Open the map, see what is close
Places within walking distance, sorted by how far you would actually have to go. No sponsored pins — a business cannot pay to appear here or to rank higher.
Free · Melbourne & Canberra now, more soon
506 places worth the detour, verified on foot. Collect them into a passport, earn badges, and drag your mates along for the ride.
How it works
There is no check-in you can make from home. The hold wants four seconds of real GPS and a photo taken right now.
Places within walking distance, sorted by how far you would actually have to go. No sponsored pins — a business cannot pay to appear here or to rank higher.
Four seconds of continuous GPS while you stand still, and a live photo taken on the spot. Too short a hold is refused outright; a position that never moves during it gets flagged, because real GPS always wanders.
XP, badges, suburbs coloured in, collections closing out. The map stops being a map and starts being a record of where you have been.
The passport
Every verified place stamps your passport. Suburbs fill in, collections complete themselves, and badges land with a bang you will want to screenshot.
Curated routes like the Laneway Crawl and the Birrarung Walk, in the order that makes sense on foot.
Places in five different suburbs. Twenty-five coastal places. Thirty days running. Every one is a real bit of effort.
One fix, read while the check-in screen is open and kept with that visit so a disputed one can be reviewed. There is no background permission and no trail between places.
A streak absorbs one missed day before it breaks, and there is a single evening reminder rather than a stream of them.
Invite a friend and you both bank 500 XP the moment they verify their first place — for your first five invites. Add the people you already know by handle, or by scanning the code in their passport.
A week on the leaderboard
An illustration — the real one lives in the app.
Yes. No ads, no sponsored places, no subscription. A business cannot pay to appear on the map or to rank higher on it — if a place is there, somebody checked it and thought it was worth the walk.
Not from the couch. You have to be inside the place’s circle and hold still for four seconds of continuous GPS, and a hold that comes up short is refused. The hold is scored, not just timed: a frozen position or an impossibly precise one is flagged for review, because a real receiver always wanders. A check-in implying you travelled faster than 130 km/h since your last one is rejected outright.
It is read only while the check-in screen is open — there is no background location permission and no trail between places. The one fix that decided the check-in is kept with that visit so a disputed decision can be reviewed, and it goes when you delete your account. Nothing is sold to anybody.
Melbourne and Canberra, with 506 places between them and 28 badges to earn. Sydney and Brisbane are next, and you can request a place from inside the app.
No. The passport works on your own. Friends add a leaderboard, and an invite pays 500 XP to both of you once the person you invited verifies their first place — for your first five invites.
Free. No ads, no sponsored pins, no upsell before you have walked anywhere.
One email when the app lands, and one when your city opens. Nothing else — no tracking pixels, no partners, no list anybody else gets.
