Comparison

Daybound Tower vs StepQuest

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

Head to head
About

Daybound Tower

This idle RPG transforms your daily physical activity into in-game progress. Walk, climb stairs, or complete workouts to ascend a tower, collect loot, and build powerful character loadouts. Enjoy a fresh start each day with no ads or pay-to-win mechanics.

Highlights
  • Steps convert to tower floors
  • Stairs boost boss fight chance
  • Workouts unlock power-ups
  • Collect equipment from Common to Legendary
  • Build passive skill loadouts
  • Daily fresh starts
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Your steps fuel a daily tower climb. No ads. No account. No pay-to-win. Daybound Tower turns yesterday's walking, stairs, and workouts into today's idle RPG run. One climb per day. Every morning is a fresh start. WALK → CLIMB → LOOT → REPEAT - Steps become floors — 10,000 steps = 1,000 floors - Stairs boost your boss fight chance - Workouts unlock daily power-ups - Collect equipment from Common to Legendary - Build passive skill loadouts with daily-rotating prices Free to play. Pro unlocks expanded inventory, extra drops, and passive slots. Requires HealthKit (steps, stairs, distance, workouts). All data stored locally. Your health data never leaves your device.

About

StepQuest

Features
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Your hero is only alive while you keep walking. StepQuest exists to make a daily walking habit something you actually keep. Not with another streak badge or a reminder you learn to ignore, but by turning your step count into a roguelite RPG where a character's survival is the thing at stake. -= How It Works =- You pick a daily step goal, and it locks in for the whole adventure, so you set your own difficulty. Every day you hit it, your character earns XP and levels up. Every day you miss, you lose a heart. Run out of hearts and the run is over. Steps come straight from Apple Health, so there is nothing to log by hand. You walk, the game keeps score. -= Missing a Day Is Survivable, Not Free =- Six days in a row earns a rest day, and your next miss is forgiven automatically. A full seven day streak regenerates a heart. Blue hearts, earned only from the hardest quests, absorb a missed day as a last resort. Use all of it and a run can last months. Ignore it and five bad days end everything. -= Death Is Not a Reset =- When the last heart goes, your level resets, but your gold and your avatar collection are permanent. You cash out gold based on how long you survived, spend it on cosmetics, and start the next run with everything you have collected. A bad run costs you progress, never your collection. -= Your Steps Are the Currency =- More than 140 avatars across five styles: standard, casual, edgy, fantasy, and cyberpunk. Every one of them is priced in gold, and walking is what earns it. The rarest take real distance to reach, so your character ends up wearing the ground you covered. -= Quests Worth Chasing =- Daily, weekly, monthly and legendary quests. A perfect month. Half a million steps in a single run. A hundred consecutive days. -= On Your Wrist and Home Screen =- An Apple Watch app, a Watch complication, Home Screen widgets and Lock Screen widgets keep today's steps and your remaining hearts one glance away, so you always know how close the day is to costing you a heart. Raise your wrist or glance at a locked phone, no need to open the app. No accounts. No sign up. Just your steps. Disclaimer: StepQuest is free to play and shows ads. Optional in-app support tiers grant bonus gold and remove ads. Nothing you can buy affects your hearts, your step goal, or your progress.

Screenshots

Daybound Tower4 screens
StepQuest4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Daybound Tower at none against StepQuest's shown. StepQuest's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence and in-app purchases 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. Daybound Tower sells 4 one-off in-app purchases and StepQuest sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Daybound Tower ships an update every 3 days, StepQuest every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Daybound Tower versus StepQuest: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDaybound TowerStepQuest
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 4 days
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS17.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB60 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTakumi KanzakiAdam Golczak

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Daybound Tower

One-time4
  • Coffee Tip$0.99
  • Pro Unlock$4.99
  • Lunch Tip$4.99
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  • Dinner Tip$9.99
5 purchases

StepQuest

One-time5
  • Toss a Coin$1.99
  • Tavern Round$2.99
  • Squire's Tribute$4.99
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  • Royal Benefactor$9.99
  • Legendary Patron$19.99

Questions

Is Daybound Tower free?
Daybound Tower is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is StepQuest free?
StepQuest is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Daybound Tower or StepQuest have ads?
StepQuest shows ads; Daybound Tower does not.
Which is updated more often, Daybound Tower or StepQuest?
Daybound Tower ships an update every 3 days, and StepQuest every 4 days. Most recently, Daybound Tower was updated on November 5, 2026 and StepQuest on October 31, 2026.

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