Walking Distance Tracker vs Just Walk
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 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
Just Walk
This app helps you build a consistent daily walking habit with a simple, distraction-free interface. Track intentional walks, visualize your progress with a growing mosaic, and maintain your streak without pressure or social features.
- Build daily walking streak
- Visualize walking mosaic
- Private walking log
- Track intentional walks
- Distraction-free design
- Light and dark mode
- Ad-free experience
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A calm walking tracker for people who want to walk more, not chase numbers. Tap Start Walk, walk, and log it. Every walk becomes a dot in your mosaic. No daily step goal. No leaderboard. No account. No ads. Just one intentional walk at a time. HOW IT WORKS • Tap Start Walk. Time, steps and distance run quietly while you walk. • Hold to end. The walk is logged and today's dot fills in. • Add a note if you like ("felt better after this one"). • The home screen leads with "Walked 4 of your last 7 days". Consistency first; your streak is a quiet detail underneath. FREE • Unlimited walks with time, steps and distance • Your last 30 days as a mosaic, colored by morning, afternoon and evening • Share your mosaic as an image • Light and dark mode, metric or imperial • In 10 languages JUST WALK PRO (ONE-TIME PURCHASE, NO SUBSCRIPTION) • Your full history: every walk since day one. Free never deletes older walks; Pro shows them. • Month by month: a clean card for every month you walked • Color themes: warm, nature, mono or emoji dots • Lifetime stats: days walked, distance, steps, averages and your best streak APPLE WATCH • Start an outdoor walk on your wrist and leave your phone at home. Time, distance and heart rate are saved to Apple Health. (Watch walks don't appear in the phone mosaic yet.) PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account, no social feed, no public profile • Location is used only during a walk to measure distance. It never leaves your device, and Just Walk collects no data. WHAT PEOPLE SAID "The mosaic idea is probably the strongest part. It gives a sense of progress without making the user feel judged." (a commenter on r/iosapps) I built Just Walk after losing about 60 pounds, mostly by walking. I wanted an app that counted the walk, not every step of my day. If something feels off, Settings → Send Feedback comes straight to me. Just Walk is not a medical device and does not give medical advice. Privacy Policy: https://dahvio.com/just-walk-privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Just Walk at 100% against Walking Distance Tracker's 42%. Just Walk also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.5) and update cadence (every 6 days vs every 3 weeks). Walking Distance Tracker's advantage is ratings volume (3.1K vs 2). 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. Walking Distance Tracker sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days and Just Walk sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Just Walk 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 2, 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 Just Walk's.
Walking Distance Tracker ships an update every 3 weeks, Just Walk every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Walking Distance Tracker | Just Walk |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (3.1K ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 41.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3.1K — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 76 MB | 21 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 30 South LLC | Raymond Rothwell |
Customer experience
Walking Distance Tracker
Just Walk
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
Just Walk
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
Just Walk
- Just Walk Pro$3.99
Questions
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