Farwalker: Walk the World

The world is big. Farwalker lets you walk round it, one real step at a time.

Pick your home town and a goal: any town, any country, any end of the earth. Your phone's own step counter moves a traveller along the real roads of the world, kilometre for kilometre, over its borders and across its seas. Walking from Lisbon to Moscow takes months; going round the world takes years. Free, no ads, no account.

🗺 THE REAL WORLD
• 195 states and 47 other lands, 5,500 towns, roads that keep to land with every border along them
• Sea lanes and the great crossings, real bridges and tunnels: the Øresund, the Channel Tunnel
• 22 ends of the earth wait: Cabo da Roca, Nordkapp, Cape Horn, Cape Dezhnev, the South Pole

👣 WALK
• The phone's own step counter, with the app closed too
• The step length worked out from your height, or measured by hand
• The traveller walks a road kilometre for kilometre: no shortcuts, no teleports

🪙 COINS, TRAINS AND SHIPS
• Every kilometre walked is a coin
• A coin buys 8 km by train, from wherever you are to a station ahead, or 15 km by sea from a port
• Trains and ships run on the real clock: Lisbon to New York takes about nine real days at sea

🛂 THE PASSPORT
• A stamp for every border crossed, cut from the country's code
• The parts of the world fill in; km on foot, by train and by sea

🕰 WHERE THE TRAVELLER IS
• The local time where they stand, and the real weather there
• News of the road: a new country, a border, a cape, a port, the end of the way

📖 THE JOURNAL
• Where each night was spent: on the road between two towns, on a train or at sea
• The borders and the ports of every day

🖋 THE ENGRAVED ATLAS
• Hatched seas, ripples along the coasts, hand-coloured borders of the countries you've stamped
• The red line walked, the railway in black and white

ALSO
• English and Russian
• Free and open source (MIT)

Privacy: no account, no ads, no analytics. Your steps and your journey stay on your phone. The only network request is the weather where the traveller is: their map coordinates go to Open-Meteo or MET Norway, nothing else.

Recent changes:
Steps can now come from Health Connect: Samsung Health, Mi Fitness, Zepp Life, Google Fit, watches and bands. Turn it on in Settings → Steps. Steps a watch hands over late still reach the traveller, and none are counted twice. Huawei Health doesn't share with Health Connect; the Health Sync app can carry its steps over.