reTrek vs Basho Steps

Walking is the thing we all know is good for us and still skip. The next episode of the show. Tonight's game on TV. One more level in a videogame. Those we never skip. They have a next chapter, so we come back. reTrek gives your walks the next chapter too. Your real steps carry you along a famous trail: to Everest Base Camp, across the Camino, over the Inca Trail. Or through a story quest where your choices shape the ending. Walk it on your own, or share the route: pool your steps with friends to finish together, or race them to the top. The number isn't the point. The journey is. And it is even better shared. HOW IT WORKS - Pick a route or a story quest. - Walk in real life. Your evening loop, the dog walk, the trip to the shop. All of it counts. - Reach a milestone, and something opens up: a short film about the place you have reached, or the next chapter of your quest. WALK TOGETHER, OR RACE Walking alone is easy to skip. Walking when someone is counting on your steps is not. - Team up on a route and pool your steps toward a finish you reach together. - Or race. Everyone walks the whole route, and the first to the finish wins. - Follow friends and fellow adventurers, cheer each other on, and watch who is pulling ahead. The evening walk you would have skipped becomes the one that keeps you in the race. ALONG THE WAY Something to look forward to, and proof of how far you have come. - Earn badges for distance walked, routes finished, and days on the move. - Level up as you keep walking, and collect a shareable card for every route you finish and every quest ending you reach. - See a weekly recap of how far you have come. ROUTES AND QUESTS A growing collection of famous trails to walk and story quests to follow, from a marathon's 42 km to the Camino's 780 km. Trek to Everest Base Camp, walk the Camino de Santiago, cross the Inca Trail, follow the Nakasendo from Kyoto to Tokyo. Carry a sealed letter through 14th-century Provence, or help someone escape 1820s Italy. New routes and quests added regularly. WORKS WITH YOUR IPHONE reTrek reads your steps from Apple Health. Carry your iPhone, walk normally, that is it. Apple Watch, Garmin, Polar, Whoop, Fitbit, Oura, and other trackers all work as long as they write steps to Apple Health. The walking works offline; some milestone content needs the internet to load. FREE AND PRO Free: walk to Everest Base Camp and play The Sealed Letter, the full experience at a smaller scale. The free route is not a trial. It stays free. PRO: every route, every quest, and everything new I add. Bring 2 friends to race or walk with you on PRO routes. Free for them. Cancel anytime. MADE BY ONE PERSON That person is me, Myko Nordy. I build reTrek on my own from Norway: no investors, no corporate parent, no ads, and I never sell your data. Your subscription pays for the next route, not a shareholder. Your next walk can be the first steps to Everest Base Camp.

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.