Walking Desk vs Volt
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.
Volt
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Volt turns your iPhone (and Apple Watch) into a smart control panel for your Bluetooth treadmill. Connect once, then control speed and incline, watch your live stats, and let Volt automatically adjust your pace for you — all while every workout is saved straight to Apple Health. Works with any treadmill that supports the Bluetooth FTMS (Fitness Machine Service) standard. LIVE TREADMILL CONTROL - Start, pause, resume, and stop your treadmill directly from your phone - Adjust speed and incline in real time, no need to touch the console - See live speed, distance, incline, elapsed time, and calories at a glance - Safety-first pairing: nearby treadmills are ranked by signal strength, and Volt warns you if a machine looks like it's already in use before you connect SMART WORKOUT MODES - Free Run — full manual control, your pace, your rules - Heart Rate Cruise Control — set a target heart rate and Volt automatically raises or lowers treadmill speed to keep you in your zone - HIIT Intervals — automated sprint/walk intervals with treadmill speed changes handled for you, so you can focus on the effort APPLE WATCH COMPANION - Mirrors your live speed, distance, incline, and heart rate to your wrist - Start and stop workouts from either device — they stay in sync - Optional haptic feedback for pace changes and interval transitions - Built for Always-On Display, so your stats stay sharp and readable without draining your battery APPLE HEALTH INTEGRATION - Every completed workout is saved to Health automatically — duration, distance, calories, and heart rate - Works whether or not you're wearing your Apple Watch: Volt saves the workout from your phone if your watch isn't paired for the session - Detailed per-second telemetry means your workout history shows real speed and heart-rate charts, not just a summary DYNAMIC ISLAND & LIVE ACTIVITY - Track your run from your iPhone's Lock Screen or the Dynamic Island without opening the app - Live speed, distance, and elapsed time, updated as you move WORKOUT HISTORY - Every past workout in one place, with distance, duration, calories, and average pace - Tap into any workout for a full speed, incline, and heart-rate breakdown over time MADE FOR RUNNERS AND WALKERS - Personalize calorie estimates with your own body weight - Available in English and Hungarian - A clean, distraction-free dashboard designed to be read at a glance, whether you're sprinting or walking the dog on your $200 basement treadmill Volt doesn't try to be a full fitness platform — it does one thing well: make your Bluetooth treadmill smarter, safer to control, and fully connected to the Health app you already use.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Walking Desk at none against Volt's 1. Volt's advantage is update cadence (every 8 days vs every 6 weeks). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Volt sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $6.99 per year. Walking Desk asks for nothing beyond the download.
Walking Desk ships an update every 6 weeks, Volt every 8 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | Walking Desk | Volt |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 8 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Michael Haren | Daniel Kiss |
In-app purchases
Walking Desk
No in-app purchases
Volt
- Volt Premium7 Days trial$6.991 Year









