The Walk for Android

Before you pay for this app, just be warned that support will not respond if you have issues. And there are issues. For all the permissions you have to give this app, you’d think it would be able to track your steps, but it’s count is consistently less than any other app counts. Also, if you’re not walking with the phone, it counts nothing. Even when you’re walking with a watch recording a workout. If you still want to get it, you probably don’t need a full year subscription to finish it. There’s not any updates or seasons like with zombies run.

Please give us a sequel or something! I miss this app! I played this when it first came out and now, years later, I still have fond memories of it and even have a quote saved that I find so incredibly inspirational that I have shared the quote with friends and even patients. “'The sea is like life.' That's what my dad used to say. Sea doesn't care about you. Doesn't know about you. It's gonna try and break you. Not because it hates you... But just because... That's what it is and that's what it does. And you've got to find a boat or learn to swim. And when the big wave come you've got to ride them or you'll drown. That's what happened to you: big wave came, you rode it, didn't drown, might have done, but didn't. . . You were brave and you were strong and you won. Here you are.”

As part of the gameplay you tap teeny tiny flashing white boxes. It’s very hard to see the little boxes especially outdoors and you cannot embiggen the map to make the little boxes easier to see. Feels a bit discriminatory against the low-sighted.

This ap is a great motivator to walk because the story is engaging. I wish the story were more continuous during the walk. It takes too long to get the next segment, even if I replay old segments in the interim even if I change the settings to make the walk “shorter.” I realize it’s not a book on tape, but an 8 minute walk between new audio segments when each segment is only a few minutes long is too much of a break and interrupts the flow of the story. The ap is pretty old, so I imagine they won’t fix this. It also likely isn’t a problem for people who leave the ap on the background all day and listen to the story later, not during a walk.

I love the concept. I’ve been using Zombies Run for running and thought this would be fun to listen to while walking the dog. However, as one other reviewer mentioned, the clips do not play automatically and you can’t sync your music into the story as you can with the running apps. Makes me less likely to continue using it as I am not staring at my phone while out walking the dog.