RunGarden vs Basho Steps

A cozy, gamified run tracker. Turn every run into a plant. Stay consistent with a garden that grows as you do. If you want running to feel rewarding (and a little bit magical), plant a seed with every workout. As your runs add up, your personal garden blossoms: flowers, trees, succulents and more. So your progress is something you can see. Run without pressure. Grow with purpose. Open RunGarden, start a run, and plant a seed. Finish your workout and that seed becomes a new species in your garden. Keep your streak and rare plants appear. Miss a day? No guilt, your garden will be waiting when you’re ready. STAY MOTIVATED • Each run = a plant — watch your garden fill up with flowers, trees, and other species • Streaks & milestones — unlock special seeds and evolutions as you stay consistent • Gentle goals — daily/weekly targets that nudge (not nag) • Cozy feedback — satisfying animations and soundscapes when you hit goals • Share your blooms — post garden snapshots to celebrate wins TRACK YOUR RUNS • Simple, reliable tracking — log distance, time, and pace for every run • Indoor or outdoor — record treadmill or outdoor runs • Goal-based runs — time, distance, or streak-focused sessions • Notes & tags — remember how a run felt and what you worked on GROW YOUR GARDEN • Collect & evolve species — unlock new varieties as your streaks climb • Design your layout — arrange beds and paths, rotate seasons, pick themes • Seed economy — earn seeds from runs; spend them to plant, evolve, or decorate • Rare finds — special plants appear on milestones, events, and long streaks STATISTICS • Streak tracker — daily/weekly/monthly consistency at a glance • Progress over time — see how your garden (and fitness) expands • Personal bests — highlight pace, distance, and streak milestones • Run timeline — scroll back through your planting journey WHY RUNGARDEN? • Visual progress that’s beautiful, not stressful • Motivation that lasts through collection, customization, and gentle goals • Beginner-friendly for new runners; cozy and rewarding for everyone NOTICE • RunGarden uses motion data and (for outdoor runs) location services to record activities; continued GPS use can reduce battery life. • Features and availability may vary by device and OS version.

Walk, and Basho's journey moves with you. In 1689 the poet Matsuo Basho set out from Edo on foot and walked the deep north for about 150 days. This pedometer turns your own steps into that road. Each milestone opens a new station of Oku no Hosomichi, with the original hokku and a fresh English rendering written for this app. THE FIRST ROAD - TO MATSUSHIMA Leave the grass door at Fukagawa. Pass Senju, Nikko, the barrier at Shirakawa, the twin-trunk pine, and the morning bell at Shiogama. At 18,000 steps you reach Matsushima Bay - the most beautiful place on the journey, and the one where the master wrote no poem at all. Some places are already poems. You only walk into them. THE OKU ROAD - ONE PURCHASE, THE DEEP NORTH Past the bay the road bends inland: the summer grass of Hiraizumi, the stillness of the mountain temple, the gathered rains of the Mogami, the rough sea at Izumozaki, the scent of the springs at Yamanaka, and the clam-shell parting at Ogaki, where the journey ends by beginning again. WHAT THIS APP IS - Real hokku by Basho in the original, with original English renderings - Your steps only, counted on your iPhone and kept on your iPhone - An Apple Watch companion that sends each station to your wrist - A travel pack of ten things you cannot use, and are glad to have WHAT THIS APP IS NOT No ads. No account. No tracking. No data collection. No location. No health claims - this is a book that happens to count steps, not a fitness program. One purchase opens the second half forever. There is no subscription.