Comparison

Walking Distance Tracker vs TrueSteps

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

TrueSteps

This step counter prioritizes privacy and simplicity, offering real-time step tracking without GPS or account creation. It features a clean interface with progress rings, historical data views, and the ability to correct daily counts. Enjoy personalized achievements and walk tracking, all while respecting your data.

Highlights
  • Real-time step counting
  • Progress ring visualization
  • Hour-by-hour activity view
  • Correctable daily step counts
  • Walk Mode with pace tracking
  • Home and Lock Screen widgets
  • Privacy-focused design
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TrueSteps is the step counter that respects you: beautiful, genuinely free, and private by design. No account. No GPS. No tracking. Just your steps, counted honestly — right on your iPhone. Most pedometers are loved for the basics and resented for everything else: paywalls, surprise renewals, ad overload, and counts that lag or can't be corrected. TrueSteps fixes the basics and never gets in your way. WHY YOU'LL LOVE IT • Real-time counting — your steps tick up live, no refreshing. • A beautiful home screen — one calm "Aura" ring shows your progress at a glance, with distance, calories, active time, and floors. • Hour-by-hour view — see exactly when you move most, today. • Trends — clean Week, Month, and Year charts with a simple "you're trending up" read. • Fix any day — tap a day to correct its steps if your phone wasn't with you. (Almost no other app lets you.) • Streaks that forgive — keep your streak alive with a free weekly rest day. A missed day never feels like failure. • Awards & personal bests — milestone badges, longest streak, best day, and more. • Walk Mode — start a walk and watch your live pace and cadence, with zero GPS. A calm summary when you're done. • Home Screen & Lock Screen widgets — your ring, always a glance away. PRIVATE BY DESIGN TrueSteps counts steps using your iPhone's motion sensor only — no GPS, no location permission, and no Apple Health access required. There's no account and no sign-up, and your step history is stored on your device. We have no servers and never see your data. Want proof? The in-app Privacy panel lets you export everything (or erase everything) in one tap. FREE, FOREVER No subscription. No in-app purchases. TrueSteps is supported by polite, non-personalized ads that never cover your steps and never track you across apps. Download TrueSteps and start counting — honestly.

Screenshots

Walking Distance Tracker4 screens
TrueSteps4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: TrueSteps at none against Walking Distance Tracker's 10. TrueSteps also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.5). Walking Distance Tracker's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (3.1K vs 2). On price and update cadence 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. TrueSteps asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

TrueSteps 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Walking Distance Tracker versus TrueSteps: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWalking Distance TrackerTrueSteps
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (3.1K ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews41.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings3.1K — better2
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 3 weeks
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesAd-supported — better
DevicesiPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.6 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size76 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer30 South LLCJaspal Singh

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

TrueSteps

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

TrueSteps

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Walking Distance Tracker free?
Walking Distance Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is TrueSteps free?
TrueSteps is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Walking Distance Tracker or TrueSteps?
TrueSteps is rated higher. Walking Distance Tracker averages 4.5 out of 5 from 3.1K ratings, while TrueSteps averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Walking Distance Tracker or TrueSteps have ads?
TrueSteps shows ads; Walking Distance Tracker does not.
Which is updated more often, Walking Distance Tracker or TrueSteps?
Walking Distance Tracker ships an update every 3 weeks, and TrueSteps every 3 weeks. Most recently, Walking Distance Tracker was updated on October 26, 2026 and TrueSteps on October 25, 2026.

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