Comparison

StepDex vs StepQuest

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

Head to head
About

StepDex

Turn your daily walks into a Pokémon hatching adventure. Earn steps through real-life activity to hatch virtual eggs and collect a wide variety of Pokémon. Track your progress and build your collection with animated reveals and detailed Pokédex entries.

Highlights
  • Real step tracking via Apple HealthKit
  • Hatch all 1,025 Pokémon species
  • Rarity-based hatching distances
  • Animated egg hatching sequences
  • Full StepDex collection tracker
  • Offline functionality
  • Pokédex entries and cry playback
Features
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StepDex turns your daily walking into a Pokémon egg-hatching adventure. Every step brings you closer to hatching a new Pokémon — and the rarer it is, the more steps it takes. How it works: Receive a Mystery Egg with a random Pokémon, walk in real life using step data from Apple Health, watch your egg wobble and crack as you progress, then hatch your Pokémon with a celebration reveal and authentic cry. Add it to your StepDex and start your next egg. Features: Real step tracking via Apple HealthKit — works in the background, even with the app closed All 1,025 Pokémon species across Generations 1–9, including Legendaries and Mythicals Rarity-based hatching: ~1,000 steps for common Pokémon, 20,000+ for Legendaries Animated egg reactions — wobbling, cracking, and glowing as you near a hatch Full StepDex collection with sprites, types, abilities, and Pokédex entries Pokémon cry playback and Pokédex text-to-speech Custom nicknames and collection stats tracking Works offline after first load Your walking counts — whether it's a morning commute, a lunchtime stroll, or a weekend hike. How many can you collect?

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

StepDex4 screens
StepQuest4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: StepDex at none against StepQuest's 5. StepDex also leads on ads (none vs shown). StepQuest's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 months) 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. StepQuest sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. StepDex asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

StepDex ships an update every 2 months, StepQuest every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 4 level
StepDex versus StepQuest: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStepDexStepQuest
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (8 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings8 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 4 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS26.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB60 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperParas Raj AdhikaryAdam Golczak

In-app purchases

None

StepDex

No in-app purchases

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 StepDex free?
StepDex is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is StepQuest free?
StepQuest is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do StepDex or StepQuest have ads?
StepQuest shows ads; StepDex does not.
Which is updated more often, StepDex or StepQuest?
StepDex ships an update every 2 months, and StepQuest every 4 days. Most recently, StepDex was updated on October 31, 2026 and StepQuest on October 29, 2026.

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