Simple Weight vs Walking Desk
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Simple Weight
Easily log your weight data directly from your Apple Watch or iPhone. This app integrates with HealthKit, making your weight accessible within the Health app and other compatible applications.
- Weight logging
- HealthKit integration
- View weight in Health app
- Data accessible by other HealthKit apps
- Apple Watch support
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This simple little app uses HealthKit to record your weight on the go. Your weight can be viewed within the Health app or by other HealthKit apps.
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 update cadence: Walking Desk at every 6 weeks against Simple Weight's every 4 months. Walking Desk also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.6). On price, rating, ratings volume 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
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 — 5.0 for Simple Weight against 5.0 for Walking Desk. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
Simple Weight ships an update every 4 months, Walking Desk every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Simple Weight | Walking Desk |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 25.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 26.6 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Never Can Tell | Michael Haren |
Customer experience
Simple Weight
Walking Desk
In-app purchases
Simple Weight
No in-app purchases
Walking Desk
No in-app purchases
