StepPet vs Runnerd
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
StepPet
This app transforms your daily steps into a fantasy adventure. Walk to hatch and raise a magical creature that grows and evolves, unlocking accessories and companions. Compete with friends and climb leaderboards to stay motivated.
- Hatch and raise evolving fantasy pets
- Track daily, weekly, and total steps
- Unlock accessories and milestone evolutions
- Compete with friends in step challenges
- Climb weekly leaderboards
- Customize pet appearance
- Collect companions from elemental realms
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Evolve Your Pet — and Yourself. StepPet turns your daily steps into a fantasy adventure! Start with a mysterious egg that hatches after you walk, then raise a magical creature that grows and evolves as you move. From baby to beast — every step helps your pet level up. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Track your daily, weekly, and total steps while unlocking new accessories and milestone evolutions. Compete with friends in weekly step challenges and rise to the top of the leaderboard. Customize your pet’s look, show off your progress, and collect companions from four elemental realms — Elemental, Forest, Mythic, and Shadow — by walking more and achieving milestones. Whether you're walking for fun, fitness, or a bit of friendly competition, StepPet keeps you moving with a purpose. Ready to hatch your journey?
Runnerd
This app analyzes your running data from Apple Health to provide insights into your training, readiness, and performance. It offers detailed run breakdowns, season timelines, and coaching advice without requiring an account or subscription.
- Readiness Score calculation
- Detailed run analysis
- Performance Management Chart
- Season timeline view
- Three coaching tones
- Shoe mileage tracking
- Personal bests tracking
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Runnerd is a running coach and a serious analytics app in one. It builds a plan around your goal, explains every recommendation and works with the runs you've already logged. No subscription. No account. No compromises. HOW IT WORKS Connect Apple Health and Runnerd reads your past runs, whether they came from your Apple Watch, your iPhone or another running app. No blank slate: Runnerd knows where you stand from day one. Keep tracking with whatever you use today. Set a goal, like your next half marathon, and pick a coach. The Patient One builds up carefully, The Ambitious One pushes harder, and The Balanced One sits in between. The difference shows up in your plan, not just in the tone. Runnerd maps out every week until race day and schedules more of the run types you enjoy. You can add your own runs whenever you like. Each morning, your coach checks the plan against your readiness. After each run, it reviews how it went. Ahead of your goal? It'll tell you. Goal asking for more than your coach allows? It'll tell you that too. FOR NERDS WHO RUN Fitness, fatigue and form, running economy, intensity, training load: Runnerd shows whether your training is working and explains every term along the way. It's all built on proven sports science, not AI: Banister for fitness and form, Daniels VDOT for training paces and predictions, Karvonen for heart rate zones. IPHONE AND MAC Check in on your iPhone, dig deeper on your Mac with a native Mac app. Your data syncs through your private iCloud. Runnerd collects nothing and runs no servers. AND THE DETAILS Shoe mileage with a heads-up before a pair wears out. Personal bests, spotted automatically. Running partners. Widgets for your Home Screen and Lock Screen. Share runs, weeks and personal bests as images. FREE, WITH A ONE-TIME PRO UPGRADE Runnerd is free to use. Pro adds race predictions, running technique analysis, GPX export and The Ambitious One. One purchase covers iPhone and Mac.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Runnerd at none against StepPet's shown. Runnerd also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 5 weeks). StepPet's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 26.0). On price, review sentiment, 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. StepPet sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month and Runnerd sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
StepPet ships an update every 5 weeks, Runnerd every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | StepPet | Runnerd |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 177 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Vickio Labs Inc. | Norma Steller |
Customer experience
StepPet
Runnerd
In-app purchases
StepPet
- Monthly Premium3 Days trial$7.991 Month
- Annual Premium - Save 37%$59.991 Year
- 100 Gems$1.99
- 350 Gems + Bonus$4.99
- 800 Gems + Extra Bonus$9.99
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- 1700 Gems + Huge Bonus$19.99
- 4500 Gems + Maximum Bonus$49.99
- Lifetime Premium Access$129.99
Runnerd
- Runnerd Pro$7.99
- Support a Nerd$17.99









