Stride Stride
Invite-only beta on iPhone

Walk and talk your thoughts out.

Say it however it comes out, on a walk. Stride writes it up in about 8 seconds, in your words, without changing them. It all happens on your phone: no account, no connection needed once it's set up, and nothing you say leaves it.

Join the waitlist How it works
An actual walk, start to finish, filmed on the phone in airplane mode. Nothing is sped up.

Have a look

A notebook you talk to, one step at a time.

Stride waiting for you to start walking, the sun dimmed and the Record button greyed out
Stride ready to record, the sun lit and an 11-day streak at the top
A walk in progress: the timer, 40 steps, and the words appearing as they are spoken
A finished summary with topics, key points and two to-dos ready to send to Reminders
The Walks list, each walk with its key points and to-dos counted
The prompt of the day: Who made your week better, and do they know it?

Why walk

Thinking tends to happen on the move.

Somewhere between the front door and the corner shop, with nothing to look at and nobody to perform for, the thing you have been circling all morning usually says itself out loud, in a plainer way than you would ever have written it down.

Stride walks with you, listening, and remembers the whole of it.

How it works

Three things, and one of them is walking.

  1. 01

    Head out

    Recording wakes up with a few steps or a nudge, and it doesn't take much. The walking is half of why any of this works, so Stride keeps listening while you keep moving and winds down on its own when you stop. Stood still mid-thought? There's a button for that.

  2. 02

    Say it however it comes out

    Ramble, double back, repeat yourself, change your mind halfway through a sentence and start it again, because that is what thinking out loud genuinely sounds like, and it is what Stride was built to listen to.

  3. 03

    Read it back about 8 seconds later

    What you landed on, what you said you would do, and what you are still chewing on, all written in the words you actually used, with no advice, no score, and nothing you did not say. A typical walk is written up in about 8 seconds on the phone itself. A long one, or one answering the day's prompt, takes a bit longer.

Sun and moon

It knows what time it is.

A walk at eight in the morning isn't the same as a walk at ten at night. Stride is warm and bright in daylight, then goes quiet and dark after sunset, with clouds drifting past by day and stars overhead in the evening.

This page does the same thing. It reads the clock where you are, so what you are looking at right now is whichever one matches the hour.

Yours only

None of it reaches us.

The listening and the writing up both happen on the phone in your pocket and nothing you say is ever sent to us, which is the whole reason it stays safe to say what you actually think out there.

  • No account. Nothing to sign up for, nothing to log in to.
  • Your walks live on your phone, and in your own iCloud only if you switch backup on.
  • Works in airplane mode, once the one-time AI download is done (about 1.8 GB, best on Wi-Fi).
  • Delete a walk and it's actually gone.
  • Insights read back across several walks, so the phone thinks for longer on those. A slow one is it working, not stuck.

Have a proper moan about a client. It stays between you and the pavement.

In the app now

What's in it, as of this week.

  • A prompt each day, and after you walk it, a hand-written follow-up you can save with "Walk this next".
  • Streaks, with one rest day a week allowed, so a Sunday off doesn't cost you the run.
  • Walks with someone else. Two voices are told apart, and you say which one is you.
  • To-dos into Apple Reminders, one at a time or all at once, and only the ones you actually said.
  • iCloud backup, if you want it. Off by default, to your own iCloud only, and it brings your walks back on a new phone.
  • No connection needed once the one-time AI download is done. Airplane mode is a fair test.
In the app

Practice mode.

Pick a pitch, an interview answer, a talk, or the conversation you've been dreading, or write your own. Rehearse it out loud on the walk, and Stride reads back how you spoke: your pace, your pauses, the words you leaned on, and what you kept circling back to. Numbers and specific notes, never a grade.

What it costs

The first hour of talking is free.

After that, Stride Pro is $3.99 a month, $24.99 a year, or $39.99 once at the founding price. Nothing you've already said is ever locked away. During the beta everything is free, and the hour isn't being counted yet.

Invite-only beta

Come and try it.

Stride is in an invite-only beta on iPhone, through TestFlight. The waitlist is the way in: leave an email and I send invites out in rounds, a handful at a time. iPhone only for now.