Comparison

Flowtr vs StepQuest

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

Head to head
About

Flowtr

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Give your run a new purpose. Flowtr turns your route into territory on the map. RUN AND CONQUER Head outside, run a loop and claim the area on the 3D map. Close a loop over rival territory to make it yours. CHALLENGE FRIENDS Create a duel or a group challenge. Compete over a single run, a week, a month or a year, for total distance or your best run. WATCH YOUR PROGRESS Record GPS routes, check distance and pace, and revisit your conquests in your history. Rankings and milestones give you new goals. Run, walk or cycle. SHARE WITH PRIDE Turn your activity into a cinematic video, a full-screen image with a 3D map, or an editable sticker for your social stories. The streets are the board. Your next conquest starts with you.

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StepQuest

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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

Flowtr4 screens
StepQuest4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Flowtr at none against StepQuest's 5. Flowtr also leads on ads (none vs shown). StepQuest's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. StepQuest sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Flowtr asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Flowtr ships an update every 3 weeks, StepQuest every 4 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences ยท 3 level
Flowtr versus StepQuest: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFlowtrStepQuest
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 4 days โ€” better
AdsNo โ€” betterYes
In-app purchasesNo โ€” betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPod, Apple Watch โ€” better
Requires iOS15.0 โ€” better15.1
Further details โ€” not scored
Size128 MB60 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperJoao Nuno FerreiraAdam Golczak

In-app purchases

None

Flowtr

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 Flowtr free?
Flowtr is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is StepQuest free?
StepQuest is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Flowtr or StepQuest have ads?
StepQuest shows ads; Flowtr does not.
Which is updated more often, Flowtr or StepQuest?
Flowtr ships an update every 3 weeks, and StepQuest every 4 days. Most recently, Flowtr was updated on October 31, 2026 and StepQuest on October 31, 2026.

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