Comparison

Steppies vs Cudex

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

Head to head
About

Steppies

This app offers a straightforward way to track your daily steps, distance, calories burned, and floors climbed. It features a progress ring that fills as you approach your goal and provides historical data for weekly, monthly, and yearly views. Widgets are available for your home screen, lock screen, and Apple Watch.

Highlights
  • Live daily step count
  • Customizable daily step goal
  • Distance, active calories, floors climbed
  • Home and Lock Screen widgets
  • Apple Watch app and complications
  • Weekly, monthly, yearly history
Features
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Steppies is a beautifully simple step counter that keeps your health data where it belongs—with you. Set it up once, and you may never need to open the app again. Add Steppies premium widgets to your Lock Screen, Home Screen, or Apple Watch face to keep your live step count a glance away. See today’s steps, or pinch and zoom through years of history to see how far you’ve come. FEATURES • Set up in seconds—no account, ads, or hassle • Track steps, distance, floors climbed, and active calories • Choose your own daily step goal and watch the ring fill • Explore Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Yearly, and All Time history • Share your step count your way with custom visual cards and animations • Add beautiful widgets to your Home Screen and Lock Screen • Use the Apple Watch app and complications that fit right in TRY BEFORE YOU BUY Premium widgets and complications are included for 30 days. If you like them, Steppies Forever unlocks every current and future widget we release for a small, one-time purchase. PRIVACY FIRST Steppies reads your health data directly from your device and never sends it anywhere. Your personal information never leaves your iPhone or Apple Watch. No subscriptions. No ads. No notifications. Just steps. Built in San Francisco.

About

Cudex

This app gamifies your daily steps by turning them into experience points to collect and hatch unique monsters. Earn in-app currency to customize your collection and compete with friends. Unlock new creatures and features with optional Pro upgrades.

Highlights
  • Collect monsters by walking
  • Earn XP from daily steps
  • Track steps via Apple Health
  • Compete with friends
  • In-app shop for customization
  • Optional Pro subscription for advanced features
Features
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There's a monster in here. Your steps collect more. Cudex turns your daily walking into a collection of monsters. Walk with your phone. Collect your steps. Hatch something new. Cudex is free to use, with no ads. Cudex Pro adds more. HOW IT WORKS • Your iPhone already counts your steps with Apple Health • Tap Collect in the app to turn today's steps into XP • XP raises your level, and every level hatches a new monster into your collection Every 100 steps is 1 XP. Steps you don't collect by midnight are gone, so the daily tap is the habit. Up to three reminders a day help you collect before the day ends. FREE FOR EVERYONE • 60 monsters to find, one every level • Streaks, badges and quests to chase • A history calendar of every day you've walked • Outfits and places for your monster from the shop, bought with coins you earn by walking • Share cards for a great day or a new monster • A daily step goal you set yourself WALK WITH FRIENDS Add friends with a code and see who has walked the most today. Tap a friend to see their monster, their collection and their badges. Friends is optional. Nothing is shared until you turn it on, and you can stop sharing at any time. WHAT CUDEX PRO ADDS • 48 rare monsters to find • Home screen and lock screen widgets, so you can collect without opening the app • Apple Watch complications • Insights: trends, consistency, your week, goal days and the hours you walk • The full shop of outfits and places YOUR STEPS, YOUR CHOICE Cudex reads step counts from Apple Health. Your steps stay on your phone unless you turn on Friends, and then only the friends you add can see them SUBSCRIPTION Cudex Pro is available as a monthly or yearly subscription, or as a one-time Lifetime purchase. If a free trial is offered, it converts to a paid subscription unless you cancel before it ends. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. A subscription renews automatically unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel it in your Apple ID settings. Collect monsters. Keep walking. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://acris.ai/monster-steps/privacy

Screenshots

Steppies4 screens
Cudex4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Steppies at none against Cudex's 3. Steppies also leads on ratings volume (4 vs 1). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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. Cudex sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Steppies asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Steppies against 5.0 for Cudex. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Steppies versus Cudex: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSteppiesCudex
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better1
Update frequencyWeeklyWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS26.0 — better26.5
Further details — not scored
Size26 MB31 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperIsaac Consultants LLCSiraj Hasanov

Customer experience

Steppies

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Cudex

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Steppies

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Cudex

Subscriptions2
  • Pro Month$4.991 Month
  • Pro Year7 Days trial$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • Pro Lifetime$59.99

Questions

Is Steppies free?
Steppies is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Cudex free?
Cudex is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Steppies or Cudex?
Steppies and Cudex are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 4 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Steppies or Cudex have ads?
Neither Steppies nor Cudex shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Steppies or Cudex?
Steppies ships an update weekly, and Cudex weekly. Most recently, Steppies was updated on October 3, 2026 and Cudex on October 18, 2026.

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