Pacely Step vs Japanese Walk

Every step becomes a journey. Your daily walking distance carries you around Tokyo's Yamanote Loop, one stop at a time, and every flight of stairs adds up to a real landmark. A calm, beautifully simple pedometer and step counter. ■ What Pacely Step does - Steps, distance, calories and stairs — tracked automatically Reads your iPhone's Motion & Fitness data to log daily steps, walking distance, pace, and floors climbed. - Journey: walk your way along real routes Your walking distance moves you around the Yamanote Loop (about 34.5 km). "1.3 km to the next stop" and "4 stops reached today" give every walk somewhere to go. - Climb to world landmarks Your height climbed is measured in Eiffel Towers, Mt. Fuji, the Empire State Building and more. "1.5× Eiffel Tower this month" turns the stairs into a small adventure. - Calorie estimates that reflect how you walk Estimates use your walking speed and stair activity with MET-based calculations. - A calendar that keeps your progress Goal days are marked in vermillion. See your streak, best steps day, best height day and monthly progress at a glance. ■ Who it's for - Anyone who found step counts alone weren't enough to keep walking - Daily walkers and commuters who want a reason to go one stop further - People who prefer a quiet, minimal design over busy fitness apps - Anyone tired of subscriptions and looking for a one-time purchase - Anyone who wants a reason to take the stairs ■ Privacy - No account required - Your step records stay on your iPhone and are never sent anywhere - No access to HealthKit or your location - No advertising identifier (IDFA), no third-party ads or tracking - To show our other apps, the app may fetch public App Store information (app names and icons) Distances, calories and heights are estimates based on your iPhone's measurements.

Most walking apps just count steps. Japanese Walk trains you. It's built entirely around Interval Walking Training (IWT) — the method that came out of research in Japan showing that alternating fast and slow walking paces improves fitness, blood pressure, and leg strength more than walking continuously at the same effort. No gym, no equipment, just a rhythm: walk fast, walk slow, repeat. WHY THIS ISN'T JUST ANOTHER WALKING APP Built for intervals, not steps. The whole app — timer, voice cues, stats, history — is designed around the fast/slow cycle, not bolted on as an afterthought. A real Apple Watch app, not a remote. Start, pause, and track a walk right from your wrist, with live stats on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island — see your current phase, countdown, and heart rate without unlocking your phone. Heart rate zones that mean something. Pull heart rate from Apple Health or pair a Bluetooth chest strap, and see exactly how hard your fast intervals are actually pushing you. Your route, your pace, your history. GPS tracking, distance, calories, and a full history of every walk — broken down by day, week, and month, with personal records that update as you improve. No social feed. No leaderboard. No ads. Just your walk. HOW IT WORKS Set your interval length (3 minutes is the classic split — walk fast for 3, walk slow for 3, repeat), start the timer, and go. A voice cue tells you when to switch pace, so you never have to check your phone mid-stride. When you're done, see your full breakdown: time in each phase, heart rate trend, route map, distance, and calories. WHY INTERVALS Research on interval walking has found it can improve cardiovascular fitness, lower blood pressure, and build leg strength more effectively than walking at a single steady pace for the same amount of time — because the fast intervals push your heart rate up, and the slow intervals let you recover just enough to do it again. It's a small structural change to a walk you're already taking, with outsized results. WHAT YOU GET Customizable fast/slow interval timer with voice cues Full Apple Watch app — start, control, and view a walk from your wrist Live Activities and Dynamic Island support, so your stats are visible without opening the app Heart rate from Apple Health or a Bluetooth chest strap, with zone breakdowns GPS route tracking, distance, and calorie estimates Complete walk history with day/week/month views and personal records Optional iCloud backup for your walk history Reminders to help you build a consistent habit Try it free for 7 days. If it becomes part of your routine, it's $5.99/year — less than the cost of a single studio class, for a training method backed by real research. Japanese Walk. Walk with intention. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/