Comparison

Maunda vs Next Walk

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Guided meditations
  • Customizable affirmations
  • Mental health streaks
  • Community integration
  • Gamified point system
  • Leaderboard challenges
Features
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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

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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.

Screenshots

Maunda4 screens
Next Walk4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Maunda versus Next Walk: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMaundaNext Walk
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (9 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings9 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS12.4 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size66 MB14 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperMaunda LLCVICTORIA LAUREN KANICKA

Customer experience

Maunda

All ratings9 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Next Walk

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Maunda

Subscriptions1
  • Premium Monthly Subscription$5.001 Month
None

Next Walk

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Maunda free?
Maunda is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Next Walk free?
Next Walk is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Maunda or Next Walk?
Maunda and Next Walk are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 9 and 3 ratings respectively.
Do Maunda or Next Walk have ads?
Neither Maunda nor Next Walk shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Maunda or Next Walk?
Maunda ships an update every 3 weeks, and Next Walk every 5 days. Most recently, Maunda was updated on October 6, 2026 and Next Walk on October 1, 2026.

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