Walker vs GlowWalk Lite
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Walker
Track your daily steps, calories burned, and body metrics like weight, body fat, and blood pressure. This power-saving pedometer app helps manage weight loss and overall health, with features like GPS route tracking and world rankings.
- Step tracking
- Calorie tracking
- Body weight management
- Body fat tracking
- Blood pressure tracking
- GPS route tracking
- World rankings
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'Walker - Pedometer' is a simple and power saving pedometer app using the motion co-processor. In addition to managing data such as the number of steps during walking or running, calories burned etc. It also enables record management of the body weight, body fat, and blood pressure and I also recommend it for managing weight loss and health. Have more fun with walking and running! ※ If you use the route tracking and continue use of GPS running in the background will be to dramatically decrease battery life. If you using GPS for a long time or you not using an external battery, make sure to keep track of the remaining charge. 《 Functions / Features 》 - Compatible with iOS 27. - Health access. - Route tracking using GPS. - World rankings. 《 URL Scheme 》 walkerm7:
GlowWalk Lite
This app offers a streamlined approach to daily wellness tracking, focusing on steps and hydration. It integrates with Apple Health to provide a clear dashboard for monitoring progress towards your personal goals.
- Step tracking
- Hydration logging
- Daily goal setting
- Apple Health integration
- Progress visualization
- Quick check-in dashboard
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GlowWalk Lite brings steps, hydration, and daily goals together in one calm, easy-to-read dashboard. MOVE WITH CONTEXT See steps, walking distance, flights climbed, remaining progress, weekly totals, and monthly history from Apple Health. Review streaks, trends, personal bests, and conservative goal suggestions that only change after you confirm them. WALK WITH THE WEATHER Optionally connect approximate location to see the current temperature, rain chance, UV index, and a weather-aware Home background. Weather data is provided by Apple Weather with its required attribution and data-source link. HYDRATION THAT FITS YOUR DAY Log water in ounces, milliliters, or liters. Use quick-add controls in the app, interactive widgets, Apple Watch, Siri, or Shortcuts. Optional reminders offer several tones, plus actions to log 8 oz, snooze for 30 minutes, or finish reminders for the day. WIDGETS AND APPLE WATCH Choose Steps, Hydration, combined, large daily, Lock Screen, and Control Center surfaces. The Apple Watch app shows progress, logs water even when the iPhone is temporarily unavailable, and includes Steps, Water, and Today complications. A SMARTER DAILY CHECK-IN The Daily Brief summarizes your current pace and recent patterns. On supported devices, optional on-device intelligence can vary the wording. Curated local wording keeps every core feature available when that capability is unavailable. BUILT FOR PRIVACY No account is required. Every feature is included with the app. GlowWalk Lite contains no advertisements or tracking. Apple Health and approximate location access are optional and permission-based. Your Health data stays on your devices; GlowWalk Lite does not send it to Henry's Dev.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Walker at Free against GlowWalk Lite's $2.99. Walker also leads on ratings volume (1.6K vs 3). GlowWalk Lite's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (100% vs 67%). On 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
Walker is free to download; GlowWalk Lite costs $2.99 up front. Walker sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and GlowWalk Lite sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
GlowWalk Lite holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Walker has 1.6K ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of Walker's written reviews are positive against 100% of GlowWalk Lite's.
Walker ships an update every 3 months, GlowWalk Lite every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Walker | GlowWalk Lite |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $2.99 |
| Rating | 4.6 (1.6K ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 67.1% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.6K — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 18.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 21 MB | 17 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Naoya Araki | Odir Henry Perez |
Customer experience
Walker
GlowWalk Lite
Bugs and requests
Walker
Reported bugs
3 issues- Incorrect day/month/year counts in statistics
- Ads still show up despite paid ad-free version
- Fails to sync with Health app on some devices
Requested features
4 requests- Option to set daily step goal
- Ability to view step history by minute/hour
- GPS route tracking for walks/runs
- Customizable data display and graphs
GlowWalk Lite
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Walker
- Remove Ads$1.99
GlowWalk Lite
- GlowWalk Pro$0.99
Questions
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