Step Counter Game vs HexStride
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
Step Counter Game
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WalKing - Step Counter & Fun Challenges With WalKing, every step brings you closer to becoming the true King of Walking. This pedometer not only counts your steps but also makes walking exciting with fun challenges and levels. Earn Rating Points as you progress and climb the ranks. Challenge your friends through Game Center - the one with the most Rating Points wears the crown! Features: Accurate step counter & pedometer Fun challenges to keep you moving Rating Points for every level you achieve Compete with friends via Game Center Become the WalKing - the King of Steps! Premium Subscription Unlocks: Continue leveling up beyond the 10th level Keep your daily streak alive even if you skip a day Walk. Compete. Rule. With WalKing, every step is your way to the crown Privacy Policy: http://evgeniyasench.tilda.ws/privacypolicy Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
HexStride
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Where you walk becomes yours. HexStride turns the streets you already walk into a board of hexagons, twenty-seven metres across. Walk a street and the hexagons under your feet are yours. Close a loop and everything inside it is yours too. Walk through a rival's ground and you take it, one layer at a time. The biggest patch leads, and the board never resets. EARNED ON FOOT Every hexagon on the map was walked by somebody. Claims count walking or running, and a walk at vehicle speed, or one your phone's step counter says you didn't walk, claims nothing. No clock ever holds ground for anyone: what defends a hexagon is walking it again, which hardens it, and a rival needs one walk to crack a layer and another to take it. How claims are checked is public at hexstride.app/fair-play. A GAME THAT STAYS KIND Your score only goes up. Losing ground stops it climbing, never subtracts. Two rest days a week are free, and a short week is never called a failure. One nudge a day at your usual hour, nothing between ten at night and eight in the morning, no red badges. WALK. RUN. LOOP. Start counts you down and follows you through real 3D streets. During the walk the hexagons you'd claim light up as outlines; tap End and they sweep in along your route. Runs count too and are saved to Apple Health as runs. THE BOARD A board for every district, city, region and country, with a podium at the top and your own row pinned wherever it falls. Tap any patch to see who holds it: their name, their photo and how much ground they hold against yours. Send a wave. Invite a friend to the same streets. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account and no sign-up. Your routes never leave your phone; only the hexagons you claimed do. Nobody, including us, can see where you walked. No ads, no analytics that track you, no data sale. Delete everything from inside the app, any time. ON YOUR LOCK SCREEN A Live Activity for the walk in progress, and widgets for the week's days out and the ground you hold. Share a walk as a story or a post, or send it to Strava. A city with nobody in it is yours for the taking. Bring a friend and it's a rivalry.
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Verdict
Step Counter Game and HexStride are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters โ price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them โ neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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Both are free to download. Step Counter Game sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and HexStride sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Step Counter Game ships an update every 10 days, HexStride every 5 days. Both last shipped on October 1, 2026.
| Parameter | Step Counter Game | HexStride |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days | Every 5 days โ better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad โ better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 โ better | 17.0 |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 15 MB | 30 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Evgeniya Senchurova | BEN DUSHNITZKY |
In-app purchases
Step Counter Game
- One month premium access$9.991 Month
- One year premium access3 Days trial$29.991 Year
HexStride
- Monthly14 Days trial$3.991 Month
- Annual14 Days trial$29.991 Year
- Lifetime$79.99
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