Walkito FAQ: questions and answers

Walkito is free to download from the App Store on iPhone and from Google Play on Android. Inside the app it offers a yearly or a weekly subscription, and the store shows that price in your currency before you subscribe. Both subscriptions renew on their own until you cancel, which you do in the store, not in Walkito.

Walkito’s price is set by the store you buy from: the App Store on iPhone or Google Play on Android. The store shows the yearly and the weekly subscription in your currency before you subscribe, and the price it shows is the one that applies. A subscription bought on iPhone does not carry over to Android, because Apple and Google bill separately.

Cancel Walkito in the store you bought it from. On iPhone, open Settings, then your name, then Subscriptions, at least 24 hours before the period ends. On Android, open Google Play, tap your profile icon, then Payments & subscriptions, then Subscriptions. You keep access until the paid period ends. Deleting the app or account does not cancel it. Refunds are handled by Apple or Google.

Walkito is on both: on iPhone from the App Store, and on Android from Google Play. The iPhone app reads Apple Health for steps, sleep and walking asymmetry, and shows a Live Activity on the Lock Screen while a session runs. The Android app reads Health Connect for steps, distance and sleep. A subscription bought on one does not carry over to the other.

No, Walkito works without an Apple Watch. The step count, walking speed and walking asymmetry it uses come from the iPhone itself. A watch adds sleep and resting heart rate. Without one, the parts that need them stay quiet, such as a short night making the next session lighter. The rest of the plan works as normal.

Walkito comes in seven languages: English, Russian, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian and German. It is on iPhone, from the App Store, and on Android, from Google Play. In every language, sessions take 3, 5 or 10 minutes, on the 3, 5 or 7 days a week you pick.

Yes, Walkito can be used inside ChatGPT and Claude, where it answers with short exercise videos and a starter plan. The starter plan comes with a code that carries its settings into the Walkito app on iPhone or Android, where the plan then changes with your morning check-in. Walkito in ChatGPT and Claude.

No, Walkito is not related to walkito.com, which is a dog-walking service. Walkito, at walkito.site, is an iPhone and Android app with exercises for heel pain, plantar fasciitis and flat feet. It is made by its two co-founders, Rahim Hudaykulyyev and Rahman Bazarov, and it is on the App Store and Google Play.

A Walkito session takes 5 minutes by default, and you can switch any session to 3 or 10. Each session has 2 to 4 exercises. The exercise for the week’s focus goal always stays in, even in the 3-minute version. A test day takes about four minutes and has no training in it.

You choose to train three, five or seven days a week. Strength days never fall back to back. With five days, mobility and balance sessions fill the gaps, and seven days adds a recovery session. The other days are rest the plan sets, and a planned rest day never breaks your streak.

No, you don’t need to buy anything to start Walkito. During setup, Walkito asks what you have at home: a step or stairs, a resistance band, a towel, a pillow or a massage ball. Exercises that need something you don’t have are left out of your plan. You can also answer “None of these”.

The Walkito plan has no fixed length. It lasts as long as you use it. Walkito builds one week at a time around a focus goal, such as pain-free mornings or a 60-second arch hold. When you reach a goal, it moves to maintaining at a lower dose, and the next goal takes its place. How the plan works.

Nothing is owed when you miss a few days, and nothing piles up. The week runs on dates, not attendance, so a missed session is not moved to tomorrow and there is no catch-up screen. What you did log still counts. Next week is built from how your sessions felt and from your morning pain.

No, but the plan can only respond to what you log. A logged morning is what lets Walkito ease a bad day. The pain-free mornings goal also needs 14 mornings in a row at 1/10 or less, so a morning you skip breaks that run. With nothing logged, the day runs as the week planned it.

Walkito’s tests measure three things in about four minutes: calf raises to failure on each leg, how long you can hold your arch, and single-leg balance. The calf raises also show the gap between your left and right side. Tests come every 14 days, then every 28 once you reach your first goal. Goals are judged on these numbers and your morning pain.

