Cardio Quest vs Tuber
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Cardio Quest
This fantasy role-playing game transforms your real-life workouts into epic battles. Track your heart rate to fight monsters, earn loot, and level up your hero. Compete with friends on leaderboards and track your fitness progress.
- Heart rate tracking for combat
- Fantasy role-playing gameplay
- Monster battles during workouts
- Earn loot and level up hero
- Friend tracking and leaderboards
- Workout tracking
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Cardio Quest is a fantasy role-playing video game that challenges players to get active and improve their health. By tracking heart rate during exercise, players do battle while they work out in real life. Watch your Hero slay monsters as you get fit and earn epic loot. Follow friends, rank on leaderboards, track your workouts, and level up as you turn your workouts into gaming marathons. Cardio Quest is currently in Open Beta. Come join the future of connected fitness!
Tuber
Race down an endless mountain on an inflatable tube, outrunning a surge of lava. Collect boosts to cool down, thread gaps, and earn style points. Unlock cosmetic items and complete daily challenges in this fast-paced pixel-art runner.
- Procedurally generated slopes
- Boosts for cooling and combos
- Near-miss scoring
- Power-ups (slow-motion, shield, bulldozer)
- Daily mountains with modifiers
- Cosmetic unlocks and sets
- Game Center leaderboards
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You're riding an inflatable tube down an endless mountain and the lava is right behind you. TUBER is a fast, twitchy, pixel-art downhill runner about one thing: don't melt. Your tube heats up the longer you ride, so grab boosts to cool down, thread the gaps, and stay ahead of the molten flow. Slow down and the lava surges. Outrun it and rack up a combo. Crash and watch your speed, and your nerve, melt away. CHASE THE LINE - Hold left or right to carve down a procedurally built slope. - Snag boosts to cool your tube and build a multiplier. - Skim obstacles for near-miss points. Threading the needle is its own reward. - Hit ramps for big air and STYLE bonuses. CLUTCH POWER-UPS - Stopwatch: bend time into slow motion to thread the impossible. - Frost Ward: a one-hit shield that shrugs off a crash with no penalty. - Bulldozer: plow straight through everything for a few glorious seconds. OUTRUN THE SURGE - Let the heat climb too high and the lava SURGES. Grab a boost in time or you're toast. A MOUNTAIN THAT CHANGES DAILY - A new Daily Mountain every day with its own modifier. Hot Conditions, Dense Forest, Boost Rush, Ice Storm, Whiteout and more. - Daily missions, login streaks, and a soft-currency economy ("Flakes") to chase. COLLECT EVERYTHING (no pay-to-win) - Dozens of tubes and trails to unlock from a rubber duck to a flamingo pool float. - Complete themed cosmetic SETS for bonus rewards. - Everything is earnable by playing. The only purchase is an optional one-time Starter Bundle. Cosmetics never change how the game plays. PLUS - Game Center leaderboards and 50+ achievements. - Crisp retro pixel art, juicy game feel, and a few secrets to discover. How deep can you get before you melt?
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Tuber at 5.0 against Cardio Quest's 4.2. Tuber also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 59%) and update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 weeks). Cardio Quest's advantage is ratings volume (59 vs 11) and device support (3 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
Both are free to download. Cardio Quest sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and Tuber sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Tuber holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Cardio Quest has 59 ratings behind it against 11, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 59% of Cardio Quest's written reviews are positive against 100% of Tuber's.
Cardio Quest ships an update every 2 weeks, Tuber every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Cardio Quest | Tuber |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (59 ratings) | 5.0 (11 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 59.5% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 59 — better | 11 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1.2 GB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Press Forward Games LLC | Brett Pierce |
Customer experience
Cardio Quest
Tuber
Bugs and requests
Cardio Quest
Reported bugs
18 issues- Cannot connect to Hyperate application
- Bug interface
- Needs separate app for Apple Watch data
- Sync feature has limitations (free version)
- App loses track of heart rate
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- UI is unintuitive
- Cannot figure out how to level up
- Won't connect to Garmin
- Cannot add devices via app
- Calories burned not accurate for stairs
- Duplicate gear not going into inventory
- Sync issues with heart rate
- Game needs to be resynced constantly
- Disconnects during workouts
- Doesn't sync
- Can't sync iWatch
- Doesnt work with device
- Incomplete at the moment
Requested features
12 requests- Simpler UX for new users
- More things to manage
- Less time managing/learning
- Add an idle element (e.g., mining)
- Upgrade system for duplicate gear
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- View pets during battles
- Move around a virtual world like an MMO
- Combat and social aspects
- Compatibility with cheaper smartwatches
- Option to use data from Apple Fitness
- Retroactively correct step count
- Allow app to run in background for quests
Tuber
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Cardio Quest
- Monthly Premium Features$4.99
- Monthly Battle Pass$9.99
Tuber
- Starter Bundle$3.99
