Compared

Apps to walk every street

Cobble Gobble is one of several apps that count the streets you walk. This page is how I see the others, and when one of them fits you more than mine does.

I build Cobble Gobble, so take my view with that in mind. I describe the other apps from what they say about themselves and link their pages, so you can check.

CityStrides

The one most people mean when they say "run every street". It tracks how much of a city you have run or walked, street by street, and shows how you compare with other people in the same city. You record with Strava or Garmin and it syncs. It works for any city OpenStreetMap has.

→ Fits you if you run or walk your home town and like a leaderboard to chase.

Wandrer

Scores every road you have not travelled before, about one point per mile, with separate scores on foot and on the bike. It syncs from Strava, Garmin or RideWithGPS, and a browser plugin shows your unridden roads in route planners like komoot.

→ Fits you if you ride or run long distances and want new roads, anywhere.

Real World Completionist

An iPhone app, new in 2026. You draw your neighbourhood on the map, it pulls the streets from OpenStreetMap, and it plans a route through the ones you have not walked yet. Its description says no leaderboards and no streaks.

→ Fits you if you want to finish your own neighbourhood, street by street.

Walkable

A fog-of-war map: the city stays covered until you walk it. Its App Store listing names London, Berlin, Amsterdam and more than 50 other cities.

→ Fits you if uncovering a map is the fun part for you.

Cobble Gobble

Mine. A walking game for the Old Towns you visit: each Old Town is a level, every street is a line of dots you collect by walking it, and the landmarks are bonus fruit. The phone stays in your pocket and sound tells you what you just collected. There is no account, no leaderboard and no streak, and a city you own works offline. Your first city is free, every other one is a one-time purchase.

→ Fits you if you travel and want to walk an Old Town properly, not just its three famous squares.

What it does not do (yet, or on purpose):

→ It only covers the Old Towns in its list. Your own street is in it only if you live in one of them.
→ iPhone only for now.
→ No Strava or Garmin import: the game counts the walks it heard, in your pocket.
→ No ranking against other people. That one is on purpose, and it stays that way.

If you want a leaderboard for your home town, pick CityStrides, I mean it. If you want to look up from your phone in Florence, try mine.