In the Name of the Park (δ»₯ε ¬εδΉε / Puiston nimessΓ€) turns visiting parks into a slow collection ritual. You walk in the real city; when you come close to 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. There are no streaks, no followers, and no feed β just you, the city, and the parks.
While you're using the app, it checks β on your device β whether you're within about 500 meters of a park you haven't collected. When you arrive, you get a local notification, something like "π³ Esplanadi is right ahead β go breathe." A built-in cooldown means it won't fire again and again on the same walk. No streaks, no re-engagement nagging.
Want nudges even when the app is closed? Turn on Background nudges in Settings (see below). It's off by default.
The collection is stamped with the date, time, and the coordinate where you were standing β so your map of memories stays accurate.
No β that's the point. You have to actually be there. Park locations and the 500 m circle are approximate, so standing at the edge of a large park is fine.
Coordinates are placed at the approximate center of each park and verified against Apple Maps, but parks are big and city data is imperfect. If something is clearly off, email us β we read every report and fix the catalog in updates.
The Dex (εΎι΄) is your field guide: a scrollable grid of every park in the catalog. Collected parks show their full-color card; uncollected ones wait as dark slate cards with a gold "?".
Yes β filter by category (urban / forest / island / national / wetland). Rarity (β / β β / β β β ) shows on each card by its border. The progress bar at the top shows how much of the city you've collected.
Open any collected card to see the date and the spot where you stood when you collected it.
Sharing is a postcard, not a status post. There are no likes to count.
An iMessage sticker pack of the hero parks installs together with the app. In Messages, tap the + (or the app drawer), find In the Name of the Park, and drop pixel parks onto your conversations.
If your iPhone is signed into iCloud, your collection syncs automatically to your private CloudKit database β the same mechanism Apple's own apps use. Install the app on a new device with the same iCloud account, and your collection appears.
No. There is no app-level account at all. iCloud sync uses your existing system-level Apple ID; the developer never sees your identity or your data.
Yes, fully. The park catalog ships inside the app. Without iCloud, everything still works β your collection just lives on that one device.
Only one kind: the proximity nudge when you come near an uncollected park. These are local notifications fired by your device β there is no push server, and the app will never message you for re-engagement, streaks, or news.
By default these fire while you're using the app. If you turn on Background nudges (Settings β Background nudges, off by default), the app can also nudge you when it's closed; this asks iOS for "Always" location and notification permission. You can turn it off any time.
On your iPhone (SwiftData) and, if you use iCloud, in your own private iCloud database. The developer runs no server and cannot see your location, your collection, or anything else. See the full Privacy Policy.
You are responsible for your own safety. Don't use the app while driving, don't enter private or unsafe areas to collect a park, and treat distances as approximate. See the Terms of Service.
Found a park we missed? A poem that reads oddly? A bug?
We read every email, usually within 24 hours.