World Walking

Papertank

About this app

Join World Walking and explore our amazing world as you walk to work, walk with friends or walk to health.

World Walking offers a simple, free and fun way to help you keep active. It’s also your virtual ticket to some of the greatest places on Earth.

World Walking has been designed simply to motivate by putting the fun back in fitness to help you reap the benefits of a healthier, active lifestyle.

There many upshots to getting up and about, like reducing your risk of heart disease and helping you keep to a healthy weight and shape, but exercising a positive attitude and a little spirit of adventure can do wonders too.

If you have the will, World Walking has the perfect virtual walk for you; from taking in the sights of top cities to trekking across a continent. Visit the places you’ve always wanted to see. Packed with facts and photos, the World Walking app allows you look and learn as you explore.

Getting started is as simple as a walk in the park. Just choose your virtual walk, start walking and accumulate your steps to accomplish greater distances than you'd ever imagine.

Be inspired, stay motivated and keep fit.

Take your first step and join World Walking today. It's free and it's easy.

Features
● Everyone’s welcome: Go it alone or create your own group - easily! World Walking is great for your family & friends, workplace, school, community & health group.

● Easy to use: Create your own unique login, or simply use your existing Facebook account.

● Track your progress: Anytime you wish. See what milestones you’ve reached and how many steps you’ve taken. The built in tracker allows you to keep track of how far you’ve walked each day.

● See the world: There are hundreds of the world’s most amazing places to visit with World Walking.

● Gain awards: There are 20 Awards to unlock! The more you walk, the more you receive.

● Share with friends: Push notifications keep you up-to-date on your group’s progress. Chat and share pictures with members of your groups.

World Walking was conceived by the Inverclyde Globetrotters and developed for them by Papertank Ltd., Square Brackets and Fergus Howe.

World walking is endorsed and supported by Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland, Awards for All Scotland and Paths for All.

Note: Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.

Ratings and reviews

Interesting set up to sy the least! Even though I picked a walk. (Scotish one) adding miles doesnt hit walk till you spend the miles. It too frustrating to try to figure out how to use the app. You cant joing any clubs as you have to be invited. Yet most clubs have less than 5 people. The one thing i did like was the possibility of seeing other countries as you complete the miles! Will be deleting.

It's ok. However for some of the longer walks, the route snaps to places with no street view option... One of fun things about doing these "walks" for me is being able to see where I am and do a bit of virtual tourism. It's a bit rubbish when for miles on end you have nothing to look at... An option for "see nearby landmarks" or something along these lines could help to improve this. Or, simply make it so that the routes snap to roads rather than cutting across areas with no coverage.

I really like this app and have been using it a lot recently to turn unexciting lockdown walks around my local neighbourhood into more interesting virtual walks around the world. The feature to see where you currently are on your virtual walk using Google Street view was really the main feature for me. However, that feature stopped working maybe 2 or 3 weeks ago. I'll stick with this app for a while to see if this is fixed, but I'm really disappointed this feature no longer works.

What's new

Bug fixes.