Comparison

Pixel Walker vs Mettle

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

Head to head
About

Pixel Walker

Features
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Turn your daily steps into epic adventures! Walk to defeat monsters, collect legendary gear, and become the ultimate hero in this unique fitness RPG. Description Pixel Walker RPG is a unique idle role-playing game powered by your real-life steps. Simply walk with your smartphone to explore the world, fight monsters, and level up your hero. Enjoy the perfect blend of building healthy habits and classic RPG progression. [Key Features] Step-Powered Gameplay: Your physical steps translate directly into in-game movement and attacks. Offline Rewards: Keep earning experience and gold even when the app is closed. Your steps are always counted. Classes & Equipment: Upgrade your class as you level up, and collect or enhance hundreds of unique items. Epic Boss Battles: Reach step milestones to challenge powerful bosses and claim rare treasures. Retro Pixel Art: Experience a charming, nostalgic world brought to life with classic pixel graphics and animations. Start walking, start leveling. Join the adventure with Pixel Walker RPG today! EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Mettle

This game turns your real-world steps into in-game attacks against monsters. Walk with friends to form a party, defeat foes, and earn coins to recruit and level up heroes. Compete on leaderboards and enjoy an ad-free experience that encourages physical activity.

Highlights
  • Steps deal damage to monsters
  • Create parties with friends
  • Recruit and level up heroes
  • Daily and weekly leaderboards
  • Syncs with Apple Health
  • No ads
Features
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Mettle is a free walking game where your steps are the weapon. Invite your friends to create a party of heroes that encounter monsters. Every real-world step you take deals damage, and defeating monsters earns you coins. Exchange coins to recruit fun heroes, like mage, swordsman, archer, and bard. Level up your heroes by walking to deal more damage per step. How it works: - Select your starting hero to level up. When you walk in real life, you deal damage to monsters. - Create a party and battle side by side with your friends anywhere. - Deal with fun monster encounters. One minor monster every day, and a super boss every Sunday. - Steps sync from Apple Health and strike the monster automatically, even while the app is closed. - Collect a roster of heroes across 24+ lines, feed them XP from your walking, and evolve them into rarer forms. - Climb the leaderboard with daily and weekly fun competition that rewards the biggest walker. - Earn and spend coins and embers to recruit heroes and buy potions: an economy fed entirely by walking. - No ads. Just you, your friends, and lots 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

Pixel Walker4 screens
Mettle4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Mettle at none against Pixel Walker's 1. Mettle also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 2 weeks). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Pixel Walker sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $1.99 per month. Mettle asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pixel Walker ships an update every 2 weeks, Mettle every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Pixel Walker versus Mettle: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPixel WalkerMettle
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.1 (9 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—57.1% of reviews
Number of ratings—9 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS17.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size25 MB61 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperDONGHOON KIMDaniel Chung

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Pixel Walker

Subscriptions1
  • Adventure Pass (1 Month)$1.991 Month
None

Mettle

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Pixel Walker free?
Pixel Walker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Mettle free?
Mettle is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Pixel Walker or Mettle have ads?
Neither Pixel Walker nor Mettle shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Pixel Walker or Mettle?
Pixel Walker ships an update every 2 weeks, and Mettle every 2 days. Most recently, Pixel Walker was updated on October 11, 2026 and Mettle on October 7, 2026.

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