Comparison

Stepies vs Snail

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

Head to head
About

Stepies

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Turn your steps into Stepies. Stepies is a cozy walking game where your daily steps unlock adorable pets to collect. Walk, discover Stepies on your map, hatch mystery eggs, dress up your favorites and create a cozy home for every friend. With 1,000+ Stepies to discover, every day can bring someone new to your collection. WALK TO COLLECT New Stepies appear on your map every day. Walk 4,000 steps to catch your daily Stepie and grow your collection with cute animals, magical creatures and rare finds. HATCH MYSTERY EGGS Discover Wonder Eggs and hatch them by walking 4,000 steps. You won’t know which Stepie is hiding inside until it hatches, from rare finds to the rarest of all. DRESS UP YOUR STEPIES Collect cute outfits and accessories including bows, sweaters, hats and glasses. Mix and match to give every Stepie its own look. CREATE THEIR DREAM HOMES Every Stepie has a room of its own. Collect furniture, decorate their spaces and create a cozy little home for each friend. CARE & BOND Feed your Stepies, cuddle them and take them on walks. Discover their favorite snacks and grow your bond. EARN REWARDS BY WALKING Reach daily step goals to earn coins and gems, and unlock chests with coins, outfit pieces and furniture. WALK WITH FRIENDS Add friends and earn rewards together. Create a walking club with up to 10 players and work toward a shared weekly step goal. SEASONAL EVENTS Discover limited-edition Stepies, themed rooms, outfits and furniture during seasonal events throughout the year. YOUR WALKING JOURNAL Keep track of your daily steps, Stepies you’ve caught and special moments. Look back at your walking adventures whenever you like. HOME SCREEN WIDGET The Stepies widget shows a Stepie from today’s map, or a mystery silhouette, and how many steps are left until your next catch. APPLE HEALTH Stepies reads your step count from the Health app, including eligible steps recorded by Apple Watch. STEPIES+ (OPTIONAL SUBSCRIPTION) Want even more Stepies to collect? Stepies+ unlocks additional benefits, including: • Catch up to 2 Stepies per day • An extra Wonder Egg every Wednesday • Access to both daily reward chests • Double coins from daily rewards • Gems with subscription payments • A weekly Bloompies Egg • The Gold Pass with extra rewards in events Stepies+ is completely optional. You can play, walk, collect Stepies, hatch Wonder Eggs, decorate homes and enjoy Stepies without a subscription. Walk. Hatch. Collect. Stepies. Terms of Use: https://stepies.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://stepies.app/privacy

About

Snail

This app uses your real-time location and step count to create a unique survival game. A virtual snail relentlessly pursues you, and only your physical activity can keep it at bay. Survive for as long as possible to achieve a high score.

Highlights
  • Real-time location tracking
  • Uses iPhone step count
  • Snail gets faster over time
  • In-game items for defense
  • Background operation
  • Location-based notifications
Features
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A snail is coming for you. It hatched near you and it already knows where you are. It moves in a straight line, through buildings, through rivers, through anything in the way. It does not sleep and it never loses you. Walking is the only thing that holds it back. HOW IT WORKS The snail crawls toward your real location, day and night, whether the app is open or not. It starts at about two miles a day and gets faster every three days you survive. Every step you take pushes it back. Snail reads the step count your iPhone already records, so it does not matter where you walk or how fast. A walk to the mailbox counts. A shift on your feet counts. Most of each walk pushes the snail away, and the rest is banked for later. Driving away does not help. Only steps buy distance, and heading toward it is a very bad idea. If it reaches you, the game is over. Days survived is your score. A new snail hatches at 6am. WHAT YOU CAN SEE Far away, you only get a rough idea of where it is. The closer it gets, the more precisely you know. Inside a thousand feet, you see exactly where it is. SALT AND SHELL Salt freezes the snail for six hours. You start with one and earn another every week you survive. Shell pushes it back three miles. It costs five banked miles. IT TELLS YOU WHEN IT IS CLOSE A notification at one mile, at half a mile, and when it is on your street. A word in the morning and in the evening on how the day is going. PRIVACY No account, no sign up, no email address. No ads, no trackers, no purchases. Snail reads your step count from Apple Health and writes nothing back. Your location is used to play the game. Nothing is sold and nothing is shared. BATTERY Snail uses your location in the background, because the snail does not stop when you close the app. While it is far away, Snail checks your position rarely. It only checks often when the snail is close.

Screenshots

Stepies4 screens
Snail4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Snail at none against Stepies's 8. On price, update cadence, ads and device support 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. Stepies sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. Snail asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Stepies ships an update every 3 days, Snail every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Stepies versus Snail: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStepiesSnail
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 4 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS17.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size194 MB37 MB
Age rating12+9+
DeveloperBrands Online B.V.Kali Holding LLC

In-app purchases

8 purchases

Stepies

Subscriptions3
  • Stepies+ Weekly$4.997 Days
  • Stepies+ Monthly3 Days trial$14.991 Month
  • Stepies+ Annual7 Days trial$99.991 Year
One-time5
  • Handful of gems$0.99
  • Pouch of gems$4.99
  • Basket of gems$9.99
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  • Bloom of gems$19.99
  • Garden of gems$49.99
None

Snail

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Stepies free?
Stepies is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Snail free?
Snail is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Stepies or Snail have ads?
Neither Stepies nor Snail shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Stepies or Snail?
Stepies ships an update every 3 days, and Snail every 4 days. Most recently, Stepies was updated on October 31, 2026 and Snail on October 29, 2026.

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