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Anonymous walks now come home with you
We fixed the most frustrating trap in WalkSpy. Walk first, sign up later, and every walk you recorded anonymously follows you into your account. Plus proper legal pages, honest go-live errors, and a pile of profile fixes.
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Your walks now actually stay live
We rebuilt the parts of WalkSpy that quietly let walkers down. Screen wake-lock, auto-reconnect, a visible health pill, alarms when broadcasts fall over, server-side detection, and WalkSpy installable as an app on your phone.
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Walk live on WalkSpy and YouTube at the same time
Connect your YouTube channel and every live walk you broadcast on WalkSpy goes to YouTube too, with the route map overlaid in the corner. Twitch and Facebook are next.
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Your walks, as files you can take anywhere
Every recorded walk now has six downloadable formats, including a real PNG of the route on the basemap, a GPX track for sports apps, and the walk video itself with a clean filename.
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Steering is here, and Walkspy works in your currency
Watchers can now send a live walker cues and pinned destinations during a walk, with optional bounties anyone can pool. Plus the whole site now speaks 16 currencies.
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Walk requests are back, and they finally connect to the walks
A clean two-sided marketplace for asking people to record walks somewhere. Every request links to the walks done for it, and every fulfilling walk links back.
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A world map you can walk into, and routes worth following
Browse every country with walks on a real interactive map, then start a guided walk on any recommended route in two taps.
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Your walks now look like the route you actually walked
A new map smoothing pass cleans up GPS noise so recorded walks trace the path you took, plus a fresh basemap that reads better at every zoom.
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Watch every camera at once
New multi-camera walk pages play all angles in sync, let you swap which one is featured, and offer a full-bleed theater mode for distraction-free viewing.