Footscroll - Japanese Steps
Walk Japan's ancient coast
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
Walk, and Ino Tadataka's survey of Japan unfolds in washi and sumi ink. New: live steps on the Lock Screen, a province collection book, and border celebrations.
Every step you take writes a new page in a 200-year-old story.
Footscroll turns your daily walk into the legendary journey of Ino Tadataka — the Edo-period cartographer who spent 17 years walking Japan's entire coastline to create the nation's first accurate map.
■ Ino Tadataka's Dream
Your steps fuel a tiny surveyor's progress along Japan's 40,000 km coastline. Watch him walk across Honshu, Hokkaido, Shikoku, Kyushu, and beyond — all rendered on aged washi paper with sumi ink, just like the original Ino maps. The further you walk in real life, the more of Japan unfolds before you.
■ Charts That Tell a Story
Track your steps across four time scales — day, week, month, and year. A prediction bar shows whether you're on pace to hit today's goal. A heatmap calendar paints your active days in shades of green.
■ Gold Leaf Celebration
Hit your daily goal and gold leaf drifts across the screen — a quiet, beautiful moment of celebration. Your consecutive streak is tracked too, keeping you motivated day after day.
■ Washi, Sumi, Indigo
This isn't just another step counter. Footscroll is crafted with the aesthetics of traditional Japanese art: washi paper textures, sumi ink coastlines, indigo ocean gradients, and old province names written in classical vertical script. Every screen feels like holding a piece of Edo-era cartography.
■ Your Data Stays Yours
Steps are read from Apple Health. Everything is stored on your device. Nothing leaves your phone. Ever.
Key features:
• Step ring with daily goal tracking
• Ino Tadataka's Dream — coastline survey mode
• Day / week / month / year step charts
• Step heatmap calendar
• Pace comparison vs. yesterday
• Consecutive goal streak
• Gold leaf celebration animation
• Japanese & English
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A major update to make walking more fun!
NEW
- Province arrival celebration — entering a new historic province is now honored with a travel-pass ceremony and a survey journal entry
- Province Collection — collect the provinces you pass through, like a pilgrimage stamp book
- Live steps on Lock Screen — today's steps and the distance to the next province, automatically shown on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island
- Notifications — a heads-up when the next province is close, and an evening reminder before your streak breaks (can be turned off in Settings)
- Today's March — today's walk is drawn in vermillion on the survey map
- Rest Pass — once a month, a missed day no longer breaks your streak
IMPROVED
- Better English localization
- Lock Screen widgets are now unified into the live steps display
The developer, Isao Yamaguchi, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Used to Track You
The following data may be used to track you across apps and websites owned by other companies:
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Diagnostics
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Isao Yamaguchi
- Size
- 13.8 MB
- Category
- Health & Fitness
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later. - Apple Watch
Requires watchOS 10.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English and Japanese
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Contains
Advertising
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Remove Ads $3.99
- Copyright
- © mikocode
