Best Walking Apps for Fitness

The easiest way to walk your way to fitness is to grab a pedometer and challenge yourself to walk more than 10,000 steps per day. One of the drawbacks of this process is many pedometer apps will drain the battery life of your phone.

If you don’t want to bother with a second device, VeryWell Fit offers some excellent options for working around this problem. These include the Pedometer ++ for iPhones, which will have no effect on your battery life, and Noom Walk Pedometer for Android.

In addition to apps that encourage you to walk more, there are ones like Map my Walk and World Walking. Map my Walk is a popular walking app that helps you to plan, map and create walking routes wherever you are. If you would like to walk five miles in Portland, Oregon, Map my Walk will give you options. It also works for other types of activity, like biking, kayaking and even horseback riding.

World Walking is designed to motivate you through virtual experience. You can pick out famous travel routes like Route 66 and follow them virtually while accumulating the same distances. You can also walk with friends and keep track of each other’s virtual progress. This app is cool, but has been a bit buggy; fortunately, 2018 has brought some major improvements so it is worth another try.