Comparison

Total Steps vs Just Walk

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

Head to head
About

Total Steps

Features
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Turn your daily steps into friendly competition. Total Steps connects to Apple Health and helps you stay active with public and private step leagues, global leaderboards, achievements, streaks, weekly recaps, and clean progress stats. Compete with friends Create a private league, share an invite code, or join public leagues and race up the standings. Track active and finished leagues, check final results, and share your performance. Build a walking habit See your daily, monthly, yearly, and lifetime steps in a clean dashboard. Follow your streaks, personal records, milestones, and activity heatmap. Unlock achievements Earn badges for consistency, big step days, streaks, goals, and long-term progress. Your profile shows what you've unlocked and what is next. Review your week Weekly Recap shows your total steps, best day, trend vs last week, and progress highlights so you can keep momentum going. Share your progress Share step summaries, leaderboard results, weekly recaps, achievements, and league results with friends. Privacy & permissions Total Steps reads your step count from Apple Health to calculate stats, achievements, and rankings. Sign in with Apple keeps your leagues and stats connected across devices while you stay in control. Start walking, join a league, and see how far you can climb.

About

Just Walk

This app guides you through interval walking using haptic cues on your Apple Watch, helping you maintain target paces without needing to look at your phone. It offers a 4-week adaptive program, tracks real-life brisk walking, and provides insights into your progress and consistency.

Highlights
  • Haptic interval coaching
  • Adaptive 4-week program
  • Automatic real-life walk crediting
  • Progress and consistency tracking
  • Forgiving daily step streaks
  • Heart-rate guided Fat Burn Zone walks
  • Post-meal walks
Features
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The Japanese interval walking method, coached from your wrist. Three minutes fast, three minutes slow. Backed by research, loved by millions — and almost impossible to pace correctly on your own. Just Walk is the coach: haptic cues on your Apple Watch keep your fast intervals actually fast, without audio, without looking at your phone. WHAT MAKES JUST WALK DIFFERENT • CADENCE COACHING — Live steps-per-minute with a target band for every fast interval. Fall off the pace and your wrist tells you. Hit it and you'll know. • THE 4-WEEK PROGRAM — Start at 3 cycles, and the plan adapts to how you actually walk: finish strong and it levels up; struggle and it repeats the week. Miss a day? The program waits for you. • WE NOTICE REAL LIFE — Walked briskly to the train for 14 minutes? That counts. Just Walk credits walking you did without opening the app. • HOW IT'S GOING — Two honest numbers. Showing Up counts the walking you did. Ease watches whether walks are getting easier for your body — compared to one person only: you, weeks ago. Most weeks it says Steady, because that's the truth. Not a grade, not a medical measurement — a mirror we hold steady. • STREAKS THAT FORGIVE — Daily step streaks with automatic shields for the days life happens. Free for everyone. ALSO IN JUST WALK • Step tracking that matches Apple Health • Home-screen and lock-screen widgets • Fat Burn Zone walks with live heart-rate guidance • Post-meal walks (10 minutes, blood-sugar friendly) • Full Apple Watch app with complications TRY THE COACHING FREE Every interval walk comes with live cadence coaching — including your free weekly walk. Week 1 of the program is free too, and your How it's going numbers are free, always. Just Walk Pro unlocks the full 4-week program, unlimited coached walks, and the story behind your numbers: full history, your weekly Ease readings, and a note from your coach about why they moved — with a 7-day free trial on the annual plan. No account. No ads. Your data stays in Apple Health and iCloud. Terms of Use: https://getjustwalk.com/terms Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://getjustwalk.com/privacy

Screenshots

Total Steps4 screens
Just Walk4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Just Walk at every 4 days against Total Steps's weekly. Just Walk also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Total Steps sells 4 one-off in-app purchases and Just Walk sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Total Steps ships an update weekly, Just Walk every 4 days. Both last shipped on September 10, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Total Steps versus Just Walk: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTotal StepsJust Walk
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Freemium
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS26.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB13 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAleksandr MurashkinOn World Tech LLC

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Total Steps

One-time4
  • Custom Nickname$0.99
  • Small Tip$0.99
  • Medium Tip$4.99
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  • Large Tip$14.99
3 purchases

Just Walk

Subscriptions2
  • Just Walk Pro (Monthly)$0.991 Month
  • Just Walk Pro (Annual)7 Days trial$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • Just Walk (Streak Shield)$2.99

Questions

Is Total Steps free?
Total Steps is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Just Walk free?
Just Walk is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Total Steps or Just Walk have ads?
Neither Total Steps nor Just Walk shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Total Steps or Just Walk?
Total Steps ships an update weekly, and Just Walk every 4 days. Most recently, Total Steps was updated on September 10, 2026 and Just Walk on September 10, 2026.

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