Walking is one of the simplest and yet rewarding forms of exercise. Just by walking 30 minutes on a daily basis you will be able to keep your major organs healthy, prevent diabetes, lose weight, strengthen your bones and muscles, improve your mood and many more.
If you’re willing to make a change and start walking more, the next important step is to be able to track how much you walk every day. Tracking your physical activity will help you see how much you’re logging daily, monitor your progress in time and keep on going until your reach and surpass your fitness goals.
How can you keep track of your movement during the day? It’s simple, just download a walking app. In this article we’ve created a list of 10 walking apps for Apple Watch which you can reliably put to use:
ActivityTracker
ActivityTracker is a pedometer app designed to automatically track your physical activity without draining your phone’s battery. This is due to the fact that it uses the motion processor instead of GPS in order to record your movement throughout the day. The app tracks and displays a series of useful fitness stats, such as the steps taken, distance walked, the active time, the calorie burn or floors climbed.
To determine you to walk more, ActivityTracker allows you to set your own weekly target and shows a daily goal based on that target. You’re free to set the target not only for the steps, but also for the distance walked and calories burned. The app offers an elegantly-designed, independent Apple Watch app and colorful Complications to visualize your progress instantaneously. You can see directly on your wrist your hourly activity, as well as a summary of the day and of the entire week. You can sync steps between your iPhone, Apple Watch and the Health app, as well as import your fitness data from the Health app.
For a quick look at your progress, you can take advantage of customizable widgets and the app badge. There’s also an option to share your daily achievements with friends.
- Price: Free (Subscription: $14.99/year)
- Requirements: iOS 12.0 or later
- Download Link: App Store
MapMyWalk
MapMyWalk is a walking tracker app that uses GPS. This means that it will not only record your activity, but it will also be able to provide a map of your route. The downside is that it will have a significant impact on your battery life. With this app you can log more than 600 sports, set your own goals and adjust them along the way and receive audio feedback and stats with every mile you walk.
The Apple Watch app is easy to use and displays all the fitness metrics you might be interested in. This means that you can visualize directly on your Watch the duration of your walk, the distance covered, your speed and pace, the elevation, the amount of calories burned, as well as your average heart rate. A cool part of MapMyWalk is the social component it integrates. The app allows you to take part in various challenges, compete for prizes with friends and other fitness enthusiasts and share your results on Facebook or Twitter.
- Price: Free (Subscription: $5.99/month)
- Requirements: iOS 13.0 or later
- Download Link: App Store
Pacer
Pacer is your walking companion and personal trainer at the same time. The app helps you create a fitness plan to match your needs, keeps track of your movement during the day and provides the proper audio and video guiding you require in order to reach your goals. You can monitor your step count, distance, flights of stairs climbed, the duration of your walk and the calories burned.
Pacer allows you to visualize directly on your Apple Watch the number of steps taken and displays through report graphs and percentage how much you’ve got left until you reach your step target. Just like MapMyWalk, Pacer also makes fitness tracking fun by giving you the chance to join a large community of active people, to create walking groups, take part in various challenges with your friends and see who can walk more. Pacer can be synchronized with Apple Health and also with MyFitnessPal.
- Price: Free (Subscription: $49.99/year)
- Requirements: iOS 11.0 or later
- Download Link: App Store
Pedometer++
Pedometer++ is a real veteran in the category. It was first released in 2013 and is currently the oldest app available in the App Store that uses the motion processor. This pedometer app for Apple Watch has a minimum impact on your battery life and allows you to set a personal step goal for each day. You can see the progress towards that goal from your app, the Today widget and of course your Watch.
The Apple Watch app comes with a simple design and is fairly easy to use. All you have to do is select the exact type of workout you’re starting: it can be indoor or outdoor walking, running, hiking or other physical activity. Pedometer++ will begin recording your movement and will provide a customizable display with all the relevant stats: your step count, distance covered, active time, calorie burn or floors climbed. By enabling GPS you can also check out your elevation profile. You can additionally sync the app with Apple Health and integrate it with iMessage for easy sharing.
- Price: Free (Subscription: $19.99/year)
- Requirements: iOS 15.0 or later
- Download Link: App Store
Argus
Argus is more than a walking tracker app for Apple Watch. You can use this complex app not only to monitor your physical movement during the day, but also to track your sleeping habits or to see your calorie intake. Argus analyzes your data and places at your disposal personalized meal plans and recipes to improve your nutrition and lose weight in an effective manner.
