The Walk: Fitness Tracker Game

The Walk: Fitness Tracker Game Software


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About: Sixtostart is in the business of storytelling and gameplay on the we
Headquarters: London, England, United Kingdom.

 
  2024-06-04

The Walk Overview


What is The Walk? The Walk is a pedometer/step counter app that helps you walk more every day. It is created with the NHS and the UK's Department of Health and is designed to turn walking into a journey, a challenge, and an adventure. The app features a captivating story, motivating gameplay, and an adaptive difficulty level based on individual fitness levels. It comes with the first five episodes and challenges for free, with the remaining 60 unlockable by subscribing to the Abel Runner's Club.



Features


- Tracks every walk and run you take and maps it

- Captivating story where you walk the length of the UK while evading capture by the police and enemy agents

- 65 episodes, 800 minutes of audio, and hundreds of miles of adventure

- Rewards for walking more by collecting clues, scanning for information, and unlocking achievements

- Adaptive difficulty level based on individual fitness levels

- Integrates with the Health app via Healthkit to read and track your steps and movement data to register your progress in the game

- Uses GPS sparingly and should have little to no impact on your battery

- Subscriptions are $5.99 USD/month or $34.99 USD/year

- Full terms of use and privacy policy available on the app's website

- Available on iOS 10.3 or later.



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Product Details and Description of



Created with the NHS and the UK's Department of Health, The Walk helps you walk more, every single day. When you’re playing The Walk, every step counts. A bomb explodes in Inverness station, and you’re given a package that could save the world. To stay alive, you’ll need to walk the length of the UK. The Walk is more than just a great pedometer/step counter — it's a way to turn walking into a journey, a challenge, and a rip-roaring adventure. Made by Six to Start and Naomi Alderman, creators of the world’s most popular running game with over 5 million players, Zombies, Run! ENGADGET - “Simple, fun, effective.” JOYSTIQ - "Spices up your step-tracking with some danger and intrigue.” BBC NEWS - “Encourages users to walk 10,000 steps-a-day to help improve their health” LIFEHACKER - “You're motivated to actually get up and move around so you can progress further into the story, and it works really well.” AWESOME ACTIVITY TRACKER Just put your phone in your pocket or purse and we’ll track every walk and run you take — and map it, too! CAPTIVATING STORY You’ll walk the length of the UK while evading capture by the police and enemy agents. Can you work out who set off that bomb in the first place and what their plan is? Get ready for an epic adventure across 65 episodes, 800 minutes of audio, and hundreds of miles. MOTIVATING GAMEPLAY Get rewarded for walking more by collecting clues, scanning for information, and unlocking achievements. ADAPTIVE The Walk adjusts its difficulty based on individual fitness levels. Everyone’s different, and we make sure we give you the right level of challenge! Comes with the first five episodes and challenges for free, with the remaining 60 unlockable by subscribing to the Abel Runner's Club. Subscriptions are $5.99 USD/month or $34.99 USD/year. Subscriptions will be charged to your iTunes account after your confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. You can go to your iTunes Account Settings to manage your subscription and turn off auto-renew. Cancellation of the current active subscription period is not allowed. - Requires iOS 10.3 - This app integrates with the Health app via Healthkit to read and track your steps and movement data to register your progress in the game - Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life. The Walk uses your phone’s accelerometer to measure your movement, and primarily uses wifi and cell towers to track location. The Walk is designed to use GPS sparingly and should have little to no impact on your battery. Full terms of use and our privacy policy are at https://support.sixtostart.com/hc/en-us/articles/360004083098-The-Walk-Terms-of-Use and https://support.sixtostart.com/hc/en-us/articles/360004082978-The-Walk-Privacy-Policy or via https://support.sixtostart.com (view The Walk > Buying & Downloading The Walk) Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/thewalkgame Join our mailing list: http://www.thewalkgame.com




Top Reviews

By Hyper426

Current version too buggy

I played through The Walk once before about 2 years ago, and I would have easily given it 5 stars then. I had no problems with it aside from wishing that it would somehow be integrated with zombieslink or something online. But now, it is consistently refusing to track my minutes, even if I make sure it is at the forefront of my apps when I start walking. Some days it does fine. But too many days, like today, I'll go for a 30 minute walk and it doesn't count a single minute of it, but it pulls my steps from my pedometer. So now t is telling me that I walked over 3700 steps in 3 minutes. PLEASE fix this! I'm trying to convince some work friends to get this and do it with me, but I don't want to advocate for a broken app!!

By TrueRegana1984

Haven't had any problems

I have an iPhone 5s, so maybe that effects my experience here, but I've had zero problems with this app. No glitches or overheating my phone or anything. Also, I *like* looking at the phone to scan the landscapes and deciding when I want to hear the parts of the story I've unlocked, both things others have complained about. I think these features allow you to engage in the game, and to use the app any time you're walking and only hear the story when it's convenient for you. The game is easy and it's encouraging and I like it. 😏 I just wish they'd release more stories for walking. I would be perfectly happy to buy them.

By Chirps99

Saved my life

This was the app several years ago that started it all for me, motivated me to start walking after I got a prediabetes diagnosis. I’d never been able to stick with a walking plan for any length of time until The Walk. The story line was intriguing and the voice actors did an excellent job to move the story along. Great and unexpected ending, too. I was totally surprised. I wish this app company or another would come up with another story. I bought Zombies Run but it wasn’t as interesting for me.





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