Treadmill Trails vs Remote Walk
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Treadmill Trails
Experience immersive virtual workouts on your treadmill, bike, or elliptical. Explore stunning real-world locations like Hawaii and national parks while listening to your own music. Enjoy a 30-minute escape with each video, yours to keep forever.
- Immersive virtual trail videos
- Supports treadmill, bike, elliptical
- Use with your own music
- Explore diverse global locations
- 30-minute workout videos
- Downloadable content
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Take a 30-minute vacation on your treadmill, bike, elliptical, step deck - or your floor. While you listen to your own music. Walk, run or cycle along beautiful trails in Hawaii, in National Parks, big cities, ancient hill towns. On the beach, up a mountain, across a canyon. 99 cents for each 30-minute video. Yours forever. On your iPhone or iPad. Preview and download some right now in the free Treadmill Trails app. Don't miss the 30-minute Free Sampler. Start your music. Start your trail. Start moving. Forward. In a great place. Happy Trails!
Remote Walk
Transform your local walks into virtual explorations of famous cities. Discover landmarks and learn about them as you track your fitness progress. Enjoy an engaging way to stay active and motivated.
- Virtual city exploration
- Landmark discovery and narration
- Real-time fitness statistics
- Street view integration
- Lock screen widget
- Walk history and saving
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Turn daily walks into journeys around the world! Explore Paris, Chicago, New Orleans & many more — all while walking your neighborhood. Every step brings adventure. Learn about landmarks you pass! Remote Walk provides fitness motivation with education and entertainment. You will get fit walking while exploring famous cities virtually! Remote Walk provides a great fitness experience by allowing you to walk in different cities from the comfort of your local neighborhood routes. Walking is an excellent way to get in shape both mentally and physically. With Remote Walk, you can make this fun and have the motivation to walk more! Remote Walk tracks your distance traveled and translates it to the virtual route. It gives you the experience of actually walking in the selected city! The app also provides exercise statistics including distance, speed, calories and steps -- including keeping a history of your walks. The app uses a Real Time mode by default which leverages Location services in a low power mode. This will let you know in real-time as you pass virtual landmarks in the routes. The passed landmarks will be spoken to you with narration, and can be mixed with any current music you are playing on your phone. So don't forget to wear your headphones. The more you walk, the more landmarks you pass, and the more exercise you get. Features include: - Ability to view your position on the virtual map using google maps view (flat or satellite). When you move locally, you see your position progress on the route map. - Ability to see street view (with map thumbnail) of your virtual route that updates in real-time as you walk to make you feel like you are there. You can look around the street view using standard gestures. - Live widget support to see progress on Lock Screen. - Routes have various landmarks. As you pass them, they are announced via audio, and you also get notifications on your phone/watch (when in Real Time mode) - Flexible audio output settings exist so user can specify if landmark narration is on or off, just off if mixed with other audio (e.g., an audio book). You can also specify if audio is headphones only or if speaker is allowed. And if speaker allowed, you can specify if it should honor the mute switch of the phone or not. - A landmark view is available where you can see information on all the landmarks you passed as well as the ability to jump to a Wikipedia entry of the landmark as well as see a 360 panoramic view of the site using Google maps technology. - A real-time exercise statistics page where you can see your current walking statistics like steps count, distance, and time. - Ability to save your walks and view history - Interesting routes and landmarks - 3 free routes, in famous areas of Chicago, San Francisco, and New Orleans(full features for those routes) - A one-time premium upgrade gives you all routes (on both iPhone and Watch)! I - Additional premium routes include Boston, London, Paris, Helsinki, Kyiv, Berlin, Destin, Portland ME, Washington DC, Atlanta, Hawaii, Istanbul, Dublin, and more, with more to be added! No sign-in or subscription required! Remote Walk also runs on Apple Watch, where it tracks through the virtual route based on your steps as measured by the watch. This Watch app is independent of the iPhone app, and is for times when you would rather just see your progress on the virtual route on your wrist. It will only run on Apple Watches that have Watch OS v10.6+ installed. More features to come, including long journeys and team walks.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Treadmill Trails at 4.7 against Remote Walk's 4.1. Treadmill Trails also leads on review sentiment (84% vs 63%) and ratings volume (974 vs 44). Remote Walk's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Treadmill Trails sells 16 one-off in-app purchases and Remote Walk sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Treadmill Trails holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Treadmill Trails has 974 ratings behind it against 44, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 84% of Treadmill Trails's written reviews are positive against 63% of Remote Walk's.
Treadmill Trails ships an update every 2 months, Remote Walk every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and June 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Treadmill Trails | Remote Walk |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (974 ratings) — better | 4.1 (44 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 84.5% of reviews — better | 62.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 974 — better | 44 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 82 MB | 201 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Better Cheaper Slower, Inc. | RoamPath, LLC |
Customer experience
Treadmill Trails
Remote Walk
Bugs and requests
Treadmill Trails
Reported bugs
3 issues- Trails not staying downloaded
- Login issues after period of inactivity
- Storage errors when downloading new trails
Requested features
5 requests- More 60-minute trail options
- Trail search filters (e.g., sunny, winter)
- Trail location maps
- Integration with fitness tracking
- More international trail locations
Remote Walk
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Treadmill Trails
- 30-Minute FREE SAMPLERFree
- Central Park$0.99
- Hanakapiai Falls$0.99
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- Amphitheater Lake Trail$0.99
- Beach Walk Wake-Up$0.99
- Beautiful and Strange in Bryce$0.99
- Angels Landing$0.99
- Appalachian Trail in Autumn Colors$0.99
- Greatest Hits: Kaua’i, Hawai’i$0.99
- Big Trees: Giant Redwoods, CA$0.99
- Safari Trail In Africa- Run With The Herds$0.99
- California Coastal Bluff Trail$0.99
- Glaciers! The Grinnell Glacier$0.99
- Big Sur$0.99
- Grand Canyon, 60 minutes R2R$1.99
- Yosemite:Valley-Summit 60mins$1.99
Remote Walk
- Premium Access$4.99
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