Comparison

Walking Distance Tracker vs Workout Distance

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 your phone. 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

Workout Distance

Visualize your workout distances with clear bar charts. Track your progress daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly. Integrates with HealthKit to display running, cycling, and other workout data.

Highlights
  • Daily, weekly, monthly, yearly distance charts
  • HealthKit integration
  • Selectable workout types
  • Progress overview
  • Detailed weekly/daily views
Features
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Workout Distance shows you bar charts with the total distance of your workouts per day, week, month and year. Get a quick overview of how far you ran last month compared to the month before, or dive deeper and look at each week or even day. Workout Distance is integrated with the Health app. This means that all data is loaded from the HealthKit database of workouts on your phone. You can select what types of workouts (running, cycling and so on) to include in the charts. This is a free app without any ads.

Screenshots

Walking Distance Tracker4 screens
Workout Distance4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Workout Distance at 100% against Walking Distance Tracker's 42%. Workout Distance also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.5) and in-app purchases (none vs 10). Walking Distance Tracker's advantage is ratings volume (3.1K vs 3) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 3 months). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Workout Distance asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Workout Distance holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Walking Distance Tracker has 3.1K ratings behind it against 3, 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 Workout Distance's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Walking Distance Tracker ships an update every 3 weeks, Workout Distance every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Walking Distance Tracker versus Workout Distance: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWalking Distance TrackerWorkout Distance
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (3.1K ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews41.7% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings3.1K — better3
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.6 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size76 MB0 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer30 South LLCFredrik Widlert

Customer experience

Walking Distance Tracker

All ratings3,091 ratings
Positive87.9%
Neutral4.3%
Negative7.8%
Written reviews108 reviews
Positive41.7%
Neutral8.3%
Negative50.0%

Workout Distance

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

Workout Distance

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

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
None

Workout Distance

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Walking Distance Tracker free?
Walking Distance Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Workout Distance free?
Workout Distance is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Walking Distance Tracker or Workout Distance?
Workout Distance is rated higher. Walking Distance Tracker averages 4.5 out of 5 from 3.1K ratings, while Workout Distance averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do Walking Distance Tracker or Workout Distance have ads?
Neither Walking Distance Tracker nor Workout Distance shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Walking Distance Tracker or Workout Distance?
Walking Distance Tracker ships an update every 3 weeks, and Workout Distance every 3 months. Most recently, Walking Distance Tracker was updated on October 17, 2026 and Workout Distance on October 4, 2026.

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