Farwalker: Walk the World

Thoughtkraken

About this app

The world is big. Farwalker lets you walk round it, one real step at a time.

Pick your home town and a goal: any town, any country, any end of the earth. Your phone's own step counter moves a traveller along the real roads of the world, kilometre for kilometre, over its borders and across its seas. Walking from Lisbon to Moscow takes months; going round the world takes years. Free, no ads, no account.

🗺 THE REAL WORLD
• 195 states and 47 other lands, 5,500 towns, roads that keep to land with every border along them
• Sea lanes and the great crossings, real bridges and tunnels: the Øresund, the Channel Tunnel
• 22 ends of the earth wait: Cabo da Roca, Nordkapp, Cape Horn, Cape Dezhnev, the South Pole

👣 WALK
• The phone's own step counter, with the app closed too
• The step length worked out from your height, or measured by hand
• The traveller walks a road kilometre for kilometre: no shortcuts, no teleports

🪙 COINS, TRAINS AND SHIPS
• Every kilometre walked is a coin
• A coin buys 8 km by train, from wherever you are to a station ahead, or 15 km by sea from a port
• Trains and ships run on the real clock: Lisbon to New York takes about nine real days at sea

🛂 THE PASSPORT
• A stamp for every border crossed, cut from the country's code
• The parts of the world fill in; km on foot, by train and by sea

🕰 WHERE THE TRAVELLER IS
• The local time where they stand, and the real weather there
• News of the road: a new country, a border, a cape, a port, the end of the way

📖 THE JOURNAL
• Where each night was spent: on the road between two towns, on a train or at sea
• The borders and the ports of every day

🖋 THE ENGRAVED ATLAS
• Hatched seas, ripples along the coasts, hand-coloured borders of the countries you've stamped
• The red line walked, the railway in black and white

ALSO
• English and Russian
• Free and open source (MIT)

Privacy: no account, no ads, no analytics. Your steps and your journey stay on your phone. The only network request is the weather where the traveller is: their map coordinates go to Open-Meteo or MET Norway, nothing else.

What’s new

First release on Google Play: your steps walk a traveller across the real map of the world, along real roads, over borders and across seas. A coin for every kilometre buys a train or a ship, a stamp for every border, 195 countries and 22 ends of the earth, the local time and the real weather where the traveller is, the step length worked out from your height. English and Russian.