Google Play
Looking forward to finding some local walks in my city, cool idea.
Google Play review
Android user
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GPS Doodle
Pick a shape, place it on the map and walk it. Your GPS line is the drawing.
Coming soon to the app
5.0 on Google Play
How you play GPS Doodle
Choose a shape, fit it to real streets, then walk the loop. The closer your line, the better the match.
Choose a shape
Open Doodle from the games menu and pick from ten shapes: a circle, a heart, a star, a square, a triangle, a lightning bolt, a smiley, a paw, a house or an arrow. Or sketch your own on the drawing pad and save it as a custom shape.
Place it on the map
Drop the shape on the map around you. Drag to move it, pinch to resize it and twist to turn it. A readout shows roughly how far it is and how long it will take, and shapes run from 1 km up to 10 km.
Fit it to the streets
Tap Fit to streets and the app turns your shape into a real walking loop, then tells you how close it is: Great match, Pretty close, or Rough, try moving it. Nudge the shape and fit it again until you like it, then use the route and schedule it as a walk.
Walk your drawing
On the walk, the Doodle tab shows your trail over the shape and how much of it you've done. When you finish, the walk report puts the shape next to what you drew, with your match score and a button to share it.
Rules and fair play
GPS Doodle scores the line you actually walk, so shortcuts show.
- Your match score runs from 0 to 100% and compares your trail with the shape both ways, so walking half the heart scores low.
- Finishing a doodle walk earns 40 XP, and a match of 70% or better adds 20 more.
- There's no XP if your trail is shorter than half the shape, or if the walk was flagged for moving faster than walking pace.
- XP goes to the person who created the doodle walk, once per walk. Anyone walking with them can follow the drawing on the Doodle tab.
- Custom shapes: one slot on the free plan and five on Premium. Every sketch gets an automatic image check before it's saved.
- On the free plan each doodle walk uses one of your six weekly game starts, shared across all the games. Placing and fitting a shape is free, and Premium has no limit.
What Walkers Are Saying
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5.0 on Google Play
Google Play
I really like the idea. Seems like I'm the first walker in my city, but the concept is exactly what I wanted.
Google Play review
Bucharest
Google Play
This app helped me leave the house and touch some grass, for real for real.
Google Play review
Android user
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Key Takeaways
- GPS Doodle is a walking game: you walk a route shaped like a picture, and your GPS trail becomes the drawing.
- There are ten built-in shapes, from a heart to a paw print, and you can draw your own.
- The app fits your shape to real streets and shows how close the route is before you walk it.
- Finishing earns 40 XP, and a match of 70% or better adds 20 more.
- GPS Doodle is coming soon in the next Walk With Me update for iPhone and Android.
What is a GPS Doodle?
A GPS drawing walking game: you place a shape on the map, the app turns it into a walkable loop, and the route you walk draws the picture.
GPS drawing, sometimes called GPS art, has been around for as long as walkers and runners have carried GPS. People plan routes that trace animals or spell words, then share the map afterwards. The hard part has always been the planning: hours bent over a map, trying to fit a heart around real streets.
GPS Doodle does the planning for you. You put the shape where you want it, the app finds the streets that trace it best, and it tells you how good the fit is before you take a step. After that it's just a walk, with a picture at the end of it.