StepQuest vs Just Steps.
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
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.
Just Steps.
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Finally an app that intuitively shows steps on your Apple Watch, for Free. Easily set a daily goal, view your step count and see how many steps you have left directly on your watch face, smart stack or in the app. The app runs entirely on your watch. WHEN YOU OPEN IT Front Page: You will see a big ring with step count in the middle and daily goal below it. Under the ring you can see how many steps you have left for the day. Daily Goal: Scroll once from front page to access daily goal. here you can quickly select a preset or click on the big number to dial in your exact step goal. Make sure to click "Set Goal" after selecting your desired amount. Analytics: Easily glance at the analytics of your step history. you can switch between "Day", "Week" and "Month" options. For each, you get the average daily step amount (days you did not wear your watch are left out of your averages, so a weekend off does not drag your numbers down.), and below it you have best day record. Click on the bar chart on any option, and a detailed list view is opened for you to find exact step data. Notifications: Last page, here you can turn on/off Goal Reached and Evening Nudge notifications. ON YOUR WATCH FACE Complications for every accessory slot watchOS offers, so the app should work with the face you already use: - Circular, with your step count inside a progress ring - Rectangular, with your count and how many are left, in two styles: text only, or text with a progress ring - Corner, with your count and remaining curving around the edge, also in two styles - Inline, for faces with a single line of text Every one of them turns green the moment you close your goal. IN THE SMART STACK Swipe up from your watch face and your steps are there, no complication required. Tap it to open the app. YOUR DATA STAYS ON YOUR WATCH Just Steps. reads one thing from Apple Health: your step count. - No account, no sign up, no email address - No servers. The app contains no networking code at all and makes no internet connections - No ad analytics, no tracking, no advertising, no third party code of any kind - Nothing is ever sold, shared or sent anywhere, nothing ever leaves your watch RATINGS Ratings are how a one person app gets found. If Just Steps. helps you every day, please leave a review. It means the world to me, thank you! FREE No subscription. No adverts. No in app purchases. No paywalls. Requires an Apple Watch running watchOS 10 or later.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Just Steps. at none against StepQuest's 5. Just Steps. also leads on ads (none vs shown). StepQuest's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). On price and device support there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. StepQuest sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Just Steps. asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | StepQuest | Just Steps. |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days | โ |
| Ads | Yes | No โ better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No โ better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 โ better | 18.0 |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 60 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Adam Golczak | Davud Osmanovic |
In-app purchases
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
Just Steps.
No in-app purchases









