Comparison

Chi Flow vs BlockStep

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

Head to head
About

Chi Flow

This app offers guided meditation and simple exercises to enhance mental clarity, physical well-being, and spiritual connection. It can be practiced in various postures or simply by listening.

Highlights
  • Guided meditation
  • Simple physical poses
  • Mantras
  • Practice anywhere (sitting, standing, walking)
  • Listen-only option
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Calm and strengthen your mind, body, and spirit with the simple poses and mantras in this guided app. Can be done sitting, standing, walking, or just listening.

About

BlockStep

Features
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BlockStep turns walking into building. Every step you take lays one block. Reach your daily Goal and the day's structure is complete; fall short and you keep exactly what you built — the scaffolding stays where you stopped, honestly. A NEW STRUCTURE EVERY DAY Ninety-one authored pieces across thirteen chapters — a cottage, a lighthouse, a locomotive, a hot air balloon, a kraken. Everyone walks the same order from their own first day, so what you meet on day four is a decision somebody made, not an accident of the calendar. YOUR GOAL, YOUR RESOLUTION Set it anywhere from 500 to 30,000 steps. The same structure is built at whatever detail your Goal implies — a modest Goal makes a bolder, chunkier object; an ambitious one makes a finer, more detailed one. Nobody is building a worse version of anything. KEEP GOING A Streak counts the days you finished. Crown a structure by walking 150% of your Goal and you bank a Shield, which quietly saves a day you missed. Ill, or away? Mark the day — your Streak holds where it is, and never pretends you walked. EXTRA STEPS GO SOMEWHERE Walked past your Goal? Point the overflow at an unfinished day from your Collection and finish that one too. The record keeps both truths: what you walked that day, and that a later day completed it. WHERE YOU LEFT IT Every past day is in your Collection: scroll it, open one, and turn it in your hand. Twenty Badges mark what the walking has earned — firsts, streaks, hours, whole chapters — and none of them can be un-earned. ON YOUR WRIST AND YOUR HOME SCREEN The watch app counts your steps on its own. The widget shows today's structure as it goes up. Walk mode puts it on your Lock Screen while you are out. IT FOLLOWS YOU Your Collection travels between your own devices through your own iCloud, so a new phone starts where the old one stopped. There is no account to make and nothing to sign in to. FREE, AND THE KIT The first fourteen Steps of the Sequence are free — enough to see whether this is for you. After that the road begins again, and the Kit is a single $4.99 purchase that opens all ninety-one Builds and everything after them. No subscription, no ads, no second currency. Your walking counts either way: the Kit changes what gets built, never what gets recorded. PRIVACY BlockStep reads exactly one thing — your step count — and there is no server of ours for it to go to. No account, no analytics, no advertising, no tracking. Your Collection is mirrored into your own private iCloud database, which is yours: it lives in your Apple account and we have no key to it. A device that is not signed in to iCloud simply keeps its Collection locally.

Screenshots

Chi Flow2 screens
BlockStep4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Chi Flow at none against BlockStep's 1. Chi Flow also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 4 days) and device support (4 vs 2). On price and ads 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. BlockStep sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Chi Flow asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Chi Flow ships an update daily, BlockStep every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Chi Flow versus BlockStep: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChi FlowBlockStep
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (3 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyDaily — betterEvery 4 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS13.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size157 MB17 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMind Body Aware Games LLCCaffeinated Code d.o.o.

In-app purchases

None

Chi Flow

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

BlockStep

One-time1
  • The Kit$4.99

Questions

Is Chi Flow free?
Chi Flow is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is BlockStep free?
BlockStep is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Chi Flow or BlockStep have ads?
Neither Chi Flow nor BlockStep shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Chi Flow or BlockStep?
Chi Flow ships an update daily, and BlockStep every 4 days. Most recently, Chi Flow was updated on October 30, 2026 and BlockStep on November 10, 2026.

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