loading page indefinitely
- Steps not being recorded despite physical activity
- Unable to redeem rewards or purchase gift cards
- Marketplace functionality broken
- Account balance disappears overnight
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- Password reset emails not being sent
- Cannot access transactions section
- Reward redemption returns 'something went wrong' error
- Step count shows zero despite calorie tracking working
Requested features
4 requests- Sign-up option directly in the app
- Gift card rewards instead of other reward types
- Better step counting accuracy
- Improved transaction history access
WalkingDoggo
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
StepChain
No in-app purchases
WalkingDoggo
No in-app purchases
