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Your map starts covered. Walk, and it opens.
Pathie turns the ground you actually cover into a map only you have. Every street you walk clears the fog above it — and nothing else does.
Free · iPhone and Android · 8 languages · no ads, no trackers
The one rule
Feet only.
Most maps fill in when you look at them. This one fills in when you go there. It is the whole product, and it is the reason a cleared street means something.
Not driving past it.
Thirty kilometres on a motorway clears nothing. The car is not walking.
Not zooming in.
The map opens under your feet, not under your fingers. Looking is not going.
Not checking in.
There is no button that says you were here. There is only having been here.
Walk to uncover
A map only you have.
01
It starts covered.
Open the app on day one and the map above your own street is fog. Nothing has been earned yet.
02
Start recording and walk.
The fog lifts along your path, cell by cell, roughly sixty-five metres at a time. Screen off, phone in your pocket — it keeps going.
03
It never closes again.
Cleared ground stays cleared, and the shapes join into one continuous form with your own walks cut out of it. Come back a year later and the map is a record of everywhere you have been on foot.
04
Then it starts counting.
How much of your neighbourhood you have opened, then your district, then your region, then the country. The first number is achievable. The last one is a life.
Example figures.
A pet that finds what you haven't
It studies the parts still covered.
Ask it where to go and it comes back with somewhere real — a park, a viewpoint, a street you have never turned down — and then plans the walk that gets you there.
Tier 1
Egg
It has not seen anything yet. Neither has your map.
Tier 2
Curious
It starts noticing which streets you keep not turning down.
Tier 3
Explorer
It brings back somewhere worth going, and tells you why.
Tier 4
Tracker
It reads the covered parts and plans the walk that opens them.
Tier 5
Legend
It has been everywhere you have. That took both of you.
The pet levels with the distance you walk — scroll sideways.
What it sends, and what it does not.
Asking it something sends your message and your location for that one request, plus a photo if you attach one. The conversation itself stays on your phone — there is no history of it on a server to go and read.
Plan the walk
Know the hill before you are on it.
Draw a route by hand or let it snap to real streets and paths, then look at what you have actually signed up for.
- The elevation profile, before you commit to the climb
- Weather for the hour you will arrive, not for right now
- Easy, moderate or hard, scored from the route itself
- Save it for offline and its map tiles come with it
Record it properly
Screen off. Phone in your pocket.
Background GPS keeps recording while you get on with the walk, and the summary is waiting when you stop.
- Live distance, pace, elevation and step count
- Keeps running with the screen off or another app open
- The finished activity is saved to the phone, not uploaded
All six get recorded. Only the first one clears fog.
Remember it
A year later, the map is the record.
Not a feed you scroll and not a grid you sort. The places sit where they happened, and the photos come out looking like something you would keep in a drawer.
Pins
Drop one anywhere and give it photos and a note. It stays where the thing was.
Journal
Walks, photos and places file themselves by day. You do not maintain it.
Memories
Group the places that belong together — a trip, a summer, a habit — into one collection.
Works without signal
Airplane mode, halfway up a mountain.
The database on your phone is the source of truth, not a copy of one. There is no cloud to reach before the app is useful.
- It still opens, still records, still writes with the radio off
- Around 3 MB of tiles for a route — not a world download
- Or take a whole district offline, day and night styles both
- Sync happens when you are back, if you asked for it
Everything else
The rest of it, briefly.
Things that would each be a paragraph somewhere else, and are each one line here.
A theme that follows the sky
The app goes dark when the sun actually sets where you are, not at a fixed hour and not because the OS said so.
Eight languages
English, Turkish, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Chinese, Hindi and Arabic — including right-to-left.
Export as GPX
Any walk leaves as a standard file. Endpoints are trimmed by default so a shared track does not start at your door.
Encrypted backup
An AES-256-GCM archive, unlocked by a password or a 16-word recovery phrase.
Achievements worth having
They unlock at fog milestones — a percentage of a real neighbourhood, not a login streak.
Six app icons
Forest, night, dawn, paper, coral and purple. Change it without leaving the app.
Your own marker
Six colours and a choice of emblem — heart, paw, daisy, star — on the arrow that points where you are facing.
Help on the map
Hospitals, police, gendarmerie and fire stations are a layer you can turn on, not a menu you have to search.
Offline areas
Download a district, or just what is on screen, and browse it with the radio off.
