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A little friend, not a step counter

Feed your dragon with steps

A little friend of your own to look after. Your steps are its dinner, and the real map around you is scattered with things worth bringing home. Somebody small is counting on you.

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  • Available on Android
  • iOS coming soon
7,000steps a day and the dragon is happy. 5,000 and it is fed
≈50minutes of walking a day, and the steps add up on their own
Findswait out on the real map — walk past one and it is yours
Coinsare earned by walking and spent on whatever your dragon needs

What it is

A virtual pet that lives on your walking

Walking, feeding, looking after — that is the whole game. Keep to the rhythm and your dragon lives well and stays happy; miss a few days and it will let you know.

Steps become food

Your phone step counter turns into meals. Hit the daily goal and the dragon is full until tomorrow.

You can see the mood

Happy, calm, sad, crying, asleep. The mood never flips from one to the next — it shifts gradually, following your rhythm.

Finds on the real map

Things worth finding are scattered across the real map you walk. Bring them home — they feed the dragon and keep it happy.

Day streak

Every day you hit the goal extends the streak. Miss one and the dragon notices before you do.

More than steps

Walk, find, collect

The real streets around you are scattered with food, treats and potions — all it takes to feed your virtual friend, cheer it up and keep it well.

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How it works

Three steps and the dragon is yours

  1. 1

    Download it from here

    We are in beta and testing the app with real users, so the Google Play listing comes later. For now you can install it straight from this page.

  2. 2

    Allow steps and location

    Steps feed the dragon. Location is what puts you on the map where the finds are — it is switched on only while a walk is being recorded, and the route stays in your own stats. Later it will also be used for shared leaderboards.

  3. 3

    Walk, collect, feed

    Steps add up on their own and finds are picked up along the way. Open the app and tap Feed — the dragon eats, flaps those wings and is plainly glad to see you.

Download APK

Free beta · Android 9.0 and up

The dragon flying alongside a recorded walk The dragon sitting under a night sky, waiting The dragon asleep in its den The weekly step chart and walk history
On the move

While you are recording a walk your dragon comes along, flying beside you — and the look on its face makes it plain this is the best part of its day.

Reviews

People walk more. Because of a dragon.

What the first beta testers say.

Why this exists

We are here to get people moving

Physical inactivity is one of the most important risk factors for health that a person can actually change. The research shows that the benefit of moving begins well before the familiar 10,000 steps a day. Step count is tied to the risk of death, cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes and dementia — and ordinary walking needs no gym, no subscription and no trainer.

What matters is starting to move today and carrying on tomorrow. That habit is what WalkyCub is built to support: a walk gains a small reason to happen, one you want to come back to every day.

6⁠–⁠8k

steps a day is roughly the level up to which adults aged 60 and over kept seeing their risk of death fall. Past that point the benefit does not disappear, but the further gain becomes much smaller. In adults under 60 the plateau sat closer to 8,000⁠–⁠10,000 steps.

Paluch et al., The Lancet Public Health, 2022
51%

lower risk of dementia at around 9,800 steps a day, compared with a substantially less active group. Even about 3,800 steps a day was associated with roughly 25% lower risk. The study followed 78,430 adults for a median of 6.9 years.

del Pozo Cruz et al., JAMA Neurology, 2022
150+

minutes of moderate-intensity activity a week is the minimum the WHO recommends for adults. Fifty minutes of walking five times a week comes to about 250 minutes, provided the walking is brisk enough to count as moderate.

WHO Guidelines on Physical Activity, 2020
40%

lower odds of developing new, frequent knee pain among people with knee osteoarthritis who walked for exercise, compared with those who did not. The participants were older adults living with osteoarthritis.

Lo et al., Arthritis & Rheumatology, 2022
10k

steps a day is roughly the level up to which a large study kept finding a link between more steps and lower risk of cardiovascular disease, cancer and early death. Beyond about 10,000 steps no further pronounced benefit was found.

del Pozo Cruz et al., JAMA Internal Medicine, 2022

Every figure above comes from published, peer-reviewed research, with the source linked beneath it. WalkyCub is a game for building the habit of moving more, not a medical device: it does not treat disease, does not diagnose anything, and makes no claim to a clinical effect of its own.