iOS or Android apps for fitness walking are mainly of two types. Some apps primarily record your steps by showing your speed, distance, and route. Other apps are pedometers that count your step count throughout the day.
In general, all of these applications use both the GPS and the accelerometer chip of your mobile phone. Many also connect to other fitness equipment like treadmills. These apps are all free and sometimes offer in-app purchases.
- Pacer Pedometer & Walk: best fitness walking app
The Pacer app has features that are great for power walkers looking to improve their performance. This app not only records your steps but also offers guided workouts like a fitness trainer. It provides extra motivation and helps you achieve fitness goals.
This app uses your cell phone’s GPS to measure the distance of your walks and steps. The simple and precise pedometer is based on the accelerometer.
The Pacer application allows you to follow your training statistics, but also to record your activities or discover new routes. For more motivation, you can join Pacer community groups.
- Decathlon Coach Sport Fitness: walking and other sports
The Decathlon Coach Sport Fitness application is designed for walking but also for running and fitness. He is a sports coach who records races and walks. It offers coaching programs in several sessions and à la carte sessions to achieve your goals to be done outdoors or warm at home.
For walking or for other sports, the application uses the GPS of your smartphone to measure your speed, your distance traveled, your elevation, your course, your calories burned…
It can also be used to maintain and strengthen your body with fitness exercises or bodyweight training.
- Stepz: Step and calorie counter
The Stepz app is a free step counter (pedometer) that can sync with the Apple Health app on iPhone or with Google Fit on Samsung or other Android smartphones. This app allows you to follow your daily activities thanks to a fitness and health diary: number of steps, calories, active minutes, distance traveled, hours of sleep…
It is a solution for fitness walking with an accurate calculation of the number of calories burned and the distance traveled in kilometers. The Stepz app allows you to set daily step goals. It also offers personalized plans based on your activity level to be more active on a daily basis.
- StepsApp: Pedometer
The StepsApp application is a pedometer compatible with the Apple Health app or with Google Fit. It also automatically syncs data with Apple Watch. This step counter offers great graphics and animations to track activity on a daily, weekly or monthly basis.
This pedometer application uses the GPS of the smartphone during training to retrace the route taken or calculate the distance traveled. The StepsApp also allows you to set step count goals.
- Gaia GPS: topo maps
The Gaia GPS app displays topo maps for walking or hiking. It tracks your walks and other outdoor activities. It displays your route on a map with your time, speed and distance.
With this app you can download and store maps for offline use. This is essential if you’re going to be hiking in an area without cell phone service or WiFi, or if you’re traveling abroad without a cellular data plan. On the other hand, you have to pay a subscription to be able to download topo maps.
