WalkFindr

What's New in Walkfindr 2.4.0 — a fresh face and smarter walks. A BRAND NEW ICON Walkfindr has a new look on your home screen — a bold white W striding across forest-green hills. Same app, fresher boots. A NEW WELCOME First launch now opens with full-screen scenes of misty hills, glowing route maps and sunlit trails — and the same look flows through the home screen and our website. NO MORE DEAD-END DETOURS Short walks sometimes grew a branch — a detour down a side street just to touch a waypoint, then straight back. The engine now spots these dead-end spurs and re-plans around them, so your loop is a clean circuit all the way round. OUT-AND-BACK WALKS NOW GO THE DISTANCE Fixed an issue where out-and-back walks could come out at around half the length you asked for. Whether it's your chosen route or the suggested alternative, the turnaround point is now placed so the full walk matches your target. BETTER LOOPS, CHOSEN BETTER The route engine's sense of shape has been sharpened — it now judges loops from their true centre, so genuinely round, satisfying circuits rise to the top and lopsided ones get filtered out. FASTER GENERATION Each tap of generate now does its map lookups once instead of repeating them for every attempt, so routes appear quicker — especially in the countryside where the engine needs several tries. MORE VARIETY, MORE RELIABILITY Route attempts now sweep evenly around the compass instead of picking random directions, giving better coverage of your area on every generate. Walk lengths and time estimates now follow your walking pace consistently from the slider to the preview, and rapid re-generates no longer briefly show the previous route. Thanks for walking with us — please keep the feedback coming.

What's New in Walkfindr 2.3.0 BETTER LOOP QUALITY Loops now feel more genuinely circular, especially in countryside and rural areas. New scoring catches and rejects lopsided routes that look like loops on paper but feel one-sided on the ground — so the walks you actually get are more balanced, with a cleaner outbound and return. NO MORE HOOKED STARTS A routing fix removes the awkward "hooks" some walks used to start with, where the route would briefly head the wrong way before turning. Routes now flow naturally from your starting point. CLEANER LOOP SHAPES A new shape-quality check spots routes that double back on themselves, oscillate, or trace figure-eights — and picks cleaner, single-circuit loops instead. The improvement is most noticeable on longer walks where small detours used to add up. TIGHTER WAYPOINT PLACEMENT Walk waypoints are now snapped to nearby paths only when they truly belong to the loop you asked for, rather than drifting onto a road in the wrong direction. The result is fewer "why is the route going over there?" moments. PREVIEWS YOU CAN TRUST Routes are no longer re-routed behind the scenes after they're picked, so the preview map shows exactly the route the app chose for you — no surprises when you start walking. TAP A BENEFIT TO LEARN MORE The "Why Walk?" cards on the home screen are now interactive. Tap any card to open a short, evidence-grounded explanation of how walking actually delivers that benefit — from how it lowers blood pressure to why it sparks creativity.