Comparison

Tomo vs Stepwise

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

Head to head
About

Tomo

Turn any topic into a personalized, game-like course that takes just five minutes a day to complete. Simply type what you want to learn, and the AI will create a structured learning path. Build habits and feed your curiosity with bite-sized daily lessons.

Highlights
  • Personalized AI-generated courses
  • Bite-sized daily learning levels
  • Gamified learning with XP and streaks
  • Learn any topic imaginable
  • Habit-building approach to learning
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Short daily lessons on any topic, 5 minutes a day, played like a game. Type anything you've been meaning to learn. Tomo turns it into a personalized course you can play like a game. Five minutes a day. You're curious about a hundred things. You start none of them. Thirty open tabs. A reading list two years deep. Articles you saved, podcasts you queued, that thing your friend recommended six months ago. You don't want a degree. You want to finally learn the thing that's been bouncing around in your head. That's what Tomo does. HOW IT WORKS 1. Type a topic: investing, sleep, cooking, photography, quantum physics, the Roman Empire, sourdough, knot tying, anything. 2. Tomo's AI builds a full course in 2-3 minutes: structured sections and bite-sized levels. 3. Play it like a game: short daily lessons, quick quizzes, XP, streaks and leagues. POPULAR FREE COURSES Reading a Tape Measure · Macramé: The Art of Knots · Latte Art at Home · Norse Mythology · Anatomy for Pilates Professionals · Hands-On Auto Mechanics · Crochet Basics and Pattern Reading · Everyday Pashto WHY IT WORKS - Willpower runs out. Habits don't. - Five minutes a day beats four hours once a month. That's not a productivity hack. That's how the brain actually learns. - For the part of you with 30 open tabs and no idea where to start. FREE TO START - A free plan that doesn't expire. No credit card, no trial clock. - Optional Tomo PRO and MAX for deeper courses and more. Feed your curiosity. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Stepwise

Features
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Don't watch BFS run. Be BFS. Stepwise is a daily training game for software engineers, built for a phone: tap, drag and swipe. There's no typing on a tiny keyboard. BE THE ALGORITHM Execute real algorithms by hand on freshly generated inputs. Tap nodes in the order breadth-first search visits them, pick which node Dijkstra settles next, sift a value through a heap, probe a sorted array like binary search. Every move is scored, and the puzzles never run out. THE DAILY SET Five challenges, the same for every developer that day. Keep your streak and share a spoiler-free result card. A RATING THAT MEANS SOMETHING Every topic has its own Elo, like chess puzzles. Difficulty adapts to you. MORE GAMES Big-O Blitz, Bug Hunt, Line Up, Output Oracle (Java, Python, SQL), Pick the Structure and Pattern Spotter. There is also an Engineering track: race conditions, SQL traps, index choice. Every answer is checked: generated puzzles take their answer key from the real algorithm, and code snippets are verified by actually running them. Challenge a friend with a link to the exact puzzle you just solved. Your full history is saved, so you can replay anything you missed.

Screenshots

Tomo4 screens
Stepwise4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Stepwise at none against Tomo's 8. Stepwise also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 9 days). Tomo's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and device support (3 vs 1). On price 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. Tomo sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Stepwise asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Tomo ships an update every 9 days, Stepwise daily. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Tomo versus Stepwise: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTomoStepwise
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (33 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings33 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 9 daysDaily — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size68 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMohannad AliHakob Hakobyan

In-app purchases

8 purchases

Tomo

Subscriptions4
  • Tomo Pro Monthly$9.991 Month
  • Tomo Max Monthly$19.991 Month
  • Tomo Pro Yearly$59.991 Year
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  • Tomo Max Yearly$119.991 Year
One-time4
  • Vault Key$4.99
  • 50 Sparks$9.99
  • 120 Sparks$14.99
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  • 300 Sparks$29.99
None

Stepwise

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Tomo free?
Tomo is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Stepwise free?
Stepwise is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Tomo or Stepwise have ads?
Stepwise shows ads; Tomo does not.
Which is updated more often, Tomo or Stepwise?
Tomo ships an update every 9 days, and Stepwise daily. Most recently, Tomo was updated on November 9, 2026 and Stepwise on October 31, 2026.

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