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Stride onboarding

After

Screens 1–5 and week-one notifications

1Welcome
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Welcome to Stride

Stride helps you build a healthy walking habit. Walking is good for your heart, your weight and your mood.

Get started
2Permissions
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Steps first. The rest when you need it.

Motion & Fitness

Counts your steps in the background. Without it Stride can't count anything.

Allow step counting
Notifications

One nudge a day, at the time you pick on the next screen. You can change or stop it any time.

Allow the nudge
Location and Health

Only if you later want route maps or to sync with Apple Health or Health Connect. We'll ask when you get there.

Your steps are read to show you your count.

We don't sell your data.

Delete everything from Settings → Delete account.

Full policy: about 17 minutes to read

Allow step counting
3Goal
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How far on day one?

Pick a goal you can hit tomorrow. You can raise it any time.

Starter5,000 steps
Steady7,000 steps
Chosen by 46% of people who joined after moving house
Stretch10,000 steps
Yesterday you did 5,840. Steady is 1,160 more.
Set 7,000 steps
4Reminder
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When will you walk tomorrow?

Pick a time and a place. We'll nudge you ten minutes before, and nothing else unless you ask.

When07:45
Morning, before workLunch breakAfter workEveningPick a time
Where
To the stationRound the blockThe parkWalking the dogExploring the new neighbourhoodSomewhere else
How much do you want from us?
Just the pre-walk nudge (default)
Pre-walk nudge, plus an evening check-in if I'm short
Only tell me when I've hit my goal
Set my walk:
07:45, to the station
5Home
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Stride

2,316 steps today

33%of 7,000
Goal7,000
Yesterday5,840
Tomorrow 07:45, to the stationChange

Your week-one group opens on day 7. Until then only you see your numbers.

Settings → Show the global leaderboard now

Notifications, week one

Timed from the walk set on screen 4: T = 07:45, nudge at T − 10 min.

Day 1

Walk time − 10 min

Stride

07:45. To the station. Shoes on? Steps count on their own; just go.

When goal is reached

Stride

7,000 steps. Day one done. Tomorrow: 07:45, same place?

YesChange
Day 2

Walk time − 10 min

Stride

Walk two. To the station, 07:45.

When goal is reached

Stride

Two for two. 7,000 steps.

Day 3

Walk time − 10 min

Stride

Day three, to the station. Three walks and most of the week is already yours.

Day 4

Walk time − 10 min

Stride

07:45. To the station. Four.

In-app · after 3rd goal

7,000 steps, 4 days running. Want to see the pattern?

Plus won't walk for you. It shows which days, times and routes you actually keep, so the habit outlasts week one. Weekly insight, custom goals, full history.

£4.99 a month, that's 16p a day, about one coffee a month.

Try it free for 7 days. Cancel before day 7 in Settings and you pay nothing.

Try Plus: 7 days free, then £4.99 a month
Not now

Cancel in two taps: Settings → Subscriptions. Same place you started.

Day 5

Walk time − 10 min

Stride

Walk five, to the station.

Opt-in · 20:00 if under goal

Stride

5,520 so far. 1,480 more is a 15-minute walk, or call it a day; tomorrow's walk is set for 07:45.

In-app · after a missed goal

Not today.

Tomorrow's walk is set: 07:45, to the station. Keep it, move it, or shrink the goal?

KeepMoveShrink
Day 6

Walk time − 10 min

Stride

Walk six. One more and that's a week.

Day 7

Walk time − 10 min

Stride

Day seven. To the station, 07:45.

Recap · badge if 5+ walks

Stride

Week one: 6 of 7 walks, 50,360 steps. Your week-one group is open; you're 112th of 486 who started the same week.

Week-one badge