Comparison

Steps vs Walking Distance Tracker

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

Head to head
About

Steps

This app automatically tracks your daily steps, distance, calories burned, and stairs climbed in the background. Set personalized daily goals for activity and monitor your progress over time with clear historical data. It's designed for effortless use and battery efficiency.

Highlights
  • Automatic step tracking
  • Distance and calorie monitoring
  • Flights of stairs climbed
  • Daily goal setting
  • Daily, weekly, monthly totals
  • Background operation
  • Apple Health data import
Features
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See your steps, distance, stairs, calories, and progress over time — automatically. Steps is a simple, easy-to-use step tracker that helps you stay active without extra setup. It tracks your daily activity in the background using Apple Health, so you can check your progress anytime without needing to start a workout or keep the app open. Set daily goals for steps, miles walked, flights climbed, and calories burned. Then track your progress throughout the day and build a routine that keeps you moving. Customize Steps with bold themes and app icons to make the app feel like yours. Why people love Steps: • Automatic step tracking — no setup needed • Simple, clean design • Steps, distance, flights climbed, and calories burned • Daily goals for steps, miles, stairs, and calories • Daily, weekly, and monthly totals • Historical activity imported from Apple Health • Theme and app icon customization • Designed to run quietly in the background Over a million downloads and counting. Terms of Use: https://pumpkincomputer.com/steps/terms

About

Walking Distance Tracker

This app helps users track their walking fitness goals with GPS. It offers real-time stats, maps, and voice updates, along with features for managing shoe mileage and sharing progress. Integrates with Apple Watch and HealthKit.

Highlights
  • GPS tracking for walks
  • Real-time stats (speed, distance, altitude, time)
  • Color-coded speed maps
  • Voice progress updates
  • Shoe mileage tracking
  • Apple Watch integration
  • Calorie tracking
Features
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Vima is a GPS based tracking app for people who want to keep track of their walking fitness goals. It is an app aimed at simplicity that allows walkers to keep track of their walks easily without a lot of unnecessary stuff getting in the way. Great for tracking your evening dog walks. APPLE WATCH Easily start, pause, resume, and save a walk without your phone. Check your distance, speed, time, and altitude from your Apple Watch in realtime. STEP TRACKING Keep track of your daily steps and hit your long term goals. STATS AND MAPS Vima tracks speed, distance, altitude, and time. It also gives you a map showing where you have been while you are saving a walk. COLOR CODED When viewing saved walks your route shows up on the map color coded by speed. It shows where you went the fastest (green) and where you were slowest (red). VOICE SUMMARY Don't want to look at the screen every few minutes? You can have the app tell you updates on your progress in set distance and/or time intervals. SPLIT TIMES Added splits to the history review page. Choose from 9 different distances and see how each section of your workout went. CALORIES See calories burned. Set your weight in settings and get your calories burned in real time and on the history page after your run. SHOE TRACKING Track the distance on your walking shoes so you know when it's time to replace them before they start causing problems PAUSE AND RESUME Pause the workout to catch your breath or chat with a friend and then resume when you get back to it. FACEBOOK & INSTAGRAM Share your workout with your friends on Instagram or Facebook with our easy to use integration. UNITS The supports both standard and metric units. HEALTH KIT Apple Health permissions allow us to enhance your data as well as saving your workout information to Apple Health. If you've read this far, you should definitely give Vima a shot. We think you'll love it, and if there is anything you'd like to see for the app in the future just let us know. We love hearing from our users. Note: Continued use of the GPS will reduce battery life. If you upgrade to a premium subscription, payment will be charged to your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase. The weekly subscription costs USD 4.99 per week, monthly subscription costs USD 9.99 per month, while the yearly subscription costs USD 29.99 per year. Your subscription renews automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. There is no increase in cost when renewing. Subscriptions can be managed and auto-renewal turned off in Account Settings in iTunes after purchase. Once purchased, the current period cannot be canceled. Find the full terms and conditions and our privacy policy at https://www.vimafitness.com/privacy and https://www.vimafitness.com/terms

