# Walking Challenge

> Step up your fitness game. Walk, run, challenge your friends, and earn rewards

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.walking.android](https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.walking.android)

## Overview

- **ID:** `com.walking.android`
- **Platform:** Android
- **Type:** Android app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Walking Challenge
- **Category:** LIFESTYLE
- **Downloads:** 130,718
- **Rating:** 3.33 / 5 (822 ratings)
- **Version:** 2.6.5
- **Last updated:** 2026-02-26
- **First published:** 2022-12-19
- **Publisher country:** SA
- **Size:** 134 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-21
- **Store listing:** [Google Play Store](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.walking.android)
- **Website:** [https://www.walkingchallenge.com/](https://www.walkingchallenge.com/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://www.walkingchallenge.com/privacy-policy](https://www.walkingchallenge.com/privacy-policy)

## Description

Walking Challenge is an engaging lifestyle app designed to inspire a healthy and active lifestyle for all age groups. Developed by Walking Challenge for Entertainment LLC, a subsidiary of Hadara Tech based in Saudi Arabia, the app gamifies walking by converting steps into valuable rewards.

Key features include motivating users to maintain a healthy lifestyle, participating in local and global walking events, and integrating social trends by enabling virtual exercise challenges with friends and family. Whether you're walking or running, the app makes fitness fun, social, and rewarding. Join Walking Challenge today to take meaningful steps toward better health while earning prizes along the way! Download now and start stepping up your fitness game.

## Rankings

- #195,741 — Overall

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `android.permission.ACCESS_ADSERVICES_AD_ID`
- `android.permission.ACCESS_ADSERVICES_ATTRIBUTION`
- `android.permission.ACCESS_BACKGROUND_LOCATION`
- `android.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION`
- `android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION`
- `android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE`
- `android.permission.ACCESS_WIFI_STATE`
- `android.permission.ACTIVITY_RECOGNITION`
- `android.permission.CAMERA`
- `android.permission.CHANGE_WIFI_STATE`
- `android.permission.FLASHLIGHT`
- `android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE`
- `android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE_HEALTH`
- `android.permission.INTERNET`
- `android.permission.NFC`
- `android.permission.POST_NOTIFICATIONS`
- `android.permission.READ_APP_BADGE`
- `android.permission.READ_MEDIA_IMAGES`
- `android.permission.READ_PHONE_STATE`
- `android.permission.RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED`
- `android.permission.RECORD_AUDIO`
- `android.permission.REQUEST_IGNORE_BATTERY_OPTIMIZATIONS`
- `android.permission.VIBRATE`
- `android.permission.WAKE_LOCK`
- `com.anddoes.launcher.permission.UPDATE_COUNT`
- `com.android.vending.CHECK_LICENSE`
- `com.google.android.c2dm.permission.RECEIVE`
- `com.google.android.finsky.permission.BIND_GET_INSTALL_REFERRER_SERVICE`
- `com.google.android.gms.permission.AD_ID`
- `com.google.android.providers.gsf.permission.READ_GSERVICES`
- `com.htc.launcher.permission.READ_SETTINGS`
- `com.htc.launcher.permission.UPDATE_SHORTCUT`
- `com.huawei.android.launcher.permission.CHANGE_BADGE`
- `com.huawei.android.launcher.permission.READ_SETTINGS`
- `com.huawei.android.launcher.permission.WRITE_SETTINGS`
- `com.huawei.appmarket.service.commondata.permission.GET_COMMON_DATA`
- `com.huawei.health.permission.READ`
- `com.huawei.health.permission.WRITE`
- `com.huawei.permission.ACCESS_HW_KEYSTORE`
- `com.majeur.launcher.permission.UPDATE_BADGE`
- `com.oppo.launcher.permission.READ_SETTINGS`
- `com.oppo.launcher.permission.WRITE_SETTINGS`
- `com.sec.android.provider.badge.permission.READ`
- `com.sec.android.provider.badge.permission.WRITE`
- `com.sonyericsson.home.permission.BROADCAST_BADGE`
- `com.sonymobile.home.permission.PROVIDER_INSERT_BADGE`
- `com.walking.android.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION`
- `com.walking.android.permission.C2D_MESSAGE`
- `com.walking.android.permission.PROCESS_PUSH_MSG`
- `com.walking.android.permission.PUSH_PROVIDER`
- `me.everything.badger.permission.BADGE_COUNT_READ`
- `me.everything.badger.permission.BADGE_COUNT_WRITE`

## Review summary

Users appreciate the app's concept of motivating walking through challenges and rewards, and its usefulness in certain programs. However, most reviews criticize its poor and inaccurate step detection, the necessity to keep the app open or the screen on for proper tracking, frequent lags and slow performance, and loss of counted steps or progress resets. Users also desire integration with smartwatches or phone health apps to ensure reliable step counting.

### Pros

- Encourages people to walk and participate in challenges
- Offers a variety of gifts and challenges to motivate users
- Has potential usefulness for specific programs, such as MOE in Saudi Arabia

### Cons

- Poor step detection and inaccurate step counting
- Requires the app to be open or screen on for steps to be counted
- Lags, slow loading, and unreliable performance
- Steps get reset or unsynced frequently, losing progress
- No integration with phone health apps or smartwatches to improve accuracy

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.walking.android)