Ramblers vs CalmCarry
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Thousands of led walks
- 3,000+ independent routes
- Fascinating walking articles
- Exclusive member offers
- Digital membership card
- Walk register
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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!
CalmCarry
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Some nights, the mind just won't switch off. CalmCarry is the official companion app to the handheld CalmCarry device, already in more than 650,000 homes. Guided sessions, sleep stories, music, layered sleep sounds, breathing exercises, a sleep tracker and a parent-controlled kids mode, all in one calm corner of your evening. CalmCarry is not a medical device and does not diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any condition. HOW IT WORKS WITH YOUR DEVICE Switch on your CalmCarry by holding the side button for about five seconds, and start on the lowest level. Rest it in the centre of your palm with your fingers loosely closed: a soft, steady pulse, like a tiny heartbeat. Then open the app and choose a session. The device works perfectly on its own. The app is an optional way to go deeper. WHAT'S INSIDE • Sleep stories for grown-ups and kids: classic tales retold from much-loved books, and true journeys through places, nature and crafts • Music to drift to: classical recordings and new originals, plus lullabies for little ones • Sounds to layer: rain, ocean, fire, forest, wind, fans and every noise colour, in a mixer that keeps playing while you move around the app • Guided sessions and voice-only Talk-Throughs for a busy mind, for the night, for the day and for feeling better about yourself • Choose your narrator: Sloane or Cillian for grown-ups, Romy or Marcus for kids. Narration voices are made with AI • Calming frequencies: slow, gentle tones, first on the Sounds tab and softly under guided sessions • Four breathing exercises paced by a circle you follow with your own breath • A sleep timer that fades the sound out on time, even with your phone locked • Favourites: tap the heart on anything and find it again on Home • My CalmCarry: register your device and keep your 1-year warranty in one place SLEEP TRACKER Lay your phone by the bed and CalmCarry listens for sounds in the room through the night. In the morning, see a score out of 100, how long your room was quiet, short clips of snoring or talking you can play back, and estimated sleep stages. Recordings stay on your phone, and you choose how long they're kept. The score and stages are estimates from sound, not a medical measurement. ASK CALMCARRY Type or say what you need, like "rain for an hour" or "remind me at 9:30", and Ask CalmCarry finds it, plays it or sets it for you. It only ever picks something from inside the app, and it never writes replies of its own. COMMUNITY A kind, moderated space for grown-ups to share how evenings and nights are going. Adults only, text only, and every post is checked before it appears. A SAFE SPACE FOR LITTLE ONES Kids Mode sits behind a parent PIN. Inside: stories, sounds and music chosen for younger ears, and nothing else. No chat, no ads, no social, no tracking. Teen mode offers sessions and stories picked for ages 13 to 17. PREMIUM CalmCarry Premium opens everything, shared across your household. Annual: 7 days free, then $69.99 per year. Monthly: $12.99 per month, with no free trial. Subscriptions renew automatically at the same price until you cancel. Cancel any time in your Apple account settings, at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. THE GLOW COMPANY WAY We make warm, natural things for rest and wellbeing, and we see you as a person, never a patient. No advertising, no cross-app tracking, and we never sell your data. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.theglowcompany.co/pages/calmcarry-app-privacy-policy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Ramblers at none against CalmCarry's 2. CalmCarry's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 2 months) and iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.0). On price, 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
Both are free to download. CalmCarry sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $12.99 per month. Ramblers asks for nothing beyond the download.
Ramblers ships an update every 2 months, CalmCarry every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Ramblers | CalmCarry |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (9 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 12.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 9 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 95 MB | 265 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ramblers | Glowco International LLC |
In-app purchases
Ramblers
No in-app purchases
CalmCarry
- CalmCarry Premium (Monthly)$12.991 Month
- CalmCarry Premium (Annual)7 Days trial$69.991 Year









