About
Waymark is made by one person in Bengaluru. It has no company behind it, no investors, and nothing to sell you.
Who
I'm Yohan Kumar, an experience designer in Bengaluru. I've spent about a decade designing software — currently at Verizon, before that leading design at Jio Platforms and [24]7.ai, and earlier building data interfaces for newsrooms and organisations across India. I studied industrial and product design at MIT Institute of Design, after a mechanical engineering degree that taught me more about how things fail than how they work.
Waymark is a personal project, built outside all of that. Nothing here is connected to or endorsed by any employer, past or present.
Why
Most step trackers want to be your whole fitness life. They compare you with strangers, push notifications you didn't ask for, and sell the picture they build of you.
I wanted something smaller: read the step data my phone already collects, record the walk I actually did on a real map, and let me see how my friends are doing. That's the entire app.
What it does not do
No ads. No analytics or tracking libraries — not one. Nothing is sold or shared with anyone. Your location is used while you are recording and not otherwise, and your activities are private unless you explicitly share them.
It is also honest about what it cannot do. If GPS never gets a fix, Waymark says so rather than drawing a plausible line. If you are nowhere near a route, it tells you the distance to the start instead of a confident percentage. Numbers you can't trust are worse than no numbers.
Where it's going
Waymark is Android-only and early. It is being tested by a handful of friends before it goes anywhere near a wider release. If you are one of them: thank you, and please tell me what's broken.
Get in touch
Email teenytailhelp@gmail.com. I read everything, and a bug report with a screenshot is worth ten without one.