Counterpace vs Walking Desk
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Counterpace
This app guides rhythmic movement synchronized with your heart cycle to improve aerobic performance, health, and recovery. It connects to a sensor to help you match your step rate to your heart rate for optimized blood flow and efficiency during various exercises.
- Heart cycle synchronization
- Rhythmic movement guidance
- Aerobic performance enhancement
- Treadmill, outdoor, and elliptical training
- Metronome training for step rate
- Optimized blood flow and oxygen delivery
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STEP IN SYNC WITH YOUR HEART. The Counterpace® guidance system is a sensor-based training platform that coordinates rhythmic movement with your heart cycle to enhance aerobic performance, health, recovery & experience. The Counterpace app connects to the Counterpace sensor and guides you to match your heart rate to your step rate, while ensuring that each step is precisely timed to the relaxation phase of your heart’s pump cycle. Simply step to the audible prompts to optimize blood flow and oxygen delivery throughout your body. Based on the science of cardiac counterpulsation, the Counterpace system guides you to align each step with your body's natural cardiac rhythm so you can exercise longer and faster with less effort and greater efficiency. • Treadmill Walking & Running - Counterpace is easiest to use on a treadmill, where you can control speed & incline to fine tune your heart and step rate. • Outdoors - improves your running, walking, or hiking experience, from the track to the trails, whenever your natural heart rate during each activity approximates your natural step rate. Accessories, such as walking poles, or ankle or hand weights increase blood flow, calorie burn, and help you raise your heart rate towards your natural step rate. • Elliptical Training - Adjust resistance to ensure you're at a comfortable step rate. Counterpace guidance also works on "paddle based" stair stepping machines. • Metronome Training - Learn to run at your optimal step rate. Metronome training can teach you to step precisely to a beat at a variety of target stride frequencies. The Counterpace sensor is required for use of the Counterpace app. The sensor is available for purchase only at www.counterpace.com. Terms of service: https://counterpace.com/pages/terms-of-service Privacy policy: https://counterpace.com/pages/privacy-policy
Walking Desk
Manually log treadmill desk activity into Apple Health. Record steps, distance, calories, and duration to create walking workouts. View recent activity totals from the past week.
- Record steps, distance, calories, and duration
- Save sessions as walking workouts in Apple Health
- View last 7 days of activity totals
- No account required
- No ads or analytics tracking
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Walking Desk helps you record treadmill desk sessions in Apple Health. Enter the numbers from your treadmill display: • Steps • Distance in miles • Calories • Workout duration Walking Desk saves that session to Apple Health as: • Step count • Walking or running distance • Active energy burned • A walking workout The app also reads your recent Apple Health totals so you can see the last 7 days of activity in one place. No account. No ads. No analytics tracking.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Walking Desk at none against Counterpace's shown. Walking Desk also leads on monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Counterpace's advantage is ratings volume (10 vs 1) and device support (4 vs 1). On price, rating, update cadence and in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Counterpace against 5.0 for Walking Desk. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Counterpace has 10 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Counterpace ships an update every 2 months, Walking Desk every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Counterpace | Walking Desk |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (10 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 10 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 83 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Pulson, Inc. | Michael Haren |
Customer experience
Counterpace
Walking Desk
In-app purchases
Counterpace
No in-app purchases
Walking Desk
No in-app purchases









