Comparison

StrideQuests vs Mettle

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

Head to head
About

StrideQuests

Features
Read full description

StrideQuests turns real-world walking into a cozy authored fantasy story. Open the app, see the exact next story action, and let ordinary steps move the next chapter closer. Choose Pip the fox, Morrow the owl, or Clover the rabbit. Your companion remembers chapters and discoveries from the path, while Moonlit Meadow offers a complete seven-chapter story world free. BEGIN IN MOONLIT MEADOW Moonlit Meadow is the first story world. Follow its path, unlock chapters, replay scenes in your Quest Log, and save keepsakes, stamps, postcards, Field Notes, Bond Cards, and stickers in your Journal. WALK YOUR WAY - See daily steps, Energy, and journey progress on Today - Start Live Walk Adventure for an active walking session with discoveries and rewards - Use Apple Watch during supported Live Walk sessions - Optionally draw a local trail map during an active walk - Build a bond with your companion through walks and saved memories - Explore seven distinct fantasy worlds - Use Home Screen widgets and Messages stickers PRIVATE BY DESIGN StrideQuests has no ads, no account, no IDFA, and no leaderboards. Apple Health values and optional route coordinates stay on your device and are never sent to analytics. MORE WORLDS WHEN YOU'RE READY After Moonlit Meadow, approved annual and monthly subscriptions can open the premium story-world catalog where available. Story progression remains sequential. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Mettle

This game transforms your real-world steps into in-game attacks against monsters. Team up with friends to battle foes, level up your heroes, and compete on leaderboards. It syncs with health data to automatically deal damage, even when the app is closed.

Highlights
  • Steps deal damage to monsters
  • Squad up with friends
  • Weekly expeditions and raids
  • Collect and evolve heroes
  • Syncs with Apple Health
  • Leaderboard challenges
  • No ads
Features
Read full description

Mettle is a free walking game where your steps are your weapon. Join a squad with your friends, take on monsters together, and level up as a team. Every real-world step you take deals damage, and every monster you defeat earns coins to recruit new heroes, like the mage, swordsman, archer and bard. Walk more, and your heroes level up and hit harder. How it works: - Pick your starting hero. When you walk in real life, your hero deals damage to monsters. - Join or create a squad and fight side by side with friends, wherever they are. - Take on a weekly expedition: a new monster every day and a boss every Sunday. - Go on hunts: forays and bounties with 47+ monsters, solo or with your squad. - Level up your squad to unlock emblems, banners, more members and tougher monsters. - Join the Weekly World Raid, where every player fights one giant boss together. - Add friends and challenge them to step duels. - Steps sync from Apple Health and hit the monster automatically, even while the app is closed. - Collect heroes across 24 lines, feed them XP from your walking, and evolve them into rarer forms. - Climb the leaderboard for today, this week, this month and all time. - No ads. Just you, your friends and a lot 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

StrideQuests4 screens
Mettle4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Mettle at none against StrideQuests's 9. Mettle also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 5 days). 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. StrideQuests sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Mettle asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

StrideQuests ships an update every 5 days, Mettle every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
StrideQuests versus Mettle: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStrideQuestsMettle
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.6 (37 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—80.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—37 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 daysEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size458 MB179 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJoey HoffmannDaniel Chung

In-app purchases

9 purchases

StrideQuests

Subscriptions2
  • Premium Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Premium Annual14 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time7
  • Sunlit Grove Forever$7.99
  • Twilight Harbor Forever$7.99
  • Starlit Highlands Forever$7.99
Show 4 more
  • Autumn Lanternwood Forever$7.99
  • Crystal Caverns Forever$7.99
  • Snowfall Ridge Forever$7.99
  • Current Worlds Pass$19.99
None

Mettle

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is StrideQuests free?
StrideQuests is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Mettle free?
Mettle is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do StrideQuests or Mettle have ads?
Neither StrideQuests nor Mettle shows ads.
Which is updated more often, StrideQuests or Mettle?
StrideQuests ships an update every 5 days, and Mettle every 2 days. Most recently, StrideQuests was updated on November 5, 2026 and Mettle on November 10, 2026.

Other comparisons