Comparison

ChiWalking vs KURE

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

KURE

This app uses guided hypnosis to help users retrain ingrained patterns related to cravings, stress, sleep, confidence, and habits. It offers daily sessions and boosters designed for repeated listening to create lasting change without relying on willpower.

Highlights
  • Guided hypnosis sessions
  • Pattern rewiring for habits
  • Cravings and emotional eating support
  • Stress and overthinking reduction
  • Sleep improvement tracks
  • Confidence building
  • Offline listening
Features
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Retrain the patterns shaping your mind, body, and habits. Most of what runs your life isn't a choice — it's a pattern. The 3 pm sugar craving. The thought spiral before sleep. The flinch before you speak up. The reach for your phone. The doubt before the gym. The apology you didn't owe. These patterns live below willpower. That's why discipline rarely fixes them. You white-knuckle a habit for a week, a month, a year — and the moment your guard drops, the old loop snaps back. It isn't a character flaw. It's how habits work. Repetition carved a groove, and the groove keeps pulling. KURE works at the layer where those patterns actually live — through guided hypnosis designed to rewire the loops that keep replaying. How it works. You put on headphones, get comfortable, and listen. That's it. Each session guides you into a focused, relaxed state where your mind is open to new patterns — and then plants them, gently, on repeat. Over time, the old loop loses pull. The new one starts to feel familiar. Then automatic. Then yours. What KURE can help you retrain: * Cravings and emotional eating * Stress, overthinking, racing thoughts * Sleep that won't come or won't stay * Confidence and self-talk * Smoking and drinking * Tension that lives in your body Why hypnosis — and why now. Hypnosis isn't theatre. No swinging watches, no stage tricks, no loss of control. It's a natural state of focused, relaxed attention — the kind you slip into when you're absorbed in a book or a long drive. KURE turns it into a simple daily practice you can do from your couch — no appointments, no clock, no pressure. What's inside: * Guided pathways tailored to each focus area * Core sessions of around 15 minutes * Booster sessions for cravings and tough moments * Sleep hypnosis tracks that ease you into sleep * Daily affirmations to carry the shift into the day * Daily check-ins so you can see what's changing * Sobriety counters for habits you're leaving behind * Offline listening for travel and dead zones * Light mode for daytime use Built for repeated listening. Patterns formed over years don't dissolve in one session. KURE is designed for the long game — short enough to actually do daily, deep enough to make a difference. You won't feel like a different person after one listen. You'll feel a little calmer. A little more spacious. A little less pulled by the old gravity. Then one day you'll notice you didn't reach for the phone, didn't pour the drink, didn't spiral at 2 am — and the pattern quietly let go. Not willpower. Not hacks. A different relationship with the loops you've been losing to. Put the headphones in. Let the pattern change. Terms of Use: https://kureapp.health/general-conditions Privacy Policy: https://kureapp.health/privacy-policy

Screenshots

ChiWalking4 screens
KURE4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: KURE at Free against ChiWalking's $2.99. KURE also leads on rating (4.6 vs 2.2) and update cadence (weekly vs every 35 months). ChiWalking's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 16.4). On review sentiment, 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

KURE is free to download; ChiWalking costs $2.99 up front. ChiWalking sells 5 one-off in-app purchases and KURE sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $11.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

KURE holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 2.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: KURE has 9.5K ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 22% of ChiWalking's written reviews are positive against 16% of KURE's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ChiWalking ships an update every 35 months, KURE weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
ChiWalking versus KURE: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChiWalkingKURE
Price$2.99Free — better
Rating2.2 (5 ratings)4.6 (9.5K ratings) — better
Positive reviews22.2% of reviews — better15.7% of reviews
Number of ratings59.5K — better
Update frequencyEvery 35 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS12.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size311 MB151 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperChiLiving, Inc.Greatness

Customer experience

ChiWalking

All ratings5 ratings
Positive20.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative80.0%
Written reviews9 reviews
Positive22.2%
Neutral11.1%
Negative66.7%

KURE

All ratings9,524 ratings
Positive89.4%
Neutral5.5%
Negative5.1%
Written reviews760 reviews
Positive15.7%
Neutral6.3%
Negative78.0%

Bugs and requests

ChiWalking

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

KURE

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Sessions not loading
  • App freezing after 3 weeks
  • Unable to update weight
  • Subscription issues

Requested features

4 requests
  • Ability to choose sessions
  • Playback speed control
  • Session variety after day 21
  • Ethnic voice diversity

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
10 purchases

KURE

Subscriptions8
  • 1 month subscription$11.991 Month
  • 1 month$19.991 Month
  • 1 month$24.991 Month
Show 5 more
  • 3 Months Subscription7 Days trial$39.993 Months
  • 12 months7 Days trial$59.991 Year
  • 12 months7 Days trial$69.991 Year
  • 6 months sub3 Days trial$77.996 Months
  • 12 months7 Days trial$79.991 Year
One-time2
  • Weightloss$14.99
  • No alcohol$14.99

Questions

Is ChiWalking free?
ChiWalking costs $2.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is KURE free?
KURE is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, ChiWalking or KURE?
KURE is rated higher. ChiWalking averages 2.2 out of 5 from 5 ratings, while KURE averages 4.6 from 9.5K ratings.
Do ChiWalking or KURE have ads?
Neither ChiWalking nor KURE shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ChiWalking or KURE?
ChiWalking ships an update every 35 months, and KURE weekly. Most recently, ChiWalking was updated on November 6, 2026 and KURE on November 7, 2026.

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