Comparison

Walker vs Pedora

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

Head to head
About

Walker

This all-in-one fitness app helps you build a healthier, more active lifestyle. Track steps, workouts, nutrition, sleep, and recovery to gain insights into your health and performance. It offers guided workouts, progress tracking, and social features to keep you motivated.

Highlights
  • Step and workout tracking
  • Nutrition and hydration logging
  • Sleep and recovery monitoring
  • Training Readiness insights
  • Live workout stats and heart rate tracking
  • 150+ HIIT exercises and plans
  • Social competition and leaderboards
Features
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Live healthier. Train smarter. Stay motivated. Make every step count with Walker. Bring your daily activity, workouts, nutrition, hydration, sleep, and recovery together in one place. Find your balance Use Training Readiness to help decide when to push and when to recover, with insights based on your activity, sleep, and available health data. Train with purpose Track walks, runs, HIIT, and strength workouts with live stats. Monitor your heart rate during workouts with AirPods Pro 3 — no Apple Watch required. Build a routine that lasts Explore 140+ HIIT exercises and structured workout plans. Set goals, earn achievements, and unlock Heroes as you make progress. Understand your nutrition Log food and track calories, protein, carbohydrates, and fat. Use the nutrition calculator to estimate daily targets that match your goals, and keep track of your hydration. See your progress Monitor your weight, add progress photos, and review your activity and sleep over time. Keep your goals close with home screen widgets. Stay motivated together Compete with friends, climb the global leaderboard, and share your milestones. Connected with Apple Health With your permission, Walker uses HealthKit to read and save supported health and fitness data. iCloud keeps supported app data in sync across your devices. Some features require a WALKER+ subscription. Terms of use: https://www.gaivoronskii.com/walker/terms-of-use Privacy policy: https://www.gaivoronskii.com/walker/privacy-policy

About

Pedora

This app automatically adjusts your daily walking goals based on your recent activity, allowing for gradual increases or fixed targets. It tracks various health metrics and offers friendly competition with friends. Visualize your progress with charts and widgets.

Highlights
  • Automatic goal adjustment
  • Customizable fixed goals
  • Activity tracking (steps, distance, calories, etc.)
  • Progress charts and statistics
  • Friendly walking competitions
  • Home and lock screen widgets
  • Apple Watch integration
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You just set the improvement rate and Pedora will increase your walking goals little by little everyday. Pedora will intelligently adjust your goals as you go using your previous 7 days average. Maybe now it's spring and you feel like to go out and walk more? No problem. You can change your improvement rate higher and you're all set! Pedora will update your walking goals automatically from now on. Or maybe you're facing a plateau and just want to maintain your goals? No problem. You can change it to custom fixed goals and you're all set! Pedora will not touch your walking goals from now on. Walking can be more fun when its goal is achievable. Achieve you goals everyday with Pedora, and have a healthy life! ** Pedora includes ** 6 Activity Items - Steps - Distance - Duration - Calories - Floors - Heart Rate (can be tracked using Apple Watch or other smart bands) 2 Goal-Tracking Modes - Automatic Goals: Today's goals are tracked automatically based on previous 7 days average - Custom Goals: Custom Goals can be set and changed manually for today and any previous days. - Goal progresses are presented beautifully in a ring and bar charts 7 Period Charts - Day - 7 Days - Week - Weeks - Month - Year - Years Period Statistics - Totals - Averages - Trends Data Source - iPhone: updates in real time using iPhone motion sensor - All including Apple Watch: Update can be slower as the data are synced and merged with other sources including Apple Watch Friendly Walking Competition - Walking together is more fun - Compete for the weekly step counts with friends and loved ones - Motivate each other and achieve goals together - No 3rd party user registration or login is required - Send your invitation to any iCloud contact via Messages or Mail Home Screen Widgets - One activity on a small-sized widget - All activities on a medium-sized widget Lock Screen Widgets for iOS 16 and up - 2 types of lock screen widgets: Rectangular and Circular - Select activity (steps, distance, duration, calories, floors, heart rate) to show by tapping each widget while adding widget Apple Watch - Various watch complications - Independent Apple Watch app to track today's goal progress Notifications - Daily Steps Goal Progress - Friendly Steps Competition Rank Change - Friendly Steps Competition Weekly Winning Units - Can switch between Imperial and Metric Units Dark & Light Mode - Supports Dark & Light mode or System setting of your iPhone ** Health app integration ** Pedora integrates with the Health app in order to display health data collected by connected devices including Apple Watch. ** Data Privacy ** Your health data stays in your iPhone and Apple's eco system, and they will not be shared with any 3rd parties.

Screenshots

Walker4 screens
Pedora4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Pedora at none against Walker's 3. Pedora also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). Walker's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (fortnightly vs monthly). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Walker sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Pedora asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Walker holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 124 and 61 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 72% of Walker's written reviews are positive against 65% of Pedora's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Walker ships an update fortnightly, Pedora monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Walker versus Pedora: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWalkerPedora
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (124 ratings) — better4.5 (61 ratings)
Positive reviews72.0% of reviews — better65.0% of reviews
Number of ratings124 — better61
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterMonthly
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesAd-supported — better
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size108 MB19 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGaivoronski Andrei Vyacheslavovich, IPDong hyun Kim

Customer experience

Walker

All ratings124 ratings
Positive90.3%
Neutral4.0%
Negative5.6%
Written reviews100 reviews
Positive72.0%
Neutral5.0%
Negative23.0%

Pedora

All ratings56 ratings
Positive87.5%
Neutral5.4%
Negative7.1%
Written reviews60 reviews
Positive65.0%
Neutral10.0%
Negative25.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Walker

Subscriptions2
  • WALKER+ 1 Month$2.991 Month
  • WALKER+ 1 Year$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • WALKER+ Forever$39.99
None

Pedora

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Walker free?
Walker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Pedora free?
Pedora is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Walker or Pedora?
Walker is rated higher. Walker averages 4.6 out of 5 from 124 ratings, while Pedora averages 4.5 from 61 ratings.
Do Walker or Pedora have ads?
Pedora shows ads; Walker does not.
Which is updated more often, Walker or Pedora?
Walker ships an update fortnightly, and Pedora monthly. Most recently, Walker was updated on November 6, 2026 and Pedora on November 3, 2026.

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