World Walking vs OneAnywhere
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
World Walking
Explore the world virtually by syncing your steps. Track your activity and use your steps to journey through over 400 virtual maps. Stay motivated and active with this fun fitness companion.
- Sync steps from phone and watch
- Explore over 400 virtual maps
- Walk solo or with friends
- Gamified fitness motivation
- Accumulate steps for virtual journeys
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Explore the world while walking. World Walking offers a simple and fun way to help you keep active. It’s also your virtual ticket to some of the greatest places on Earth, letting you explore over 400 virtual maps as you clock up your steps. Walk solo, or invite friends along for the journey and conquer a bigger route together. Sync your steps from your phone and your watch to add them to your ‘bank’, then ‘spend’ them on your virtual journeys. World Walking has been designed to motivate you by putting the fun back into fitness, allowing you to reap the benefits of a healthier, more active lifestyle. Getting started is as simple as a walk in the park. Just choose your virtual walk, start walking and accumulate your steps to accomplish greater distances than you'd ever imagine. Be inspired, stay motivated and keep fit. Take your first step and join World Walking today. For subscriptions, please refer to the Apple Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
OneAnywhere
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Turn your walking, running, swimming, cycling or rowing into an adventure anywhere in the world — or on a fictional map of your own. OneAnywhere turns real-life distance into progress along a virtual journey. Explore new places, reach daily targets and share adventures with others. **APPLE WATCH COMPANION APP** Check your daily target, progress percentage, completed distance and remaining distance from your wrist, synchronised with your iPhone. **CREATE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE** Choose a start and destination and let OneAnywhere calculate a route, or draw your own. Explore real-world locations, create custom journeys or plan adventures on fictional maps. Walking and running distance can sync automatically from Apple Health, including activity recorded by your iPhone or Apple Watch. Add distance manually for walking, running, cycling, swimming and rowing. Follow your position along each virtual route and see how far you've travelled and how far remains. **BUDDY – TRACK YOUR REAL-WORLD MOVEMENT** Use Buddy to track your real-world movement on an interactive map as you walk or run with your iPhone. See your current location and the path you've travelled, bringing your everyday adventures to life alongside your virtual journeys. **TARGETS, CALENDARS AND MILESTONES** Set a target completion date and see the daily distance currently required to finish on time, adjusting as your journey progresses. Build streaks and review achieved days, near misses and missed days. Create personal or shared challenge calendars, and add milestones to break longer journeys into manageable stages. **EXPLORE YOUR JOURNEY** See your progress on interactive maps, review journey insights and explore your distance history. Track how far you've travelled, how much remains and whether you're on course to reach your target. Review your daily progress and see how your journey develops over time. **SHARE THE ADVENTURE** Invite friends or other participants to join a route using a route code. Follow each member's progress as you work towards shared goals. **FEATURES INCLUDE:** • Apple Watch companion app with daily target progress • Virtual routes around the world • Custom-drawn routes and fictional maps • Buddy real-world location and movement tracking • Interactive maps and route progress • Current location display on iPhone • Target completion dates and dynamically updated daily distance goals • Calendars, streaks, achievements and near misses • Route milestones and journey insights • Apple Health walking and running synchronisation, including Apple Watch activity • Distance history and manual activity entry • Shared routes, route codes and member progress • Miles or kilometres, light or dark appearance • Preferred time zone and cross-device synchronisation **ONE ACCOUNT. SIX WEBSITES.** Access your adventures using the same account on WalkAnywhere.app, JogAnywhere.app, RunAnywhere.app, CycleAnywhere.app, SwimAnywhere.app and RowAnywhere.app. Prefer the web? Enter activity manually without the iPhone app. **FREE TO START** OneAnywhere is free with one route and one calendar, plus an automatically created Daily Target calendar. Anywhere+ is an optional monthly subscription offering unlimited routes and calendars, plus longer route options. Whether you're exploring your neighbourhood or taking on a long-distance challenge, make every mile or kilometre part of an adventure. **Your distance. Your adventure.** Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: OneAnywhere at daily against World Walking's every 10 days. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. World Walking sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.49 per month and OneAnywhere sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
World Walking ships an update every 10 days, OneAnywhere daily. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | World Walking | OneAnywhere |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (55 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 38.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 55 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 92 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Team Challenge Apps Ltd | Simon Goodchild |
In-app purchases
World Walking
- World Walking Plus (Monthly)14 Days trial$2.491 Month
- World Walking Plus Yearly14 Days trial$24.991 Year
OneAnywhere
- Anywhere+$2.991 Month









