Walk through the city. When you pass a park you haven't visited, the app gives you one gentle nudge. Step inside, tap, and the park becomes a pixel-art card with a small poem — in Chinese, Finnish, and English.
In the Name of the Park is not a fitness tracker — it doesn't count your steps or shame you for resting. It's not a social network — there's no audience but you. It's a private collection of the green moments your city quietly offered you.
Version one ships with about 100 hand-curated Helsinki parks. Every single one has a name, a description, and a short poem written in three languages — read by human editors, not just generated. Over months, you fill a personal field guide of everywhere the city let you breathe.
Go outside, like you already do. The app stays in your pocket — the map is the only feed.
Come within 500 meters of a park you haven't collected and you get a gentle nudge: "Esplanadi is right ahead — go breathe." No nagging, no re-engagement tricks.
Tap to collect. A pixel card flips open with the park's poem. It's yours now — stamped with the date and the spot where you stood.
Walk up to a park, tap once, and it becomes a pixel card with a two-voice poem. Browse your growing Dex, open the map, share a card like a postcard. Five categories, three rarity tiers — the legendary ★★★ ones take a ferry or a trek to earn.
Actual screenshots from the app. ~100 hand-curated Helsinki parks at launch.
Hand-picked, hand-edited, human-read. Better to ship 80 great parks than 100 mediocre ones — that's the editorial bar.
Every park carries a short poem in Chinese, Finnish, and English. Not translations of each other — three parallel poems.
One local notification when you first come within 500 m of an uncollected park. No reminders, no re-engagement tricks.
A scrollable grid of every card — collected in color, the rest waiting in slate. Filter by category, watch the percentage climb.
Any collected card exports as a tall postcard image for sharing. An iMessage sticker pack of the hero parks ships with the app.
No account, no login. Collections live on your device and sync through your private iCloud. The app works fully offline.
The developer never receives your location, your collection, or anything else you do in the app.
An iOS app that turns visiting parks into a slow collection ritual. You walk in the real city; when you're within about 500 meters of a park you haven't collected yet, the app gives you one gentle nudge. Tap to collect it, and the park becomes a pixel-art card with a short poem in Chinese, Finnish, and English. Over months you fill a personal Pokédex-style collection of the green places your city offered you.
No. There are no step counts, no streaks, no goals, and nothing that punishes you for not walking. The app's only ambition is to make walking feel a little more rewarding — it should make you walk more, not stare at your phone more.
Version 1 launches with around 100 hand-curated Helsinki parks, each with a name, description, and poem in Chinese, Finnish, and English. More cities — Shanghai, Beijing, Tokyo, Berlin — are planned for later releases using the same editorial pipeline.
The app uses location only to tell you when you're near an uncollected park. By default that's "While Using the App". You can optionally turn on background nudges, which need "Always" location so the app can tap you even when it's closed — off by default. Either way, your position is processed on your device and the collect coordinate is saved only in your own private iCloud. Your location is never sent to the developer or any third party — there is no server at all. See the privacy policy.
It's free on the App Store, for iPhone running iOS 17 or later, in English, Chinese, and Finnish. Helsinki today — more cities soon.
Live on the App Store, starting with Helsinki. Free, private, and quiet by design.
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