Comparison

Survive The Snail vs Step

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

Step

Features
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Step-a-thon turns everyday walking into a fun, friendly challenge for your whole group. Record a walk and your steps are counted right on your phone, then added to your total on a live leaderboard. Climb the rankings, cheer on your teammates, and collect badges as you hit new milestones. Built for organized step-a-thon events — schools, workplaces, colleges, and community groups — Step-a-thon makes it easy to run a healthy, high-energy activity where everyone can take part. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Record your walks and count steps automatically using your phone's motion sensor • Watch a live leaderboard update as you and your teammates rack up steps • Join a team and compete together toward a shared goal • Earn badges as you reach new milestones • Track your personal progress over the course of the event FOR EVENT ORGANIZERS Administrators can set up events, manage participants and teams, and follow standings in real time — everything you need to run a smooth step challenge. PRIVACY FIRST Step-a-thon collects very little. Your phone's motion sensor is used only while you're recording a walk, and only the resulting step count is saved — never the raw sensor data. No location tracking, no ads, and no third-party analytics. Read our privacy policy at https://steps.eskoops.com/privacy. Lace up, start walking, and see how far your team can go.

Screenshots

Survive The Snail4 screens
Step4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Step at none against Survive The Snail's 3. Step also leads on ads (none vs shown). On price, update cadence, device support and iOS requirement 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. Step asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Survive The Snail ships an update every 6 days, Step every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Survive The Snail versus Step: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSurvive The SnailStep
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 daysEvery 3 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS15.115.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size74 MB9 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperLKG Labs LLCThought Bulb

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Survive The Snail

One-time3
  • 500 Coins$1.99
  • 1,400 Coins$4.99
  • 3,000 Coins$9.99
None

Step

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Survive The Snail free?
Survive The Snail is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Step free?
Step is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Survive The Snail or Step have ads?
Survive The Snail shows ads; Step does not.
Which is updated more often, Survive The Snail or Step?
Survive The Snail ships an update every 6 days, and Step every 3 days. Most recently, Survive The Snail was updated on October 12, 2026 and Step on October 11, 2026.

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