Byron - Walking word game
Find letters on a real map
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
Byron is a word game you have to walk to.
Letters appear on the map around you, and they stay where they are. Walk to one and it's yours.
Your satchel holds fourteen letters and no more, so every letter you pick up means leaving another one behind.
Once a day there's a word, the same word for everybody, and you spend your letters filling it in. Finish sooner and you score more and climb the board.
Walking pays on its own as well. Every 7,000 steps you take in a day earns a letter, and every 10,000 earns a blank that fills any gap in the word. Steps are read from Apple Health.
PLAY WITH FRIENDS
Make a group and race just your friends on the daily word. Or start a game of Bestest Fastest: a round of 5 to 20 minutes where everyone collects letters at once. You get one go at a word, and it's worth more the earlier you lock it in.
APPLE WATCH
Start a walk on your watch and leave your phone in your pocket. Your wrist taps when you pass a letter. Raise it to see the letter, and pinch to keep it. Each walk is saved to Apple Health as a walking workout.
Free to play. No ads, no energy bars, and nothing for sale that helps you win.
Byron is named after a chocolate Labrador with strong opinions about the route.
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Weird scoring bug allowing users to lose points
The developer, Stupid Human Ltd, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Health & Fitness
- Contact Info
- Identifiers
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Location
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Stupid Human Ltd
- Size
- 22.8 MB
- Category
- Word
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later. - Apple Watch
Requires watchOS 10.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Location
- This app may use your location even when it isn’t open, which can decrease device battery life.
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Infrequent
Contests
Contains
User-Generated Content
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Another trail $0.99
- Byron's suspiciously good biscuit $9.99
- Buy Byron a biscuit $2.99
- Buy Byron a good biscuit $4.99
- Copyright
- © 2026