The Walk: Fitness Game

Six to Start

In-app purchases

About this app

Created with the NHS and the UK's Department of Health, The Walk helps you walk more, every single day. When you’re playing The Walk, every step counts.

A bomb explodes in Inverness station, and you’re given a package that could save the world. To stay alive, you’ll need to walk the length of the UK. The Walk is more than just a great pedometer/step counter — it's a way to turn walking into a journey, a challenge, and a rip-roaring adventure.

Made by Six to Start and Naomi Alderman, creators of the world’s most popular running game with over 5 million players, Zombies, Run!

ENGADGET - “Simple, fun, effective.”
JOYSTIQ - "Spices up your step-tracking with some danger and intrigue.”
BBC NEWS - “Encourages users to walk 10,000 steps-a-day to help improve their health”
LIFEHACKER - “You're motivated to actually get up and move around so you can progress further into the story, and it works really well.”

AWESOME ACTIVITY TRACKER
Just put your phone in your pocket or purse and we’ll track every walk and run you take — and map it, too!

CAPTIVATING STORY
You’ll walk the length of the UK while evading capture by the police and enemy agents. Can you work out who set off that bomb in the first place and what their plan is? Get ready for an epic adventure across 65 episodes, 800 minutes of audio, and hundreds of miles.

MOTIVATING GAMEPLAY
Get rewarded for walking more by collecting clues, scanning for information, and unlocking achievements.

ADAPTIVE
The Walk adjusts its difficulty based on individual fitness levels. Everyone’s different, and we make sure we give you the right level of challenge!

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Ratings and reviews

I, like many others, am here from the Zombies, Run! world (which you don't have to run btw). I listened to the podcast but thought it would be fun to do it the way it was intended. What's cool is that they corrected the negatives to create the awesome ZR we love. If this could be incorporated into the ZR app, that would be great. I do like seeing what's collected immediately and being able to relisten to clips during the mission. Just wish you didn't need 2 hr/day or eyes on screen all the time.

I still enjoy this app, but as the most expensive app purchase I expect it to work better than freebies. I've had to restart episodes if I haven't finished it under a timeframe or switch between wifi (on/off and 4G). Sometimes the episode never resets, locking up at the last point I walked to during a reset, even if I continue, for several minutes even a half hour. I've had to skip ahead 4 episodes for this glitch. Still fun & motivational but not sure I'd recommend it to anyone looking to buy

I'm not a fan of the subscription model pricing, though the experience of the app does seem better than when I tried this a few years ago (though not sure if that's is solely due to app development or because I have a nicer phone now). I really like the storyline, but I wish the episodes were shorter/easier to fully complete. The motivation to get the next story piece is zeroed out when I don't have the greater part of an hour to dedicate to it.

What's new

Updated to a new authentication system