Comparison

Walking Distance Tracker vs Running Walking Tracker Goals

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
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 ever getting your phone out of your pocket. 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

About

Running Walking Tracker Goals

Track your running, walking, and biking activities to achieve fitness goals like weight loss or calorie counting. Monitor distance, speed, elevation, and calories burned with voice control and Apple Watch integration. Offers various activity types and customizable goals.

Highlights
  • Track distance, time, speed, elevation, calories
  • Voice control with Siri
  • Apple Watch integration
  • Set custom fitness goals
  • Analyze sports activities
  • Monthly activity summaries
  • Share fitness results
Features
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Ready to achieve your fitness goals? Improve your health and get in great shape with the free GOALS app. You want to lose weight or just count the calories you have burnt or the distance you have covered! Start today and track all your fitness activities (distance, time, speed, elevation, calories burned & more) - such as running, jogging, biking, nordic walking and mountain biking! It´s also fully optimized for the Apple Watch. By the way you can use your voice (Siri) to control your workout, isn´t that convenient? Tie your shoelaces, download the app and start tracking your fitness activities. WHAT IS YOUR DAILY GOAL? SELECT ONE OF OUR EXCLUSIVE GOALS: - Distance - Burned calories - Duration - Elevation - Steps SELECT YOUR FAVORITE ACTIVITY: - Running (Jogging) - Walking - Biking - Nordic Walking - Mountain Biking APP FEATURES & BENEFITS: - Start your workout with Siri (e.g. "Start a 1 mile run with Goals-Fitness") - Start a new or control an ongoing workout from the goals widget. - Listen to your favorite iTunes playlist while you’re doing your workout - Analyze your sports activities, find out how to improve your performance even further - Monthly summary of your activities and achievements - Create your own goals profile, make it your personal training and workout app - Share your fitness results, be the one how motivates the crowd ADDITIONAL BENEFITS FOR PREMIUM MEMBERS - Access to all available goals like calories burned & elevation - Real Voice Coach: Audio feedback on duration or distance - Real Voice Coach: Configurable parameters (speed, burned calories, …) - Advanced Statistics & Analysis - Training plans for running (beginner, 5k, 10k) - Training plans for walking, running for weight loss (interval trainings) - Create your own interval trainings (HIIT) & heart rate zone trainings - Heart rate and steps included during workout and in summary - Live charts: See your performance already during your workout - Live intervals: See how you perform on intervals - Use iPhone & Apple Watch for heart rate zone trainings - Heart rate notifications to notifiy you when to slow down (or speed up) - also on Apple Watch ON APPLE WATCH: - Start an activity directly from your wrist - Check your pulsrate during your workout - View details of your current activity in real time and control your workout from the wrist DOWNLOAD NOW > AND GET STARTED! What are you waiting for? Download the app now, set your goals and take your fitness to the next level! Goals is free. We provide a premium upgrade for more advanced functionalities. Following premium durations are available: 1 month for $7.99, 3 months for $19.99, 6 months and 1 year for $38.99 (Prices can vary slightly depending on the region). The subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. If offered, this also applies to the free trial period. The payment will be charged to your iTunes account at confirmation of your purchase. You can manage your iTunes subscription in the App Store settings after purchase. Terms of Service: http://apptuitive.at/terms-goals-fitness-tracker/ Privacy Policy: http://apptuitive.at/privacy-policy-goals-fitness-tracker. Apple Health: Goals can integrate with the Apple Health App to read your heart rate and steps information or to write workouts. Note: Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.

