Strut Hack 5.4.0 + Redeem Codes

This app is a great way to entice you to visit new places. Unlike other GPS games there is no upkeep, just unlocking new squares, so you don't have to worry about other people stealing your territory of making the app less fun for you. In truth it isn't really a game, just a list of places you've been. The only gamification is the comparing of highscores for different areas which if you follow the spirit if the app won't even matter to you as you'll be exploring new places and uncovering hidden treasures in places you thought you knew well. The best thing that sets Strut above other GPS games is that you can collect tiles without using cellular data, just have wifi on to get the GPS signal (not even connected) and you can upload the tiles when you get home so it won't cost you any extra data!

Taking out flight tiles is not about penalizing frequent flyers, it is about making collections more accurate. With flight tracking whole flight paths across the country could sometimes count for multiple cities at once making the leaderboards meaningless.

There are a few bugs that make the leaderboards not quite accurate, like a few random tiles counting outside the cities they should. Sometimes tile counts don't sync quite right and the boundaries in rural areas can be way bigger than they should be. So another reason not to take it too seriously.

I have been playing this for a couple years, along with a couple other GPS type games. Maybe that’s the problem.

1: I love this game and play it frequently.
2: If this app is in the background it is quite likely (not always, but often) to stop recording your tiles until you bring it to the foreground again (or restart it - sometimes bringing it back to the foreground doesn’t cut it)
3: On some of the screens the contrast makes the text absolutely unreadable. Example: the “score” screen - no matter which of the very limited “theme” options I pick, I cannot read lines 2, 4, 6, 8, or 10. Why did you make the text dark grey on a slightly darker grey background, in what I swear is 4 pt font???
4: the server running this is ridiculously slow. Get used to seeing the spinning equivalent of an hourglass when changing screens.
5: I don’t understand why they even tried to make an Apple Watch app for this. It is broken beyond belief - don’t even try it. I thought it was because I had a non-cellular Apple Watch - nope. It was equally useless on my cellular Apple Watch.

Listen - I like the concept of the game. I still play it (without the Apple Watch) - but a little attention from the developer is sorely needed. I would even pay a small monthly subscription fee for it - but only if the above mentioned issues were resolved. Download it and play it - it is fun - but understand the issues going in.

Updating my review after a conversation with the developer. I'm really bummed that this release ends flight tracking, and hope they find a way to bring it back soon. As this is a free app, server costs for storing and analyzing the tens of millions of unlocked tiles has become an issue, and flights are by far responsible for the bulk of unlocked tiles. I hope they can find a way to reduce their overhead and improve the performance of the app.

To the people happy that other people's scores are going to drop: think about how other competitive events put participants into classes so that they're ranked against others under similar conditions. It's not unfair that other people fly more than you, there just needs to be a way to separate the participants. The obvious solution to me here is to work with the data in Strut to present multiple leaderboards: one including flight data and one without. This would satisfy everyone, and keep in place the effort that people have put in place to track their data for years. Frequent flyers in Strut enjoy competing against each other too. Remember the race to 1 million tiles?

Still one of my favorite apps out there, it's just going through growing pains now.

I love maps and exploration. I used to highlight maps to show where I’d been and see where I had yet to explore. Several years ago a new type of navigation app came out, one that obscured the areas of a map you hadn’t visited while clearly showing roads you’d travelled.

I’ve ‘uncovered’ quite a lot of territory - so why use another app that sounds like it does the same thing?

Because it’s more fun!

Strut allows you to truly hide the ‘unknown’ world, not just make it hazy. Even if you adjust the options to show more map, you will only get a ghostly, faded image.

Also, rather than ‘clearing’ a single street, the world is divided into tiles - and all it takes to light one up is to step on it (or drove, fly over, etc).

I spent many a happy afternoon sitting in front of Final Fantasy, Zelda, Dragon Warrior and other top-down, 8-bit games, controller in one hand and pencils in the other, coloring in squares on graph paper and watching the huge fantasy worlds grow.

Now I do the same, only it’s the real world and my graph paper is my phone!

If you remember taping those pieces of graph paper together and finally spotting the round-about path needed to find...well, if this brings back fond memories, get this app now - you won’t regret it. :-)

Oh - and it IS free, but donate anyway so these folks can keep this app running. I just tossed $20 their way - a lot when you consider the price of most apps, but well worth it!

Fun twist to mapping. Each update adds some neat new tools. I'm always looking for struttable moments now (have I been here before?!).

Only negative is that it puts a serious drain on your battery, so best to only 'Strut' when you know you'll be covering new terrain.
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Edit: since the ‘update’ about a year ago, the scoring has gotten wonky and unreliable. Still a good app, but with a limited/stale user base, it’s lost a lot of the initial game feel it had initially.

Now it just crashes in the background and says it has tiles waiting to be synced for weeks. Customer service is nonexistent. They never respond.

Update: Almost 3 months and still no response from the developer.

Update: Almost 300 tiles now that never sync. Decided to try contacting the developer again. I did receive a surprisingly quick response. I’ll paste the response to share the information they have about continuing support for the app. I’d also like to mention that they have a button on their site to contribute to their operating costs as I definitely believe in donating when you can to small developers, especially when their apps are free.

“Hi! We are still maintaining it by keeping it alive and paying for service and storage every month and making sure the core functionality at least works with major iOS releases as we have been for the last seven years. We don’t charge you anything to use it and have never made any money off it thus far. Several people still use it happily, so I don’t see a reason to remove it. Nobody is forcing you to use it. It’s a one man support and development team, so forgive me if I haven’t responded to your previous email.”

I’ve been using this app for 5 years. It’s a cool way to see where you’ve been in the world and realize just how big the world is. Being able to use it on airplane mode is a great feature.

Two major negatives, one unavoidable and one easily solvable. The app uses a ton of battery, which makes sense since it uses location tracking. This is unavoidable.

The other should be easily solvable but has not been solved in 5 years! When running the app in the background, it often stops tracking randomly and restarts. This is quite annoying, we it could lead to a ton of missing tiles.

I used to have this app on my old phone, and I really liked it. However, I recently got a new phone, downloaded it, and launched it. The second I was logged into a new account, the game crashed. I reopened it, but the same thing happened. I tried restarting my phone, as well as deleting the app then reinstalling it. Does anyone know the reason to this? This bug isn’t happening for any other apps.

I love Strut; I’ve been using it for the better part of 4 years.

Somewhat like and unlike Strut, I use two apps (Google Maps and Tile) which constantly uses my location. Maybe these apps don’t get my location at the same frequency as Strut but they don’t drain my battery like Strut does.

I really would like to see some effort to reduce battery usage in Strut like the aforementioned apps.

With the new update I think the app got better! I personally was pretty high in the ranks of strutters and had only taken 4 flights in my whole 2.5 year strutting career. It kind of makes it more fair to people who travel just as much as others, but don't fly as often. This app is still great and I will continue to use it!