Health, home and travel decision
Steps & Beasts
A competent developer can reproduce the core pedometer + collectible loop, but matching the full polished app (art, animations, cross-device polish, and App Store traction) is multi-week work and costly to fully replicate.
View on the App Store↗Not priced
No pricing page we fetched carried a figure, so there is nothing to compare against. The build side is still real.
$100one-off46 h to build
$0/mo3 h/mo upkeep
No published price to break even against.
No open-source build does this yet
Nothing published replaces this one, so a replacement starts from an empty file. Here is what it would have to cover.
What a replacement has to do
- Read steps from Apple Health each day, count toward a daily goal, hatch a daily egg when goal reached, add the hatched Beast to a local collection, and display progress via app UI and home-screen widget.
What it still won’t have
- High-quality original art and animations for 200+ unique Beasts
- Polish, UX tweaks, and iterative design improvements visible in release notes
- App Store listing history, ratings, and developer brand trust
- Cross-device conveniences like Apple Watch-specific polish (unless implemented)
What remains hard
- Product polish and ongoing maintenance
First-year cost
No published price
Steps & Beasts does not publish a price we could read, so there is nothing to compare against. What building costs is below.
Money you would actually spend
Time you would spend
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What you would spend
What we assumed
The verdict above measures whether you could build it. This one is only about money.
Runnable build prompt
Build a self-contained iOS app in SwiftUI that reads steps from HealthKit, stores user data in Core Data, and provides a gamified daily-egg hatching experience. Stack: Swift + SwiftUI, HealthKit, Core Data, WidgetKit, UserNotifications, and XCTest. In scope: HealthKit integration (including historical import), daily goal & streak logic, rarity assignment and collection model for ~200 beasts, basic animated egg hatch interaction, Beast collection and detail screens, a home-screen widget showing egg evolution, local notifications, onboarding and permission handling, sharing images, error handling, and unit/UI tests. Out of scope: server-side backend, multiplayer or marketplace features, paid subscriptions or in-app purchase plumbing beyond stubs. Deliverables: Xcode project with CI-friendly test suite, sample assets for beasts, and documentation to build and run on device.
How we checked
How the score was reached
- Partly verdict base52
- 3/3 assessment runs agreed+4
- Evidence score56
The base comes from the verdict. Everything under it is a check that either happened or did not, and each one is a fact frozen in this record rather than a judgement made at render time - so the same evidence always produces the same number.
How scoring works →Cited sources · 1
Every page the run actually retrieved.
- official productStep Tracker - Steps & Beasts
Integrity checks
What held up, and what did not.
