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Apps That Help Motivate You To Walk
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items I think most of us need motivation to get out and walk. These apps motivate you in a variety of ways- turning it into a game, turning it into an entire adventure, pressuring you with friendly competitions, or paying you to do it.
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Walking Gamified
Turn Walking Into An Adventure
Social + Mindful
Get Paid to Walk
Walking Gamified
Apps that treat steps as experience points, coins, or progress bars in a game-like experience.
Grow Pikmin by walking and collect petals to plant flowers along your path. Adorably motivating with a visual bloom trail.
Pikmin Bloom
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A space-themed fitness app where your steps power a spaceship to explore the galaxy and discover new planets. Each step fuels the spaceship as you explore a quirky pixel-art galaxy. Very imaginative and cute.
Walkr
A step-counter had a baby with a Tamagotchi. Your walking feeds and levels up little monsters.
Wokamon
Currently only available for Apple. Walk to train your warrior and face battles in an interactive fantasy story. Combines workouts with classic RPG elements.
Fit for Battle
Turn Walking Into An Adventure
These apps help motivate you by turning each step into an adventure. How long will it take you to destroy the one ring? Will you survive the zombie apocalypse? Download these apps to find out!
Journey across a magical realm in this Lord of the Rings inspired walking tracker. Your daily steps help your little hero explore forests, climb mountains, cross rivers and deliver the one ring. Beautiful artwork awaits you every step of the way.
Fantasy Hike
A fully emersive audio story where you're running missions in a post-apocalyptic world. Walk or run- just don't get bit.
Zombies, Run!
Another Zombie game from the makers of Zombies, Run! This one is gentler. Each step progresses a thrilling mystery story across the UK.
The Walk
This is a strategy based app where you conquer new land, fight your neighbors and build an empire - by walking and running.
Run An Empire
Train against Marvel superheroes to see who's faster. Yet another one from ZRX, the studio that brought The Walk and Zombies, Run!
Marvel Move
Real-life walking quests in your area. Like Pokemon Go, but with actual learning and treasure.
Adventure Lab
This one uses your location and quantum-generated coordinates to send you on mysterious walks. Creepy, weird, and fascinating.
RANDONAUTICA
Social + Mindful
Designed to help you connect, reflect, or gently nudge you toward walking more.
Social media for walkers and runners where you post by being active. Track and share your walking routes with a social fitness community. Badges, stats, and encouragement keep it engaging.
Strava
Great step tracker with challenges and a social feed. Encourages daily activity with a supportive community. They even offer corporate step challenges to help motivate your office with virtual challenges.
Pacer
Get Paid to Walk
Get rewarded with coins, gift cards, or crypto by walking.
Get coins for gift cards, sweepstakes entries or PayPal/Venmo transfers.
WeWard app
Bet on yourself to complete walking goals. If you win, you share a pot of real money with other winners.
StepBet
Turn your steps into donations to a charity of your choice. Great if altruism motivates you more than prizes.
Charity Miles