Built for under-desk treadmills

Every walking-pad
minute, counted right.

DeskWalker tracks calories, steps and distance for your under-desk treadmill using the same science-backed formulas used in research — then writes each session straight to Apple Health as a real workout.

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✓ Free to download

✓ No account needed

✓ iOS 17+

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Good morning

Friday, Jun 13

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days

of 120 min moved

70% · on track

52 min

Pad

32 min

Stand

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312

kcal

Today's sessions

Walking Pad9:12 AM

24 min · 88 kcal · 2,140 steps

Start session

Today

History

Stats

Profile

♥️ Writes to Apple Health

🔒 100% on-device

🔬 Research-grade formulas

⚡ Live Activity & Dynamic Island

🗺️ Journeys along real routes

Apple Health · HealthKit

Your desk walks become
real HealthKit workouts

Every session DeskWalker records is written to Apple Health as a proper Walking workout — energy, distance and duration included — so your rings close and every other app sees the full picture.

DESKWALKER · SESSION SAVED

24:18 Walking Pad · 4.0 km/h

🔥 88 kcal 👣 2,140 steps 📍 1.62 km

Written automatically

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Health · Walking Today, 9:12 AM

24:18Duration

88 kcalActive energy

1.62 kmDistance

A two-way conversation with Health

DeskWalker doesn't just write — it reads the signals only Apple Health has, then uses them to sharpen every number. No manual entry, ever.

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Heart rate & VO₂max

Pulled from your Apple Watch to run the Keytel HR formula for a far more accurate calorie estimate.

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Afterburn (EPOC)

Reads post-session active energy from Health — the extra calories burned while your body recovers.

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Silent recalibration

Watch data often lands minutes late — DeskWalker quietly re-computes recent sessions in the background.

New · Journeys

Your desk minutes
go somewhere.

Pick a real route — a marathon, London to Brighton, rim to rim of the Grand Canyon — and every walking-pad session pushes your marker further along it. Progress is cumulative and open-ended: it carries over from day to day and month to month, so an hour at the desk is an hour closer to somewhere.

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Real road distances, drawn on a map

Every route follows the actual road corridor, not a straight line — and the walked portion lights up as you go.

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Milestones every few days

Named waypoints along the way — Brooklyn, the Queensboro Bridge, Fifth Avenue — so there's always something to reach next.

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An arrival date from your own pace

DeskWalker forecasts when you'll finish from how much you have actually been walking — a date, not a wall.

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A share card worth posting

Your route, your distance, steps, calories and stops — rendered as an image the moment you arrive, or any time along the way.

No GPS, no location permission, no map account. Routes ship inside the app and are drawn offline — DeskWalker still asks for nothing but Apple Health.

A Marathon

Staten Island → Central Park

HOP

45% of the way ~19 km of ~42 km

days in

stops passed

Sep 22

arrival at your pace

Hop

FREE

under 100 km · 2–5 weeks

A marathon, London → Brighton, Kraków → Katowice, rim to rim of the Grand Canyon. Short enough that the first one actually finishes.

Cross-country

PRO

100–600 km · 2–5 months

New York → Boston, Seattle → Portland, Warszawa → Gdańsk, Badwater Basin to Whitney Portal. A season's worth of desk walking.

Epic

PRO

600 km+ · 6–18 months

Los Angeles → San Francisco and the other long hauls. The kind of number that only adds up because you walk at your desk every day.

One journey at a time, and your history can count. When you start a journey you choose whether to begin from today or fold in the distance you have already walked. Finished and abandoned routes are both kept — the Journeys screen shows what you walked, what you stopped, and your longest single walk.

Features

Made for the pad, not for your wrist

Your wrists barely move while you type, so generic step counters miss most of it. DeskWalker derives steps and distance from belt speed instead — the way a treadmill actually works.

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Journeys NEW

Walk a real route a session at a time — an offline map, named milestones, an arrival date from your own pace, and a share card at the finish. See how →

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Research-grade calories

SMU treadmill oxygen-cost equation, Keytel heart-rate regression, and Apple Watch VO₂max combine for the most accurate estimate available.

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Steps from belt speed

Apple Watch under-counts walking-pad steps by 60–80%. DeskWalker derives them from belt speed and your height instead.

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Apple Health sync

Writes each session as a Walking workout and reads heart rate & VO₂max back — no manual input, rings close on their own.

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Live Activity & Island

Watch your timer, speed and calories tick up on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island while you keep working.

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Badges & streaks

Earn milestones — First Steps, Desk Warrior, Century, Marathon Desk — and keep your daily streak alive.

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Private by design

No account, no cloud, no analytics. Every byte stays on your iPhone and in Apple Health — nowhere else.

How it works

From pad to Apple Health in three taps

No Bluetooth pairing, no setup, no manual config. Open the app and walk.

Set your speed

Enter the belt speed shown on your pad's display. DeskWalker remembers it for next time.

Start & keep working

The timer runs in the background. A Live Activity shows progress on your Lock Screen and Dynamic Island (Pro).

Stop & it's in Health

Get a full summary — calories, EPOC, steps, distance, heart rate — and the session lands in Apple Health as a Walking workout automatically.

Recalibrates itself

Late-arriving watch data? DeskWalker silently re-calculates recent sessions in the background so numbers stay honest.

Science-backed formulas. Calories use the SMU treadmill oxygen-cost equation (ACSM 2021), the Keytel et al. heart-rate regression (J Sports Sci, 2005), and a MET fallback (Ainsworth Compendium, 2011). Steps use the sex-neutral stride constant from DeVita & Hortobágyi (J Appl Physiol, 2000).

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