Comparison

Mettle vs Stepr

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

Head to head
About

Mettle

This app transforms your real-world steps into in-game attacks against monsters. Team up with friends to battle foes, level up your heroes, and conquer weekly challenges. Walk more to strengthen your squad and climb the leaderboards.

Highlights
  • Steps deal damage to monsters
  • Squad-based cooperative play
  • Weekly expeditions and world raids
  • Hero collection and evolution
  • Leaderboard rankings
  • Apple Health integration
Features
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Mettle is a free walking game where your steps are your weapon. Join a squad with your friends, take on monsters together, and level up as a team. Every real-world step you take deals damage, and every monster you defeat earns coins to recruit new heroes, like the mage, swordsman, archer and bard. Walk more, and your heroes level up and hit harder. How it works: - Pick your starting hero. When you walk in real life, your hero deals damage to monsters. - Join or create a squad and fight side by side with friends, wherever they are. - Take on a weekly expedition: a new monster every day and a boss every Sunday. - Go on hunts: forays and bounties with 47+ monsters, solo or with your squad. - Level up your squad to unlock emblems, banners, more members and tougher monsters. - Join the Weekly World Raid, where every player fights one giant boss together. - Add friends and challenge them to step duels. - Steps sync from Apple Health and hit the monster automatically, even while the app is closed. - Collect heroes across 24 lines, feed them XP from your walking, and evolve them into rarer forms. - Climb the leaderboard for today, this week, this month and all time. - No ads. Just you, your friends and a lot of walking! Note from the creator: Hey, I’m Daniel, and I built Mettle to motivate my family and friends to walk more and stay active. The first week of testing was a complete success. Everyone was hooked and genuinely making an effort to walk more to defeat the monsters together, level up their heroes, and climb the leaderboard. I designed and built Mettle entirely on my own. My goal now is to share it with any group that wants to stay active together. Happy walking!

About

Stepr

Features
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Stepr is a step challenge app for friends, families and offices. Steps come straight from your iPhone, so nobody can type them in, and the last one walking wins. Create a league, share a six-letter code, and start. Every day the step goal rises a little. Meet it and you stay in. Miss it and you're out. The last one walking wins, and total steps break ties. Solo, duo or team lobbies, up to 100 players. COUNTED, NOT TYPED Steps come straight from your iPhone and Apple Health. There's no typing, so there's no cheating. Every player sees where the steps came from. PLAN THE DAY Tell Stepr how many times you want to walk and it fits walks around your calendar, then reminds you ten minutes before each one. Drag a walk on the timeline to move it; your calendar follows. WALK SOMEWHERE Pick a destination on the map and a little backpacker walks the real road there with every step you take, past stops with a story about each place. ALSO • Free passes for a missed day, so a forgotten sync doesn't end your run • Presets from a one-week sprint to a month-long climb • Day-by-day history for every player and a live page for anyone with the code • Playing is free and hosting is free. League Pro upgrades one league; Host Pro covers every league you host. OPTIONAL PURCHASES • League Pro: one-time upgrade for one league (teams, up to 100 players, extra passes, season recap) • Host Pro: auto-renewing monthly or yearly subscription that makes every league you host Pro • Supply Drops: three supply drops for the walking journey Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation. Host Pro renews automatically unless turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; manage or cancel it in your Apple ID subscription settings. Terms of Use: https://stepr.io/terms Privacy Policy: https://stepr.io/privacy

Screenshots

Mettle4 screens
Stepr4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Mettle at every 2 days against Stepr's every 5 days. Stepr's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Mettle ships an update every 2 days, Stepr every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Mettle versus Stepr: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMettleStepr
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (37 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews80.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings37 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 days — betterEvery 5 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size179 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDaniel ChungJoseph Tung

In-app purchases

None

Mettle

No in-app purchases

None

Stepr

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Mettle free?
Mettle is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Stepr free?
Stepr is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Mettle or Stepr have ads?
Neither Mettle nor Stepr shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Mettle or Stepr?
Mettle ships an update every 2 days, and Stepr every 5 days. Most recently, Mettle was updated on November 10, 2026 and Stepr on October 31, 2026.

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