France Walk Nomad turns your daily steps into a trip from Dunkirk, on the Channel coast, all the way down to Cerbère on the Spanish border. Pass real landmarks, collect badges and get friendly local comments from your guide, Arukyun, in English, French or both side by side. No GPS tracking, no ads, no sign-up.
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The app reads the steps recorded by your phone or wearable through Health Connect. You move across a real map of France exactly as far as you have walked.
Your steps are collected automatically through Health Connect. There is nothing to type in.
The finish line is fixed, but the route is yours. Tap the map within your available distance and take as many detours as you like.
Reach a famous place to earn a badge and hear what Arukyun has to say about it.
Reach Cerbère, then turn around and start another lap back to the north, with a goal badge for every lap.
Built around real French geography, so every lap feels like a trip rather than a number.
Arrive at a landmark and a badge pops up with the place's name and a title to match. The Eiffel Tower, Mont-Saint-Michel, the Palace of Versailles, the châteaux of the Loire, Étretat, the Dune du Pilat, the Pont du Gard, Carcassonne and the Gorges du Verdon are among the stops, with 177 badges in the collection.
When you arrive somewhere new, your guide Arukyun shares a short comment about the area, so it feels like you are really standing there. Notes are prepared for all 1,232 areas of mainland France, in English and French, and you can show both languages side by side. They are marked as AI-generated.
Curious what a place looks like? Open Street View from the spot you have reached and look around without leaving the app.
Tap your position and see what is around you on the route, such as cafes, restaurants, parks and sights, then open it in Google Maps. It is a handy way to plan the next stop on your virtual trip, or a real one.
The Coverage Map fills in every area you have visited, down to the level of an intercommunality. Track how much of France you have covered, and earn badges for each of the 12 regions of metropolitan France, then for the whole country.
Choose who guides your way: Yajiru, Yanyaru, Yawani, Yauniru and more. Drop a Guidepost anywhere on the map and your companion will point the way.
Japanese Walking is an interval walking routine: three minutes of fast walking, then three minutes of slow walking, repeated for a few sets. The built-in timer gives you a 3-2-1 countdown, a tempo beat while you speed up and a heads-up before each switch, and it keeps running with the screen off.
After each fast segment it compares your real step count with your target tempo, and a card in the Record tab shows the days you completed a session. Open it from the travel map or the Record tab. This is not medical advice: walk at a pace that suits your health.
Start your journey for free in the north of France, where the route begins. When you are ready to walk on south to the Mediterranean, switch to the full route with a single purchase.
Prices are shown in euros (about US$4.89) and may vary slightly by region and exchange rate on Google Play.
It is an interval walking timer built into the app: 3 minutes of fast walking and 3 minutes of slow walking, repeated for several sets, or 15 minutes of continuous fast walking. You can change the number of sets, the durations, the countdown and the tempo sound in the timer settings, and the timer keeps running with the screen off. It is included at no extra charge.
No. Your position on the map is worked out from your step count, not from GPS. The app reads steps through Health Connect and moves you along the map by the distance you have walked. See How Health Connect works and your privacy for details.
France Walk Nomad is an Android app. It needs Health Connect to read steps recorded by your phone or wearable.
Lap 1 runs southbound from Dunkirk, on the Channel coast, to Cerbère on the Spanish border, across mainland France. You choose your own path by tapping the map within the distance your steps allow, whether that is along the Atlantic coast, through the Loire Valley and the Massif Central, or via the Alps and Provence. After the goal you turn around and start a new lap north. Corsica and overseas territories are not included.
The app is free to download, and the free edition lets you travel north of latitude 49.2, from Dunkirk through Lille, Arras and Compiègne, just before Paris. Switching to the full route is a one-time purchase of €4.99 (about US$4.89), with no subscription.
The app and its local comments are available in English and French. You can switch between them in Settings or show both side by side.
Distances are shown in kilometres by default. You can switch between kilometres and miles in Settings.
No ads and no sign-up are needed to use the app.
Install France Walk Nomad and start walking from Dunkirk.
Get it on Google Play
France Walk Nomad