Bean vs Cudex
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bean
This app gamifies your fitness journey by turning real-world walking, running, and biking into quests. Level up your character, customize its appearance, and earn rewards. Compete with friends, build a shared farm, and capture memorable moments.
- Daily step, run, and bike quests
- Character leveling and customization
- Limited-time missions with cosmetic rewards
- Friend challenges for walking, running, biking
- Collaborative farm building
- Weekly and monthly friend record comparisons
- 1-second video moment capture
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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. "Cute outfits and I love the overlay." (App Store review) 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 Beans, so you always pick exactly what you want. No pulls, no luck-only walls. 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. FARM Team up with friends on a shared farm of up to 30 members. Pool your Beans to unlock land, and every plot you unlock boosts the Beans everyone earns from quests. Spend the pool on animals, decorations, and ground tiles, and lay them out together. FRIENDS Add friends and see how your weekly and monthly records compare. 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. FREE TO DOWNLOAD, NO SUBSCRIPTION Bean is free to download, with no subscription and no trial to cancel. Quests, missions, challenges, friends, farms, and widgets are all free. You earn Beans by finishing quests, finding Bean in the daily puzzle, and watching optional ads. If you want more, optional Bean Packs are one-time purchases: 60 Beans for $1.99, 170 for $4.99, 375 for $9.99, 800 for $19.99, or 2,200 for $49.99 (US prices). 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
This app gamifies your daily steps by turning them into experience points to collect and hatch unique monsters. Earn in-app currency to customize your collection and compete with friends. Unlock new creatures and features with optional Pro upgrades.
- Collect monsters by walking
- Earn XP from daily steps
- Track steps via Apple Health
- Compete with friends
- In-app shop for customization
- Optional Pro subscription for advanced features
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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 3 days vs weekly) and iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.5). On price, rating, ratings volume and in-app purchases 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 10 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 holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 6 respectively.
Bean ships an update every 3 days, Cudex weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 15, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bean | Cudex |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (7 ratings) — better | 4.8 (6 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Weekly |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 26.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 51 MB | 31 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Forwardslash LLC | Siraj Hasanov |
Customer experience
Bean
Cudex
In-app purchases
Bean
- 60 Beans$1.99
- 170 Beans$4.99
- 375 Beans$9.99
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- 100$9.99
- 800 Beans$19.99
- 300$28.99
- 500$46.99
- 2200 Beans$49.99
- 700$64.99
- 1000$89.99
Cudex
- Pro Month$4.991 Month
- Pro Year7 Days trial$29.991 Year
- Pro Lifetime$59.99









