Comparison

Mosey Mate vs Stepple

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

Head to head
About

Mosey Mate

This app encourages walking by turning your steps into seeds to grow a virtual camp and decorate cozy places. Your trail buddy greets you daily, and you can unlock famous world trails and collect keepsakes. It's designed to be a welcoming and gentle fitness companion.

Highlights
  • Virtual camp growth with steps
  • Decorate cozy places
  • Unlock famous world trails
  • Daily buddy greetings
  • Collect earned keepsakes
  • Gentle, non-competitive design
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Meet your new walking buddy! Mosey Mate is a cozy step counter with a trail buddy waiting for you at camp. Take a walk, and come home to a little world that grew while you were out. Free, private, and no account required. THE WALKING APP THAT MAKES YOU WANT TO WALK You already know walking is good for you — that was never the problem. The problem is that step counters hand you a chart, a ring you didn't close, and a streak you're scared to break. None of that is a reason to put your shoes on. Mosey Mate gives you one. Your steps become Step Seeds, your seeds build a camp, and your buddy remembers every day you showed up. No leaderboards, no competition, and a missed day is just a day off. If fitness apps have only made you feel behind, this one is built to make you feel welcome. HOW IT WORKS 1. Take a walk. Mosey Mate reads the steps your phone already counts. 2. Come home. Your buddy is waiting with a greeting, a review of the day's walk, and the seeds you earned. 3. Make it yours. Spend seeds on cozy places, decorations, and journeys along the world's famous trails. 4. Come back tomorrow. Your camp shifts with the day-night cycle and seasons. YOUR TRAIL BUDDY • Pick your buddy: claim Maple the Corgi or Juniper the Cat free — name them whatever you like — with more buddies waiting further down the trail. • Mosey Days: walk 1,500 steps and the day counts. No goal to hit, no target to miss. • The Daily Return: a greeting from your buddy when you get back, and a review of what you accomplished. • Buddy Journal: first walks, milestones, finished trails, and your own notes, kept in a journal for each of your buddies. A CAMP THAT GROWS WITH YOU • Keepsakes: Every day you walk brings you closer to a milestone. When you reach a milestone, your buddy is waiting with a new gift to add to your camp. • Earned, never bought: keepsakes aren't for sale, and nothing you've earned is ever taken away. • Every buddy tracks their own progress and has a unique set of keepsakes. BUILD YOUR HAPPY PLACES • Five places to decorate: Forest Campsite, Mountain Lodge, Beach Cove, Lakeside Hideaway, and Orchard Cottage, with more coming soon! • Use seeds to get decorations: Over a hundred decorations, plus frames and wallpapers. No two worlds look alike. • A living scene: morning, evening, spring through winter — your camp follows the day and seasons. WALK THE WORLD'S FAMOUS TRAILS • Ten journeys: Central Park, the Cinque Terre, the Inca Trail, Everest Base Camp, the Pacific Crest Trail, and more. • Trail notes: real-world notes about each journey, unlocked at each milestone. • Postcards: finish a journey and keep an illustrated postcard — flip it to read the back, share it to show your progress. GENTLE BY DESIGN • Set your own daily goal for motivation at your own pace. • Earned rest days cover a missed day so your streak carries on. • Your buddy is glad to see you whether it's been a day or a month. GO FURTHER WITH MOSEY MATE PRO • Journey souvenirs: finish a trail and bring a unique decoration home for camp. • Rest days, twice as fast: start with two, then earn one every week. • 3× Step Seeds: unlock places and decorate your camp three times faster. • Grand Journeys: long-distance journeys around the world, pole to pole, or all the way to Mars — powered by every step you've ever walked. • Step history: more charts and history of your progress over the weeks, months, and years. • Buddy Treasures: unlock special effects that travel with your buddy. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No ads. No tracking. Your data stays on your device. SAY HI! Ready for a mosey? Download Mosey Mate for free. Questions or ideas? I'd love to hear from you: support@ohrover.com Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Stepple

This app features a virtual pet that grows and thrives based on your daily physical activity. Set personalized goals, track your progress through Apple Health, and watch your pet evolve through various life stages. It offers a forgiving system for missed days and encourages consistent movement.

