Capybara Walk vs Waddle
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Capybara Walk
This app turns your daily steps into a delightful journey with a virtual capybara companion. Walk to earn rewards, discover new environments, and customize your capybara's garden. It's a gentle, low-pressure way to encourage movement and self-care.
- Step-based virtual pet progression
- Syncs with Apple Health
- Discover new environments
- Collect flowers and plants
- Customize capybara garden
- Unlock outfits and accessories
- Seasonal themes
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Meet your new walking buddy. A round, devoted capybara whose whole world runs on your steps. Walk to work, take the long way home, pace your kitchen while the coffee brews. Every step brings your capy somewhere new, and there’s always a warm welcome when you come back. Your steps sync from Apple Health and fuel your capy’s journey along a winding path through meadows, gardens, and quiet corners of the world. The further you walk, the more there is to discover together. Along the way, collect flowers and plants to bring back to your capy’s garden, a cozy little world that’s yours to return to and make your own. You can also unlock outfits and small touches that make your capy feel even more like yours. New seasonal themes arrive every month, so there’s always something fresh to look forward to. Come back each day and watch your world grow a little more over time. Miss a day? Your capy is still there, still happy to see you, ready to pick right back up. Capybara Walk is low-pressure self-care gentle daily ritual for people who want a softer way to move, and a small, warm companion waiting for them when they do. Terms of Use (EULA): http://www.apple.com/legal/itunes/appstore/dev/stdeula
Waddle
This app offers gentle running plans for beginners, featuring guided intervals and GPS tracking. It adapts to your pace and allows adjustments, with a friendly goose mascot to motivate you. Build a consistent movement habit towards your fitness goals without pressure.
- Guided run/walk intervals
- GPS outdoor activity tracking
- Adaptive training plans
- Workout scheduling and reminders
- Progress tracking and badges
- Route planning and replays
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Meet your new running buddy. It’s a goose. It honks. Waddle to Run turns beginning—or beginning again—into something a little less intimidating. Choose your goal, tell us what feels manageable, and get a gradual walking or run-walk plan designed to fit your week. Follow guided intervals, track outdoor activities with GPS, plan favorite routes, and watch small sessions add up over time. Miss a day? The goose saved your spot. Need to walk? That was always allowed. Build toward a regular movement habit, a 20-minute jog, your first 5K, or a 10K—without treating every workout like a test. Along the way, you can: • Hear run and walk cues • Track distance, pace, time, and routes • Adjust sessions when they feel too hard • Schedule runs and receive reminders • Collect badges and unlock goose gear • Create private route postcards and replays • Save completed workouts to Apple Health Running is hard enough. Your running app doesn’t need to yell at you. Waddle. Jog. Honk. Repeat. Waddle to Run is free to download. Waddle Premium access, available through an auto-renewable subscription or a one-time lifetime purchase, is required to start guided runs and unlock personalized plans, run tracking, Progress, route postcards and replays, Live Activities, and goose outfits. Pricing and any available trial are shown before purchase. Terms of Use: https://spammusubitech.github.io/waddle-to-run/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://spammusubitech.github.io/waddle-to-run/privacy/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Waddle at 5.0 against Capybara Walk's 4.5. Capybara Walk's advantage is ratings volume (53 vs 4). On price, review sentiment, update cadence and ads 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. Capybara Walk sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and Waddle sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Waddle holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Capybara Walk has 53 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 93% of Capybara Walk's written reviews are positive against 100% of Waddle's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Capybara Walk | Waddle |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (53 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 93.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 53 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days | Every 6 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 546 MB | 146 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Ritual Games | Spam Musubi Technologies |
Customer experience
Capybara Walk
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In-app purchases
Capybara Walk
- Capybara Walk Plus7 Days trial$9.991 Month
- Capybara Walk Plus7 Days trial$49.991 Year
Waddle
- Waddle Premium Weekly$1.997 Days
- Premium Weekly$2.997 Days
- Premium Annual — Final Offer$9.991 Year
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- Waddle Premium Annual7 Days trial$19.991 Year
- Premium Annual — Special Offer$19.991 Year
- Premium Annual7 Days trial$39.991 Year
- Premium Annual$39.991 Year
- Waddle Premium Lifetime$24.99
- Waddle Premium Lifetime$49.99









