Every step climbs.
Your steps become badges with real names: bridges, trails, summits. Walk enough and you climb Everest.
Today's goal
Red Square Loop
724 / 1,000 steps
An evening walk away.
What is Everest?
How it works
Walk
Your phone already counts every step. Everest reads the totals from Apple Health or Health Connect.
Sync
Background sync checks your progress while the app stays closed. No GPS, no battery drain.
Unlock
Cross a threshold and the badge is yours, with a notification the moment it happens.
The trail up.
36 badges across three tiers, laid out as one long trail. Every threshold is a real place or a real feat.
Day1,000 steps
Red Square Loop
Red Square is 330 m long and 70 m wide: one full lap of Moscow's most famous square is about 800 m.
Day3,600 steps
International Orange
The Golden Gate Bridge measures 2,737 m from abutment to abutment, and its paint has a name: International Orange.
Day20,000 steps
Fuji, Up and Down
The Yoshida trail up Mount Fuji and back down is about 14.5 km: 7.5 km of climbing, 7 km of descent.
Week56,000 steps
Marathon Week
A marathon is 42.195 km. You covered the full distance this week, on ordinary days, without a race number.
Week100,000 stepsLocked
The Back Way to Machu Picchu
The Salkantay Trek reaches Machu Picchu the long way round: 74 km over a 4,600 m pass beneath the Salkantay glacier.
All-time120,000 stepsLocked
Roof of Africa
The Northern Circuit is Kilimanjaro's longest route: about 88 km of walking to stand on the roof of Africa.
All-time175,000 stepsLocked
Base Camp and Back
The classic trek from Lukla to Everest Base Camp and back is about 130 km: 65 km each way, ending at 5,364 m.
All-time1,600,000 stepsLocked
Everest from the Sea
In 1990 Tim Macartney-Snape walked 745 miles from the Bay of Bengal across India and Nepal, then climbed alone to the summit of Everest without bottled oxygen. Every step, from sea level to 8,849 m.
and 28 more to climb
Every threshold fires at or just past the real distance, at 0.75 m per step, then rounds to a number you can remember. The trail starts with small landmarks on purpose.
Badges unlock while your phone is in your pocket.
Everest syncs in the background and notifies you the moment you cross a line. Close the app, forget it for a week: your steps still count.
Step data stays on your device. Our server only ever sees anonymous daily totals, nothing else. Read the privacy policy
GPS is never used
No account, anonymous by design
Only daily totals leave the phone
One subscription. Every summit.
Yearly
19 EURper year
3 days free, then 19 EUR per year.
Less than 0.40 EUR a week.
Weekly
2.99 EURper week
No trial. Cancel anytime.
Subscriptions renew automatically until cancelled. Payment is charged to your Apple or Google account; manage or cancel anytime in your store settings. Terms of Service / Privacy Policy
Questions, answered.
Do I need an account?
No. Everest has no signup, no email, no password. Your progress is tied to an anonymous device identifier and your subscription survives reinstalls.
Where does my health data go?
Your step history stays on your device, inside Apple Health or Health Connect. Our self-hosted server in the EU only receives anonymous daily totals so badges can unlock in the background. Health data is never used for advertising and never sold.
How much does Everest cost?
Everest costs 2.99 EUR per week, or 19 EUR per year with a 3 day free trial. One subscription unlocks the whole app on iPhone and Android.
Does it drain my battery?
No. Everest never uses GPS. Your phone counts steps on a dedicated low-power chip anyway; Everest just reads the totals during short background wake-ups.
Which phones are supported?
iPhone, via Apple Health (HealthKit), and Android, via Health Connect. The iPhone app ships first.
Can badges unlock without opening the app?
Yes. Background sync checks your progress on its own and sends a notification the moment a badge unlocks, even if you have not opened the app in days.
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Your first badge is one walk away.
36 badges, three tiers, zero accounts. iPhone first, Android next.