Walkagotchi vs StepQuest
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
Walkagotchi
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Meet Walkagotchi โ your pixel-art virtual pet that lives or dies based on your daily steps. Every step keeps your tiny companion happy, healthy, and growing. GROW YOUR PET FROM AN EGG Start with a mysterious egg and walk 10,000 steps to hatch your unique pet. Name it, bond with it, and watch it grow over time. KEEP YOUR PET ALIVE Your daily steps power your pet's health. Walk regularly to keep them thriving. Skip too many days and... well, let's just say motivation has never felt this real. SIMPLE GOALS, BIG MOTIVATION Choose your daily step goal โ 2,500 (Casual), 5,000 (Active), or 10,000 (Athlete). Adjust anytime as your fitness grows. BUILT ON APPLE HEALTH Walkagotchi reads your steps directly from Apple Health. No extra trackers, no battery drain, no background processes draining your phone. PIXEL-ART CHARM Hand-crafted pixel-art animations, retro sound design, and a calm dark interface make Walkagotchi a joy to open every day. NO ADS, NO TRACKING, NO ACCOUNT We don't collect your data, sell your info, or interrupt your day with ads. Your pet, your steps, your device. That's it. TRY IT FREE Enjoy 3 days of full access โ no paywall, no commitment. Then keep your pet alive with Walkagotchi Premium: - Monthly: $3.99/month - Yearly: $19.99/year (save 58%) Both plans include a 7-day free trial. Subscriptions automatically renew at the same price unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in Settings โ Apple ID โ Subscriptions. Privacy Policy: https://www.notion.so/Privacy-Policy-Walkagotchi-366f6e23592e8064b0e7e0a79afdb7f5 Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Take your first step. Hatch your pet. Walk for a reason.
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.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Walkagotchi at none against StepQuest's shown. StepQuest's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17). On price and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. Walkagotchi sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and StepQuest sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | Walkagotchi | StepQuest |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | โ | Every 3 days |
| Ads | No โ better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch โ better |
| Requires iOS | 17 | 15.1 โ better |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 60 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Thomas Schifferer | Adam Golczak |
In-app purchases
Walkagotchi
- Walkagotchi Premium Monthly7 Days trial$3.991 Month
- Walkagotchi Premium Yearly7 Days trial$19.991 Year
StepQuest
- 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







