Stepwise Improvements: Walking

What it does

Your chair is killing you. Slowly. Stepwise Improvements is a watchOS app that taps your wrist once an hour with one ask: take a 5-minute walk. No streaks. No guilt. No nagging. Five minutes × 8 hours = 40 minutes of movement you weren't getting before. Logs to Apple Health. Integrates with Apple Journal. Never touches your data. Small steps. Taken consistently. That's not a fitness philosophy — it's physics. Your desk will be there when you get back.

Take a 5-minute walk every hour to boost your fitness and well-being. This app is designed for people how work sitting down most of the day. It will help them improve their health by getting to do a 5 minute, 2mph walk, every hour during their work day. It will remind them, but won’t nag them. It will leverage Apple’s HealthKit to capture the data, providing the user with a safe, private, secure tracking mechanism. For those who wish to keep track of their progress, intents will submit reminders into the Apple Journal App for capturing their feelings and more. Michael Rowe is an independent app developer building software on his own terms. I have experience shipping apps from…from michaelrowe01.com

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