How it works
Pick a route.Then just walk.
Four things happen, and only the third one involves you. Your phone counts what it was already counting, and the kilometres arrive on their own.
- 01
Choose a route
Each route is a real distance across a drawn world, with a window sized to it. You are picking the distance you would actually walk, not the one that sounds impressive.
- The Forgotten Jungle — 172 km over 28 days.
- Desert Sun Empire — 65 km over 14 days.
- Neon Cyber Run — 120 km over 21 days.
The window starts the day you start it, not on a fixed date, so there is no cohort to keep up with and nothing already in progress without you.
- 02
Connect your health data, once
Apple Health on iPhone, Health Connect or Samsung Health on Android. You grant read access once, on the day you start, and then the app is done asking you for anything.
After that there is nothing to open, nothing to press start on and nothing to remember at the door. No phone in your hand, no live tracking screen, no GPS draining the battery behind you.
- 03
Walk, wherever you already walk
The school run. The dog. The long way home from the shop. Two stops early off the bus because the evening is decent. It all counts, at whatever pace the week allows.
Every sync pushes your marker further across the world, and along the way you reach places. Nothing resets overnight, because a distance you have walked cannot be taken back.
- 04
The medal is struck
Cross the last kilometre and the medal for that route is struck to your account. It sits in your case with the postcards you collected getting there, and it does not expire, reset or quietly disappear.
It is a digital medal. We are not shipping metal, and we would rather be plain about that here than let you assume otherwise for six weeks.
What itreads fromyour phone
Steps and distance. Not your heart rate, not your sleep, not your weight — the two figures it needs to move your marker, and nothing beyond them. They are not sold and not handed to advertisers.
- Apple Health
- On iPhone. We read the step and distance totals your phone is already keeping — there is no second counter running, and nothing extra to install.
- Health Connect
- On Android. It is the shared health store the system keeps, so whatever writes into it — the phone itself, most watches, most fitness apps — reaches your route through it.
- Samsung Health
- On Galaxy phones and watches, where it is usually the thing doing the counting. It feeds Health Connect, so granting access once covers both.
If you missthe window
Life gets in the way. A fortnight goes sideways, a cold arrives, the weather turns and the route sits there untouched.
The route stays exactly where you left it. Your kilometres are still on the map, the postcards you have already reached are still in the case, and nothing is deducted, wiped or reset overnight. The window is the shape of the route, not a trapdoor underneath it — you pick it back up from the ground you had already covered.
There is no streak to break, so there is nothing to feel bad about on the way back.
And thepostcards
Every world has places on it. Reach one on foot and a postcard is printed and kept — where you are standing, and a few lines about it.
They collect in the back of the app in the order you found them. They are the only record of how you actually crossed the thing — which is to say, they are the record of a few weeks of your own walking, filed somewhere you will still have it later.
A place on the route
The Iron Gate
Pick a challenge, buy it here, and the code arrives by email. The app is where you walk it — your code waits for you there.
Something here not answered? The questions page goes further, and the contact form reaches a person.