PokeT-Walk: manually add steps and walks to Apple Health on iPhone

What can you log with PokeT-Walk?

• A distance: the 2KM, 5KM and 7KM buttons (10KM and 12KM with PRO) write that distance, plus steps at 1,300 per km, as a walk at 4 km/h.
• A step count: the Quick steps presets 1,000, 3,000 and 5,000 (10,000 with PRO), or the number of steps you type into Custom amount and save with Add.
• A walk at your own speed (PRO): set Distance and Pace in Custom Walk, check the Summary, tap Add to Health.
• A walk from earlier: set Ended at up to 7 days back before you log.

With Natural Pace on, which is the default, a step count is not dropped on a single instant. It is cut into samples of about a minute each, averaging 110 steps a minute or less, and recorded as a manual step entry in Apple Health. A distance is written as one walk over the time it takes at 4 km/h.

The Statistics tab shows today's steps against your daily goal, a Day Streak, a This Week chart and Recent Walks. Entries the app wrote can be edited or undone from History.

How do you add your first walk?

1. Open the app and allow Apple Health access when iOS asks. Steps must be on for anything to save; turn on Walking + Running Distance too so the distance is stored.
2. On Home, set Ended at if the walk finished earlier. Leave it alone for a walk that just ended.
3. Logging a step count? Pick how long it should cover under Spread over.
4. Tap a distance button or a Quick steps preset, or type a number in Custom amount and tap Add.
5. On the free version, tap Watch Ad and let the short ad play to the end.
6. A line reading "Written to Health at" and a time confirms the save; Open Health jumps to the Health app.

Is PokeT-Walk free?

Yes. It is free to download, and logging is free and unlimited. Each free log comes after a short ad; close it early and the app says No steps added. If no ad can load, for example offline, the walk is logged anyway after a few seconds.

The optional PRO upgrade removes every ad, logs in one tap, and adds the 10KM and 12KM buttons, the 10,000 preset and Custom Walk. Options and prices are shown in the app. Statistics, History, the widgets and typing any number into Custom amount stay free. If you only log once or twice a week, the ad costs you ten seconds and PRO is not worth it; if you log daily, the one-tap version earns its price back fast.

Privacy, internet and permissions

There is no account and no sign-up. Steps and distance go into Apple Health on your device. The app's own log, goal, streak and settings stay on the device too. Nothing is sent to us.

• Health, write Steps and Walking + Running Distance: to save what you log.
• Health, read Steps: to show today's total on Home and in Statistics.
• Health, write Workouts: asked only if you turn on Also save as a walk.
• Tracking: only decides whether ads are personalised. Saying no changes nothing else.

Logging works offline; ads and purchases need internet.

What PokeT-Walk does not do

• It is not a pedometer. It does not detect steps with sensors or GPS; it writes what you tell it.
• It converts distance with a fixed rule, 1,300 steps per km walking and 1,000 per km from 7 km/h, not with your height or stride.
• It cannot make another app count the steps. Each app chooses which Health sources it reads and when it refreshes.
• It writes no calories and is not a way to close Apple Watch Activity rings. There is no Apple Watch app, no Mac app, no export and no miles input.