StepHive vs StepQuest
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side ā with what reviewers say about each.
StepHive
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StepHive turns your daily walk into something social, motivating, and a little bit joyful. Track your steps, map your routes, get friendly AI feedback on every walk, and stay connected with the friends who keep you moving ā on your iPhone and Apple Watch. Whether you're chasing a step goal, getting back in shape, or simply love a good walk, StepHive helps you show up every day ā together with your hive. WALK & TRACK ⢠See today's steps, calories, weather, and weekly, monthly, and yearly progress at a glance ⢠Map every walk with live GPS ā distance, time, pace, elevation, and heart rate ⢠Pause your walk to chat with a neighbor without hurting your time or pace ⢠Follow your walk live on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island ⢠Snap geotagged photos along the way ā they pin to your route map and save to your Photos ⢠Walk a favorite route again and compare your time and pace ON YOUR WRIST ⢠Check your step ring and start a walk right from your Apple Watch ⢠Track a whole walk on the watch ā route, distance, time, heart rate, and calories ⢠Leave your phone at home; your walk syncs back to your iPhone when you're reunited SMART & PERSONAL ⢠Get warm, personalized feedback on each walk ā your pace, effort, and progress ā with AI powered by Apple Intelligence, right on your iPhone and completely private ⢠See how your walking pace compares for people your age ⢠Track your weight over time with a simple trend chart WALK WITH FRIENDS ⢠Add friends with a simple invite code ⢠See yourself ranked alongside them on a friendly daily leaderboard ⢠Cheer each other on with quick, personal messages ⢠Watch friends' live walks on the map with Friends on the Move STAY MOTIVATED ⢠Build a daily-goal streak and earn achievement badges ā from your first walk to a full year ā with a little confetti when you hit your goal ⢠Gentle daily reminders to get your steps in ā rotating, never naggy ⢠Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets showing your steps and goal progress ⢠Set your own step goal and personal goals MADE FOR WALKERS ⢠A free Music tab ā pick a favorite album, a playlist, or your most-played songs from a card and tap to play ⢠Friendly guidance on pace and healthy walking by age ⢠Fully available in English and Spanish WALK SAFER ⢠Choose safety contacts and share your location with one tap if you ever need help ⢠(StepHive is not a replacement for your phone's Emergency SOS) FREE TO WALK StepHive is free to download and use ā steps, friends, leaderboard, streaks, music, AI walk analysis, weight tracking, the Apple Watch app, reminders, and widgets are all free. Unlock GPS route mapping ā track and map your walks, see your pace, save your history, and add photo waypoints ā with a single one-time purchase. YOUR DATA, YOUR CALL StepHive only reads the health data you allow, and never shares it without you. Location is used solely to map your walks while you're walking. AI walk analysis runs privately on your device. Lace up, invite a friend, and join the hive.
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: StepHive at none against StepQuest's shown. StepQuest's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs fortnightly) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. StepHive sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and StepQuest sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
StepHive ships an update fortnightly, StepQuest every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on September 20, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | StepHive | StepQuest |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 3 days ā better |
| Ads | No ā better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch ā better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.1 ā better |
| Further details ā not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 60 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | David Ramer | Adam Golczak |
In-app purchases
StepHive
- Unlock GPS Routes$2.99
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





