Walksport vs Walking Desk
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Walksport
This app helps you plan walks, track your progress, and build a consistent walking habit. It offers goal setting, individual walk tracking, and detailed statistics for weekly, monthly, and yearly progress. Earn badges and stamps by joining challenges to stay motivated.
- Goal setting
- Individual walk tracking
- Progress statistics (weekly, monthly, yearly)
- Feats challenges with badges/stamps
- Simple and easy to use interface
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Walksport is for walkers. It has everything you need to plan your walks, track your progress and make walking a consistent part of your life. Whether you’re an urban walker, bushwalker, casual walker, city walker, charity walker or someone who just likes to track your progress, Walksport will keep you walking. We make it easy for you to track your progress, challenge yourself, set goals and achieve them. Main Features: Set your goal Track individual walks Track your weekly, monthly, yearly progress with statistics easily viewed at a glance Join Feats to challenge yourself and to earn physical medals or in-app badges and stamps Simple and easy to use Download Walksport, take that first step out the door and keep moving. Walksport is non-competitive, staying focused on the goals you set – it’s perfect if you’ve been walking for a long time or if you’re ready to get started.
Walking Desk
Manually log treadmill desk activity into Apple Health. Record steps, distance, calories, and duration to create walking workouts. View recent activity totals from the past week.
- Record steps, distance, calories, and duration
- Save sessions as walking workouts in Apple Health
- View last 7 days of activity totals
- No account required
- No ads or analytics tracking
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Walking Desk helps you record treadmill desk sessions in Apple Health. Enter the numbers from your treadmill display: • Steps • Distance in miles • Calories • Workout duration Walking Desk saves that session to Apple Health as: • Step count • Walking or running distance • Active energy burned • A walking workout The app also reads your recent Apple Health totals so you can see the last 7 days of activity in one place. No account. No ads. No analytics tracking.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Walksport at 13.0 against Walking Desk's 17.0. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Walksport ships an update every 2 months, Walking Desk every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Walksport | Walking Desk |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 25 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Walksport Pty Ltd | Michael Haren |
Customer experience
Walksport
Walking Desk
In-app purchases
Walksport
No in-app purchases
Walking Desk
No in-app purchases