No, Walkito does not diagnose and cannot tell you what is causing your pain. It is an exercise plan, and it does not treat. See a clinician for pain that is sharp, getting worse, keeping you up at night, or that started after an injury. The warning signs are listed in the heel pain guide.

No, Walkito is not a medical device, and it does not replace a clinician. It is an iPhone and Android app with exercises for heel pain, plantar fasciitis and flat feet, chosen from published research and guidelines. Walkito itself has not been tested in a trial. How the guides are sourced is on the About page.

Yes, Walkito changes the plan the same morning. A morning pain of 7/10 or more turns the day into about three minutes of seated work. A morning three points above your average for the past week steps each exercise back a level. Pain of 6/10 or more during a session ends it and steps the next two back. A good morning never speeds the plan up.

Yes, you can keep running while you do Walkito. The plan adjusts to your load instead of asking you to stop. When yesterday was a big day on your feet, today’s strength session becomes a lighter recovery one. Sharp pain, or pain that keeps getting worse, needs a clinician. More in heel pain from running.

Walkito’s answer is to change the load on your heel, not to stop everything. The 2023 guideline recommends learning to adjust the load on your feet in daily life, at work and in sport. It grades that advice E, which means it rests on theory, not trials. On a bad day, keep the stretches and drop the loaded work. In Walkito, a 7/10 morning or worse becomes three minutes of seated work.

Koc TA Jr, Bise CG, Neville C, et al. Heel Pain - Plantar Fasciitis: Revision 2023. Journal of Orthopaedic & Sports Physical Therapy. 2023;53(12):CPG1–CPG39.

The 2023 heel pain guideline advises against orthotics on their own for short-term pain relief, with a grade B. It says they may be used alongside other care, with a grade C, which means weaker evidence. Walkito does not recommend them as the only answer and does not sell any. The full table of grades is in the heel pain guide.

Koc TA Jr, Bise CG, Neville C, et al. Heel Pain - Plantar Fasciitis: Revision 2023. Journal of Orthopaedic & Sports Physical Therapy. 2023;53(12):CPG1–CPG39.

Heel pain can come back, and Walkito does not promise it won’t. What Walkito does is keep going after the pain stops. A reached goal moves to maintaining and keeps a place in the plan at a lower dose. Tests go on every 28 days once you reach your first goal, so you can see if your numbers start to slip.

Walkito never reads uneven walking as a sign of injury. Walking asymmetry is the percentage of time steps with one foot are faster or slower than with the other. Walkito compares it only with your own earlier readings. It can tell you that your walking has changed, never what that means. If something feels wrong, ask a clinician.

No one can honestly promise a day, but one trial gives a guide. In a trial of 48 people with plantar fasciitis, all wearing shoe inserts, the group doing heavy heel raises was clearly ahead of the stretching group at three months. By twelve months the two groups were even. Your own tests show your numbers as they change.

Scored on the Foot Function Index: 29 points lower in the heel-raise group at three months (95% CI 6-52, p = 0.016), and 22 against 16 at twelve months, not a significant difference.

Rathleff MS, Mølgaard CM, Fredberg U, et al. High-load strength training improves outcome in patients with plantar fasciitis: a randomized controlled trial with 12-month follow-up. Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports. 2015;25(3):e292–e300.

Strength training works faster than stretching, but not better in the long run. In a trial of 48 people with plantar fasciitis confirmed by ultrasound, all wearing shoe inserts, heavy heel raises were clearly ahead at three months. By twelve months the groups were even. The 2023 guideline gives stretching an A, its top grade, and strength training a B. Walkito uses both.

Scored on the Foot Function Index: 29 points lower in the heel-raise group at three months (95% CI 6-52, p = 0.016), and 22 against 16 at twelve months, not a significant difference.

Rathleff MS, Mølgaard CM, Fredberg U, et al. High-load strength training improves outcome in patients with plantar fasciitis: a randomized controlled trial with 12-month follow-up. Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports. 2015;25(3):e292–e300.

