Milo vs Basho Steps

Milo is a strength training logger and progression coach for serious lifters — built entirely for iPhone and Apple Watch. Named after Milo of Croton, the ancient athlete who added a little more weight every single day, the app is built around one idea: consistent, measured progression is what actually grows strength. Milo handles the measuring so you can focus on the lifting. Log on your wrist, not your phone Milo's Apple Watch app is a full workout runtime, not a companion. Start a session, check off sets, read your rest timer, and swap exercises — all from your wrist. Live Activities put your rest countdown and active workout on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island. It reads HRV, resting heart rate, and sleep from Apple Health, and writes your workouts back. No third-party accounts, no extra hardware. A coach that learns from what you lift Set up a program once and Milo does the bookkeeping. Its progression engine suggests weights and reps based on your experience level and recent sessions, and quietly updates your planned weights to match what you actually lifted last time — so your next session always starts from reality, not a stale plan. Your data stays yours No sign-up, no server, no subscription. Everything lives in your own private iCloud and syncs across your devices automatically. Share a program with a training partner over iCloud when you want to — otherwise nothing leaves your account. Depth for people who train on purpose • Structured weekly programs or loose workout collections • Full exercise library plus your own custom movements • Functional-fitness formats: AMRAP, EMOM, For Time, Rounds for Time • Plate and warmup calculators • Automatic personal-record detection • A training dashboard with streaks, weekly volume, and muscle-balance tracking • Body-measurement and bodyweight history • Injury-aware exercise filtering that steers you around aggravating movements • Full JSON, CSV, and .milo export — take your history anywhere Free. Every feature above, no paywall, no ads. Load the bar. Milo keeps the ledger.

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 FREE 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.