Walk the World: An iPhone app that gamifies step-tracking with map milestones and souvenirs
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Chris Messina
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Summary
Walk the World is a new indie iPhone app that gamifies step-tracking by converting daily steps into iconic map milestones with collectible souvenirs. The developer created the app to make walking habit-forming and fun, having personally walked ~250 miles while building it. The app targets remote workers looking to build healthier daily walking habits.
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It helped me walk ~250 miles lately working on the app and crossed all of Switzerland.
It converts your daily steps into iconic map milestones, with souvenirs to collect along the way.
Have you walked enough this week to finish the Boston marathon? Find out with Walk the World, an addictively healthy new take on step-tracking. It converts your daily steps into iconic map milestones, with souvenirs to collect along the way.
