Mars Walk vs Mars LTE
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Mars Walk
Embark on an interactive virtual reality tour of the red planet using your smartphone. Explore famous landing sites, witness Martian phenomena like dust storms, and observe scientific missions in action. This educational adventure brings the wonders of Mars directly to you.
- Explore Mars landing sites (InSight, Viking, Curiosity)
- Experience Martian dust storms
- Observe InSight's data gathering
- Visit Viking landers
- Follow Curiosity's sample collection
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The first people who will visit Mars are sitting in a school today. To help inspire these students, Lockheed Martin created Mars Walk. A virtual reality adventure you can experience using your own smartphone. Mars Walk provides a fun, interactive, and educational tour of the red planet, no special gear required! Explore Mars – on your phone. Download today. If you have a cardboard VR device, download the Virtual Reality version - Mars Walk VR. Thanks to our partners NASA and Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). FEATURES: - Walk the surface of Mars and explore the landing sites for InSight, Viking and Curiosity. - Experience dust storms at the Northern Crater - Observe InSight as it gathers information about Mars - Visit one of the famous Viking landers that landed more than 40 years ago - Follow Curiosity as it navigates the red surface collecting samples
Mars LTE
Explore Mars with detailed information about the Perseverance rover's mission. Learn about its search for ancient life, sample collection, and technology testing for future human exploration. Discover the Ingenuity helicopter's groundbreaking flight capabilities.
- Perseverance rover mission details
- Search for ancient microbial life
- Core sample collection and storage
- Technology testing for human exploration
- Ingenuity helicopter flight information
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Launch Date : July 30, 2020 Landing Date : Feb. 18, 2021 Location: Jezero Crater, Mars The Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover will search for signs of ancient microbial life, which will advance NASA's quest to explore the past habitability of Mars. The rover has a drill to collect core samples of Martian rock and soil, then store them in sealed tubes for pickup by a future mission that would ferry them back to Earth for detailed analysis. Perseverance will also test technologies to help pave the way for future human exploration of Mars. Strapped to the rover's belly for the journey to Mars is a technology demonstration — the Mars Helicopter, Ingenuity, may achieve a "Wright Brothers moment “ by testing the first powered flight on the Red Planet.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Mars LTE at 5.0 against Mars Walk's 3.9. Mars Walk's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 43 months) and ratings volume (34 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
Mars LTE holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Mars Walk has 34 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Mars Walk ships an update every 2 weeks, Mars LTE every 43 months. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Mars Walk | Mars LTE |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (34 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 70.8% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 34 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 43 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 15.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 732 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Lockheed Martin | Taylan Atasoy |
Customer experience
Mars Walk
Mars LTE
In-app purchases
Mars Walk
No in-app purchases
Mars LTE
No in-app purchases
