Comparison

PixelPot vs MICHIORI Virtual Walking Trips

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

Head to head
About

PixelPot

Turn your daily steps into a growing plant on your home screen. This app automatically tracks your steps and visually rewards your activity with unique, AI-generated plant illustrations that progress through growth stages.

Highlights
  • Auto step tracking via HealthKit
  • Real-time home screen widget
  • AI-generated unique plant illustrations
  • Multiple seed types for varied results
  • Plant collection and custom pots
  • Flower language and trivia
Features
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Every step grows a plant. PixelPot is a step counter app that turns your daily walks into a plant-growing experience — right on your home screen. Pick a seed, go about your day, and watch your plant sprout, grow leaves, and bloom as your steps add up. With Silver and Gold Seeds, AI generates a unique illustration for every single plant — no two are ever the same. KEY FEATURES - Auto Step Tracking: Connect to Apple HealthKit and count steps automatically — no manual input needed - Real-Time Widget: Add PixelPot to your home screen and watch your plant grow throughout the day - Three Seed Types: Normal, Silver, and Gold. Silver and Gold use AI to generate a unique plant every time. Gold Seeds offer even more creative freedom for truly one-of-a-kind results - Growth Stages: From sowing to sprout, seedling, flowering, and full bloom - Collection: Save your fully bloomed plants to your collection - Custom Pots: Choose pot shapes, materials, and styles to match your aesthetic - Flower Language & Trivia: Learn the meaning and fun facts behind each plant you grow WHY PIXELPOT Most step counter apps just show you numbers. PixelPot turns those steps into a visible reward — your own plant. It feels like a game, but all you do is walk. Easy to stick with, no pressure. Perfect for anyone bored with traditional pedometers or looking for a fun reason to walk more. PERFECT FOR - Anyone looking to make their daily walking habit more fun - People who find traditional pedometers boring - Widget lovers who want something that changes on their home screen - Fans of casual, low-pressure growing games HOW IT WORKS 1. Pick a seed and plant it (Normal, Silver, or Gold) 2. Connect to HealthKit for automatic step counting 3. Walk through your day — commute, errands, anywhere 4. Watch your plant grow in real time via the home screen widget 5. Add your fully bloomed plant to the collection 6. Plant a new seed and grow another HEALTHKIT INTEGRATION PixelPot reads your step count from Apple Health, so you don't need to keep the app open. Walk with any app, track with any device connected to HealthKit, and your plant will grow automatically. HOME SCREEN WIDGET Add the PixelPot widget and watch growth happen in real time. No need to open the app — your plant updates throughout the day as you walk. GET STARTED Download PixelPot and start growing your own plants with every step you take. Terms of Use: https://pixelpot.smak.works/terms Privacy Policy: https://pixelpot.smak.works/privacy

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MICHIORI Virtual Walking Trips

