Watch Walks
Steps you already take. Trails you always meant to walk.
Walk the world's greatest trails with the steps you already take.
About 5,000 steps a day carries you 3.6 kilometres down a real trail. On the Camino de Santiago that is 780 kilometres of Spain, reached one village at a time — roughly seven months of ordinary days. Walk far enough and a landmark's story opens. Nothing to start, no account, no GPS.
On Garmin, Wear OS and Apple Watch, with a free iPhone or Android companion. See all 41 trails →
43 km of Inca stone. 12 landmarks. About two weeks, at 5,000 steps a day.
The step counter you already have only ever shows a number. Watch Walks turns that number into somewhere real, and gives you a reason to keep walking.
Reach a landmark, and its story opens.
Every famous place along the route has a card waiting for you. Walk far enough to reach it and the card opens, with a few warm words about where you are standing and a real photograph of the spot. The Romanesque church at Frómista, the medieval streets of Carrión de los Condes, the coloured light of León cathedral — you collect a trail one place at a time, and the cards are yours to keep.
Something to earn on every walk.
Build a walking streak, rack up your best day, climb your lifetime distance, and finish trails to earn a unique medal for each one. Small feats celebrate the little wins along the way. There is always a next one just ahead, so an ordinary day out still moves something forward.
Every landmark you reach leaves you a postcard, a few words about the place you just walked past.
Finish by the date you pick.
Set a finish date and Watch Walks works out the daily pace to get you there, then quietly tracks whether you are ahead or behind.
See exactly where you are.
Follow your progress along the real route on an offline satellite map. Watch the landmarks behind you fill in, and the ones ahead draw closer.
Every step counts.
No GPS, no workout to start, nothing to carry. Your normal day of walking is the journey, whether you are commuting, on errands or out for a proper hike.
It works with the watch and phone you already wear.
Watch Walks runs on Garmin, Wear OS and Apple Watch, and it can read your steps from Apple Health or Health Connect, so most popular devices are already covered.
- Garmin
- Forerunner, Fenix, Venu, Vivoactive, Epix, Instinct and more, through the Connect IQ store. The trail runs on the watch itself. Garmin setup guide →
- Apple
- iPhone with Apple Watch (watchOS 10 and later). Steps come from Apple Health. Apple setup guide →
- Android and Wear OS
- Any Android phone, plus Wear OS watches like Samsung Galaxy Watch, Google Pixel Watch, TicWatch and OnePlus Watch. Wear OS setup guide →
- Health Connect
- On Android, pull your steps in from Fitbit, Samsung Health, Google Fit, Garmin Connect and more. See the sources →
Steps can flow in from apps you already use
On Android, Watch Walks reads your daily step total from Health Connect, so whatever writes your steps there can carry you down the trail. Common sources include:
- Fitbit
- Samsung Health
- Google Fit
- Garmin Connect
- Oura
- Withings
- Peloton
- Pixel Watch
This list is set by Health Connect, not by us, and can change over time. Watch Walks reads whatever step data an app writes to Health Connect. We cannot control or guarantee which apps that includes. Apple devices use Apple Health instead, and Garmin watches run the trail on the watch directly.
Set it once. Then just live your life.
Walk your everyday life, and wake up somewhere legendary.
Get it on your watch or phone
Install Watch Walks on Garmin, Wear OS, Apple Watch, or as a free iPhone or Android app. The Inca Trail is free everywhere.
Walk as normal. That is the whole method.
Nothing to start, nothing to record, nothing to carry. Your commute, the shops, the dog, a proper hike: it all counts. Check in whenever you like to see how far you have come and what is waiting ahead. About 5,000 steps a day is 3.6 kilometres of Inca stone.
Collect the landmarks
Pass each milestone and a short story of the place opens, with a real photo, all the way to the finish.
From Peru to New Zealand, the world's greatest walks.
