Walk & Talk vs HexStride
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Walk & Talk
This app tracks your daily steps and transforms walking into a fun, competitive activity. Monitor your progress, see how you rank against others locally and globally, and stay motivated to walk more.
- Step tracking
- Local and global ranking
- Daily progress monitoring
- Motivational features
- Competitive walking
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Walk more. Feel better. Have fun. Walk & Talk tracks your steps and turns walking into friendly competition. What you can do: • Track your steps • See how you rank locally and globally • Stay motivated with daily progress • Find nearby walkers (coming soon) Walk at your own pace. Compare with others. Keep improving. Download now and start climbing the ranks.
HexStride
This app transforms your real-world walks and runs into a game where you claim hexagonal territories on a map. Earn ground by physically moving, defend your claims by walking them again, and compete with others for the largest territories. It offers a unique way to gamify exercise and explore your surroundings.
- Claim hexagonal territories by walking
- Defend claimed ground by re-walking
- Compete for largest territories
- Integrates with Apple Health for runs
- No account required, private by design
- Live Activities and widgets
- Share walks and progress
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Where you walk becomes yours. HexStride turns the streets you already walk into a board of hexagons, twenty-seven metres across. Walk a street and the hexagons under your feet are yours. Close a loop and everything inside it is yours too. Walk through a rival's ground and you take it, one layer at a time. The biggest patch leads, and the board never resets. EARNED ON FOOT Every hexagon on the map was walked by somebody. Claims count walking or running, and a walk at vehicle speed, or one your phone's step counter says you didn't walk, claims nothing. No clock ever holds ground for anyone: what defends a hexagon is walking it again, which hardens it, and a rival needs one walk to crack a layer and another to take it. How claims are checked is public at hexstride.app/fair-play. A GAME THAT STAYS KIND Your score only goes up. Losing ground stops it climbing, never subtracts. Two rest days a week are free, and a short week is never called a failure. One nudge a day at your usual hour, nothing between ten at night and eight in the morning, no red badges. WALK. RUN. LOOP. Start counts you down and follows you through real 3D streets. During the walk the hexagons you'd claim light up as outlines; tap End and they sweep in along your route. Runs count too and are saved to Apple Health as runs. THE BOARD A board for every district, city, region and country, with a podium at the top and your own row pinned wherever it falls. Tap any patch to see who holds it: their name, their photo and how much ground they hold against yours. Send a wave. Invite a friend to the same streets. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account and no sign-up. Your routes never leave your phone; only the hexagons you claimed do. Nobody, including us, can see where you walked. No ads, no analytics that track you, no data sale. Delete everything from inside the app, any time. ON YOUR LOCK SCREEN A Live Activity for the walk in progress, and widgets for the week's days out and the ground you hold. Share a walk as a story or a post, or send it to Strava. A city with nobody in it is yours for the taking. Bring a friend and it's a rivalry.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Walk & Talk at none against HexStride's 3. HexStride's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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. HexStride sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Walk & Talk asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Walk & Talk against 5.0 for HexStride. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
Walk & Talk ships an update every 4 days, HexStride every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Walk & Talk | HexStride |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Every 5 days |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 30 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Danny Witters | BEN DUSHNITZKY |
In-app purchases
Walk & Talk
No in-app purchases
HexStride
- Monthly14 Days trial$3.991 Month
- Annual14 Days trial$29.991 Year
- Lifetime$79.99









