Comparison

Walking Buddy vs Walkman Step Counter

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

Head to head
About

Walking Buddy

This app provides personalized step count reminders throughout the day to help you reach your fitness goals. It learns your pace and offers flexible goal setting, with detailed history and Apple Watch integration. It prioritizes user privacy with no ads or analytics.

Highlights
  • Personalized step reminders
  • Apple Health integration
  • Customizable daily goals
  • Pace learning and projection
  • Detailed step history
  • Apple Watch app and complications
  • Privacy-focused design
Features
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Reminders that say how many steps to take and keep you moving through the day instead of one long walk in the morning or evening. Walking Buddy reads your steps from Apple Health, learns your usual pace, and nudges you when the day starts to slip. No account, no ads. STEPS THAT ADD UP See today's count from Apple Health on a ring with your goal, how far you are ahead of or behind pace, and where the steps landed hour by hour. REMINDERS SIZED TO YOUR DAY Instead of "walk more", each nudge tells you how many steps to take right now to stay on pace, and stops once the goal is done. Choose your active hours and days. Snooze a nudge or mark the day done straight from the notification. YOUR USUAL PACE Walking Buddy learns your typical day from the past four weeks and tells you whether today is ahead, on track or behind, with a projection of where the day will land. GOALS FOR EVERY KIND OF DAY Keep more than one goal active, each on its own days: 10,000 steps on weekdays and 6,000 at the weekend. A day without a goal is a rest day: no reminders, and your streak is safe. HISTORY THAT MEANS SOMETHING Week, month and year views, goal-met days, streaks with rest days that do not break them, and a Steps Log calendar back to your first recorded step. A weekly recap arrives every Sunday evening. ON YOUR APPLE WATCH Today's ring, steps to go and your pace on your wrist, with complications for the watch face and the Smart Stack. The watch app works on its own: it reads steps from the watch, keeps your goal, and lets you change the daily target with the Digital Crown. With the iPhone app installed, the goal stays the same on both. WALKING BUDDY PRO - Reminders on your schedule: every hour, twice an hour, fixed intervals, or your own times - Keep the nudges coming after the goal - Custom reminder messages - Vacation mode: plan the days you are away, with no reminders and your streak safe - Streak protection: one missed day a week does not break your streak - Trends and All Time: four-week trend, this week, month and year against the last, the year as a heat map, typical day with weekday and weekend averages, and every year since your first step - Apple Watch: pace and steps to go on the watch face (rectangular and corner complications), your usual pace and the day by hour PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account, no ads, no analytics. Step data is read from Apple Health and stays on your iPhone and Apple Watch. Goals are stored locally. Walking Buddy is a pedometer built on Apple Health: it works with iPhone step counting and with Apple Watch data that syncs to Apple Health. Pro is a subscription, monthly or yearly with a 7-day free trial, charged to your Apple ID and renewed unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the period ends. Manage it in Settings > Apple ID > Subscriptions. Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Walkman Step Counter

This app tracks your daily steps, distance, and calories burned, syncing with Apple Health. It features a city leaderboard, weekly summaries, and collectible characters for motivation. Your privacy is protected with optional location data and no data selling.

Highlights
  • Step tracking from Apple Health
  • Distance and calorie calculation
  • City-wide leaderboards
  • Weekly progress summaries
  • Collectible character rewards
  • Privacy-focused data handling
Read full description

Walkman is a simple step counter for iPhone. Open it and you see one number: your steps today. Below that are calories, distance and your week at a glance. FEATURES Step tracking. Steps, distance, calories and flights climbed, read from Apple Health. City leaderboard. See how you compare with other people walking in your city today. Optional, and city-level only. Weekly summary. Your best day, your current streak, and how this week is going. Collectible characters. A new character every 500 steps, up to 50,000. PRIVACY Walkman only reads from Apple Health and never writes to it. Location is optional and only used to place you in a city. Your coordinates are randomised on your device before they are sent. We do not sell your data and do not track you across other apps. You can delete your account and all of its data from inside the app, under Profile. Questions? Email cosmocochrane1@gmail.com

Screenshots

Walking Buddy4 screens
Walkman Step Counter4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Walkman Step Counter at none against Walking Buddy's 2. Walking Buddy's advantage is iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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. Walking Buddy sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Walkman Step Counter asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Walking Buddy against 5.0 for Walkman Step Counter. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Walking Buddy ships an update every 2 days, Walkman Step Counter every 4 days. Both last shipped on November 6, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Walking Buddy versus Walkman Step Counter: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWalking BuddyWalkman Step Counter
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 2 days — betterEvery 4 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhone, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size32 MB120 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperRaphael KoebraamCosmo Cochrane

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Walking Buddy

Subscriptions2
  • Pro Monthly: Reminders, Trends$1.991 Month
  • Pro Yearly: Reminders, Trends7 Days trial$19.991 Year
None

Walkman Step Counter

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Walking Buddy free?
Walking Buddy is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Walkman Step Counter free?
Walkman Step Counter is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Walking Buddy or Walkman Step Counter?
Walking Buddy and Walkman Step Counter are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Walking Buddy or Walkman Step Counter have ads?
Neither Walking Buddy nor Walkman Step Counter shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Walking Buddy or Walkman Step Counter?
Walking Buddy ships an update every 2 days, and Walkman Step Counter every 4 days. Most recently, Walking Buddy was updated on November 6, 2026 and Walkman Step Counter on November 6, 2026.

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