Comparison

Fitness Reframed vs StepQuest

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

Head to head
About

Fitness Reframed

This app transforms your daily steps into progress on virtual journeys, from real-world trails to fantasy worlds. Connect your health data to track your movement and earn in-app currency to unlock new destinations. Walk at your own pace and explore diverse landscapes.

Highlights
  • Step-driven progress on 25+ journeys
  • Walk real trails or fantasy realms
  • Earn and spend in-app currency
  • Tap-to-expand journey cards
  • Connects with Apple Health
Features
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Every step is a step somewhere. Fitness Reframed turns the steps you already take, on a treadmill, on a sidewalk, on a hike, into progress along long-distance journeys. Walk the perimeter of the moon. Cross a coast-to-coast trail. Climb a fantasy mountain. Trek through worlds inspired by the games and shows you love. Connect Apple Health and Fitness Reframed only counts steps you take from this moment forward, no past history, no surprise leaderboards. You pick the journeys, you walk at your pace, the world moves under your feet. KEY FEATURES • Step-driven progress across 25+ legendary distances, real trails, fantasy realms, sci-fi rings, planetary loops • Earn units as you walk, spend them on new locations or top up your balance • Tap-to-expand journey cards with steps walked, steps remaining, and pace • Built for left- or right-handed use Walking is the world's oldest journey. Fitness Reframed just gives it somewhere to go.

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

Fitness Reframed4 screens
StepQuest4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Fitness Reframed at none against StepQuest's shown. Fitness Reframed also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 4 days). On price, in-app purchases, 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. Fitness Reframed sells 6 one-off in-app purchases and StepQuest sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Fitness Reframed ships an update daily, StepQuest every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Fitness Reframed versus StepQuest: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFitness ReframedStepQuest
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyDaily — betterEvery 4 days
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS15.115.1
Further details — not scored
Size80 MB60 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNoah PerkinsAdam Golczak

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Fitness Reframed

One-time6
  • 100 units$0.99
  • 250 units$1.99
  • 800 units$4.99
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  • 2000 units$9.99
  • 5000 units$19.99
  • 10000 units$34.99
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 Fitness Reframed free?
Fitness Reframed is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is StepQuest free?
StepQuest is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Fitness Reframed or StepQuest have ads?
StepQuest shows ads; Fitness Reframed does not.
Which is updated more often, Fitness Reframed or StepQuest?
Fitness Reframed ships an update daily, and StepQuest every 4 days. Most recently, Fitness Reframed was updated on October 25, 2026 and StepQuest on October 29, 2026.

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