A walking companion for the curious. One quiet tap on the wrist when something nearby is worth knowing about. The phone stays in your pocket. The walk stays a walk.
Twelve dots wander. Six lines align them. A single point holds the center. The same rotated grid you'll see on every map screen — drawn the way the city draws itself: one street at a time.
Start the app on your wrist and go. No login, no setup, no quiz about your interests. The catalogue is already with you — no signal needed to start the walk.
A single haptic when you're within 500 m of something worth a look. No sound. No banner stack. Two-minute global cooldown — never a buzz parade.
Read three sentences on the wrist. Watch the distance tick down as you walk. Tap Navigate to hand off to Maps. Or keep going — the city has more.
The trail is just a dotted line. As you walk, it lengthens. As you pass a pin, it pulses once and quietly names itself. No turn-by-turn voice. No route to follow. The walk is yours.
The watch is the primary surface — list of fifteen, single-tap alerts, background notifications even when the app is closed. The phone is for context: a map of the 25 nearest places, the street you're on, and the longer story of any place you tap.
A list of 15 within 1 km, sorted by distance. Seen places get a dim check. A single haptic at 500 m, a banner at 250 m even when the app is closed. Per-place cooldown 4 h, global 90 s.
Color-coded pins for landmark, eat, and drink. The street you're on, in the header. A live list below, resorted every 50 m. Tap any pin or row for a three-paragraph story plus a live distance counter.
No algorithm picking your next move. No advertisers buying your attention. Every entry is researched, written about, and pinned in person. The whole catalogue lives on your device — the walk itself never calls home.
Your dot on the map breathes. Three soft rings, every two seconds. Not a heartbeat-monitor, not a notification badge. A quiet way of saying you're here — and the city knows where you are, on the device, and nowhere else.
What a list looks like when you're standing at the corner of Lê Lợi and Pasteur, walking south. Sorted by distance. Updated every fifty metres.
Three sentences of history. The neighborhood. A live distance counter you can watch tick down as you walk. Tap a card on the side to bring it forward — drag, arrow, or wait and it advances on its own.
Hồ Chí Minh City ships bundled with the app — free, forever, fully offline. Every other city is a one-time unlock, priced by size. Buy it once, keep it. No subscription, no expiry, no ads.
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Transitions across the app aren't fades — they bleed, like ink on rice paper. The rotated grid shows briefly through the seam. A small idea, applied consistently: the medium of the product is paper, not glass.
Free to download with Hồ Chí Minh City bundled in. Add other cities as one-time unlocks — no subscription, no ads, no data sold. Requires watchOS 11 and an iPhone running iOS 18.
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