No leaderboard
No ranking to climb, no streak shouting at you, no feed in front of your own map.
Privacy
No ads. No trackers. No analytics SDK.
Not a promise about how we would use the data — there is no analytics library, no attribution SDK, no ad network and no advertising identifier anywhere in the app. Crash reports go to Sentry with coordinates stripped out, and only if you allow it.
Never leaves your phone
The server sees a route when you publish it, a photo when you upload it, and a message when you send it to someone. That is the whole list.
An account is required.
Even for the parts that never go online. Rooms, sharing and the pet all need an identity, and the app has one rather than two. Sign in with Apple, Google, or a code sent to your email.
Backups are encrypted, not zero-knowledge.
A server-side backup is sealed with AES-256-GCM, but the key is held alongside it, so we could technically open one. Rooms are different — those are end-to-end encrypted and we cannot read them.
Plans
Walking is free. It stays free.
The paid plans buy storage, offline depth and how much research the pet does for you. They do not buy the map — recording, fog and everything under your feet is unmetered on every plan.
Free
$0
No card, no trial clock.
Walking, recording and fog are unlimited. Nothing about the map is behind a price.
Pro
Most people$4.99/ month
per month, or $29.99 a year
For someone who walks most days and wants the pet and the photo album to keep up.
Atlas
$9.99/ month
7-day free trial on the yearly plan
For long trips: deep offline coverage and the pet doing real research before you go.
| Limits | Free | Pro | Atlas |
|---|---|---|---|
| Walking, recording, fogThe core of the app is never metered, on any plan. | ∞ | ∞ | ∞ |
| Routes created per month | 30 | ∞ | ∞ |
| Routes saved per month | 50 | ∞ | ∞ |
| Photos per month | 10 | 200 | 1,000 |
| Storage | 200 MB | 2 GB | 10 GB |
| Offline routes at once | 1 | 10 | 50 |
| Offline areas at once | 1 | 10 | ∞ |
| Rooms you can open | 2 | ∞ | ∞ |
| People per room | 6 | ∞ | ∞ |
| Pet conversations per month | 10 | 100 | 400 |
| Fresh place research per monthRunning out never blocks the pet — it answers from its index instead, with ratings and sources, just without fresh photos. | 3 | 40 | 150 |
Pro and Atlas arrive with version 1.0. Until then the app is free and the free limits are the only ones there are.
Questions
The ones people actually ask.
Does it work without signal?+
Yes, and that is the design rather than a fallback. Routes, pins, photos, the journal and the fog live in a database on the phone. Airplane mode halfway up a mountain: it still opens, still records, still writes. Anything that syncs, syncs later, and only if you asked for it.
What does it do to my battery?+
Recording uses GPS continuously, so it costs what any GPS tracker costs. On Android it runs as a foreground service so the system does not kill it mid-walk; on iOS it uses background location for the same reason. When you are not recording, nothing runs.
Why do I need an account?+
Because rooms, sharing and the pet all reach a server, and the app has one identity system rather than two. It is worth being straight about the trade: sign-in is required even though most of what you do afterwards never leaves the phone. You can sign in with Apple, with Google, or with an emailed code.
What actually reaches your servers?+
Only what you send. Raw GPS tracks, fog cells, journal entries, plans, saved places, offline packs and your pet chat history stay on the device. The server sees a route when you publish it, a photo when you upload it, and a message when you send it to a room.
What does the pet send when I ask it something?+
The text of your message and your location for that request, plus a photo if you attach one. It goes to a model on Cloudflare Workers AI and is not stored there. The conversation history itself stays on your phone.
Are rooms really private?+
Rooms are end-to-end encrypted — keys are wrapped per member and per device, messages are sealed with AES-GCM, and you can verify a safety number with the person in front of you. Backups are a different matter and we say so in the privacy policy: they are encrypted, but not zero-knowledge.
Can I get my walks out?+
Any walk exports as GPX or GeoJSON from the share sheet. Endpoints are trimmed by default, so a file you hand to someone does not begin at your front door.
How do I delete my account?+
In the app, under Settings, or from the web without installing anything. Deletion sweeps stored files and every table that holds your data; a test fails the build if a new table is ever added without being covered.
Is there an iPad version?+
Not yet — this is an iPhone and Android phone app. It is built around a phone in a pocket while you are moving.
Go outside. Come back with a map.
Free to start, no ads, and nothing on it you did not walk to.