About Legend Steps
A reason toleave the house
Legend Steps turns the walking you already do into distance across a drawn world, and gives you something at the end of it that keeps. It is made by a small company in Vrancea, Romania, and it has not opened yet.
- 3
- routes drawn so far
- 0 km
- to walk across all three
- Not open yet
- the app is still being built
What thisactually is
Your phone already counts your steps. Legend Steps takes that number — and only that number — and draws it onto a route: a real distance across a handcrafted world, crossed on foot, at whatever pace the week allows.
There is nothing to open and nothing to press start on. The school run, the dog, the long way back from the shop — it all moves the line. Stop for a fortnight and the line waits exactly where you left it.
There are places along the way. Reach one and a postcard is printed and kept. Reach the end and the medal is struck to your account, where it stays.
Who it isfor
Not athletes.
Nobody here is trying to make you faster. There is a distance, a place to get to, and however long you want to take about it.
It is for the person who has been meaning to walk more and has never found a reason that sticks. Who has closed a ring, ignored a ring, and eventually deleted the app that drew it. Who does not want coaching, a plan, or a weekly report card on their own body.
What works, for that person, is somewhere to be going. Not a target — a destination, with ground between here and it, and something waiting at the far end that nobody can take off you afterwards. That is the entire idea, and everything in the product is either serving it or is on its way out.
What we arenot building
- Streaks, and the guilt that comes with them
- Nothing resets at midnight. A distance you have already walked cannot be taken back, so there is no run of days to protect and no reason to dread opening the app after a bad week.
- A leaderboard
- Putting your walking next to a stranger’s is how most people find out they are losing. The only distance that matters here is the one in front of you, and the only pace is the one your week allows.
- A market for your health data
- The app reads your step and distance totals so it can move your marker, and that is the whole of it. It is not sold and it is not handed to advertisers. You can delete your account and everything attached to it.
- Numbers we have not earned
- This page used to claim a million steps tracked and ten thousand people joined. None of it had happened. It is gone, and nothing has replaced it, because the honest figure today is that the app has not opened.
Where thisstands today
Everything below is true on the day you are reading it. When one of these lines changes, the line changes — we are not going to leave a hopeful version of it up.
- Drawn
The Forgotten Jungle — 172 km, a 28-day window that starts when you start.
Desert Sun Empire — 65 km, a 14-day window that starts when you start.
Neon Cyber Run — 120 km, a 21-day window that starts when you start.
- Struck
- A medal for each challenge you finish. They are digital — they live in your case in the app, and they do not expire. We are not posting metal through anybody’s door, and we would rather say so here than let you find out later.
- Not yet
- Challenges are on sale here first, and the app is where you walk them. Buy one and your code is emailed to you; it stays valid, so there is no rush to open the app the same day. We do not print launch dates we are not certain of.
Who makesit
Legend Steps is built by CSO CODESOFT SRL, a small registered company in Vrancea, in eastern Romania. Not a studio with a marketing floor: the people drawing the worlds are the people who answer the contact form.
Registered identity
- Company
- CSO CODESOFT SRL
- CUI
- 43602018
- Trade registry
- J39/45/22.01.2021
- Registered office
- Sat Vidra, Comuna Vidra, Vrancea, Romania
The postal address, the support inbox and the two consumer-dispute routes are all on the contact page. A company asking for your email should be easy to find.
If any of that sounds like the thing you have been meaning to do, pick a distance you would actually walk.