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MICHIORI turns your everyday steps into a journey along the great old roads of Japan and the world. Your step count from Apple Health moves you along a hand-drawn map. Five roads are free from end to end, 399 km in all, from the Kumano Kodo to the Milford Track. Walk the world's great old roads. ■ Every walk moves you down the road Choose a road under Routes and begin. Steps recorded in Health after you start become distance on the map, and the next place becomes a reason to walk. ■ Drawn, not photographed Every road has its own illustrated map, and the places and stamps are drawn for it too. No stock photos, no map screenshots. ■ Arrive somewhere, and read about it Each checkpoint comes with a short piece on that place: mountain hamlets, towns above the Mediterranean, post towns on the Tokaido. ■ Stamps and finished roads stay in your passport Every place you reach leaves a stamp and a date in your passport. Finish a road and you get a completion seal with the days and distance it took. Favorite roads can be walked again, lap by lap. ■ Five free roads, 399 km Kumano Kodo Nakahechi, 17 km: Takijiri-oji to Tsugizakura-oji, through forest and hamlets. The Amalfi Coast Path, 58 km: Vietri sul Mare to Positano, seven real places along the coast. The 58 km is the in-app distance, not one continuous trail. West Highland Way, 154 km: Milngavie to Fort William, beside Loch Lomond and into the Highlands. Appalachian Trail, Great Smoky Mountains, 116.5 km: Fontana Dam to Davenport Gap, the most celebrated stretch of the whole trail. Milford Track, 53.5 km: Glade Wharf to Sandfly Point, in Fiordland. ■ Roads you can walk with MICHIORI Premium, 1,259 km Tokaido: The 53 Stations, 495.5 km in four sections. Nihonbashi in Tokyo to Sanjo Ohashi in Kyoto, through the fifty-three post towns of the old highway. Camino de Santiago, the Camino Frances, 763.7 km in six sections. Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port over the Pyrenees, through Burgos, Leon and Galicia, to Santiago de Compostela. ■ Questions people ask Q. How much can I do without paying? All five free roads, stories and stamps included: 399 km. Q. What does Premium add? The Tokaido and the Camino, 1,259 km together, and the banner at the bottom goes away. Roads added later are included while you subscribe. The free roads stay free either way. Q. What happens if I cancel? Your distances, stamps and finished roads all stay. Only the Premium roads become read-only, and they continue where you left off if you subscribe again. Q. How are ads shown? One banner along the bottom edge. No full-screen ads, no video, nothing that interrupts you. Premium removes it. Q. Do I have to go there? No. Whatever you walk on an ordinary day counts toward the road you chose. No GPS tracking, and not for navigation on the real trail. Q. Anything else worth knowing? No need to keep the app open: MICHIORI reads the step count already in Health. Notifications are optional. No leaderboards, no social features, nothing that nags you to walk today. ■ Your steps and your records Only the step count is read from Health, nothing is written back, and it is never sent anywhere. Your journey is stored on your device, and syncs to your own iCloud if it is available. There is no account to create. Ads are served by Google; your steps and your journey are never used for advertising. ■ About MICHIORI Premium An auto-renewing subscription, monthly or yearly, with no free trial. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase, and renews at the same price unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the period ends. Cancel any time in Settings, under your name, in Subscriptions. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ ■ Before you start Requires iOS 17 or later. Distances are estimates converted from step counts at a fixed stride of 0.7 m, not a measurement of how far you walked. The maps picture a journey, not a survey of the route.

Screenshots

PixelPot4 screens
MICHIORI Virtual Walking Trips4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: PixelPot at 15.1 against MICHIORI Virtual Walking Trips's 17.0. On price, update cadence, 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. PixelPot sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and MICHIORI Virtual Walking Trips sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

PixelPot ships an update every 9 days, MICHIORI Virtual Walking Trips every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
PixelPot versus MICHIORI Virtual Walking Trips: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPixelPotMICHIORI Virtual Walking Trips
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (17 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews90.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings17 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 9 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size67 MB136 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperAkihito ShimizuRyosuke Kuniyasu

In-app purchases

10 purchases

PixelPot

Subscriptions1
  • Gold Seed Plan7 Days trial$9.991 Month
One-time9
  • Tasty Water$0.99
  • Super Fertilizer$0.99
  • Support $1.99$1.99
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  • Silver Seed$1.99
  • Support $2.99$2.99
  • Support $4.99$4.99
  • Support $9.99$9.99
  • Support $49.99$49.99
  • Support $99.99$99.99
2 purchases

MICHIORI Virtual Walking Trips

Subscriptions2
  • MICHIORI Premium (Monthly)$2.991 Month
  • MICHIORI Premium (Yearly)$19.991 Year

Questions

Is PixelPot free?
PixelPot is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is MICHIORI Virtual Walking Trips free?
MICHIORI Virtual Walking Trips is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do PixelPot or MICHIORI Virtual Walking Trips have ads?
Both PixelPot and MICHIORI Virtual Walking Trips show ads.
Which is updated more often, PixelPot or MICHIORI Virtual Walking Trips?
PixelPot ships an update every 9 days, and MICHIORI Virtual Walking Trips every 2 weeks. Most recently, PixelPot was updated on November 9, 2026 and MICHIORI Virtual Walking Trips on October 25, 2026.

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