Comparison

Ramblers vs Ethel Ready

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Ramblers

Discover thousands of led walks and independent routes across Great Britain. Access walking articles, exclusive member offers, and manage your digital membership card. Plan your next adventure with this community-driven walking app.

Highlights
  • Thousands of led walks
  • 3,000+ independent routes
  • Fascinating walking articles
  • Exclusive member offers
  • Digital membership card
  • Walk register
Features
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The Ramblers Member App is full of the latest led walks, high-quality routes for independent walking, social events, features and offers. Discover something new every day. Download the app now and start planning your next adventure! To use this app you need to be a member of the Ramblers. You will need a valid email address and membership number to sign up. The Ramblers is a charity which protects the environments and pathways we love and encourages more people to find the joy of walking. We’re the largest community of walkers in Great Britain. Join us at ramblers.org.uk Top features: Discover thousands of led walks Find a huge variety of Ramblers group walks in England, Scotland and Wales. Join our expert walk leaders: walk, talk and discover with your local group or further afield as you travel across the country. We run walks every month of the year and day of the week, mornings, afternoons and evenings. Easy, moderate or strenuous - our led walks cater for all. Ramblers Routes The app gives you access to over 3,000 independent routes for you to explore, download and follow. You can search for a route by location, follow it in the app or view a pdf of the route card on the website. As an added benefit you can save your favourite routes and use them whenever you wish. This is great for planning your walking adventures before you go on holiday and will enable you to find and explore the best routes wherever you are in the GB. Fascinating articles Amazing features, gear reviews, blogs and guest interviews with people passionate about the joy of walking and protecting our green spaces. The latest offers Exclusive member offers direct to your mobile, including 15% discount off all your walking gear at Cotswold Outdoor, 25% of all Cicerone walking books and loads more offers throughout the year. Digital membership card Your membership card will be with you always in the Ramblers App. Walk register Upgraded walk register, quicker and easier to use so you can help out the walk leader, take registration and get on with your walk. Photos To promote your led walk you can use the app to take photos on a recce and when you submit them, they will be added to your walk listing. The next day they will then be used to illustrate that walk on the app. so everyone can enjoy and be inspired!

About

Ethel Ready

Discover and track your progress climbing hills over 400m in the Peak District. Features an interactive map and a personal log to record your ascents. Offers a bonus challenge upon completing the main Ethels.

Highlights
  • Explore Peak District hills over 400m
  • Track progress with a dated log
  • Interactive OpenStreetMap
  • Bonus Peak 75 challenge
  • Featured on BBC TV and Radio 4
Features
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Named after Ethel Haythornthwaite (the pioneer behind the Peak District National Park), the Ethels are all of the Peak District hills over 400m above sea level and significant lower prominent hills. Fewer, lower, easier and (for most of the UK's population) closer than the Munros of Scotland and the Wainwrights of the Lake District. Explore the highest hills of the Peak District. Track your progress through your own dated log and by using the interactive map from OpenStreetMap. Bonus level of the Peak 75 hills, on completion of the Ethels. Featured on BBC TV and Radio 4 The app is supported by the Peak District and South Yorkshire Branch of the Campaign to Protect Rural England (Registered Charity Number 1094975). The app provides links to the charity's website if you want to make a donation or pay for membership. Base map and data from OpenStreetMap and OpenStreetMap Foundation © OpenStreetMap contributors © OpenTopoMap All images are subject to copyright © 2021 Doug Colton (or are used through Creative Commons Licence).

Screenshots

Ramblers4 screens
Ethel Ready4 screens

Verdict

The call

Ramblers and Ethel Ready both sit at 5.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 92% of Ethel Ready's written reviews are positive against 14% of Ramblers's. Ramblers's advantage is ratings volume (7 vs 1). On price, rating, update cadence 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Ramblers against 5.0 for Ethel Ready. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Ramblers has 7 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 14% of Ramblers's written reviews are positive against 92% of Ethel Ready's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 17, 2026 and July 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Ramblers versus Ethel Ready: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRamblersEthel Ready
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (7 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews13.7% of reviews92.3% of reviews — better
Number of ratings7 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.614.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size82 MB83 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRamblersDoug Colton

Customer experience

Ramblers

All ratings7 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews95 reviews
Positive13.7%
Neutral8.4%
Negative77.9%

Ethel Ready

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews13 reviews
Positive92.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative7.7%

In-app purchases

None

Ramblers

No in-app purchases

None

Ethel Ready

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Ramblers free?
Ramblers is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Ethel Ready free?
Ethel Ready is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Ramblers or Ethel Ready?
Ramblers and Ethel Ready are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 7 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Ramblers or Ethel Ready have ads?
Neither Ramblers nor Ethel Ready shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Ramblers or Ethel Ready?
Ramblers ships an update every 2 months, and Ethel Ready every 2 months. Most recently, Ramblers was updated on September 17, 2026 and Ethel Ready on July 19, 2026.

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