Comparison

Ramblers vs Somerset Walks

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

Somerset Walks

Features
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The Somerset Walks app is a wonderful walking guide app with simple to use GPS-enabled digital routes around our beautiful county. It covers over 250 amazing walks of between 1 and 10 miles throughout Somerset and the surrounding areas. The walks on the app include diverse woodland adventures, peaceful riverside strolls, coastal walks full of nature, open countryside rambles and adventurous hill climbs with wonderful views. Detailed maps that track your progress are available offline - no internet signal required. The maps include contour detail that helps you to evaluate the difficulty of the walk before you set off. Filter the Somerset Walks by woodland, waterside, hill walk and pub walk to easily find the walk that's perfect for your mood. After each walk, you can fill in the quick questionnaire in the app to feed back valuable information about the walk. We will then use this data to improve the app's walks over time and some of your comments could be published against each walk. What are you waiting for - get walking! Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2020. Privacy Policy & Terms of Use: https://www.localwalks.co.uk/terms-of-use-and-privacy

Screenshots

Ramblers4 screens
Somerset Walks4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Ramblers at none against Somerset Walks's 2. Somerset Walks's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). On price, update cadence, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Somerset Walks sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Ramblers asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Ramblers ships an update every 2 months, Somerset Walks every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Ramblers versus Somerset Walks: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRamblersSomerset Walks
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (9 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews12.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings9 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS18.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size95 MB108 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRamblersTinyRocket

In-app purchases

None

Ramblers

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Somerset Walks

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Subscription1 Month trial$1.991 Month
  • Annual Subscription1 Month trial$14.991 Year

Questions

Is Ramblers free?
Ramblers is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Somerset Walks free?
Somerset Walks is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Ramblers or Somerset Walks have ads?
Neither Ramblers nor Somerset Walks shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Ramblers or Somerset Walks?
Ramblers ships an update every 2 months, and Somerset Walks every 3 months. Most recently, Ramblers was updated on November 2, 2026 and Somerset Walks on November 4, 2026.

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