CAKEWALK Fitness App

A snarky step-counter that isn't afraid to call you out for being lazy

No matter how intuitive, well-designed or smart your favorite fitness app might be, it’s useless if you don’t actually get out of bed and into the gym. A humorous new app, called CAKEWALK, has found a way to bypass this problem by nagging and shaming you until you get moving. Upon download, CAKEWALK connects with the Health Kit app on your iPhone to determine what …

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