Bean vs Cudex
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bean
Transform your fitness routine into an engaging game. Track your walks, runs, and bike rides to complete daily quests, level up your character, and earn rewards. Customize your avatar with unique outfits and compete with friends.
- Real-world fitness quests
- Character leveling and rewards
- Gacha for cosmetic outfits
- Friend leaderboards
- One-second video clip creation
- On-device video editing
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Bean turns your health into a fitness game. Walk, run, or bike in the real world. Your quests get crushed, your character levels up, and rewards roll in. DAILY QUESTS Every day brings three quest tiers (Easy, Normal, Hard) for walking, running, and biking: 5,000, 10,000, or 15,000 steps for walking, 1.5, 3, or 6 miles for running, and 3, 9.5, or 18.5 miles for biking. Kilometers if you prefer: 2.5, 5, or 10 for running and 5, 15, or 30 for biking. Complete them to earn Beans and XP. Everything comes from Apple Health, so there is nothing extra to track. KEEP YOUR STARS UP Your buddy has a star bar of up to 7 stars. Finish a Normal or Hard quest and you gain a star. Finish only Easy and you hold the stars you have. Finish nothing and you lose one. Keep 3 or more for 1.5x Beans on quests, or fill all 7 for 2x. YOUR CHARACTER Play as Bean or Pea, two pixel-art buddies you can switch between any time. Dress them in hats, hair, eyewear, face items, tops, bottoms, backgrounds, pets, and effects. Every item is bought outright with the Beans you earn, so you always pick exactly what you want. No pulls, no luck-only walls. Beans cannot be bought with money. MISSIONS Limited-time events with a ladder of daily movement goals. Every stage you reach unlocks a cosmetic you keep for good. COMPETE Start or join a walking, running, or biking challenge with friends, pick how long it runs, and see who moves the most. Free to enter, no stakes. TREEHOUSE Team up with friends in a shared Treehouse of up to 30 members. Pool your Beans to grow it through five tiers, and every upgrade boosts the Beans everyone earns from quests. FRIENDS Add friends and see how your weekly and monthly records compare. No likes, no comments, no follower counts. CAPTURE A YEAR IN ONE SECOND Record a 1-second moment from your favorite part of the day and stitch them into a highlight reel anytime. Your moments are backed up to your account, and the friends you add can watch them. WIDGETS Keep your buddy and today's quest progress on your Home Screen and Lock Screen. WHAT MAKES IT BEAN. A character to dress. Friends to compare with. A one-second clip to capture. A star bar you would rather not break. The little hooks that make you actually want to lace up again tomorrow.
Cudex
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There's a monster in here. Your steps collect more. Cudex turns your daily walking into a collection of monsters. Walk with your phone. Collect your steps. Hatch something new. Cudex is free to use, with no ads. Cudex Pro adds more. HOW IT WORKS • Your iPhone already counts your steps with Apple Health • Tap Collect in the app to turn today's steps into XP • XP raises your level, and every level hatches a new monster into your collection Every 100 steps is 1 XP. Steps you don't collect by midnight are gone, so the daily tap is the habit. Up to three reminders a day help you collect before the day ends. FREE FOR EVERYONE • 60 monsters to find, one every level • Streaks, badges and quests to chase • A history calendar of every day you've walked • Outfits and places for your monster from the shop, bought with coins you earn by walking • Share cards for a great day or a new monster • A daily step goal you set yourself WALK WITH FRIENDS Add friends with a code and see who has walked the most today. Tap a friend to see their monster, their collection and their badges. Friends is optional. Nothing is shared until you turn it on, and you can stop sharing at any time. WHAT CUDEX PRO ADDS • 48 rare monsters to find • Home screen and lock screen widgets, so you can collect without opening the app • Apple Watch complications • Insights: trends, consistency, your week, goal days and the hours you walk • The full shop of outfits and places YOUR STEPS, YOUR CHOICE Cudex reads step counts from Apple Health. Your steps stay on your phone unless you turn on Friends, and then only the friends you add can see them SUBSCRIPTION Cudex Pro is available as a monthly or yearly subscription, or as a one-time Lifetime purchase. If a free trial is offered, it converts to a paid subscription unless you cancel before it ends. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. A subscription renews automatically unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel it in your Apple ID settings. Collect monsters. Keep walking. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://acris.ai/monster-steps/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Cudex at none against Bean's shown. Bean's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 5 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
Both are free to download. Bean sells 5 one-off in-app purchases and Cudex sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Bean ships an update every 2 days, Cudex every 5 days. Both last shipped on October 1, 2026.
| Parameter | Bean | Cudex |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days — better | Every 5 days |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 26.4 — better | 26.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 31 MB | 29 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Forwardslash LLC | Siraj Hasanov |
In-app purchases
Bean
- 100$9.99
- 300$28.99
- 500$46.99
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- 700$64.99
- 1000$89.99
Cudex
- Pro Month$4.991 Month
- Pro Year7 Days trial$29.991 Year
- Pro Lifetime$59.99









