Comparison

Contigo vs Critter Walk

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

Head to head
About

Contigo

Facilitates easy care coordination for patients. Securely communicate with your healthcare team, complete necessary forms, and report your health outcomes. Stay connected with your providers anytime, anywhere.

Highlights
  • Secure communication with care team
  • Complete assigned forms
  • Report health outcomes
  • Stay connected with providers
  • Easy care coordination
Features
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Care Coordination made easy for patients. Engage with your care team to communicate securely, complete assigned forms and report your outcomes. Stay connected with your care team anytime anywhere

About

Critter Walk

This app encourages activity with virtual companions. Track your steps, engage in focused walking sessions, and monitor your progress with customizable goals and cheerful characters. An Apple Watch app offers convenient tracking on your wrist.

Highlights
  • Step tracking with HealthKit
  • Focused walking sessions
  • Unlockable walking companions
  • Daily, Weekly, Monthly step trends
  • Apple Watch app integration
  • Customizable goals and preferences
Features
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Critter Walk is a warm, storybook-inspired walking app for people who want a softer way to stay active. Track daily steps, start focused walking sessions, build streaks, and keep an eye on your progress with cheerful companions by your side. The app connects with HealthKit to show your step progress, daily goal, estimated active time, streak status, and walking history. When you are ready to move, start a dedicated walk session to see live time, steps, distance, and goal progress in a full-screen companion scene. Critter Walk also includes an Apple Watch app for quick starts and glanceable walk tracking from your wrist. Key features: - Follow today's steps, daily goal progress, active time, and current streak from the Home screen. - Start focused walks with live elapsed time, steps, distance, pause, and finish controls. - Review Daily, Weekly, and Monthly step trends in the Journey tab. - Choose a walking companion, including Bunny plus unlockable Kitty, Foxy, Owl and Mouse companions. - Customize your daily step goal, distance units, reminders, haptics, encouragement, and end-of-day summary preferences. - Use Apple Watch to start walks, view goal progress, track distance, and monitor heart rate during a walk. - Keep an eye on your walking progress right from your Home Screen with widgets. Choose the simple progress widget or bring your current companion along with the Premium widget.

Screenshots

Contigo4 screens
Critter Walk4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Contigo at none against Critter Walk's 1. Contigo also leads on iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.0). Critter Walk's advantage is ratings volume (3 vs 1). On price, rating, update cadence 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. Critter Walk sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Contigo 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 Contigo against 5.0 for Critter Walk. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 3 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Contigo versus Critter Walk: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterContigoCritter Walk
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings13 — better
Update frequencyFortnightlyFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS15.6 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size192 MB76 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperEquipo Health IncTodd Seabrook

Customer experience

Contigo

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Critter Walk

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Contigo

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Critter Walk

One-time1
  • Premium Companion Pack$1.99

Questions

Is Contigo free?
Contigo is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Critter Walk free?
Critter Walk is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Contigo or Critter Walk?
Contigo and Critter Walk are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 3 ratings respectively.
Do Contigo or Critter Walk have ads?
Neither Contigo nor Critter Walk shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Contigo or Critter Walk?
Contigo ships an update fortnightly, and Critter Walk fortnightly. Most recently, Contigo was updated on November 4, 2026 and Critter Walk on October 31, 2026.

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