SOUNDwalker vs The Walks
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SOUNDwalker
Experience augmented soundscapes triggered by your GPS location. Discover hidden sonic details in your environment and enhance your listening abilities with curated audio walks.
- GPS-triggered soundscapes
- Augmented listening experience
- Location-specific audio
- Curated sound walks
- Enhanced hearing range
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Our GPS-triggered augmented SOUNDwalks enable you to engage with the sound environment, drawing attention to different sonic features particular to the location. Your listening abilities will be extended and your hearing range will be augmented and we uncover sounds not normally audible to the naked ear! All walks have been developed by SOUNDkitchen
The Walks
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‘The Walks’ is a collection of short audio experiences for special places in your city, as well as an invitation to rediscover and interact with your surroundings. Each audio walk takes just 20 minutes. Set out anytime and decide for yourself how many walks you’d like to take, and in what order. The stories and soundscapes in these short audio adventures resonate all over the world, and in that way, The Walks connects people around the globe in a local experience, bringing them together in the fundamental human act of walking. The pandemic changed the way we look at walking in public space. This ancient and mundane ritual became a central element of the new normal. People meet, walk, stroll through neighbourhoods, play in landscapes, and see their surroundings in new ways with every step. In ‘The Walks’, walking becomes a theatrical framework. An audio-guided walk in the park, a staged visit to the supermarket, or rhythmic aquatic interactions. In each city, voices, sounds, and music transform familiar places into scenes and landscapes into stages through storytelling, dialogues, choreographic explorations and musical and rhythmic variations of the humble walk. Each walk has a short title that indicates where or how it will be performed: “Cemetery”, “Water”, or “Roundabout” The Walks can be activated using a code.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: The Walks at every 3 weeks against SOUNDwalker's every 16 months. SOUNDwalker's advantage is iOS requirement (10.0 vs 15.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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.
SOUNDwalker ships an update every 16 months, The Walks every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SOUNDwalker | The Walks |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 16 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 60 MB | 46 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Echoes.xyz | Rimini Apparat GbR |
In-app purchases
SOUNDwalker
No in-app purchases
The Walks
No in-app purchases









