Comparison

Just Walk vs Walking Buddy

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

Head to head
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. On iPhone Duo, Just Walk opens out: Today rests in the middle of the big screen, and held sideways the Walks tab splits into your walk modes and the walks you've done. Three minutes fast, three minutes slow. It's 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. YOUR WALKS ON IPHONE DUO Half-fold it during an interval walk and the stretch you're in and its countdown take the top half, your pace and controls the bottom. Shut, it's the Just Walk you know, on the outer display. On Today, held sideways, your step ring sits beside your day. Close it mid-walk and your walk keeps going on the outer display; open it again and the clock and the stretch are where you left them. Held half-open with the fold running top to bottom, Today and the Walks tab give you one column per page. Held that way during an interval walk, the right page turns the stretch's colour, with its countdown in large type. 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. • A SCREEN YOU READ AT A GLANCE — When you do look, the whole screen is the stretch you're in: green for fast, blue for slow, with a tide that rises as it runs and a countdown into every change. In fast stretches, a dot swings at your target pace. Your Lock Screen and the Dynamic Island carry the same colour, the time left and what's next. • SEE HOW IT WENT — After an interval walk, a chart shows each fast stretch against your pace band, with one plain sentence that sums it up. • 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. It isn't a grade or a medical measurement, just a mirror we hold steady. • STREAKS THAT FORGIVE — Daily step streaks with 4 shields a month (bank up to 8) for the days life happens. If a shield can cover a missed day, your streak waits on Today, dimmed, until you decide. Use one and you see it land on the day it saved. Free for everyone. ALSO IN JUST WALK • Step tracking that matches Apple Health • Tap your step ring to see about how many minutes of walking are left, at the pace of your recent walks (a steady walk until you have some) • VoiceOver announces each new stretch of an interval walk, with its time and what's next • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets • Fat Burn Zone walks with live heart-rate guidance (Apple Watch) • Post-meal walks: 10 minutes on your feet after you eat • Full Apple Watch app with complications TRY THE COACHING FREE Every interval walk comes with live cadence coaching, including your free weekly walk. The first 7 days of the program are 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. Eligible new subscribers can start with a 7-day free trial on the annual plan. No account. No ads. Your step counts and other health data stay on your devices, in Apple Health; iCloud syncs your streaks and walks without them. Terms of Use (EULA): https://onworld.tech/just-walk/terms Privacy Policy: https://onworld.tech/just-walk/privacy

About

Walking Buddy

This app provides personalized step count reminders throughout the day to help you reach your fitness goals. It learns your usual pace and offers flexible goal setting, even on rest days. Step data is read from Apple Health and stays private.

Highlights
  • Personalized step reminders
  • Apple Health integration
  • Learns usual pace
  • Flexible goal setting
  • Streak protection
  • Apple Watch complications
Features
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Reminders that say how many steps to take and keep you moving through the day instead of one long walk in the morning or evening. Walking Buddy reads your steps from Apple Health, learns your usual pace, and nudges you when the day starts to slip. No account, no ads. STEPS THAT ADD UP See today's count from Apple Health on a ring with your goal, how far you are ahead of or behind pace, and where the steps landed hour by hour. REMINDERS SIZED TO YOUR DAY Instead of "walk more", each nudge tells you how many steps to take right now to stay on pace, and stops once the goal is done. Choose your active hours and days. Snooze a nudge or mark the day done straight from the notification. YOUR USUAL PACE Walking Buddy learns your typical day from the past four weeks and tells you whether today is ahead, on track or behind, with a projection of where the day will land. GOALS FOR EVERY KIND OF DAY Keep more than one goal active, each on its own days: 10,000 steps on weekdays and 6,000 at the weekend. A day without a goal is a rest day: no reminders, and your streak is safe. HISTORY THAT MEANS SOMETHING Week, month and year views, goal-met days, streaks with rest days that do not break them, and a Steps Log calendar back to your first recorded step. A weekly recap arrives every Sunday evening. ON YOUR APPLE WATCH Today's ring, steps to go and your pace on your wrist, with complications for the watch face and the Smart Stack. The watch app works on its own: it reads steps from the watch, keeps your goal, and lets you change the daily target with the Digital Crown. With the iPhone app installed, the goal stays the same on both. WALKING BUDDY PRO - Reminders on your schedule: every hour, twice an hour, fixed intervals, or your own times - Keep the nudges coming after the goal - Custom reminder messages - Vacation mode: plan the days you are away, with no reminders and your streak safe - Streak protection: one missed day a week does not break your streak - Trends and All Time: four-week trend, this week, month and year against the last, the year as a heat map, typical day with weekday and weekend averages, and every year since your first step - Apple Watch: pace and steps to go on the watch face (rectangular and corner complications), your usual pace and the day by hour PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account, no ads, no analytics. Step data is read from Apple Health and stays on your iPhone and Apple Watch. Goals are stored locally. Walking Buddy is a pedometer built on Apple Health: it works with iPhone step counting and with Apple Watch data that syncs to Apple Health. Pro is a subscription, monthly or yearly with a 7-day free trial, charged to your Apple ID and renewed unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the period ends. Manage it in Settings > Apple ID > Subscriptions. Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Just Walk4 screens
Walking Buddy4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Walking Buddy at every 2 days against Just Walk's every 10 days. Just Walk's advantage is ratings volume (3 vs 1). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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. Just Walk sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Walking Buddy sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Just Walk against 5.0 for Walking Buddy. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Just Walk ships an update every 10 days, Walking Buddy every 2 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Just Walk versus Walking Buddy: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterJust WalkWalking Buddy
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings3 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFreemium
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB32 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperOn World Tech LLCRaphael Koebraam

Customer experience

Just Walk

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Walking Buddy

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

In-app purchases

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
2 purchases

Walking Buddy

Subscriptions2
  • Pro Monthly: Reminders, Trends$1.991 Month
  • Pro Yearly: Reminders, Trends7 Days trial$19.991 Year

Questions

Is Just Walk free?
Just Walk is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Walking Buddy free?
Walking Buddy is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Just Walk or Walking Buddy?
Just Walk and Walking Buddy are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 3 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Just Walk or Walking Buddy have ads?
Neither Just Walk nor Walking Buddy shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Just Walk or Walking Buddy?
Just Walk ships an update every 10 days, and Walking Buddy every 2 days. Most recently, Just Walk was updated on October 31, 2026 and Walking Buddy on October 31, 2026.

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