Comparison

Survive The Snail vs Oz Steps

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

Head to head
About

Survive The Snail

This app transforms your real-world walking into a thrilling survival game. Set daily step goals to outrun an immortal, ever-advancing snail. Engage in live chases, react to surprise events, and compete with friends to stay alive.

Highlights
  • Real-world walking as gameplay
  • Live chase status tracking
  • Custom daily step goals
  • Surprise global snail events
  • Activity and goal streak tracking
  • Friend leaderboards and challenges
  • In-app shop for survival items
Features
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An immortal snail is coming for you. It never sleeps. It never stops. Every step puts distance between you. Slow down, and it starts closing the gap. Survive the Snail turns your real-world walking into a daily survival game. Set your step goal, build your lead, and keep moving before the snail catches you. Surprise snail events can suddenly speed it up—or slow it down—for everyone. FEATURES • Turn steps and walking distance into your lead over the snail • Follow live chase status as you move from safe to warning to danger • Set a custom daily step goal and earn a lead bonus when you reach it • React to surprise global events that temporarily change the snail’s speed • Track daily steps, distance, estimated active time, estimated calories, weekly activity, goal streaks, and days survived • Use Motion & Fitness pedometer data with your permission • Add friends, manage requests, and compare chase leads on friend and global leaderboards • Create challenges, invite friends, and compete in step, distance, shared-goal, or daily-elimination events • Unlock achievements for surviving, hitting goals, walking milestones, adding friends, and winning challenges • Use coins for shop items that pause, slow, or push back the snail, repair a streak, or recover after getting caught • Get optional notifications for chase danger, daily goals, activity refreshes, snail events, and shop effects Walk farther. Challenge your friends. Stay alive. How long can you survive the snail? Survive the Snail uses Motion & Fitness data only with your permission. Gameplay is intended for entertainment and motivation and is not medical advice.

About

Oz Steps

Features
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Oz Steps is a pedometer story app inspired by the public-domain Oz book. Your real steps move Dorothy along a short story route from Kansas to the Emerald City, with silver shoes, curious companions, and small collectible relics appearing as your step count grows. The first half of the walk ends at the green gate. A one-time in-app purchase unlocks Return Road, the second half of the route: the Witch's road, the Golden Cap, Glinda, and the final walk back home. The paid route is designed as a story extension, not a subscription or external service. Features: - Pedometer progress through a literary story route - The first half of the Oz walk - Optional Return Road unlock for the second half - Original English app text written for this app - Public-domain book-inspired Oz framing - Silver shoes, not movie-specific ruby slippers - No account, no ads, no tracking, no location collection

Screenshots

Survive The Snail4 screens
Oz Steps4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Oz Steps at none against Survive The Snail's shown. Survive The Snail's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases 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. Survive The Snail sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and Oz Steps sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Survive The Snail ships an update every 6 days, Oz Steps weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Survive The Snail versus Oz Steps: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSurvive The SnailOz Steps
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 days — betterWeekly
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size74 MB8 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperLKG Labs LLCRIEKO NAITO

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Survive The Snail

One-time3
  • 500 Coins$1.99
  • 1,400 Coins$4.99
  • 3,000 Coins$9.99
1 purchases

Oz Steps

One-time1
  • Return Road$2.99

Questions

Is Survive The Snail free?
Survive The Snail is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Oz Steps free?
Oz Steps is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Survive The Snail or Oz Steps have ads?
Survive The Snail shows ads; Oz Steps does not.
Which is updated more often, Survive The Snail or Oz Steps?
Survive The Snail ships an update every 6 days, and Oz Steps weekly. Most recently, Survive The Snail was updated on October 31, 2026 and Oz Steps on October 29, 2026.

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