Alongside this wave of new features, we wanted to recognize the people who believed in Walk With Me from day one. Every user who signed up and created an account within the first two months of the app's release has been gifted a lifetime premium subscription, no strings attached.
These early adopters downloaded the app when it had zero daily users, explored it before most features even existed, and gave it a chance purely on faith. That kind of belief deserves to be rewarded permanently. Their premium status will never expire, and even if they upgrade to Power Walker or Touring Agency and that subscription lapses, they'll always fall back to premium.
If you're new here, this is what Walk With Me is all about: a global walking community where anyone can show up, start a walk, or join one, for fitness, socializing, dog-walking, tourism, or whatever gets you moving. All of these updates build on our core safety and privacy features that protect every walk. Here's everything that's new.
We launched a full three-tier subscription system approved by Google and Apple with a free trial, with weekly, monthly, and yearly billing options.
Premium
More flexibility and visibility
Power Walker
Organize walks regularly
Touring Agency
Professional walking tours (no longer sold)
Travel Mode launched as a Premium feature, and it's now free for everyone: override your GPS location and explore walks happening anywhere in the world. Select a city or drop a pin on the map, and the app shows nearby walks as if you were there.
Premium users can now see who viewed their profile. The Views screen shows a count of total profile views and a list of recent viewers (last 30 days).
Power Walkers can now create recurring walks that repeat on a daily, weekly, or monthly schedule, up to 5 active templates. Premium has since gained recurring walks too, with 2 templates.
At launch, the map discovery radius depended on your tier, as in the table below. That has since been dropped: every plan, free included, now gets the same discovery radius.
| Tier | Max Radius |
|---|---|
| Free | 10 km |
| Premium | 20 km |
| Power Walker | 50 km |
| Touring Agency | 3,200 km |
All users can now add a cover photo and up to 3 gallery photos to their profile. This is a free feature available to everyone.
Premium subscribers can upload a cover photo when creating a walk, making your walk stand out on the map and in listings.
Walk markers on the map received a complete visual overhaul. Markers now sort by tier priority. (The colours have changed again since: today live walks are green, scheduled walks blue, runs red, paid tours gold and dog-friendly walks pink.)
Recurring
Touring Agency
Dog-Friendly
Standard
Tag your walks with purpose labels (Fitness, Social, Dog Walking, Photography, etc.). Power Walker+ subscribers can set custom labels.
Fitness
Social
Photography
Hiking
The walk creation screen got detailed intensity settings at the time. These have since been simplified: every walk is now planned at a moderate pace, with incline and calories worked out from the route.
The app now sends notifications reminding you about upcoming walks, intelligently scheduled within a 5-7 PM window on the day of your walk.
When a walk goes live near your current location, you receive a push notification inviting you to join.
Premium subscribers can see every walker around you in the nearby walkers list (free shows the first 10).
Fine-grained control over which notifications you receive.
The walk discovery filters received a complete UI overhaul with a cleaner layout and dual-range sliders.
Official Walk With Me walks now auto-accept join requests instantly.
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