Comparison

Remote Walk vs Computa

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

Head to head
About

Remote Walk

Transform your local walks into virtual explorations of famous cities. Discover landmarks and learn about them as you track your fitness progress. Enjoy an engaging way to stay active and motivated.

Highlights
  • Virtual city exploration
  • Landmark discovery and narration
  • Real-time fitness statistics
  • Street view integration
  • Lock screen widget
  • Walk history and saving
Features
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Turn daily walks into journeys around the world! Explore Paris, Chicago, New Orleans & many more — all while walking your neighborhood. Every step brings adventure. Learn about landmarks you pass! Remote Walk provides fitness motivation with education and entertainment. You will get fit walking while exploring famous cities virtually! Remote Walk provides a great fitness experience by allowing you to walk in different cities from the comfort of your local neighborhood routes. Walking is an excellent way to get in shape both mentally and physically. With Remote Walk, you can make this fun and have the motivation to walk more! Remote Walk tracks your distance traveled and translates it to the virtual route. It gives you the experience of actually walking in the selected city! The app also provides exercise statistics including distance, speed, calories and steps -- including keeping a history of your walks. The app uses a Real Time mode by default which leverages Location services in a low power mode. This will let you know in real-time as you pass virtual landmarks in the routes. The passed landmarks will be spoken to you with narration, and can be mixed with any current music you are playing on your phone. So don't forget to wear your headphones. The more you walk, the more landmarks you pass, and the more exercise you get. Features include: - Ability to view your position on the virtual map using google maps view (flat or satellite). When you move locally, you see your position progress on the route map. - Ability to see street view (with map thumbnail) of your virtual route that updates in real-time as you walk to make you feel like you are there. You can look around the street view using standard gestures. - Live widget support to see progress on Lock Screen. - Routes have various landmarks. As you pass them, they are announced via audio, and you also get notifications on your phone/watch (when in Real Time mode) - Flexible audio output settings exist so user can specify if landmark narration is on or off, just off if mixed with other audio (e.g., an audio book). You can also specify if audio is headphones only or if speaker is allowed. And if speaker allowed, you can specify if it should honor the mute switch of the phone or not. - A landmark view is available where you can see information on all the landmarks you passed as well as the ability to jump to a Wikipedia entry of the landmark as well as see a 360 panoramic view of the site using Google maps technology. - A real-time exercise statistics page where you can see your current walking statistics like steps count, distance, and time. - Ability to save your walks and view history - Interesting routes and landmarks - 3 free routes, in famous areas of Chicago, San Francisco, and New Orleans(full features for those routes) - A one-time premium upgrade gives you all routes (on both iPhone and Watch)! I - Additional premium routes include Boston, London, Paris, Helsinki, Kyiv, Berlin, Destin, Portland ME, Washington DC, Atlanta, Hawaii, Istanbul, Dublin, and more, with more to be added! No sign-in or subscription required! Remote Walk also runs on Apple Watch, where it tracks through the virtual route based on your steps as measured by the watch. This Watch app is independent of the iPhone app, and is for times when you would rather just see your progress on the virtual route on your wrist. It will only run on Apple Watches that have Watch OS v10.6+ installed. More features to come, including long journeys and team walks.

About

Computa

Features
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Computa is a watch-only cycling recording service, you must have an Apple Watch to track a ride. Computa is designed to work without cell service relying entirely on GPS for navigation on device. No active connection to phone needed! Computa turns your Apple Watch into a powerful cycling computer with customizable metrics, live map navigation, and ride tracking. When battery power is plentiful, full map detail and many more features are also available! • Custom screens: speed, distance, HR, elevation, power & more • Turn-by-turn navigation with breadcrumb maps • Configurable map with zoom, colors, and stat overlays • Multiple settings profiles for different rides • Strava & Ride with GPS sync • Auto-pause and navigation alerts • Free — no ads, no subscriptions

Screenshots

Remote Walk4 screens
Computa4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Computa at none against Remote Walk's 1. Computa also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Remote Walk sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Computa asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Remote Walk ships an update every 3 weeks, Computa every 5 days. Both last shipped on October 3, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Remote Walk versus Computa: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRemote WalkComputa
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.1 (44 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews62.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings44 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
Requires iOS17.6 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size201 MB20 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRoamPath, LLCAidan Weinberg

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Remote Walk

One-time1
  • Premium Access$4.99
None

Computa

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Remote Walk free?
Remote Walk is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Computa free?
Computa is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Remote Walk or Computa have ads?
Neither Remote Walk nor Computa shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Remote Walk or Computa?
Remote Walk ships an update every 3 weeks, and Computa every 5 days. Most recently, Remote Walk was updated on October 3, 2026 and Computa on October 3, 2026.

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