Screenshots

Walking Distance Tracker4 screens
Running Walking Tracker Goals4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Running Walking Tracker Goals at 77% against Walking Distance Tracker's 42%. Running Walking Tracker Goals also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.5) and ratings volume (107K vs 3K). Walking Distance Tracker's advantage is iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.5). On price, update cadence, 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. Walking Distance Tracker sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days and Running Walking Tracker Goals sells 15 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Running Walking Tracker Goals holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Running Walking Tracker Goals has 107K ratings behind it against 3K, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 42% of Walking Distance Tracker's written reviews are positive against 77% of Running Walking Tracker Goals's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Walking Distance Tracker ships an update every 3 weeks, Running Walking Tracker Goals monthly. Both last shipped on September 24, 2026.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
Walking Distance Tracker versus Running Walking Tracker Goals: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWalking Distance TrackerRunning Walking Tracker Goals
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (3K ratings)4.8 (107K ratings) — better
Positive reviews41.9% of reviews77.4% of reviews — better
Number of ratings3K107K — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
Best chart rank—#199 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS15.6 — better17.5
Further details — not scored
Size76 MB53 MB
Age rating4++4
Developer30 South LLCAK Apptuitive GmbH

Customer experience

Walking Distance Tracker

All ratings3,019 ratings
Positive87.9%
Neutral4.3%
Negative7.7%
Written reviews105 reviews
Positive41.9%
Neutral8.6%
Negative49.5%

Running Walking Tracker Goals

All ratings107,191 ratings
Positive96.3%
Neutral2.3%
Negative1.5%
Written reviews1,651 reviews
Positive77.4%
Neutral7.0%
Negative15.6%

User reviews

Walking Distance Tracker

From 3K 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

Running Walking Tracker Goals

From 107K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Easy to use
  • 🚀 Accurate tracking
  • 💪 Motivating and helpful for fitness goals
  • 📊 Detailed statistics and progress tracking
  • 🗺️ Useful GPS mapping and route history

Room to improve

  • 🔒 Premium features locked behind paywall
  • 🐛 Occasional bugs and data loss issues
  • 🔋 Drains battery when used for long periods
  • 🤖 Robotic/monotonous voice feedback

Bugs and 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

Running Walking Tracker Goals

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • GPS tracking issues leading to inaccurate distance/pace
  • Workouts not saving or syncing properly
  • App freezing or crashing during use

Requested features

4 requests
  • Treadmill workout tracking
  • Ability to connect with friends/community
  • More customization options for goals and metrics
  • Improved pause/resume functionality

In-app purchases

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
15 purchases

Running Walking Tracker Goals

Subscriptions15
  • 1 Month Premium Training plans7 Days trial$7.991 Month
  • HIIT Interval Training Timer7 Days trial$7.991 Month
  • Walking for Weight Loss MVP 1M7 Days trial$7.991 Month
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  • Running for Weight Loss MVP 1M7 Days trial$7.991 Month
  • 1 Month Premium1 Month trial$9.991 Month
  • 1 Month Premium2 variants$9.991 Month
  • Walking for Weight Loss MVP 3M$19.993 Months
  • Premium$23.993 Months
  • 3 Months Premium$24.993 Months
  • 3 Months Premium3 Months trial$24.993 Months
  • 6 Months Premium$38.996 Months
  • Premium$44.991 Year
  • 1 Year Premium1 Year trial$44.991 Year
  • 1 Year Premium, Training plans$44.991 Year
  • 1 Year Premium7 Days trial$44.991 Year

Questions

Is Walking Distance Tracker free?
Walking Distance Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Running Walking Tracker Goals free?
Running Walking Tracker Goals is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Walking Distance Tracker or Running Walking Tracker Goals?
Running Walking Tracker Goals is rated higher. Walking Distance Tracker averages 4.5 out of 5 from 3K ratings, while Running Walking Tracker Goals averages 4.8 from 107K ratings.
Do Walking Distance Tracker or Running Walking Tracker Goals have ads?
Neither Walking Distance Tracker nor Running Walking Tracker Goals shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Walking Distance Tracker or Running Walking Tracker Goals?
Walking Distance Tracker ships an update every 3 weeks, and Running Walking Tracker Goals monthly. Most recently, Walking Distance Tracker was updated on September 24, 2026 and Running Walking Tracker Goals on September 24, 2026.

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