Maunda vs Next Walk
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Maunda
This app offers a gamified approach to mental wellness, combining meditation, journaling, and community features to reduce stress and anxiety. Users can earn points, maintain streaks, and compete on leaderboards to build mental resilience.
- Guided meditations
- Customizable affirmations
- Mental health streaks
- Community integration
- Gamified point system
- Leaderboard challenges
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Welcome to the healthiest social media app. Maunda is dedicated to helping you reduce stress and anxiety while also helping you build a community. Through meditation, journaling, posting uplifts, and affirmations you are able to build your mental resilience and tend to your mental health. With our point system, increase your Maunda score and streak with each action you take. Try to make the monthly leaderboard. Maunda has integrated the features of popular social medias to give a seamless gamified way to keep you constantly improving your mental health. Key features: 1. Single/Group Meditations a. Guided Meditations b. Uplift 2. Customizable Affirmations 3. Mental Health Streaks 4. Leaderboard 5. Point System 6. Community Integration 7. Messaging System a. Stories b. Add friends Check out Maunda 2.0
Next Walk
This app helps you consistently take walks by providing a personalized safe walking window based on weather and daylight. It offers a countdown to your chosen walk time, visible on your lock screen and widgets, to encourage follow-through.
- Personalized safe walking windows
- Countdown to walk time
- Lock Screen and widget integration
- Weather and daylight considerations
- No account required
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Walks are the easiest exercise to procrastinate on. There's no class booked, no trainer waiting, nothing on the calendar. You could go anytime — which somehow means you keep not going. "In five minutes" turns into a missed afternoon. Next Walk fixes that by making the walk a real decision: a specific time, and a specific place. That's what turns "I should" into "I'm out the door." It starts with the weather, because getting outside when conditions are actually good is what makes a walk something you want to repeat. But you shouldn't have to check a weather app every day to catch the right window. So Next Walk watches it for you and quietly taps you on the shoulder when your next good walking opportunity is coming up — no app to open, no login, nothing to remember. Commit with one tap, pick a nearby park or trail if you want, and a countdown on your Lock Screen walks you right up to the moment to head out the door. In a sea of apps built around tracking and streaks, Next Walk cares about one thing: getting you outside instead of losing another walk to procrastination, distraction, or bad weather. Quiet setup, no account, nothing to log. The app you don't have to remember to use — just let it coach you from the background. This is for all the walks you meant to take.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Next Walk at none against Maunda's 1. Next Walk also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 3 weeks). Maunda's advantage is ratings volume (9 vs 3) and iOS requirement (12.4 vs 18.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads 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. Maunda sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $5.00 per month. Next Walk asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Maunda against 5.0 for Next Walk. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 9 and 3 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Maunda ships an update every 3 weeks, Next Walk every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Maunda | Next Walk |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (9 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 9 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 12.4 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 66 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Maunda LLC | VICTORIA LAUREN KANICKA |
Customer experience
Maunda
Next Walk
In-app purchases
Maunda
- Premium Monthly Subscription$5.001 Month
Next Walk
No in-app purchases









