Wiltshire Walks 4+

Extremely useful

Great for finding walks around a variety of routes without having to use an OS map. We would not have known that most of these walks existed if we didn’t have the app. Everything works well, particularly the ‘live’ location pointer: if you take a wrong path, it’s easy to see that you have deviated and you can backtrack.

Needs to improve quickly

Just signed up for the months free trial and won’t be renewing.

I actually tried this on my iPad first so I could get a sense of the app.

When I clicked on the link for ‘walk information’ it took me to Spain! I did restart and faff about and eventually it did use my home location.

When you look at the map of the walk it is quite basic. You can zoom out and scroll to see the walk, but there are no place names of where the walk is starting from, and I would have found it helpful to see the walk in its entirety instead of needing to zoom out AND scroll. For me, I would have preferred seeing the whole walk with a significant place marker that gave me a sense of where I was walking.

Not everywhere has good internet connection and I would also have found it helpful to save a walk to my device and then access it while walking.

I may check back, but I am afraid the app will be deleted.

Developer Response ,

Hi David.

Thanks for your feedback and apologies for the problems you had.

The app is not designed to run on an iPad, so this might explain some of your issues (especially with Spain!). We will change the next update so it doesn't allow iPads to download it.

The app works totally offline so you do not need any internet connection at all when you are doing the walks - the route maps are stored in the app itself and it uses the satellite GPS to navigate.

Finally, the start point is always a parking spot as specified on the app and you can get directly to that parking spot by clicking the directions button (it links into your phone's map/sat nav).

Hope that helps and we hope you can revisit the app on an iPhone or Android device to see if it functions properly for you.

Great app for exploring!

I am loving this app the walks are so easy to follow, it’s opened up a whole load of walks for us and looking forward to seeing more added over time.
I would love it if you could mark a walk as done in the app so I can keep a record just so I can see which ones I have done so I can pick ones that I haven’t done before (I’m so forgetful!)

Developer Response ,

Thanks and we're glad you're enjoying it! We are considering some functionality for marking walks as complete, but our main worry is if you change device or re-install the app, it will lose your progress. We are working on it though :)