Comparison

Map My Tracks 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

Map My Tracks

This app records your runs, tracking distance, pace, and elevation. It stores your running history, allowing you to revisit past routes and view yearly summaries. Advanced features include AI-powered route analysis and integration with external fitness devices.

Highlights
  • GPS run recording
  • Pace, distance, and elevation tracking
  • Automatic pause
  • Heart rate and sensor data (PLUS)
  • Route following
  • Import/export GPX, TCX, FIT, KML, KMZ
  • Yearly review and heat maps
Features
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Your runs, remembered. Map My Tracks records every run, keeps every one, and brings them back to you: the routes you keep returning to, the run from a year ago today, and your year of running told back each December. RECORDED • Road and trail runs, from a first 5k to a marathon • Pace, distance, height and climb as you go, with automatic pause when you stop • Heart rate, speed, cadence and power from Bluetooth sensors, and their charts, with PLUS • On the Lock Screen and Apple Watch as you go, with Siri and a Record button in Control Center • Follow a route, kept on your phone so it works with no signal • Afterwards: splits, laps and climbs • Charts of your heart rate and zones, and your best efforts (PLUS) KEPT • Your phone never deletes a run, and your account keeps its date, distance and time for good • Bring your history from Garmin Connect, Wahoo, Coros, Polar, Fitbit, Hammerhead or Apple Health • Open GPX, TCX, FIT, KML and KMZ files from other apps, as an activity or a route REMEMBERED • Your heat map, with PLUS: every route you've ever run, glowing brightest where you go most • Each run says how many times you've been there before: "9 times here" • Runs worth remembering come back on Home, in a widget, and in a 9 am note if you like • Your year in review each December: your months, your places and a map of your year • Your last 12 months of runs on one map, free FOUND, WITH AI • Ask your map in your own words, like "runs in Chicago in 2025" (PLUS) • Sum up any area: the story of your runs there (PLUS) • Activity Insights after every run (PLUS) • A note for each run and captions for your photos, suggested for you to keep or change • Trips named from the signs in your photos, and your timeline to find any run MAPS AND ROUTES • OpenStreetMap, with trails and paths, free • With PLUS: USGS Topo for the US, and national maps for Britain, Switzerland, Spain, Norway, Finland and Denmark • Plan a route on mapmytracks.com and follow it in the app TOGETHER • Share a picture of your run: your route, photos and figures • Live tracking, so family and friends can follow along (PLUS) • Follow friends, like and comment MAP MY TRACKS PLUS Free for your first month. PLUS unlocks everything marked PLUS above, and adds: • Every year on your map, and every map style from satellite to cycle paths • Heart rate, cadence and power from Bluetooth sensors • Weather and wind on every outing • Leaderboards, unlimited goals, trimming, Collections, all your photos and your own share pictures PLUS is $4.99 a month or $49.99 a year, first month free (US prices; the App Store shows yours before you buy). Payment is taken from your Apple Account when you confirm, or when the free month ends. PLUS renews automatically, and is charged in the 24 hours before each period ends, unless you turn off auto-renew at least 24 hours before. Manage or cancel it any time in your Apple Account settings; you keep PLUS to the end of the period you've paid for. Choosing the yearly plan ends a free month. APPLE HEALTH (optional) Save your activities to the Health app, and bring in your workouts, their routes, heart rate and weight. Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life. Map My Tracks is designed to limit battery use: it rests the GPS when you pause, and holds back syncing in Low Power Mode. QUESTIONS AND IDEAS Email support@mapmytracks.com and a person will reply. If Map My Tracks earns a place on your runs, a review on the App Store helps others find it. Terms of use: https://www.mapmytracks.com/term-service Privacy policy: https://www.mapmytracks.com/privacy-policy

About

Walking Distance Tracker

This app uses GPS to track your walking distance, speed, and calories burned. It offers features like step tracking, voice summaries, and shoe mileage tracking. Easily share your progress and sync with Apple Health.

Highlights
  • GPS walk tracking
  • Step counting
  • Real-time stats (speed, distance, altitude)
  • Color-coded route maps
  • Voice progress updates
  • Shoe mileage tracking
  • Apple Health integration
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

Map My Tracks4 screens
Walking Distance Tracker4 screens

Verdict

The call

Map My Tracks and Walking Distance Tracker both sit at 4.5 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Map My Tracks's written reviews are positive against 42% of Walking Distance Tracker's. Walking Distance Tracker's advantage is ratings volume (3.1K vs 8). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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. Map My Tracks sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month 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 — 4.5 for Map My Tracks against 4.5 for Walking Distance Tracker. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Walking Distance Tracker has 3.1K ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of Map My Tracks's written reviews are positive against 42% of Walking Distance Tracker's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Map My Tracks ships an update every 5 weeks, Walking Distance Tracker every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on November 13, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Map My Tracks versus Walking Distance Tracker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMap My TracksWalking Distance Tracker
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (8 ratings)4.5 (3.1K ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better41.7% of reviews
Number of ratings83.1K — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS15.615.6
Further details — not scored
Size46 MB76 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTinderhouse30 South LLC

Customer experience

Map My Tracks

All ratings8 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Walking Distance Tracker

All ratings3,150 ratings
Positive87.8%
Neutral4.4%
Negative7.8%
Written reviews108 reviews
Positive41.7%
Neutral8.3%
Negative50.0%

Bugs and requests

Map My Tracks

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

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

6 purchases

Map My Tracks

Subscriptions2
  • PLUS Monthly: Live Tracking1 Month trial$4.991 Month
  • PLUS Yearly: Heat & Topo Maps1 Month trial$49.991 Year
One-time4
  • Enable sensors$0.99
  • Graphs$0.99
  • No ads$0.99
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  • Pro upgrade$3.99
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 trial$29.991 Year
  • Vima Premium7 Days trial$39.991 Year

Questions

Is Map My Tracks free?
Map My Tracks 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, Map My Tracks or Walking Distance Tracker?
Walking Distance Tracker is rated higher. Map My Tracks averages 4.5 out of 5 from 8 ratings, while Walking Distance Tracker averages 4.5 from 3.1K ratings.
Do Map My Tracks or Walking Distance Tracker have ads?
Neither Map My Tracks nor Walking Distance Tracker shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Map My Tracks or Walking Distance Tracker?
Map My Tracks ships an update every 5 weeks, and Walking Distance Tracker every 3 weeks. Most recently, Map My Tracks was updated on November 13, 2026 and Walking Distance Tracker on November 13, 2026.

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