Koc TA Jr, Bise CG, Neville C, et al. Heel Pain - Plantar Fasciitis: Revision 2023. Journal of Orthopaedic & Sports Physical Therapy. 2023;53(12):CPG1–CPG39.

Exercise can measurably change flexible flat feet, where the arch comes back when the foot is off the ground. In a trial of 52 people with flexible flat feet, a six-week exercise program improved the arch more than in the control group. Rigid flat feet are structural, and exercise will not change their shape. The exercises are in flat feet exercises.

Navicular drop improved by 0.4 cm and arch angle by 16 degrees more than in the control group.

Brijwasi T, Borkar P. A comprehensive exercise program improves foot alignment in people with flexible flat foot: a randomised trial. Journal of Physiotherapy. 2023;69(1):42–46.

Arch exercises need six weeks or more, going by the trials. In a trial of flexible flat feet, six weeks of short-foot work (pulling the ball of the foot toward the heel so the arch lifts), hip work and stretching changed the arch more than control. A 2024 review of short-foot work alone found no significant difference overall. One arch measure improved only in programs longer than six weeks.

Review outcomes: navicular drop and Foot Posture Index, neither significantly different from control overall. Navicular drop improved significantly only in the subgroup of programs longer than six weeks.

Brijwasi T, Borkar P. A comprehensive exercise program improves foot alignment in people with flexible flat foot: a randomised trial. Journal of Physiotherapy. 2023;69(1):42–46.

Cheng J, Han D, Qu J, et al. Effects of short foot training on foot posture in patients with flatfeet: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Journal of Back and Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation. 2024;37(4):839–851.

Walkito sends at most one notification a day, and nothing after 21:30. Most weeks, five is the limit. Only four kinds can go past it: a flare after a painful day, a big day on your feet, a change in your walking, and a test day. You can turn notifications off in your phone’s settings, on iPhone or Android, and the plan works the same.

No, Walkito backs off when you stop opening its messages. After three unopened notifications in a row, reminders drop to two a week. After seven, it goes quiet for a month and then sends one message. Then it stays quiet unless you come back on your own. Opening Walkito at any time resets the count.

The Walkito streak counts showing up, not finishing workouts. A day counts if you logged your morning pain, finished a session, or the plan gave you a rest day. A rest day the plan set can never break your streak. So choosing three training days a week costs you nothing.

A bad week does not have to end your streak, because Walkito gives you freezes. You earn one freeze for each week on the plan and can hold two at a time. A missed day uses one by itself. If the streak does end, Walkito never shows it as a failure. The number simply starts again.

Walkito uploads what you log, but not your Apple Health data. Apple Health readings, from steps to sleep, stay on your iPhone. Your plan and what you log are copied to your Walkito account: pain scores, where it hurts, sessions, pain during sessions, test results and daily app time. That copy restores your plan and shows how the plan is used. See the privacy policy.

Every health permission Walkito asks for is optional. On iPhone, it asks Apple Health to read steps, walking speed, walking asymmetry, flights climbed, heart rate, resting heart rate, active energy, sleep and workouts, and to write workouts and mindful minutes. On Android, it reads steps, distance and sleep from Health Connect. Without them the plan keeps working. It just adapts less to your day.

Yes, Walkito works offline after setup. Setup needs a connection once, to sign you in with Apple, or with email if you already have an account. After that, everything saves on the phone first, and nothing in the daily flow waits for the network. What you log is copied to your Walkito account in the background when you are online.

Your plan comes back when you sign in to the same Walkito account on the new phone, because your plan and what you log are saved to that account. To get a purchase back on iPhone, use the same Apple ID and tap Restore Purchases. On Android, use the same Google account in Google Play. Apple Health readings are not part of that copy, because they stay on the phone.

Delete your account in Walkito under Profile, then Delete account. That removes your account from Walkito’s server with everything saved to it, and clears the phone. It cannot be undone. Deleting only the app leaves your account in place. Neither one cancels a subscription, which only Apple or Google can do. You can also write to hello@walkito.site.