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 helps you understand your walking habits and stay motivated. It tracks your walks and hikes with GPS, providing personalized feedback, goal setting, and route discovery. Share your adventures or keep them private.

Highlights
  • GPS walking and hiking tracking
  • Personalized feedback and insights
  • Streak and habit building
  • Activity goal setting
  • Route discovery and tracking
  • Live tracking and sharing
  • Integration with Garmin, HealthKit, etc.
Features
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Every walk tells a story. Map My Tracks helps you understand yours. Whether you're walking around the neighborhood, exploring new trails, or hiking in the mountains, Map My Tracks gives you insights that actually matter. Discover patterns in your walking habits. Celebrate streaks that keep you motivated. Understand what your body is telling you. Join over a million people who've made Map My Tracks their go-to companion for walks and hikes. ===== Featured in Apple's What's hot list #1 iPhone app in Health & Fitness in Japan, France, Belgium, Iceland, Czech Republic ===== YOUR PERSONAL WALKING COACH After every walk, get feedback that's tailored to you. Learn about your consistency and habit-building. Discover which routes you enjoy most. See how weather affects your walking distance. Get encouragement that keeps you moving. See patterns like: "You tend to walk further on sunny days" or "Your morning walks are consistently longer than evening ones." Celebrate when you hit a new streak. Track your favorite routes. It's like having a walking companion who knows your history and keeps you motivated. TRACK YOUR WALKS AND HIKES Record every walk with GPS precision. Track distance, pace, elevation, steps, calories, and duration. Or just press start and let the app do the work. Review your week at a glance or dive deep into detailed stats when you want them. Connect your Garmin, Wahoo, Coros, HealthKit, and more, to automatically bring all your walks into one place. All your outdoor activities—all your insights—in a single app. SHARE YOUR WALKING ADVENTURES Broadcast live so friends and family can follow along on your hikes. Add photos from your walks and create videos that capture the whole experience. Follow friends and keep each other motivated. Or keep it private—it's your choice. SET YOUR OWN WALKING GOALS Whether it's walking 10,000 steps daily, maintaining a walking streak, exploring new routes, or increasing your distance, set goals that matter to you. Track your progress with intelligent insights that help you get there. DISCOVER NEW ROUTES Find popular walking routes and hiking trails near you. See where other walkers go. Track your favorite paths and revisit them anytime. UNLOCK EVERYTHING WITH PLUS • AI-powered Activity Insights after every walk • Live tracking so others can follow your progress • Ad-free experience • Advanced analysis tools on app and website • Full access to all features Subscriptions for Map My Tracks PLUS are $4.99 per month or $49.99 for a full year. Map My Tracks PLUS subscriptions will be charged to your iTunes account after your confirmation of purchase. Your monthly subscription will automatically renew each month and be charged through your iTunes account, yearly subscriptions will automatically renew each year. Subscriptions renew at $4.99 per month or $49.99 for a full year automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. You can turn off auto-renew at any time from your iTunes account settings. Cancellation of the current active subscription period is not allowed. FEEDBACK If you're enjoying Map My Tracks: Walking Tracker, leave us a good review in the App Store. If not, send your feedback to support@mapmytracks.com and let us fix it before you write a review. Map My Tracks uses HealthKit to export your walking activities into the Health app and to read heart rate and biometric data. This service is optional. Please note that continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life. Terms of service: https://www.mapmytracks.com/term-service Privacy policy: https://www.mapmytracks.com/privacy-policy

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

Map My Tracks4 screens
Walking Distance Tracker4 screens

Verdict

The call

Map My Tracks and Walking Distance Tracker both sit at 4.6 stars, but that hides the real split: 89% 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 332) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 6 weeks). On price, rating, ads 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. 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 — 4.6 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 332, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 89% 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 6 weeks, Walking Distance Tracker every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Map My Tracks versus Walking Distance Tracker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMap My TracksWalking Distance Tracker
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (332 ratings) — better4.5 (3.1K ratings)
Positive reviews89.3% of reviews — better41.7% of reviews
Number of ratings3323.1K — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS15.615.6
Further details — not scored
Size56 MB76 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTinderhouse30 South LLC

Customer experience

Map My Tracks

All ratings332 ratings
Positive93.1%
Neutral3.3%
Negative3.6%
Written reviews177 reviews
Positive89.3%
Neutral4.5%
Negative6.2%

Walking Distance Tracker

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

User reviews

Map My Tracks

From 332 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Accurate tracking
  • 👍 Easy to use
  • 💡 Offline functionality
  • 🚀 Detailed maps and statistics
  • 👍 Motivating for fitness goals

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Occasional GPS inaccuracies
  • 🔋 Battery drain when tracking
  • 🔇 Interrupts audio playback
  • 🔒 Lack of privacy controls

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

Map My Tracks

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Registration issues
  • Tracking stops unexpectedly
  • Syncing problems between app and website

Requested features

4 requests
  • Step count integration
  • Ability to export/share data
  • More customization options
  • Improved audio integration

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 subscription1 Month trial$4.991 Month
  • PLUS subscription$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 trial2 variants$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?
Map My Tracks is rated higher. Map My Tracks averages 4.6 out of 5 from 332 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 6 weeks, and Walking Distance Tracker every 3 weeks. Most recently, Map My Tracks was updated on October 15, 2026 and Walking Distance Tracker on October 19, 2026.

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