The Apple Watch is nicely-designed and offers all the information you may need. You can visualize the number of steps taken, the distance covered, the time spent physically active or your cadence. The cool part is that you can invite friends to enter various competitions and see directly on your Watch where you stand in the leaderboard. Argus uses GPS to track activities like running, climbing and cycling, but also comes with an ultra-low battery usage technology to track your daily steps.
- Price: Free (Subscription: $9.99/month)
- Requirements: iOS 12.0 or later
- Download Link: App Store
Walkmeter
Walkmeter uses GPS to monitor a series of outdoor activities. This means that you can keep track of anything you want, from walking and hiking to cycling and skiing. The app places at your disposal maps for your routes, complex report graphs regarding your daily workouts, laps, zones or special training plans. You can also set to receive audio announcements for a series of stats at time or distance intervals.
As far as the Apple Watch app goes, you’re free to set up, start and stop a workout directly from your wrist. The app is designed with elegant gauge pages that display a large variety of metrics, such as your speed, pace, heart rate or step cadence. You can also visualize on your Watch for how much time you’ve been walking, the distance you’ve covered or the amount of calories burned. Walkmeter allows you to share your progress with Apple Health and with friends and followers via Facebook, Twitter or email.
- Price: Free (Subscription: $9.99/year)
- Requirements: iOS 12.3 or later
- Download Link: App Store
WalkFit
WalkFit is an app developed to help you lose weight by walking in just four weeks. The idea behind it is relatively simple: you enter your personal information, choose a fitness goal and begin a weight loss plan based on your individual needs. There are beginner programs, interval training sessions and daily walking programs to burn fat and reach your goals in an effective way.
WalkFit monitors your physical activity and provides info regarding your step count, distance, active and total calories or duration. The app lets you set a daily step goal and sends you reminders to motivate you to reach it. The Apple Watch app is easy to use and gives you the possibility to start and pause a workout at any moment. You can see directly on your wrist useful fitness data, such as your heart rate, your current pace versus the target pace and more.
- Price: Free (Subscription: $29.99/year)
- Requirements: iOS 14.1 or later
- Download Link: App Store
Vima
Vima is designed to keep track of your walking activity and aid you reach your fitness goals in a simple, uncomplicated manner. The app uses GPS to record your movement and gives you the possibility to see your route on a map and save it. An interesting feature is the fact that the routes are color coded by speed, which means you can see your fastest (green) and slowest (red) moments.
Vima makes it easy to monitor your activity from your wrist. You can begin, pause, resume and save a walk using your Apple Watch, as well as visualize fitness metrics such as your distance, your speed, active time or altitude. The app offers voice feedback during your sessions and split times so you can analyze and better understand your workouts. There’s also a shoe tracking feature available, which lets you know when it’s the right time to change your walking shoes.
- Price: Free (Subscription: $19.99/year)
- Requirements: iOS 14.0 or later
- Download Link: App Store
Fitapp
Fitapp uses GPS to track a multitude of physical activities that range from walking and running to mountain biking, cross-country skiing and golfing. The app records and displays in a simple manner, on your Apple Watch, everything you need to know about your workout: the duration, the distance, your speed and pace, your heart rate or the total calorie burn.
Fitapp comes with a built-in BMI calculator and enables you to monitor your weight over time so you can reach your goal. The app places at your disposal weekly and monthly statistics so you can have an overview of your progress, as well as the option of sharing your progress with friends and followers on social media.
- Price: Free (Subscription: $39.99/year)
- Requirements: iOS 12.0 or later
- Download Link: App Store
Duffy
Duffy is an interesting alternative, due to the fact that it was particularly developed as an Apple Watch complication. The app’s main goal is to ensure easy access to your step count on your Apple Watch, but it also provides info about the distance covered and the floors climbed. You can set a daily step goal and receive a notification when you’ve reached it directly on your wrist.
Duffy also comes with an iPhone app. This one displays the same fitness data, but it provides more details and stats about your progress overtime. It’s worth mentioning that the app is completely free, contains no ads and is also open-source.
- Price: Free (Tips: $0.99 – $4.99)
- Requirements: iOS 13.6 or later
- Download Link: App Store
