Remote Walk vs Hybrid Race Prep
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Virtual city exploration
- Landmark discovery and narration
- Real-time fitness statistics
- Street view integration
- Lock screen widget
- Walk history and saving
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Turn your daily walks into walks around the world! Explore Paris, Chicago, New Orleans and many more virtually, all while walking your normal walking routes. Learn about landmarks you pass with audio narrations as well as text. 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.
Hybrid Race Prep
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Built for hybrid race prep: race on your Watch, plan on your iPhone. Full simulated race timer Eight run legs + eight stations, with transition time rolled into the total. Customize each station’s volume—runs 500–2000 m, sled 25–150 m, wall balls 50–200 reps—and target times scale with volume so half-distance sessions still compare cleanly. Live vs target Large center clock for total time, current segment underneath. Cumulative lead/lag updates live—green ahead, red behind—so you know when to push or hold. Heart rate and energy from Apple Health; run legs show pace, station legs show target volume. Two Watch layouts Race Ring maps all 16 segments in a circle; Big Segment Stack maximizes the clock with a dot strip for runs vs stations. Switch anytime; your choice sticks. Periodized training plans Pick a target event and auto-build a plan by weeks out—base, build, and race-prep phases. Edit volume, swap moves, or rest for a single day without rewriting the whole cycle. Plans that travel Plans you create or edit on iPhone sync to Watch; completed sessions archive back. Import from templates, CSV/PDF, or a coach share link; export and share your own. Post-race review Finish-time trends, personal bests, and segment strength rankings—see which station is holding you back. Optional multi-device sync Sign in with Apple or email to back up plans and results across devices. Full features work offline with on-device data only. Health data (heart rate, etc.) is never uploaded.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Hybrid Race Prep at none against Remote Walk's 1. Remote Walk's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 3 months). 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
Both are free to download. Remote Walk sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Hybrid Race Prep asks for nothing beyond the download.
Remote Walk ships an update every 3 weeks, Hybrid Race Prep every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Remote Walk | Hybrid Race Prep |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (45 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 62.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 45 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 201 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | RoamPath, LLC | 函 王 |
In-app purchases
Remote Walk
- Premium Access$4.99
Hybrid Race Prep
No in-app purchases
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