Walking Distance Tracker vs J
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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
J
This straightforward fitness tracker focuses on recording your walks and runs. It accurately logs distance, time, and pace without unnecessary features or data collection. All your workout history is securely stored on your device.
- Tracks distance, time, and pace
- Simple, intuitive interface
- Workout history review
- Real-time progress display
- Robust and fault-tolerant design
- All data stored locally
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A super-simple app to track your walks and runs. It tracks your: Distance, Time, and Pace for each workout. That's it! I created this app for my wife who was baffled by the complex apps that are available this kind of thing. They all have dozens of features she has no interest in but still has to wade through and/or ads to try to click around. But she just wants to know how far and fast her walks or runs go. Although the app is simple, I've brought to bear the experience of 30+ years as a software engineer to this app. I've tried to make it as robust, fault-tolerent, and rock-solid as I reasonably could. (e.g., take any similar app and let it run out of power during your workout or simulate this by force-rebooting -- and look at what you end up with. With some other apps -- even Apple's very nice Workouts app for Apple Watch -- you'll end up with little to nothing. With J-Walker, you'll have your workout tracked up to the second your phone died.) Also, all your data stays on your phone. There's no data harvesting going on here, no advertisers, no "partners", no switcheroo. There's one screen to review workout history or start a workout. And another to show your progress during a workout. Simple.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: J at 100% against Walking Distance Tracker's 42%. J also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 10) and rating (4.8 vs 4.5). Walking Distance Tracker's advantage is price (Free vs $0.99) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 10 months). On ads 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
Walking Distance Tracker is free to download; J costs $0.99 up front. Walking Distance Tracker sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. J asks for nothing beyond the download.
J holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Walking Distance Tracker has 3K ratings behind it against 4, 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 100% of J's.
Walking Distance Tracker ships an update every 3 weeks, J every 10 months. The most recent releases landed on September 27, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Walking Distance Tracker | J |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $0.99 |
| Rating | 4.5 (3K ratings) | 4.8 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 41.9% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3K — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 10 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 76 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 30 South LLC | John Mullaney |
Customer experience
Walking Distance Tracker
J
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
J
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Walking Distance Tracker
- 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
J
No in-app purchases
Questions
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