Comparison

PlainWalk vs wayloop

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

Head to head
About

PlainWalk

This app transforms your walks, runs, or cycles into a unique visual experience by drawing your path on a blank map in real time. Explore new routes, revisit favorites to thicken them, and mark special spots with photos and notes. Your journey becomes a personalized, evolving artwork.

Highlights
  • Real-time path drawing on a blank map
  • Records walks, runs, and drives
  • Pioneered distance tracking for new roads
  • Road thickness indicates frequency of use
  • Background recording
  • Live Activity and Home Screen widgets
  • Pin spots with photos and notes
Features
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PlainWalk is a walking app where you draw a pure white map with your own feet. Open the app and the map is empty. Start walking, and only the roads you actually walked appear, one line at a time. Roads you take often grow darker and thicker. Roads you walk for the first time are recorded as ground you pioneered. Take a different street home tonight. Turn into the alley you have never tried. Small adventures like these stay on your map. ■ Features ・Your trail is drawn onto the blank map in real time ・Runs, rides and drives are recorded too. PlainWalk tells them apart, and you choose which ones to draw ・First-time roads count toward your pioneered distance ・Roads you walk often grow thicker, revealing the shape of your daily life ・Background recording keeps going after you close the screen ・Live Activity shows your distance on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island ・A Home Screen widget shows today's pioneered distance and your map ・A real-map view overlays your trail on the actual streets ・Daily walk history with trail previews ・Pin "spots" to your map with a photo, a category and a note ・Replay a single walk, or watch your whole map grow as a timelapse ■ Privacy Your location and walking records are stored only on your device. Nothing is ever sent to a server, and no account is required. Why not turn that still-blank corner on today's walk? —————— PlainWalk Plus (auto-renewable subscription) Unlocks map colour schemes, trail and photo pin styles, area badge details with crystal finishes, town replays, cat coats and a hedgehog, automatic recording and recording from home and work, several flags and unlimited Someday places, workouts from Apple Health on your map, your own LUTs, sticker finishes, and the Around you and Your region widgets, and removes ads. The blank map, all statistics and the pioneer ranks stay free. - Monthly and yearly plans. Prices are shown in the app for your region. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically at the same price unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the period. Manage or cancel it in Settings > Apple Account > Subscriptions. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://bitpackman.github.io/plainwalk/privacy.en.html

About

wayloop

This app generates walking and running routes based on your available time or step count. It can incorporate errands, guide you to specific destinations, and track your progress with detailed summaries. Explore new streets and compete with friends on leaderboards.

