SOJOURNER
Walk where they walked.
Your everyday steps carry you along the roads of Scripture. Reach a place, unlock what happened there.
Coming to the App Store
iPhone and iPad · iOS 17 or later
Walk where they walked.
Your everyday steps carry you along the roads of Scripture. Reach a place, unlock what happened there.
Sojourner reads the walking you already do and moves you along a real route — the roads Abraham, Israel, our Lord and the apostles actually travelled, drawn on the map with the distances they actually covered.
There is nothing to start and nothing to stop. Your steps come quietly from Health while the app is closed. When you reach a place, the app tells you, and the account of what happened there is written into your journal for good.
Four collections, running oldest to newest.
The Journeys of IsraelFrom Ur to the Jordan, and away into exile and back.
Out of the greatest city in the world, not knowing where. 1,913 miles.
Away with a stolen blessing; back twenty years later with a limp and a new name. 1,111 miles.
The road he was dragged down turned out to be the road that saved them all. 586 miles.
Out of Egypt to Sinai, Sinai to Kadesh, and the wilderness years to the Jordan. 830 miles.
From Carmel to the juniper tree, then forty days to the mountain. 1,014 miles.
Sent east; bought a ticket for the far west instead. 1,132 miles.
Marched out of a burning Jerusalem, and the long road home. 2,060 miles.
The Journeys of our Lord Jesus ChristFrom the flight into Egypt to the road to Emmaus.
The route Coptic tradition preserved, from Farama to Deir al-Muharraq. 1,431 miles.
The years of walking between the lake towns. 548 miles.
“He set his face to go to Jerusalem.” 148 miles.
A short walk and a long week. 28 miles.
The Journeys of the Early ChurchFrom the road to Emmaus to the roads out of Jerusalem.
Seven miles out and seven miles back, on the afternoon of the resurrection. 20 miles.
Samaria, a sorcerer, and an Ethiopian reading Isaiah in a chariot. 200 miles.
The Journeys of St. Paul the ApostleFour journeys across the Roman world, as recorded in Acts.
Cyprus and the Galatian highlands. 1,444 miles.
Into Europe at Philippi, and eighteen months in Corinth. 2,742 miles.
Three years in Ephesus, and back to Jerusalem knowing what waits. 2,720 miles.
A prisoner, a shipwreck on Malta, and two years under guard. 2,066 miles.
The road behind you solid, the road ahead dashed, and your place on it.
Every place you reach, written down and kept.
Read the text itself, set as prose, without leaving the app.
What you have walked, against what they walked.
Finish one, and the next is offered. Nothing is erased.
Our Lord's journeys set apart in gold leaf.
Steps and walking distance are read quietly from Health, in the background, while the app is closed.
Reaching a place mid-walk sends a notification, and the account of it waits for you whenever you next open the app.
The whole Bible in four public-domain translations — King James, World English, American Standard and Douay-Rheims — read offline, with no connection needed.
The journeys run from 28 miles to 2,742. Each one sets a pace so it lands somewhere you can actually finish.
Finished journeys stay in a library you can reopen. Nothing you have walked is ever thrown away.
A widget for where you are and how far to the next place, in small, medium and lock screen sizes.
No account, no server, no analytics. Health is read, never written, and nothing is transmitted anywhere.
Where scripture gives only an outline — the flight into Egypt, the Exodus route, the site of Sinai — the app says plainly that it is following tradition, and which parts are disputed.
Paul's journeys and our Lord's Galilean, Jerusalem and Passion journeys follow the text. Two need more care, and the app says so where you read them.
The Flight into Egypt. Matthew gives only the outline. Its twenty stops follow the route Coptic tradition preserved and Egyptian pilgrims still walk, from Farama through Wadi El Natrun and Old Cairo to Deir al-Muharraq in Assiut.
The Exodus. The backbone is the itinerary set down in Numbers 33, but many of its forty-two stations are unidentified, and both the crossing of the sea and the site of Sinai are genuinely disputed. The traditional southern-Sinai route is used, and stations that are names alone are left out rather than invented.
Distances are estimates — great-circle distance scaled for winding roads and shipping lanes — and land within a few percent of the figures historians cite.
Last updated 1 August 2026
Sojourner has no account, no server and no analytics. Your walking, your progress and your reading stay on your device.
Health. With your permission, Sojourner reads your step count and walking & running distance from Apple Health, so your walking can advance you along a route. It reads only these two things, it never writes anything to Health, and the data is used solely to work out how far you have come. You can withdraw permission at any time in Settings › Health › Data Access & Devices.
Nothing else. The app does not ask for your location, contacts, photos, microphone, camera or anything else.
Your journeys, the places you have reached, the passages you have unlocked and your chosen translation are stored on your device only, in the app's own storage. They are shared with the Sojourner widget on the same device so it can show your progress, and with nothing and nobody else.
If you have iCloud Backup switched on, this data may be included in your device backup, which is governed by Apple's privacy policy rather than ours.
Nothing that the app collects. Sojourner sends no data anywhere, has no server to send it to, and contains no analytics, advertising or tracking of any kind. Scripture is bundled inside the app and read offline.
One thing to be plain about: the route screen uses Apple Maps to draw the map, and Apple's map tiles are fetched from Apple as you look at them. That request goes to Apple, not to us, and is covered by Apple's own privacy policy. If you never open the route screen, the app makes no network requests at all.
If you allow them, notifications telling you that you have reached a place are created and delivered on your device. They are not push notifications and no server is involved.
Sojourner collects no personal information from anyone, of any age.
If this policy ever changes, the date above will change with it. Since the app collects nothing, we do not expect it to change much.
Questions about privacy can go to Soughtandfound.co.