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All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking - Friedrich Nietzsche
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Get the cold, hard data about your life with these tracking apps
Counting steps is just the beginning.
Protecting your privacy if you use a route mapping app
There are plenty of smartphone apps that can help map your movements as you are driving, cycling, running or just out for a good walk. Many of these apps encourage you to share your route publicly on websites or with friends on social media.
iPhones Are Really Bad at Tracking Your Steps
Apple's Health app underestimates your daily step count by up to 21 percent.
Most entertaining running and walking apps for Android...
Get fit and have fun at the same time with these interactive fitness apps!
These Apps Are Made for Walking
We spend too much time sitting around. It’s true. Luckily the same smartphones that often keep us sitting down can also encourage us to get up and walk more by tracking our steps.
These Smartphone Apps Track Every Step of Your Day
"Quantified self" apps know where you are, how you got there (by foot, bike, or train), who you're with — even how well you slept last night.
This App Translates Your Step Count Into Distance on the Appalachian Trail
Walk the Distance is an app that allows you to virtually hike the Appalachian Trail, as it tracks your distance walking at home (or wherever you walk) and translates those steps into distance on the Appalachian Trail. It works by syncing to your iPhone's Health app— so as you walk in real time, you'll virtually travel on the trail map. Along the way, you can tap on signposts to learn more about where you are. You can also add friends on the app and locate them as they trek through the Appalachians too.
5 Apps That Pay You To Walk
The best kind of money is money you earn just for doing the things you already do. Nearly all of us walk every day, some more than others. Well, we have something that might tempt you do walk a bit more.
Escape into nature with the top 10 walking apps for iPhones and Android
Walking gives you the chance to step back from the hustle and bustle of everyday life and take stock. You can explore new landscapes, reconnect with nature, slow down and reflect on your life.
Four Apps for Mapping Your Walking Routes
Who needs yet another smartphone app, let alone one that plots and records your wanderings? You do — if you want to explore a city without keeping track of every turn, yet later call up the coordinates of that quaint patisserie you passed on that little cobblestone street whose name you can’t recall.
MapMyWalk
MapMyWalk is a fitness tracking application that enables you to use the built-in GPS of your mobile device to track all of your fitness activities. Record your workout details, including duration, distance, pace, speed, elevation, calories burned, and route traveled on an interactive map. You can even effortlessly save and upload your workout data to MapMyWalk where you can view your route workout data, and comprehensive workout history.
Walk The Distance
WalkTheDistance uses your walking/running distance (daily steps) tracked automatically in the Health app and puts that data to good use, by showing you how far you would be if you were walking the Appalachian Trail, Boston Marathon, or other featured routes in cities and national parks around the world.
Walking Meditations
Enjoy the benefits of meditation as you walk. Walking meditation can be just as profound as sitting meditation. It brings the meditative experience into daily activity.
Walkmeter
Walkmeter is the most advanced application for walkers and hikers ever designed for a mobile device. Built from the ground up for mobile, it makes your phone a powerful fitness computer — with maps, graphs, splits, intervals, laps, announcements, zones, training plans and more.
World Walking
World Walking offers a simple, free and fun way to help you keep active. It’s also your virtual ticket to some of the greatest places on Earth. World Walking has been designed simply to motivate by putting the fun back in fitness to help you reap the benefits of a healthier, active lifestyle.
Accupedo
Accupedo is an accurate pedometer app that monitors your daily walking on the home screen of your phone. Intelligent 3D motion recognition algorithms are embedded to track only walking patterns by filtering and ejecting out non walking activities. Accupedo counts your steps regardless of where you put your phone like your pocket, waist belt, or bag. Be healthy by setting up your daily goal and accurately monitoring your steps with Accupedo.
Active 10
Make exercise easy with our free walking tracker app.
AllTrails
Here you will find everything from short, easy walks, to moderate walks, to longer, more difficult walks which include more hills. We have hundreds of park walks, nature paths, fitness walking trails, and sightseeing walks '' something for walkers of all abilities, fitness, and experience levels.
Charity Miles
Charity Miles is a free iPhone/Android App that enables you to earn corporate sponsorships for charity by walking, running or biking.
Endomondo
Endomondo is a free app and website that makes fitness fun and helps you stay motivated.
Gigwalk
Whether you’re looking for a little spending money or want to earn an entire extra paycheck, Gigwalk can help. Work when and where you want to – you can even start making money today.
LiveTrekker
LiveTrekker is your total solution for capturing, sharing, and consolidating all the digital media you accumulate on a journey, on gorgeous maps. Build the perfect souvenirs to keep forever, access anytime, and share in real time.
RouteBuddy
Instant and easy to use topo maps with you, out on the trail. Atlas is our powerful mobile mapping software, which combines our digital mapping with the built-in GPS in Apple's iOS devices, iPad, iPhone and iPod touch, allowing you to locate using the off-line mapping you have installed without data charges.
Viewranger
Plan, navigate and share your adventures.
Introducing Stitches!
Your Path to Meaningful Connections in the World of Health and Medicine
Connect, Collaborate, and Engage!
Coming Soon - Stitches, the innovative chat app from the creators of HWN. Join meaningful conversations on health and medical topics. Share text, images, and videos seamlessly. Connect directly within HWN's topic pages and articles.
