UK Walk Nomad turns your daily steps into a trip from Orkney to Land's End. Pass real landmarks, collect badges and get friendly local comments from your guide, Arukyun. 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 Britain 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.
Finish the route, then turn around and start another lap.
Built around real British 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. Windsor Castle, the Tower of London, Big Ben, Gloucester, Glasgow, Stirling Castle and Blackpool Tower are just a few of the stops, with 92 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. Comments appear in English and are marked as AI-generated.
Curious what a landmark looks like? Open Street View from the place you have reached and look around without leaving the app.
Use Nearby Search to see restaurants and other places around your current position on the route, and plan the next stop on your virtual trip.
The Coverage Map fills in every area you have visited. Track how much of the country you have covered, such as 24 of 361 areas, and aim to complete the map.
In the Highlands and other hilly country, the same number of steps covers less ground. Your movable range follows the shape of the land, and you can switch between map, satellite and 3D views.
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 on the Orkney Islands. When you are ready to walk on to the mainland and all the way down Britain, switch to the Nationwide Edition with a single purchase.
Prices are shown in GBP and USD 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.
UK Walk Nomad is an Android app. It needs Health Connect to read steps recorded by your phone or wearable.
Lap 1 runs southbound from Birsay in Orkney to Land's End. You choose your own path between landmarks by tapping the map within the distance your steps allow.
The app is free to download, and the free edition lets you travel around the Orkney Islands. Switching to the Nationwide Edition to travel the rest of the route is a one-time purchase of £2.99 (US$3.99), with no subscription.
No ads and no sign-up are needed to use the app.
Yes. The original Japan Walk Nomad takes you from Cape Soya to Shuri Castle with the same approach.
Install UK Walk Nomad and start walking from Orkney.
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UK Walk Nomad