Highlights
  • Virtual pet grows with movement
  • Customizable daily step or calorie goals
  • Integrates with Apple Health
  • Pets evolve through life stages
  • Forgiving system for missed goals
  • Streak building and lifetime progress
  • Collectible creatures with unique colors
  • Home screen widget for progress updates
Features
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Stepple is the little pet that grows when you move. Even a walk around the block is enough. Hatch an egg, pick a daily goal that fits where you are right now, and watch your pet thrive as you move. Meet your goal and your Stepple gains hearts. Miss a day and they lose one, but a good walk tomorrow starts winning them back. START WHEREVER YOU ARE Choose a steps goal or an active-calorie goal, as small as a short daily walk or as big as marathon training. Stepple reads your steps, active calories and workouts from Apple Health, so walking the dog, a gym session, a bike ride or a flight of stairs all count. A hearts bar shows exactly how your pet is doing: thriving, content, tired, sick or critical. WATCH THEM GROW Every goal day brings your pet closer to their next form. Keep showing up and they grow from Baby to Teen, Adult, Prime and finally Elder, each stage with a new look and its own celebration. FORGIVING BY DESIGN One bad day won't break anything. A missed day costs a heart, and each goal day earns half a heart back. Your pet only reaches the end of their story after several missed days in a row, so there's room for a rough week, a trip or a sick day. Every evolution also earns credit toward a Streak Freeze, which can cover a missed day before it counts against you. BUILD A STREAK Hit your goal today, tomorrow and the day after, and watch your streak climb. Stepple tracks a streak for each pet and a lifetime streak across every pet you raise, so your progress carries on. A COLLECTION THAT FEELS PERSONAL 10+ creatures to discover, each with their own look and attitude. Every egg hatches in a randomly rolled color, so no two pets are alike, even of the same species. Keep hitting your goal to earn your next egg. Some pets unlock only through dedication: one after enough goal days, another at a long streak, and more waiting to be found. THE GARDEN & THE GRAVEYARD Pets you've moved on from live in a pixel-art garden, where you can visit them or bring one back. Pets whose story has ended rest in a graveyard, each tombstone marking their name and lifespan. Every pet you raise becomes part of your history. COMPETE WITH FRIENDS Join a leaderboard with friends and see who moves the most each week. Turn your pet and progress into a story-sized card and share it anywhere. EARN YOUR REPUTATION 20+ tiered accolades for running, swimming, cycling, yoga, hiking, strength training, dance and team sports. Your pet develops an Activity Trait that reflects how you like to move, plus 15+ achievements that stay with you across every pet. ON YOUR HOME SCREEN An animated pet lives in a free home screen widget, in small and medium sizes, reacting to your progress without opening the app. STEPPLE+ Go further with an optional subscription: • Premium pets and exclusive characters • Raise two pets at once • Hatch new pets faster • Host your own leaderboards • Live Activity tracking on your lock screen • Pixel-art scenes, custom hearts, pattern overlays and app icons Free players can still choose from 20+ heart colors and several background gradients. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account, no sign-up, no ads. Your Apple Health data is read on your device to care for your pet and isn't shared anywhere, unless you turn on optional social features like leaderboards, which publish activity stats (like steps and goal progress) through Apple's CloudKit. You're always in control of what you share. --- STEPPLE+ SUBSCRIPTION Payment is charged to your Apple ID at purchase. Subscription auto-renews unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the period ends. Manage subscriptions in your Apple ID account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://stepple.fit/terms Privacy Policy: https://stepple.fit/privacy

Screenshots

Mosey Mate4 screens
Stepple4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Mosey Mate at none against Stepple's 2. Mosey Mate also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 3 weeks) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). On price, rating, ratings volume 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. Stepple sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Mosey Mate asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Mosey Mate against 5.0 for Stepple. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 3 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Mosey Mate ships an update daily, Stepple every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Mosey Mate versus Stepple: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMosey MateStepple
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings33
Update frequencyDaily — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size107 MB100 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperOh Rover LLCJoseph DeGrand

Customer experience

Mosey Mate

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Stepple

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Mosey Mate

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Stepple

Subscriptions2
  • Stepple+$4.991 Month
  • Stepple+7 Days trial$39.991 Year

Questions

Is Mosey Mate free?
Mosey Mate is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Stepple free?
Stepple is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Mosey Mate or Stepple?
Mosey Mate and Stepple are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 3 and 3 ratings respectively.
Do Mosey Mate or Stepple have ads?
Neither Mosey Mate nor Stepple shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Mosey Mate or Stepple?
Mosey Mate ships an update daily, and Stepple every 3 weeks. Most recently, Mosey Mate was updated on October 31, 2026 and Stepple on October 31, 2026.

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