Walk Diary vs Red Diary
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Walk Diary
Track your walks with GPS, monitoring speed, distance, and calories burned. Save logs with details like mood and weather, and set walking goals. Supports background operation and sharing your progress.
- GPS tracking for speed, distance, and route
- Calorie calculation based on weight and activity
- Save walking logs with mood and weather
- Set walking goals
- Background operation and lock screen support
- Pause and resume functionality
- Share progress via social media and email
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Walk Diary will keep you motivated for your walking process. This app uses GPS to locate and give the current speed, used time, distance and route in map, also calculates calorie burned when walking according to your weight, speed and time used. You can save the log directly after walking or add manually later. Features: ⁃ Show current speed, used time, calorie burned and route in map. ⁃ Two map styles: Satellite and Street. ⁃ Keep walking logs and also with mood, weather and area icon. ⁃ Calculates total time used, calories burned and average speed for all logs. ⁃ Supports running in background and lock screen. ⁃ Supports pause and resume. ⁃ Share logs info by Facebook, Twitter and Email. ⁃ Create walking goal with days and distance. ⁃ Supports standard & metric units. This app may use your location even when it isn’t open, which can decrease device battery life. If you have any question or suggestion, please send email to maxwellsoftware@gmail.com.
Red Diary
This app logs your outdoor activities like walks, runs, and drives, recording details such as distance, speed, route, and elevation. It offers automatic trip start and idle detection, voice announcements, and Siri commands for hands-free operation. Photos and notes can be added to your trip logs.
- Automatic trip start and idle detection
- Voice announcements and Siri commands
- Photo and note integration
- Detailed trip statistics and maps
- Live Activity and Home Screen widgets
- Independent Apple Watch app
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Red Diary is the ultimate trip diary, keeping log of your walks, runs, hikes, rides and drives, including details as distance, top speed, time, route map, elevation changes, points of interest, weather, photos and notes taken. SPECIAL FEATURES * Privacy first: Trips are kept locally on the phone and synchronised using iCloud * Automatic trip start: Start trips automatically when the phone starts moving * Automatic idle detection: Trips are automatically stopped and saved after a period of inactivity * Automatic activity detection: Red Diary recognises if you walk, run, hike, cycle, drive, commute or fly * Voice announcements: The app announces ride time, distance and top speed changes, even when it is running in the background. Ideal for exercising with the headphones on! * Siri commands: Start, finish or abort trips with your voice * Take photos during the trip or add photos later * Take notes during the trip or add notes later * Trip maps with points of interest, photos and notes * Elevation profiles, with uphill, flat and downhill distances * Trip timeline with start and stop places, top speed, weather, photos, notes and related calendar events * Detailed statistics for each activity * Map of all your trips, and search by place or note * Share trips via social media, chat, email etc. * Live Activity: Follow the current trip on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island * Widgets for the Home Screen: Start a trip with one tap * Independent watch app: The Red Diary watch app can be used without the phone. Trips are recorded on the watch -- you can even leave the phone behind! The recorded trips will be synchronised when your watch and phone meet again. DISCLAIMER Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Red Diary at 5.0 against Walk Diary's 3.2. Red Diary also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 12 months). Walk Diary's advantage is ratings volume (5 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.1). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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
Both are free to download. Walk Diary sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and Red Diary sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Red Diary holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Walk Diary has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Walk Diary ships an update every 12 months, Red Diary every 5 weeks. Both last shipped on November 6, 2026.
| Parameter | Walk Diary | Red Diary |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.2 (5 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 40.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 12 months | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 17.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 倩 赵 | Akos Polster |
Customer experience
Walk Diary
Red Diary
In-app purchases
Walk Diary
- Map$49.99
- Remove ads$99.99
Red Diary
- Power User$4.99









