Comparison

ChiWalking vs Frequency

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

Frequency

Experience research-backed sound therapy designed to promote deep sleep, ease physical discomfort, and foster emotional calm. This app utilizes specific healing frequencies to guide your body into a state of recovery, helping you wake up feeling refreshed and more like yourself.

Highlights
  • Research-backed healing frequencies
  • Supports deep sleep and natural awakening
  • Eases physical tension and discomfort
  • Promotes emotional calm and clarity
  • Science-informed sound therapy approach
  • Library of hundreds of sessions
Features
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Frequency Healing Sounds: Whole Body Recovery Research-backed healing frequency sound therapy for pain relief, deep sleep, and calm. You sleep, but wake up stiff. You rest, but still feel tired. You manage the aches, but never truly recover. That is surface rest, not real recovery. Pure healing frequency sound therapy guides your body deeper, easing pain and quieting the mind. When joint discomfort, shallow sleep, and tension start to feel like just part of aging, you can still change how you feel. Wake up less stiff. Sleep more deeply. Feel calm, rested, and like yourself again. The Science of Sound Sound is one of the most natural, non-invasive ways to support the body. A growing field of neuroscience research links sound and vibration to the nervous system's relaxation response, exploring how steady tones can support stress modulation, calm, and deeper rest. Studies of sound-based interventions report reductions in everyday stress and improved relaxation in adults, and sound therapy is increasingly accepted as a gentle, drug-free complement to wellbeing. This science-informed approach guides every session, helping you move from tension toward deep rest without medication and without anything to learn. Our library is built around eight core healing frequencies, each selected for a unique felt benefit. 174 Hz supports the release of physical tension and helps ease areas of chronic discomfort. 285 Hz is a grounding tone for body recovery. 396 Hz helps quiet repetitive worry. 432 Hz is the go-to frequency for deep sleep, helping you fall asleep faster and stay asleep longer. 528 Hz supports balance and gentle renewal. 639 Hz encourages emotional openness and warmth. 741 Hz helps clear mental noise. 852 Hz is a quiet, centering tone for stillness and peace. From Shallow Sleep to Deep Rest Deep sleep is where recovery begins. Our sleep-focused sessions guide you from falling asleep through staying asleep to natural awakening, so you wake up feeling like your body actually rested. Real Comfort for Tension and Stiffness Morning spinal stiffness, tight shoulders, and daily aches are often signs that your body never fully relaxed. The 174 Hz comfort sessions are designed to support physical ease and help movement return. Emotional Calm and Inner Clarity When the body rests deeply, the mind follows. Users describe feeling more settled, less reactive, and more like themselves again. Not excited. Just grounded. Whole Body Recovery(mind,body,soul) It is not one isolated fix. It is your sleep, comfort, mood, and energy all moving in a better direction together. This is not meditation. This is precision frequency healing. There are no binaural beats, no meditation scripts, and no background music fighting for your attention. Every session is a single, clean, sustained tone, carefully tuned and free of hidden layers, designed to support comfort, calm, and deep sleep. A Library That Grows With You With hundreds of pure healing frequency sessions, you will never run out of options. Explore by need, by frequency, or dive into curated collections like Deep Sleep, Gentle Pain Relief, and Morning Calm. Download your favorites for offline listening, follow structured 14-day protocols, and track your listening progress over time. Move at Your Own Pace No forced schedules. Body hurts today? Choose pain relief. Cannot sleep tonight? Choose deep sleep. You stay in complete control. Choose the plan that works for you. Annual access or a one-time lifetime purchase. No automatic renewal and no locked-in subscriptions. Your body does not need more willpower. It needs real recovery. Download Frequency Healing Sounds, choose one tone, and press play tonight. Feel the difference a single frequency can make. Privacy Policy: https://site.unexplainablestore.cn/html/fre250422/Privacy_Policy.html Terms of Use: https://site.unexplainablestore.cn/html/fre250422/Terms_of_Use.html Questions or feedback? support@imoblife.net

Screenshots

ChiWalking4 screens
Frequency4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Frequency at 85% against ChiWalking's 22%. Frequency also leads on price (Free vs $2.99) and rating (4.7 vs 2.2). ChiWalking's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 16). 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

Frequency is free to download; ChiWalking costs $2.99 up front. ChiWalking sells 5 one-off in-app purchases and Frequency sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Frequency holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 2.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Frequency has 2.4K ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 22% of ChiWalking's written reviews are positive against 85% of Frequency's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ChiWalking ships an update every 35 months, Frequency every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on November 6, 2026.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
ChiWalking versus Frequency: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChiWalkingFrequency
Price$2.99Free — better
Rating2.2 (5 ratings)4.7 (2.4K ratings) — better
Positive reviews22.2% of reviews84.6% of reviews — better
Number of ratings52.4K — better
Update frequencyEvery 35 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS12.0 — better16
Further details — not scored
Size311 MB218 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperChiLiving, Inc.BrainPower Inc

Customer experience

ChiWalking

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

Frequency

All ratings2,396 ratings
Positive93.7%
Neutral1.0%
Negative5.3%
Written reviews416 reviews
Positive84.6%
Neutral1.9%
Negative13.5%

Bugs and requests

ChiWalking

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Frequency

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • App crashing or freezing
  • Playback stopping when device goes to sleep
  • Inconsistent volume and sound quality

Requested features

4 requests
  • Ability to customize frequency settings
  • Option to purchase individual frequencies
  • Improved search and organization of content
  • Ability to play in the background while device is locked

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

Frequency

Subscriptions9
  • Daily Monthly Subscription$7.991 Month
  • Auto Renew Special Sale Year1 Year trial$24.991 Year
  • New User Yearly Option$29.991 Year
Show 6 more
  • Trial for new in guide page3 Days trial$29.991 Year
  • Frequency Special Subscription$29.991 Year
  • Daily Annual Subscription7 Days trial$34.991 Year
  • Trial offer for new7 Days trial$34.991 Year
  • Yearly Subscription Trial7 Days trial$35.991 Year
  • Yearly Subscription with Trial7 Days trial$39.991 Year
One-time1
  • Unlock 2 Years VIP$29.99

Questions

Is ChiWalking free?
ChiWalking costs $2.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Frequency free?
Frequency is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, ChiWalking or Frequency?
Frequency is rated higher. ChiWalking averages 2.2 out of 5 from 5 ratings, while Frequency averages 4.7 from 2.4K ratings.
Do ChiWalking or Frequency have ads?
Neither ChiWalking nor Frequency shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ChiWalking or Frequency?
ChiWalking ships an update every 35 months, and Frequency every 2 weeks. Most recently, ChiWalking was updated on November 6, 2026 and Frequency on November 6, 2026.

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