Dozens of legendary trails, each a complete journey from start to finish with its own offline satellite map: 43 km of Inca stone, 780 km of Spain, 4,265 km of the Pacific Crest. The Inca Trail is free; every other trail is a one-time purchase, yours to keep, with no subscription. Reach the finish and the trail is still yours to walk again, or in reverse, climbing a rank on its medal each time.
Forty-one trails and growing, on all seven continents — the Appalachian, the Nakasendo, the last degree of latitude to the South Pole.
The watch does the walking. The phone is where you sit and look at it.
The free companion app for Android and iPhone is the big screen for everything above: the map, the landmark stories, the medal wall. It is optional. Your trail keeps counting whether you open it or not.
- You never have to open it. The watch counts your steps on its own. The phone app pulls your progress across over Bluetooth whenever you do open it, or when you tap Sync.
- It is free, on both platforms, and it is not a second purchase. A trail you buy is yours on the watch and the phone, on the same store account.
- It works with no signal. Each trail's map downloads once, so the app is just as useful in a valley in the Andes as it is on the sofa.
Private by default.
No ads, no analytics, no profiling. There is no Watch Walks account to create. Your trails and medals are backed up through the iCloud or Google account you already have, so a new phone picks up where the old one left off, and Settings → Start over erases the lot.
No account needed.
Install and walk. There is no sign-up screen between you and the trail, and we never ask who you are. On iPhone, your trails and medals ride your own iCloud, which we never see. On Android you can sign in with Google so a new phone finds them, and that copy is held in a database of ours — so if you would rather we held nothing at all, simply do not sign in. The privacy policy says exactly what it holds.
- No ads, no analytics, no trackers
- Your steps are read on your device and stay there
- Settings → Start over erases everything, backup included
No tracking, ever
No analytics, no ads, no profiling, no selling your data. Just you and the trail.
Yours to keep
Your progress lives on your devices. The backup carries your trails, medals and streak, and nothing else. Your raw step data is never backed up.
The things people ask before they start.
Short, honest answers. If yours isn't here, send us a message and a real person will reply. There are more in the full questions page.
- Is it a subscription?
- No. The Inca Trail is free, and every other trail is a one-time purchase. Buy a trail once and it's yours to keep, with no recurring charge.
- Do I need to carry my phone, or keep the app open?
- No. On Garmin and Wear OS the watch app counts on its own, so just open it now and then. On Apple Watch it reads your steps from Apple Health automatically.
- Does it work offline on the trail?
- Yes. Each trail's map downloads once, then needs no signal. Your steps keep counting whether you're online or not.
- Which watches work?
- Garmin (Connect IQ), Wear OS watches like Samsung Galaxy Watch and Google Pixel Watch, and Apple Watch (Series 4 and later on watchOS 10+). See the compatible devices.
- Where do my steps come from?
- From your watch, from Apple Health on Apple devices, or from Health Connect on Android: Fitbit, Samsung Health, Google Fit and more.
- Is my data private?
- Yes. No account, no ads, no tracking. Your step data is read on your own device and stays there. Read the full privacy policy.
Pick your watch and start walking.
Garmin, iPhone and Android are out now, with the Inca Trail free. The Wear OS watch app is the last one in the queue, and the link goes up here the day it opens.
Garmin
Forerunner, Fenix, Venu, Vivoactive, Epix, Instinct and more, from the Connect IQ store. The trail runs on the watch itself, with no phone needed to walk it, and the Inca Trail comes free with the app.
- Inca Trail included, free
- No account, no sign-up
- Counts your steps with no phone in the loop
iPhone and Apple Watch
iPhone with Apple Watch (watchOS 10+). Steps from Apple Health. Out now on the App Store.
Get it on iPhone →Android and Wear OS
Any Android phone, counting steps on its own or pulling them in through Health Connect. Out now on Google Play. The watch app for Samsung Galaxy Watch, Google Pixel Watch and other Wear OS watches is in review, and lands here the day it clears.
Get it on Google Play →Forty-three kilometres of Inca stone, starting with tomorrow's walk to the shops.
Twelve landmarks, from the river gate to the Sun Gate, on the watch you already wear. Nothing to start, no account, no GPS.