Built for under-desk treadmills

Every walking-pad
minute, counted right.

DeskWalker tracks calories, steps and distance for your under-desk treadmill from belt speed. When you stop, a walking-pad session is saved to Apple Health as an Indoor Walk with duration, active energy, and distance.

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✓ Free to download

✓ No account needed

✓ iOS 17+

9:41

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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

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Today

History

Stats

Profile

♥️ Writes to Apple Health

🔒 No account

🔬 Research-grade formulas

⚡ Live Activity & Dynamic Island

🗺️ Journeys along real routes

Apple Health · HealthKit

Your desk walks become
real HealthKit workouts

When you stop, a walking-pad session is saved to Apple Health as an Indoor Walk: duration, active energy, and distance. A standing session is saved as Other, with energy and no distance. Estimated steps are written only if you turn that on.

DESKWALKER · SESSION SAVED

24:18 Walking Pad · 4.0 km/h

🔥 88 kcal 👣 2,140 steps 📍 1.62 km

Written when you stop

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Health · Indoor Walk Today, 9:12 AM

24:18Duration

88 kcalActive energy

1.62 kmDistance

Written when you stop

The workout is saved before Stop finishes, not in a once-a-day sync. DeskWalker can also read weight and post-session active energy from Apple Health. You still enter belt speed yourself unless an FTMS pad is connected.

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Weight from Apple Health

When you allow it, body mass from Apple Health keeps your weight current for calorie estimates. DeskWalker reads it and does not write weight back.

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Afterburn (EPOC)

Reads post-session active energy from Health — the extra calories burned while your body recovers — and can replace the saved workout so the energy matches.

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Saved again if calories change

If the calorie total changes after you stop, DeskWalker replaces that workout. A save that never finished is retried for 7 days the next time you open the app.

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.

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, the Inca Trail, London → Brighton, Kraków → Katowice, rim to rim of the Grand Canyon. Hop routes are free. 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

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. Hop routes, including the Inca Trail, are free. See how →

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Research-grade calories

Calories use the SMU treadmill oxygen-cost equation from belt speed, duration, and your profile.

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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

When you stop, a walking-pad session is saved as an Indoor Walk with duration, active energy, and distance. Standing sessions are saved as Other. Estimated steps are written only if you turn that on.

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Share cards

Share a finished session, or the last 7 days, as an image made on your iPhone. A walking session shows time, calories, steps, and distance. Standing omits distance and speed. A week card shows minutes walking and standing, active days, streak, and calories.

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Year in Motion

From Stats, share your calendar year: minutes at the desk, sessions, your best month, and journeys you finished. Up to four cards, made on your iPhone. From 1 December through 15 January, Today offers the same share. A year with no sessions stays quiet.

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Live Activity & Island

Elapsed time and speed on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island while you keep working. Pro.

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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 and no backend. Sessions stay on your iPhone, and in Apple Health when you allow it. A connected pad is read over Bluetooth.

How it works

From pad to Apple Health in three taps

An FTMS walking pad connects over Bluetooth and logs speed and distance on its own (Pro). Any pad works if you enter the belt speed and log the session yourself.

Set your speed

Enter the belt speed shown on your pad, or connect an FTMS pad and let it report speed and distance. A manual speed is remembered for next time.

Start & keep working

The timer runs in the background. With Pro, a Live Activity shows elapsed time and speed on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island.

Stop & it's in Health

You get calories, steps, and distance in the app. Before Stop finishes, a walking-pad session is saved as an Indoor Walk with duration, active energy, and distance. Standing is saved as Other.

Recalibrates itself

If the calorie total changes after the save, DeskWalker replaces that workout so Apple Health matches. A save that never finished is retried for 7 days.

Science-backed formulas. Calories for a walking-pad session use the SMU treadmill oxygen-cost equation (ACSM 2021) from belt speed. Steps use the sex-neutral stride constant from DeVita & Hortobágyi (J Appl Physiol, 2000).

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