Comparison

Ramblers vs Wainwrights

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

Wainwrights

Discover and navigate the Lake District's fells with an interactive map. Track your climbs of the 214 Wainwright mountains and hills, and optionally log the 116 Outlying Fells. A personal log helps monitor your progress on these iconic peaks.

Highlights
  • Interactive OpenStreetMap for fells
  • User location and grid reference
  • Personal progress log
  • Track 214 Wainwrights
  • Log 116 Outlying Fells
Features
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Explore the fells of the Lake District using an interactive map from OpenStreetMap, with the user's location and grid reference. Track your progress on your personal log. Are you ready for the challenge of climbing the Lake District's Wainwrights? The 214 Wainwright mountains and hills were established by Alfred Wainwright in his Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells in the 1950s and 1960s. There is also an option for logging Wainwright's 116 Outlying Fells. The app supports The Wainwright Society. Base map and data from OpenStreetMap and OpenStreetMap Foundation © OpenStreetMap contributors. All images are subject to copyright through Creative Commons Licence.

Screenshots

Ramblers4 screens
Wainwrights4 screens

Verdict

The call

Ramblers and Wainwrights both sit at 5.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 89% of Wainwrights'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 Wainwrights. 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 89% of Wainwrights's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Ramblers ships an update every 2 months, Wainwrights monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 17, 2026 and August 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Ramblers versus Wainwrights: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRamblersWainwrights
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (7 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews13.7% of reviews88.9% of reviews — better
Number of ratings7 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.614.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size82 MB68 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%

Wainwrights

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews27 reviews
Positive88.9%
Neutral7.4%
Negative3.7%

In-app purchases

None

Ramblers

No in-app purchases

None

Wainwrights

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Ramblers free?
Ramblers is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Wainwrights free?
Wainwrights is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Ramblers or Wainwrights?
Ramblers and Wainwrights are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 7 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Ramblers or Wainwrights have ads?
Neither Ramblers nor Wainwrights shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Ramblers or Wainwrights?
Ramblers ships an update every 2 months, and Wainwrights monthly. Most recently, Ramblers was updated on September 17, 2026 and Wainwrights on August 31, 2026.

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