Comparison

Step Tracker vs Chalant

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

Head to head
About

Step Tracker

This app transforms your daily steps into a fun, collectible adventure. Walk to hatch eggs and discover over 200 unique creatures, with rarer beasts unlocked through consistent activity. Track your progress with detailed statistics and motivating home screen widgets.

Highlights
  • Collect 200 unique beasts
  • Daily streak rewards for rare creatures
  • Detailed step, distance, and calorie statistics
  • Motivating home screen widgets
  • Apple Health and wearable support
Features
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Turn your daily steps into a real adventure! Steps & Beasts motivates you to walk more by turning every step into progress on your very own Journey — hatching eggs, collecting Beasts, and unlocking a whole world along the way. WHY STEPS & BEASTS? Every morning starts with a new egg. Walk toward your step goal and watch it hatch into a unique Beast. At the same time, your character moves forward on the Journey — a real path that grows with your steps, taking you through new biomes, landmarks, and levels. FEATURES YOU'LL LOVE: • YOUR OWN JOURNEY Every step carries your character down a living path. Explore distinct biomes, reach landmarks, open treasure chests, and level up as your total steps add up. • COLLECT 250+ UNIQUE BEASTS Hatch a new Beast every time you reach your goal. Hatch the same Beast again and again to unlock shiny Gold and Glitter looks. • QUESTS, XP & FEATHERS Complete quests along the Journey to earn XP and Feathers, then spend Feathers in the Shop on new looks for your character. • DAILY STREAK REWARDS Keep your streak alive to unlock rarer and more legendary Beasts. • DETAILED STATISTICS Track your daily steps, distance, calories, and 7-day averages — plus motivating charts and comparisons. • WIDGETS THAT MOTIVATE Watch your egg evolve as you move — right from your iPhone home screen or Lock Screen. • APPLE WATCH & APPLE HEALTH Steps are tracked automatically from your iPhone, Apple Watch, or any Apple Health‑compatible wearable. • NEVER LOSE PROGRESS Your steps, Beasts, and Journey are safely backed up to iCloud, so switching to a new iPhone is effortless. Start your Journey today and make walking the highlight of your day! Support: malte@stepsandbeasts.app Privacy: https://stepsandbeasts.app/privacy Terms: https://stepsandbeasts.app/terms EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Chalant

Features
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Chalant is a pocket garden that grows every time you care out loud. Tell someone you like them. Send the first text. Show up early. Say the enthusiastic thing instead of the cool thing. Then log it in two taps, and a flower plants itself. Nothing here ever wilts. This is an app for the shy, the overthinkers, the ones who draft a message three times before sending it. It doesn't coach you and it doesn't try to fix you. It keeps a garden of the times you were brave anyway — and the scarier the act, the rarer the bloom. HOW IT WORKS 1. Do something openly caring — the kind of thing that's mildly terrifying. 2. Log it: pick what kind of act it was, dial in how scary it felt (1–5), add a note if you want one. 3. A flower grows. WHAT'S IN THE GARDEN • Five families of flowers, one for each kind of caring, each with its own color ramp — and rare variants reserved for the acts that scared you most • A sky that keeps time with yours: sun by day, dusk and a moon at night • Levels with names you won't find anywhere else: Whelmed, Kempt, Gruntled, Fully chalant, Perennially chalant • Memory cards — tap any flower to revisit the act that planted it, wander the album, and get a quiet anniversary note a year on • Cuttings — share your garden as a file, or plant a friend's cutting into yours. Importing only ever adds; nothing is overwritten • Deadpan encouragement, administered sparingly NO STREAKS, NO GUILT There is no daily demand and no wilting countdown. Go quiet for a week and the garden simply waits — it is a record of courage, not a chore. Every flower you ever grew stays grown. YOURS, PRIVATELY Your garden lives on your phone. No account, no sign-up, no analytics, no data collected — the App Store privacy label says "Data Not Collected" and means it. Sharing a cutting is the only time anything leaves your device, and only because you sent it. Being nonchalant is easy. This is an app for the other thing.

Screenshots

Step Tracker4 screens
Chalant4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Chalant at none against Step Tracker's 10. Chalant also leads on device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads and iOS requirement 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. Step Tracker sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $0.79 per 7 days. Chalant asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Step Tracker versus Chalant: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStep TrackerChalant
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (417 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews91.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings417 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size56 MB26 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMalte PetersRobert Hurley

Bugs and requests

Step Tracker

Reported bugs

6 issues
  • Step count is off
  • Widgets not updating
  • App not starting
  • Streak broken due to app update
  • Incorrect step/distance tracking
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  • Charged for subscription unexpectedly

Requested features

8 requests
  • Integration with iWatch Home Screen
  • More diverse creature rewards
  • Bios for creatures
  • Ability to compete with friends
  • Step count displayed on watch
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  • Widgets for home screen
  • More beasts to collect
  • Option to hide potential animals until earned

Chalant

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Step Tracker

Subscriptions7
  • Pro Weekly Subscription$0.797 Days
  • Pro Monthly Subscription3 Days trial$0.991 Month
  • Weekly Subscription$1.997 Days
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  • Pro Annual Subscription3 Days trial$9.991 Year
  • Pro Yearly Subscription3 Days trial$17.901 Year
  • Annual Subscription3 Days trial$19.991 Year
  • Pro Yearly Subscription3 Days trial$29.991 Year
One-time3
  • Pro Lifetime$24.99
  • Pro Lifetime$39.99
  • Pro Lifetime$49.99
None

Chalant

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Step Tracker free?
Step Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Chalant free?
Chalant is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Step Tracker or Chalant have ads?
Neither Step Tracker nor Chalant shows ads.

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