Comparison

StepChain vs Sleepm

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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.

About

Sleepm

This app connects to smart sleep devices to monitor your sleep in real-time. It provides detailed sleep reports and uses a smart light with music to help you fall asleep.

Highlights
  • Real-time sleep status monitoring
  • Sleep reports
  • Smart light with music
  • Connects to sleep buttons, lights, and smart bedding
Features
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The Seepm App supports the connection of sleep buttons, sleep lights, and smart bedding, which can help you monitor your personal real-time sleep status, view sleep reports, and also use the sleep light to play music and light to aid sleep.

Screenshots

StepChain4 screens
Sleepm4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Sleepm at 5.0 against StepChain's 4.2. Sleepm also leads on iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15.6). StepChain's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 5 months) and ratings volume (100 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Sleepm holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: StepChain has 100 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

StepChain ships an update every 3 weeks, Sleepm every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and September 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
StepChain versus Sleepm: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStepChainSleepm
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (100 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews69.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings100 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 5 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.69.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size54 MB44 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperAbsolutely DigitalSLEEPM GLOBAL INC

Customer experience

StepChain

All ratings100 ratings
Positive78.0%
Neutral4.0%
Negative18.0%
Written reviews119 reviews
Positive69.7%
Neutral3.4%
Negative26.9%

Sleepm

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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
Show 4 more
  • 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

Sleepm

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

StepChain

No in-app purchases

None

Sleepm

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is StepChain free?
StepChain is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Sleepm free?
Sleepm is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, StepChain or Sleepm?
Sleepm is rated higher. StepChain averages 4.2 out of 5 from 100 ratings, while Sleepm averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do StepChain or Sleepm have ads?
Neither StepChain nor Sleepm shows ads.
Which is updated more often, StepChain or Sleepm?
StepChain ships an update every 3 weeks, and Sleepm every 5 months. Most recently, StepChain was updated on October 11, 2026 and Sleepm on September 29, 2026.

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