Privacy and your data
Why does Walkable not require an account?
Short answer
Because an account exists so a company can keep your data, and the surest way to keep walking data safe is not to have it. No account means no database of where people walk — nothing to breach, nothing to sell, nothing to hand over.
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The reasoning
Location history is among the most revealing data a person can produce. It shows where you live, where you work, who you visit and when you are away.
Any company holding that is one breach, one acquisition or one legal demand away from it going somewhere you did not intend. Walkable's answer is to not be that company.
What it costs you
Real things, and it would be dishonest not to say so. We cannot recover your history if you lose your phone. We cannot sync between your devices. We cannot tell you which of your phones a walk came from.
Encrypted backup softens the first of those without giving the promise away — but only on the same terms. The key that opens your backup is yours alone, so if you lose it, we cannot open the backup either. An app that could would be an app that could read your walks.
Related guides
- Do I need to create an account?No. Walkable has no accounts at all — no sign-up, no email, no password.
- Does Walkable track me?No. It records the walks you ask it to, on your phone, and never watches you in the background unless you switch that on yourself.
- How do I back up my walks?Connect your Google Drive and set up encrypted backup. Keep the recovery key — it is the only way back in.
- What do I give up by not having an account?No sync between devices, no recovery by us, and a lost phone takes your history unless backup is on.
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