Wanderlure: Walk the Unknown

You do not choose where you are going. Your phone does, and you will not know where you end up until you are standing in front of it. Wanderlure is a walking app for people who keep meaning to go outside. Swap the next video for the next street. Pick how you feel today, press start, and follow a direction instead of a feed. WHAT WILL LURE YOU TODAY Wander. A light, easy walk. A destination finds you. Dare walk. A slightly eerie stroll for the days you want a small thrill. You can turn back at any point, the app keeps you on streets with lights and people, and late at night it keeps the destination close. Fate walk. Follow today's luck in love. It is a fortune, nothing more. You never have to speak to anyone. Each one comes with a short mission for the walk, or you can write your own, so a walk never feels random for the sake of it. OR PICK THE PLACE AND LET US PICK THE WAY Eum-gil, Korean for a path that takes the long way round, is the other half of the app. Choose somewhere you already want to go, tell us how long you would like to take, and we draw a way there that is not the one you always use. Same destination, longer and newer. IT BUZZES, SO YOU CAN LOOK UP There is no route to stare at. Your phone shows a direction and a distance, and buzzes faster as you face the right way and get closer. One long buzz means you have arrived at a point. Hold it like a compass and follow the buzz. Screen off, the guidance keeps going, with a lock screen notice when you reach a point. The arrow is a rough direction, not a line to follow. AND YOU GET HOME Set your walking time and we plan it as a round trip: half the time out, half the time back. Destinations stay within walking reach, never more than 8 km away. At any moment you can head back to the start, the fast way or the long way. WHAT YOU FIND ALONG THE WAY A good place to eat, a cafe, a cat, a hidden alley, a view worth stopping for. Save it with a photo and a line about how it felt, and it goes into your walk log. Save the route too, and walk it again another day. At the end there is a card for the walk: your walking time, an estimate of your steps, and how long your screen stayed off. Share it if you like. No map, no coordinates, no starting point and no time of day go on the card, and you choose whether it shows your neighborhood. THOUGHTS YOU HAVE WHILE WALKING Ideas turn up on a walk. Tap once and leave one in Notes for later, then go back to your steps. PROMISES, NOT BLOCKS Before you set off you can promise yourself a few things for this walk: no social media, no short videos, no news, no earphones, messages can wait. The app does not block anything and it is not a screen time tool. WHAT IT COSTS Wanderlure Plus is an optional one-time purchase, not a subscription. It removes ads and turns on the full My Explore Map, the Neighborhood Stamps book and the Weekly Look-back card. No ad ever plays on its own while you walk. Ads appear in only two places: - After a walk, once a day: you are told before you set off, and one ad plays after you arrive, when you save or finish. Heading back never shows an ad. - More photos: tap it yourself to add more than one photo to a record, and a short video plays. Skip it and your record still saves. WHAT LEAVES YOUR PHONE No account, no sign-up, no server of ours. Your walks, places and notes are stored on this phone only. To draw a walking route we send your start and end points to our map routing provider, and map images for the area on screen load from OpenStreetMap. We keep no history. Neighborhood names and addresses use Apple geocoding. Ads are shown by Google AdMob, which may receive your device identifier and approximate location (Plus shows no ads). The App Store handles payment; the app only saves on this phone whether you bought Plus. Location is used only during a walk, and on iPhone it continues with the screen off until you arrive or end the walk (the location indicator shows).