Elsewhere Walking

Walk nearby. Arrive somewhere new.

Elsewhere turns the walking you already do into journeys through real and imagined places. The steps and distance in Apple Health move you along the trail: no button to press, no route to follow, nothing to start or stop.

FAMOUS TRAILS ON EVERY CONTINENT
Walk the Camino de Santiago, the Inca Trail, Hadrian's Wall or the Milford Track, circle Mont Blanc, or take on the whole Appalachian Trail. Twenty-nine journeys cross Earth, from the Brooklyn Bridge to the slopes of Kilimanjaro, each with real stops along the way. Browse them by continent and country on a globe you turn with a finger.

RACE COURSES, AT YOUR OWN PACE
Explore 19 marathon, ultra and triathlon courses as virtual journeys. On triathlon courses, choose whether to count cycling and swimming distance from Apple Health too. These journeys are independent of the events and their organisers.

DRAW YOUR OWN JOURNEY
Choose places and follow a route from Apple Maps, or draw a loop around your neighbourhood and choose how many laps to walk. Name your stops, import or export a GPX file, and include your routes in an optional backup.

A LITTLE WORLD THAT WALKS WITH YOU
Each journey is a lit 3D diorama of its route. A flag stands at every stop, the distance you've walked glows gold, and the light follows your own clock from dawn to night. Look around up close, follow your walker, or take in the whole route.

WORLDS BEYOND THIS ONE
Walk far enough and new worlds open: the first shore of Kepler-22b, the ember road of Emberfall and the luminous tide of Noctiluca.

A STORY AT EVERY STOP
Reach a stop and its lantern lights. Read a short, sourced piece about the place, its history and what people come to see, then keep a postcard from it with your own photo and note.

A JOURNAL THAT FILLS ITSELF IN
Every stop you reach leaves a postcard, every journey becomes a book on your shelf, and every milestone and journey has a medal of its own to earn. An odometer keeps your lifetime distance.

GOOD COMPANY
Spend a week in the walking club alongside a companion with a life of their own: Rowan, who mends clocks and walks Admiral, an old terrier, morning and evening; Wren, a stage manager who walks in for the show and home after it; or Sol, a retired letter carrier still out at six. Match their week to earn the Pacekeeper medal. Or invite friends to walk the same journey together, each of you a figure on the trail.

ALWAYS NEAR
Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets show how far you've come, your next stop and today's distance.

YOUR WALKS STAY YOURS
- No account needed.
- Health records stay on your iPhone. Elsewhere only reads them.
- No location tracking, no ads, no analytics.
- Optional Sign in with Apple, for backup, saved postcards and walking with friends.

Elsewhere counts walking from your iPhone and from Apple Watch if you wear one. Requires iOS 17 or later.