Screenshots

Steps4 screens
Walking Distance Tracker4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Walking Distance Tracker at none against Steps's shown. Walking Distance Tracker also leads on device support (3 vs 1). Steps's advantage is update cadence (every 9 days vs every 3 weeks) and ratings volume (19K vs 3.1K). On price, rating, review sentiment 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. Steps sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days and Walking Distance Tracker sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. 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 — 4.6 for Steps against 4.5 for Walking Distance Tracker. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Steps has 19K ratings behind it against 3.1K, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 49% of Steps's written reviews are positive against 42% of Walking Distance Tracker's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Steps ships an update every 9 days, Walking Distance Tracker every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Steps versus Walking Distance Tracker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStepsWalking Distance Tracker
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (19K ratings) — better4.5 (3.1K ratings)
Positive reviews48.9% of reviews — better41.7% of reviews
Number of ratings19K — better3.1K
Update frequencyEvery 9 days — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS16.115.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size68 MB76 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPumpkin Computer Co., LLC30 South LLC

Customer experience

Steps

All ratings19,322 ratings
Positive90.0%
Neutral4.2%
Negative5.8%
Written reviews609 reviews
Positive48.9%
Neutral11.7%
Negative39.4%

Walking Distance Tracker

All ratings3,091 ratings
Positive87.9%
Neutral4.3%
Negative7.8%
Written reviews108 reviews
Positive41.7%
Neutral8.3%
Negative50.0%

User reviews

Steps

From 19K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Simple to use
  • 🚀 Practical and efficient
  • 👍 Good design
  • 👍 Helps with weight control and health
  • 👍 Accurate step counting

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Inaccurate step/distance tracking
  • 🔍 Lacks options to customize settings
  • 💸 Too many ads, disruptive to use
  • 🔋 Steps not recorded when phone not carried
  • 🐛 Inconsistent step/distance reporting

Walking Distance Tracker

From 3.1K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Easy to use
  • 👍 Helpful for tracking walks
  • 👍 Accurate tracking
  • 👍 Motivating results

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Inaccurate distance tracking
  • 🐛 Stops recording during walks
  • 🐛 Premium features not working as expected
  • 🔒 Subscription issues

Bugs and requests

Steps

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Steps not accurately counted
  • App freezes or lags when opening
  • Steps/distance data resets or disappears

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add option to track calories burned
  • Provide weekly/monthly step history
  • Allow conversion between steps and distance (miles/km)
  • Implement a premium version to remove ads

Walking Distance Tracker

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • App crashes or stops working
  • Premium subscription not recognized
  • Walks not properly recorded or saved

Requested features

3 requests
  • Add ability to manually add/edit walks
  • Include average speed metric
  • Improve GPS accuracy and reliability

In-app purchases

8 purchases

Steps

Subscriptions8
  • Steps Pro Weekly3 Days trial$0.997 Days
  • Steps Pro Weekly3 Days trial3 variants$1.997 Days
  • Steps Pro Weekly3 Days trial$2.997 Days
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  • Monthly Pro3 Days trial$3.991 Month
  • Steps Pro Monthly3 Days trial$5.991 Month
  • Steps Pro Yearly3 Days trial$59.991 Year
  • Steps Pro Yearly3 Days trial$79.991 Year
  • Steps Pro Annual$79.991 Year
9 purchases

Walking Distance Tracker

Subscriptions9
  • Vima Premium$4.997 Days
  • 1 Month Premium$9.991 Month
  • Vima Walk Monthly Premium$9.991 Month
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  • Vima Walk Premium$14.993 Months
  • 1 Year Premium$29.991 Year
  • Vima Walk Yearly7 Days trial$29.991 Year
  • Vima Premium1 Year trial$29.991 Year
  • Vima Walk Premium7 Days trial2 variants$29.991 Year
  • Vima Premium7 Days trial$39.991 Year

Questions

Is Steps free?
Steps is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Walking Distance Tracker free?
Walking Distance Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Steps or Walking Distance Tracker?
Steps is rated higher. Steps averages 4.6 out of 5 from 19K ratings, while Walking Distance Tracker averages 4.5 from 3.1K ratings.
Do Steps or Walking Distance Tracker have ads?
Steps shows ads; Walking Distance Tracker does not.
Which is updated more often, Steps or Walking Distance Tracker?
Steps ships an update every 9 days, and Walking Distance Tracker every 3 weeks. Most recently, Steps was updated on October 15, 2026 and Walking Distance Tracker on October 14, 2026.

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