Walk the four streets around any city block and it lights up on your map. Track New York, one block at a time.
NYC is made of 33,114 city blocks. Blocks is the app that keeps track of which ones you've walked. Open it, go for a walk, and watch your map of New York slowly fill in.
An errand, a coffee run, a Saturday wander — they all count. Blocks runs quietly in the background and notices which streets you cover.
When you've walked the four streets around a city block, that block is yours. Even if it took weeks to finish. The block turns green on your map.
One block makes you a Newcomer. A thousand makes you a True New Yorker — a title most lifelong New Yorkers haven't actually earned.
No calorie counting. No heart-rate zones. No locked-up premium tier. Just the map, the blocks, the venues, and the city you live in.
Six tiers, each with a clear block-count threshold. Walk one block to leave Tourist. Walk ten and you're a Local. Walk a thousand and you've earned a name very few New Yorkers actually deserve.
Blocks render as their true OSM-sourced shape. The West Village wedges look like wedges. Cooper Square's triangle stays a triangle. What you walk is what you see.
Every venue in NYC tagged to a block — with the city's health-inspection grade and your friends' star ratings. Save the spots you've been; tap into the ones you haven't.
Yes. The whole app is free, and there are no in-app purchases. We may add a Pro tier later for power features, but the core experience — walk, tier up, rate places — stays free.
Not yet. Blocks is tuned to New York — every block, segment, and venue is pre-processed from OpenStreetMap and NYC Open Data. We're starting in the five boroughs and may add other grid-friendly cities later.
Auto-tracking uses iOS's significant-location framework rather than continuous GPS — most users spend 1–3% per day on it. iOS's motion classifier also filters out non-walking activity, so the app stays asleep when you're on the subway or in a car.
Every NYC block is bordered by street segments. You walk a segment when you've covered 75% of its length (or any distance for sub-20m stubs). When all of a block's surrounding segments are walked — lifetime, across as many sessions as it takes — the block completes.
Your walking routes are stored on your device and synced to your account so you can switch phones. We don't sell location data, we don't share it with advertisers, and you can delete it all in two taps. Full detail in our Privacy Policy.
Anytime, from inside the app or from the web. See Delete your account for the exact steps. Deletion removes your walks, ratings, social connections, and identifying data within 30 days.
Email hello@nycblocks.com or check the Support page. A real person answers, usually within a day.
Download Blocks and walk one block — that's all it takes to leave Tourist and become a Newcomer.