Comparison

Zen Walk vs Territor.io

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

Head to head
About

Zen Walk

Features
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Zen Walk transforms your daily walks into beautiful tile art, offering a minimal and innovative walking experience. Based on Zen philosophy, it provides a simple and calming way to track your movement. Visualize Your Walks with Tiles Every step you take creates 500m×500m tiles on the map. As you visit places and walk distances, tiles change color, turning your city into your personal art canvas. Three Tile States • Unvisited Tiles (Gray): Areas you haven't explored yet • Visited Tiles (Blue): Areas you've walked today • Checked-in Tiles (Green): Areas where you've walked 300m or more Simple and Beautiful Statistics Review your walking habits with daily, weekly, and monthly statistics. Track progress through tile counts rather than complex numbers, making it easier to stay motivated. Time Machine Feature • Review past walking history • Display tiles by date • Track your growth journey • Rediscover memorable places Premier Access • Unlimited history beyond 7 days • Detailed statistical graphs for trend analysis • Customize tile colors • CSV data export feature • Ad-free, focused experience Widget Support • Check progress on home screen • Lock screen widget compatible • Choose from 3 sizes • Real-time updates Privacy Focused • Location data processed on device • No external server transmission • Minimal permission requirements • Your data stays yours Zen Walk Features Embodying the Zen principle of "Less is More," enjoy the pure act of walking without being caught up in detailed step counts or distance metrics. Turn your daily walks into an artistic journey through your city. Train and car movements are automatically excluded, recording only pure walking activities. With continuous background location tracking, your walks are recorded automatically without opening the app. Power-efficient design minimizes battery impact. Download Zen Walk now and paint your city with tiles! EURA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Territor.io

Turn your runs into a competitive game where you capture territory by closing loops. Compete with friends or globally to claim land, earn points, and earn trophies. Customize game rules and track your progress with detailed score breakdowns.

Highlights
  • Capture territory by closing GPS loops
  • Compete with friends or globally
  • Customizable game rules and seasons
  • Earn points and trophies
  • Detailed score breakdowns
  • Apple Fitness sync
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Territor.io turns a run into a land grab. Close a loop on your route and the ground inside it becomes yours: painted in your color on a live map and worth points on the board. Run a bigger, smarter loop than your friends and you take theirs. Lost ground? Run it again and take it back. HOW IT WORKS • Start a run. Territor.io tracks it with GPS and keeps tracking with the screen off. (Continued use of GPS in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.) • Close a loop: circle back to where you started, or cross your own path. Any shape that encloses ground counts. • Finish to watch your captured area light up. • Already running with your Apple Watch? Turn on Apple Fitness sync in Settings (iOS) to bring those runs in automatically. They show up in your history and can be published to claim territory, just like runs you record in the app. • Publish when you're ready. Nothing is shared until you do. IT'S A TURF WAR The newest loop to enclose a patch owns it. Your territory is always up for grabs, and so is everyone else's — the map never stops moving. BRING YOUR RIVALS Create a private group, invite friends with a link, and share a map and leaderboard that belong only to you. Or publish to the Global game and take your place on the world board. RULES THAT CHANGE THE GAME Each group's season picks which rules it plays by: • Conditions: a hard run is worth more. Cold, heat, rain, snow, darkness and climbing all raise your multiplier, measured on our servers from where and when you actually ran. • Milestones: points for distance covered, a bonus for every week of your streak, and permanent trophies for your first 5K, 10K, half and full marathon. • Territory Decay: ground you don't re-run slowly fades and releases. Consistency beats one heroic land grab. • Landmarks: bonus points for looping around parks, monuments, museums and capitols. Either everyone can claim each place once, or only the first runner there gets paid. SEASONS AND TROPHIES A group sets its own season length — monthly, quarterly, yearly, or open-ended. When a season closes, the top three take home permanent trophies, and the map opens as unclaimed ground. Every past season keeps its own frozen board and map. SEE EXACTLY WHY YOU SCORED Tap any score for a full breakdown: the ground you're holding, what each active rule added, and the total. BUILT TO BE FAIR Scoring rules are set by Territor.io, never by group owners, so nobody can tune the game in their own favor. Weather, elevation and daylight are looked up server-side, so nothing your phone reports can inflate a score. Runs at impossible speeds are rejected. YOUR PRIVACY A run stays private to you until you choose to publish it. Other players see your username, your color and the shape of the loops you've published but never your real name, email or photo. We don't store the raw point-by-point GPS trail of your run on our servers, only the boundary of the loop you claimed. Lace up. The neighborhood is up for grabs.

Screenshots

Zen Walk4 screens
Territor.io4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Territor.io at none against Zen Walk's 1. Territor.io also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 10 days) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.5). On price, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Zen Walk sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $1.99 per 2 months. Territor.io asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Zen Walk ships an update every 10 days, Territor.io every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Zen Walk versus Territor.io: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterZen WalkTerritor.io
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (7 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—7 — better
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.515.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size9 MB34 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperTakumi NakayamaJoshua Abbott

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Zen Walk

Subscriptions1
  • Premier Access$1.992 Months
None

Territor.io

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Zen Walk free?
Zen Walk is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Territor.io free?
Territor.io is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Zen Walk or Territor.io have ads?
Neither Zen Walk nor Territor.io shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Zen Walk or Territor.io?
Zen Walk ships an update every 10 days, and Territor.io every 3 days. Most recently, Zen Walk was updated on October 8, 2026 and Territor.io on October 14, 2026.

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