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Looking forward to finding some local walks in my city, cool idea.
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Walking for Wellbeing, at Your Own Pace
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Many people find a walk is the easiest way to clear their head. Walk With Me helps you get out of the door, with company when you want it and quiet when you do not.
What Walkers Are Saying
Real reviews from walkers, on the app stores and right here on the web.
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.
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Bucharest
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This app helped me leave the house and touch some grass, for real for real.
Google Play review
Android user
Not just tracking steps, A walking community
Walk With Me is your all-in-one walking app that lets you find walkers in your area and walk together.
- Step and distance count
- Your route drawn on a map
- Calories burned
- Walking time and pace
- Every walk kept in your history
- A global leaderboard you can climb
- Your friends' step counts, day by day
- Walkers near you on a live map
- Join or host a walk in a tap
- Groups, challenges and ranked countries
Small steps toward feeling better
None of this is therapy. It is a set of small things that make the next walk more likely to happen.
A reason to get out the door
On the days when the sofa wins, the hard part is not the walk, it is the first step outside. Rex, the AI walking coach in the app, sends a gentle morning nudge you can switch off, and hands you small quests scaled to your own step goal, so the target is a short loop rather than a heroic distance. You can talk to him about how the week is going, and he will suggest something manageable. Gentle is the setting, and you stay in charge of how much push you get.
Meet Rex, the AI walking coach
Company without pressure
Some days you want to walk alone with your thoughts, and some days you want a bit of company without the weight of a plan. The Walk Feed shows what your friends have been walking lately, and casual walks on the map are simply meet and walk, with no set route to keep up with. You approve who joins anything you host, and the chat can stay as light as you like. Many people find that walking side by side makes conversation easier than sitting face to face, which is a kind way to be around people on a quieter day.
Find a regular walking buddy
Somewhere quiet to walk
A calmer walk often starts with a calmer place. The Explore map shows the walks around you, and purpose markers make it easy to spot the Hiking and Photography walks that tend to head for trails, views and green space. Switch on the water fountain and toilet layers and you get walking directions to the nearest one, so a longer wander to the park you keep meaning to try feels easy to plan. It turns a vague wish to get outside into an actual destination, which is usually what makes the walk happen.
Small wins that add up
Wellbeing is rarely about one big walk. It is the steady pile of ordinary ones, and step history makes that pile visible. Your daily steps roll into weekly and monthly views, and past months stay in your step history with a calendar of every day, so a quiet month of short walks still shows up as something you did. On a flat day, scrolling back through a steady run of walking days is a small, honest reminder that you have been looking after yourself more than you thought.
Get Walking in 3 Simple Steps
From download to your first group walk in minutes.
Walk Now or Later, Decide Who Joins
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Plan the Route
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Start Walking
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Find Walks Near You
Open the map and see walks happening around you, then tap one for the time, the route and who is going.
Built on Trust, Safety, and Inclusion
Your safety and comfort are at the heart of everything we build.
Inclusive Communities
- Gender preference options
- LGBTQ+ safe spaces
- All fitness levels welcome
- Blocking features
Safety First
- Join request vetting
- Private walk options
- Automatic content checks
- Walk history accountability
Zero Barriers
- Free to use
- No equipment needed
- Works anywhere
- All ages welcome
What a walk can do for your mood, and what it can't
Walking for wellbeing means walking to feel better in yourself, calmer, clearer or less wound up, rather than to hit a number. It suits the days when a workout feels like too much, because the only goal is getting outside and moving for a while.
The evidence is encouraging, with limits. A 2022 analysis of 15 studies in JAMA Psychiatry (Pearce and colleagues) found that adults who did the equivalent of about two and a half hours of brisk walking a week had around a 25% lower risk of depression than adults who did none, and even half that amount was linked to a lower risk. These are observational studies, so they show a link rather than proof, and a walk is not a treatment for depression or anxiety. If you're struggling, talk to your doctor; walking can sit alongside that help, never in place of it.
Think of the evening after a hard day, when your head keeps replaying the same meeting. Many people find that twenty minutes outside with nowhere to be settles them more than another hour on the sofa. Where you can, choose a park, a river or a tree-lined street over the main road: some studies find walks through green space help more with low mood and brooding than the same walk beside traffic, though that research is still small.
Company is the other thing to adjust. Walking side by side, without having to hold eye contact, makes conversation easier for many people, and a regular walk with someone is a gentle way to stay in touch during a low week. Other days call for walking alone with a podcast or with nothing at all, and it's fine to switch between the two from one week to the next.
Walk With Me is free on iPhone and Android and suits both kinds of day: casual walks near you with no set route when you'd like company, and just your own steps and a gentle goal when you don't. Rex can send a morning nudge, which you can switch off, and suggest a short walk to a real place near you. On any walk you host, you choose whose join requests to accept, so company stays on your terms.
Frequently Asked Questions
There's no set number. Many people notice a difference after ten or twenty minutes, and walking most days tends to matter more than going far. Start with whatever feels manageable today.
Yes. Casual walks are simply meet and walk, with no set route to keep up with. If you host, you approve who joins, and the walk chat can stay as quiet as you like.
Yes. You can use it only for your steps, a daily goal and Rex, and never join a walk. When you set up the app, the Habit & Health mode puts those first, and a profile set to friends only keeps you out of strangers' nearby list.
Only if you let it. Rex's morning message and steps debt are both on by default, and both can be switched off, so you decide how much push you get.
With the usual care, yes. Hosts approve who joins, a walk's pin on the public map is shifted from the real spot, and you can block or report anyone, with reports reviewed within 24 hours. For a first walk, meet somewhere busy and tell a friend where you're going.
Yes, on iPhone and Android. The map, joining and hosting walks, step counting, friends and a daily allowance of chats with Rex are free; paid plans add extras.