Comparison

Walking Heroes vs Mettle

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

Head to head
About

Walking Heroes

Features
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Walking Heroes turns your daily steps into an epic RPG adventure! Create your hero, earn XP with every walk, level up, and become stronger with every step. Challenge real players in walking battles, play fun minigames, climb leaderboards, and unlock real-life rewards like vouchers, gifts, and seasonal prizes. Key Features: • Walk to gain XP & level up your hero • 1v1 step battles with real players • Make friends and compete • Fun minigames powered by your walking • Real-life rewards for achievements • Customize your hero with outfits and upgrades • Seasonal competitions and trophies • Track your walking progress with accurate step analytics Stay active, stay motivated, and turn your daily steps into power! Walk, play, and become a Walking Hero today! Privacy Policy https://drive.google.com/file/d/11mxxHDctewN4MMGmfA8cqS8PgH2FhDUT/view?usp=sharing Terms and Condition https://drive.google.com/file/d/18JhPjVieMIWzjDJJLjQPMRQZS3Hh1tQz/view?usp=sharing

About

Mettle

This app transforms your real-world steps into in-game attacks against monsters. Team up with friends to battle foes, level up your heroes, and conquer weekly challenges. Walk more to strengthen your squad and climb the leaderboards.

Highlights
  • Steps deal damage to monsters
  • Squad-based cooperative play
  • Weekly expeditions and world raids
  • Hero collection and evolution
  • Leaderboard rankings
  • Apple Health integration
Features
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Mettle is a free walking game where your steps are your weapon. Join a squad with your friends, take on monsters together, and level up as a team. Every real-world step you take deals damage, and every monster you defeat earns coins to recruit new heroes, like the mage, swordsman, archer and bard. Walk more, and your heroes level up and hit harder. How it works: - Pick your starting hero. When you walk in real life, your hero deals damage to monsters. - Join or create a squad and fight side by side with friends, wherever they are. - Take on a weekly expedition: a new monster every day and a boss every Sunday. - Go on hunts: forays and bounties with 47+ monsters, solo or with your squad. - Level up your squad to unlock emblems, banners, more members and tougher monsters. - Join the Weekly World Raid, where every player fights one giant boss together. - Add friends and challenge them to step duels. - Steps sync from Apple Health and hit the monster automatically, even while the app is closed. - Collect heroes across 24 lines, feed them XP from your walking, and evolve them into rarer forms. - Climb the leaderboard for today, this week, this month and all time. - No ads. Just you, your friends and a lot of walking! Note from the creator: Hey, I’m Daniel, and I built Mettle to motivate my family and friends to walk more and stay active. The first week of testing was a complete success. Everyone was hooked and genuinely making an effort to walk more to defeat the monsters together, level up their heroes, and climb the leaderboard. I designed and built Mettle entirely on my own. My goal now is to share it with any group that wants to stay active together. Happy walking!

Screenshots

Walking Heroes4 screens
Mettle4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Mettle at none against Walking Heroes's 8. Walking Heroes's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence 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. Walking Heroes sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Mettle asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Walking Heroes ships an update every 3 days, Mettle every 2 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Walking Heroes versus Mettle: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWalking HeroesMettle
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.7 (29 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—75.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—29 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 daysEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size466 MB161 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperAndreas ProtopapasDaniel Chung

In-app purchases

8 purchases

Walking Heroes

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Subscription$5.991 Month
  • Yearly Subscription$49.991 Year
One-time6
  • Gem Pack 1$0.49
  • Gem Pack 2$1.99
  • Gem Pack 3$2.99
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  • Gem Pack 4$12.99
  • Gem Pack 5$17.99
  • Gem Pack 6$29.99
None

Mettle

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Walking Heroes free?
Walking Heroes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Mettle free?
Mettle is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Walking Heroes or Mettle have ads?
Neither Walking Heroes nor Mettle shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Walking Heroes or Mettle?
Walking Heroes ships an update every 3 days, and Mettle every 2 days. Most recently, Walking Heroes was updated on October 31, 2026 and Mettle on October 31, 2026.

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