Walking Desk vs Bambi
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Walking Desk
Manually log treadmill desk activity into Apple Health. Record steps, distance, calories, and duration to create walking workouts. View recent activity totals from the past week.
- Record steps, distance, calories, and duration
- Save sessions as walking workouts in Apple Health
- View last 7 days of activity totals
- No account required
- No ads or analytics tracking
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Walking Desk helps you record treadmill desk sessions in Apple Health. Enter the numbers from your treadmill display: • Steps • Distance in miles • Calories • Workout duration Walking Desk saves that session to Apple Health as: • Step count • Walking or running distance • Active energy burned • A walking workout The app also reads your recent Apple Health totals so you can see the last 7 days of activity in one place. No account. No ads. No analytics tracking.
Bambi
This app accurately tracks your steps, even when your hands are occupied. It connects to a specific wearable device to ensure precise counting throughout your day.
- Accurate step counting
- Hands-free tracking
- Connects to Bambi wearable
- Activity tracking
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This is the official Bambi app that connects to your Bambi wearable device. Count steps accurately even when your hands are busy pushing a stroller, carrying groceries, lifting weights, or handling whatever the day brings.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Bambi at every 4 days against Walking Desk's every 6 weeks. Bambi also leads on 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Walking Desk against 5.0 for Bambi. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 3 respectively.
Walking Desk ships an update every 6 weeks, Bambi every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Walking Desk | Bambi |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Michael Haren | Sweet Apple Games |
Customer experience
Walking Desk
Bambi
In-app purchases
Walking Desk
No in-app purchases
Bambi
No in-app purchases
