Comparison

ChiWalking vs Workout Comparator

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

Head to head
About

ChiWalking

Improve your walking technique and boost your fitness with guided video lessons and audio prompts. Learn to walk farther with less effort, burn fat, and enhance your well-being through mindful movement.

Highlights
  • Video lessons for walking technique
  • Audio prompts for focus
  • Guided walks with interval cues
  • Track distance, pace, and calories
  • Map walking routes
  • Log walk notes
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Chi Walking, the best-selling fitness walking book, is now an iPhone App to help you combine fitness, fun and fat-burning. Whether you’re returning from illness or injury, want to lose weight, or you’re walking in a fundraising event – this app will motivate and support you every step of the way!! Unique among walking apps, the Chi Walking® app is a complete coaching tool for improving your walking technique and boosting your training. With video lessons that show you how to walk farther with less effort, and audio prompts that help you focus on good walking technique – you can improve everything about your walking experience. While learning to breathe better, strengthen your core, and improve your balance, you’ll see how walking is easier, more enjoyable, and more effective when you walk focused. Inspired by the T’ai Chi principle of moving from your center, you’ll learn to rely more on your core and less on leg-strength to walk your best. You’ll practice “mindful movement” – using a smooth and relaxing technique to save your joints and muscles from overuse and injury. Danny’s voice will talk you through Guided Walks with audio focuses played at self-selected, repeating intervals. Track your distance, pace, caloric burn, and map your routes all within the app– you can even log notes on each walk to share with your friends! Use this app to start a regular walking program, walk your first 10K, or stay fit for the rest of your life. Walking never felt this good!

About

Workout Comparator

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Workout Comparator reads the IOS Health Data Store on your iPhone and provides a wealth of information about your workout sessions. Works with Apple Watch and compatible devices. Workout Comparator will place your workout session data into it's own database where it can be sorted 10 different ways and will show multiple workout sessions on the same screen for easy comparison. It reads from your HealthKit datastore without altering it in any way. Workout Comparator gives you the ability to set common scales of your choosing and apply it to all your workout sessions. Select particular workout sessions and graph heart rate, speed and elevation during the workout. Set upper and lower bounds for heart rate, speed and elevation. Exclude beginning and ending periods that might be irrelevant. Display heart rate, speeds and elevation separately or together. Displays annotated maps for each workout. Each map shows workout route with direction, highest and lowest elevation, speeds and maximum heart rate, mid-point of workout and color coded speed ranges on route maps. Highlights: * Workout sessions are displayed in a grid where they can be sorted by date, type, active calories, steps, heart rate, distance, pace, duration, temperature or elevation. * Workout sessions can be exported via e-mail from one Workout Comparator App to another allowing comparisons on the same screen of different person's workouts. * Select multiple workout sessions for single screen comparisons. * Easily adjust heart rate, speed, elevation scales common to all workouts and beginning and ending offset seconds. * Graph heart rate, speed and elevation separately or together in same graph. * Shows color code by speeds annotated maps for each workout session. * Works with any iPhone running IOS 15 or later. * Supports IOS dark mode. * One month free trial, thereafter $.99 monthly or $4.99 per year (USD) subscription fee.

Screenshots

ChiWalking4 screens
Workout Comparator4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Workout Comparator at Free against ChiWalking's $2.99. Workout Comparator also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 35 months). ChiWalking's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). On ads, in-app purchases and device support 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

Workout Comparator is free to download; ChiWalking costs $2.99 up front. ChiWalking sells 5 one-off in-app purchases and Workout Comparator sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ChiWalking ships an update every 35 months, Workout Comparator monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
ChiWalking versus Workout Comparator: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChiWalkingWorkout Comparator
Price$2.99Free — better
Rating2.2 (5 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews25.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings5 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 35 monthsMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size311 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperChiLiving, Inc.Coon Creek Software

In-app purchases

5 purchases

ChiWalking

One-time5
  • Strengthen your Core$0.99
  • Improve Your Balance$0.99
  • Strengthen Your Heart$0.99
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  • Reduce Stress$0.99
  • Increase your Energy$0.99
2 purchases

Workout Comparator

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Subscription$0.991 Month
  • Annual Subscription$4.991 Year

Questions

Is ChiWalking free?
ChiWalking costs $2.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Workout Comparator free?
Workout Comparator is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do ChiWalking or Workout Comparator have ads?
Neither ChiWalking nor Workout Comparator shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ChiWalking or Workout Comparator?
ChiWalking ships an update every 35 months, and Workout Comparator monthly. Most recently, ChiWalking was updated on October 9, 2026 and Workout Comparator on October 2, 2026.

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