This App Will Create Unique Daily Walking Loops for You

Strolly is a new, free iPhone app that provides walking routes for both visitors and locals. When you open the app, it generates three walking routes near your current location - a short one, a long one, and one in between. You can choose the one that suits you best. Unlike other navigation apps, Strolly doesn't provide turn-by-turn directions and offers only three suggestions each day. The app aims to showcase local points of interest and ensures that each route is unique. Importantly, no data about your location is sent to any external server as the routes are created entirely on your device. The app is ad-free, although there's an option to leave a tip for the developers. While the developers have hinted at the possibility of introducing advanced paid features in the future, for now, it remains a simple, personalized app created by a small team comprising Natalia Panferova and Matthaus Woolard.

How Strolly works

After you complete the setup, you will see several options. When I tried the app in different locations, it usually suggested one 15-minute walk, one 30-minute walk, and one hour-long walk, with some variation. If you know you prefer shorter walks, you can adjust the settings to receive combinations of long, medium, and short walks.

You can switch between different randomly generated walks by flipping through the cards in the bottom-left corner. You can also tap and hold the cards to either pin a walk—saving it for later—or to wipe out the current walks and generate more.

There's also a feature that allows you to mark areas that aren't actually great for walking. This will train the application not to include such areas in the future. However, the information remains local to your device and is not uploaded to a server.

Overall, Strolly is a very simple app, but that's the point. Give it a shot next time you want to take a walk and don't know exactly where to go.