Highlights
  • Generate routes by time or steps
  • Incorporate errands and waypoints
  • Track new streets walked
  • Turn-by-turn spoken directions
  • Post-walk summaries and stats
  • Weekly leaderboards and challenges
Features
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wayloop is an app that draws walking and running routes to fit the time or steps you have. Most route apps ask where you want to go. wayloop asks how long you want to walk. Say you have 60 minutes. wayloop draws a 60-minute route from your door and back. Move the ruler to 45 and the route gets shorter. Tap again for a different route. Steps work the same way. Say 10,000, or the 3,000 you still need this evening, and the route is that long. Or set a distance, like 3 miles, or 400 calories. A route can do an errand on the way. It can pass the grocery store, or end at the school gate. Set a time to be there, and wayloop tells you when to leave. wayloop paints the streets you walk on your map. The color changes every week, so you can see when you walked a street. With "Favour new streets" on, your routes take streets you have not walked yet. To walk every street in your city, set a distance. wayloop plans a route through streets you have not walked. For a run, say 10 kilometers and get a 10 km route from your door. THE ROUTE • Walk or run. Start at your door, a saved Place, an address, or anywhere you tap on the map. • End where you started, or somewhere else. • Add up to three Waypoints, places the route must pass: the grocery store, the post office, a friend's door. • Set your Preferences once: park paths and trails, avoid big roads, fewer turns, flatter or hillier. • Every route shows its climb, and its time includes it. • Or walk with no route: tap Just go, and wayloop paints every street you take. WHILE YOU ARE OUT • A tap on your wrist before every turn, and spoken directions if you want them, even with your phone locked. • It keeps recording with your phone in your pocket, and pauses when you stand still. • Apple Watch shows the next turn, the distance left and your map as it is painted. AFTERWARDS • A summary card you can share: new streets, your district before and after, steps, distance, time, climb, calories. • Stats: how much of your city you have walked, how much of your walking was on new streets, and each day against your Daily goal. • Weekly leaderboards with friends or your whole city, challenges to be first to paint part of a district, and all-time highscores. PRIVACY • Sign in once and wayloop backs up your map. A new iPhone gets it all back. Your account works on one iPhone at a time. • Friends see your totals, never the lines you walked. • wayloop learns from your backup to make routes better. It never uses your name, and never sells your backup. You can turn this off. • wayloop only counts which features you use if you say yes. It never includes your routes or GPS location. • wayloop leaves a privacy zone of up to 600 meters around your home off share cards and everything other people see. • wayloop reads your location only during a walk, or when you start from where you are. • You can export or delete everything in the app. APPLE HEALTH wayloop reads your day from your phone's health app, so walks without the app count toward your Daily goal. It saves your walks as workouts. WAYLOOP+ Just go is free, and every walk paints your map. wayloop+ lets you walk every route. Without it, you keep your map, stats, goals, saved places and community. A friend's invite gives you a week of wayloop+. Every three friends who join through your invites give you a month of it. wayloop+ costs $29.99 a year, with the first 7 days free, or $4.99 a month. Founder is one payment of $89.99 for wayloop+ for good. It is for the first 500 people or 90 days, whichever ends first. You pay through your Apple ID when you confirm. A subscription renews on its own unless you turn it off at least 24 hours before the period ends. You can manage or cancel it in your Apple ID settings. If you buy during a free trial, you lose the rest of it. Terms of use: https://www.getwayloop.app/terms Privacy policy: https://www.getwayloop.app/privacy Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.

Screenshots

PlainWalk4 screens
wayloop4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: wayloop at none against PlainWalk's shown. PlainWalk's advantage is ratings volume (22 vs 2). On price, rating, update cadence 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. PlainWalk sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.69 per month and wayloop sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 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 — 4.9 for PlainWalk against 5.0 for wayloop. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: PlainWalk has 22 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

PlainWalk ships an update every 3 days, wayloop every 5 days. Both last shipped on November 6, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
PlainWalk versus wayloop: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPlainWalkwayloop
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (22 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews87.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings22 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 5 days
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS17.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size66 MB87 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKANTA KOKONNOAdam Noren

Customer experience

PlainWalk

All ratings22 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews33 reviews
Positive87.9%
Neutral6.1%
Negative6.1%

wayloop

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

4 purchases

PlainWalk

Subscriptions2
  • PlainWalk Plus Monthly$2.691 Month
  • PlainWalk Plus Yearly7 Days trial$26.901 Year
One-time2
  • Remove Ads$5.99
  • PlainWalk Plus Lifetime$79.99
4 purchases

wayloop

Subscriptions3
  • wayloop+ monthly$4.991 Month
  • wayloop+ yearly7 Days trial$29.991 Year
  • wayloop+ yearly1 Year trial$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • wayloop+ Founder$89.99

Questions

Is PlainWalk free?
PlainWalk is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is wayloop free?
wayloop is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, PlainWalk or wayloop?
wayloop is rated higher. PlainWalk averages 4.9 out of 5 from 22 ratings, while wayloop averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do PlainWalk or wayloop have ads?
PlainWalk shows ads; wayloop does not.
Which is updated more often, PlainWalk or wayloop?
PlainWalk ships an update every 3 days, and wayloop every 5 days. Most recently, PlainWalk was updated on November 6, 2026 and wayloop on November 6, 2026.

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