In this fitness app, you can record your daily walking and running distances from various trackers to complete long-distance routes. Includes checkpoint milestones, social features to see other users' progress, and optional route purchases.
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About Walk The Distance
Use your daily walking/running distance recorded from Health, Fitbit or Garmin app to complete the distance of really long (and some short) trails. See other users completing the same route, and don't let them pass you!
Current Trails include:
- Appalachian Trail
- Pacific Crest Trail
- Continental Divide Trail
- John Muir Trail
- Camino de Santiago
- and many more!
No third-party device or app needed! The Health App tracks your walking automatically using the pedometer built into the iPhone. WalkTheDistance puts that data to good use; showing you how far you would be if you were walking the Appalachian Trail, Pacific Crest Trail, Continental Divide Trail and other featured routes in cities and national parks around the world.
The Health App works for everyone, but this app also works with the Fitbit and Garmin devices!
The Appalachian Trail is really long. So we added checkpoints along the way to help you stay motivated. For the Appalachian trail, checkpoints are shelters where you can "stay the night", along with some points that provide a good view. Checkpoints vary by walk, and of course you cannot unlock checkpoints until you reach them!
Walk with other users! Walk with everyone, or just walk with your friends. You can easily add friends to walk with you on your walk. Get notified when someone passes you. Stay motivated and don't let them beat you!
This app is "activate it and leave it". It uses virtually no power while in the background. It pulls your walking/running distance from the Health app once every hour in the background, or every time you open the app. When you reach checkpoints or get passed by friends, you will get notifications on your phone letting you know.
Free walks in each category (Appalachian Trail, Marathons, Cities, National Parks), then other walks are available for purchase for $0.99 (or equivalent local currency).
Feedback welcome! This app was built based on feedback from users. There is an "email me" link under settings. We would love to hear what routes you want added and what features you'd like to see.
**Based on Virtual Walk an app that was Named Best Walking App for 2013 in the About.com Reader's Choice Awards
REVIEWS:
About.com
"very addictive to want to put in an extra mile..."
User
"alleviate the monotonous nature of dog walking..."
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Reviews for Walk The Distance
Th5kids
Loved it until the new update
I really loved the old interface and found it bright and cheerful and super easy to navigate. The new is super boring looking and would agree with another reviewer that it seems cold. It is not as user friendly as the old. I have a harder time seeing where my friends are at and it seems like I have less access to things in the past. Several Steps in the wrong direction. Please bring back the old.
LikeClockWork
Was great before the latest update
I used to love, love, LOVE this app. The user interface was so easy to use and easy on the eyes, and it was fun to revisit locations of completed journeys. But ever since the latest update, the interface looks and feels so cold. Also the super long challenges used to be split up into sections, so at least you could complete them in parts, feeling a sense of accomplishment along the way. Now with the update, they’re all lumped into one long journey that seems overwhelming to finish. I also can’t revisit the locations of the completed journeys anymore, I can only see the latest stop of the current journey I’m on. Why did you fee the need to “fix” something that wasn’t broken?? I’ll give it another month’s try, but please bring back the old features that made this app enjoyable.
