Big letters, and color
Just what to do right now, in letters and color that fill the screen. Brisk is coral, easy is sky blue. A quick glance is all it takes.
FELITROT — YOUR WALKING PARTNER
3 minutes brisk.3 minutes easy.A cat beside you.
Felitrot is a walking app you do beside Chopin, your cat coach. A long-studied way of walking — 3 minutes brisk, 3 minutes easy — starts with a single tap. The road you walk stays on the map, and on days you finish, you get to chat with him on the way home.
For iOS · Available in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), and Arabic.
It's not your willpower that gives out.
Walking is the most accessible exercise there is — no gear, no special place. And yet most of us quit within days. The reason is simple: a solo walk has no one waiting for you.
So Felitrot placed a single cat there. His name is Chopin. Every morning but the rainy ones, he's out walking this town — your partner on the walk.
The whole method, right here.
Brisk walking that feels somewhat hard, for 3 minutes. Easy, gentle walking, for 3 minutes. After that, you simply alternate the two. And every cue to switch comes from Chopin.
Brisk
In the app it's every 3 minutes; here we're showing it in 3 seconds.
Choose 1–10 sets (start with 5 — about 30 minutes).
Your phone can stay in your pocket.
Each cue to switch reaches you with a sound and a single buzz. There's no need to keep staring at the screen. Take it out only when you feel like checking.
A sound, and a buzz
The cue to switch reaches your pocket by sound and vibration. It won't stop your music — right at the cue, the volume dips gently, then comes back.
On the lock screen, too
The time left and your current phase show on the lock screen as well. No need to take it out — just a glance as you walk.
Feel free to put the screen away. Watching where you walk comes first.
Finish the walk, and today's chat begins.
Finish and confetti falls, and Chopin throws both paws in the air with joy. And if it's your first finish that day — the chat on the walk home moves one step forward. Just one chapter a day.
You never stopped walking—I saw every bit of it, nya.
The chats are a story that continues.
A 10-part story told in conversation, “The Promised Hill.” On the walk home from a day you finished, Chopin falls into step beside you and talks, a little at a time. He has a reason he walks every morning — an old promise, made to someone. He tells it slowly, waiting for your reply.
From Episode 1, “The Road Where It Began” — the actual in-app text.
— To be continued, on the next day you walk. One chapter a day, on the way home.
You're not limited to one companion.
Your first partner is Chopin, the cat. As you walk, you can welcome new friends. All 12 have their own personality, their own way of cheering you on, and — their own stories, too.
As many stories as there are cats.
Every cat has 10 episodes all their own. As more friends join, you can switch between them on the chat shelf. Change your partner, and the same road becomes a brand-new walk.
The scenery unfolds as you walk.
The setting of the story you're reading becomes the very background of your walking screen. Each time a chat moves forward, the next setting opens. The road that begins in a morning park leads, in time, to a hill at dawn.
The road you walked stays on the map.
Turn GPS on, and the course you walked that day is drawn as a line on the map. Where you went, and how far. Every single walk becomes a record you can look back on.
Today's route
Your route appears right on the finish screen as a map. Where the recording dropped, we leave the line honestly broken — we don't force it into one tidy path.
Footprints on the world map
Paw-print pins gather on the countries and towns you visit. A step taken far from home, or your everyday stroll — all of it, on the map of the world.
Location is optional. Even with it off, the walking workout itself is always yours to enjoy (the route map and world map become available once you turn location on).
Which way should we wander today? Just thinking about it cheers me up.
Your footprints take shape.
Walks taken, distance covered, days kept up, countries visited. Each time they add up, paw-print medals quietly multiply — 72 of them in all. No nagging notifications, no penalty for a gap. Only the rewards you earned by trying.
Take home one picture of today.
Walk even a little — finished or partway — and the day becomes a single card. The time you walked, a map of your route, a word from Chopin. Post it straight to social and show someone today's walk.
Not many folks can carry their feet to the finish. That's something.
Each piece on the card (the route map and so on) can be turned on or off, one by one.
One glance from your home screen.
See this week's walking total any time, right from a home-screen widget. Without even opening the app, today's walk quietly catches your eye.
Small and medium sizes.
A simple form, grounded in science.
Felitrot's 3 minutes brisk, 3 minutes easy follows a way of walking first published by a research team at Shinshu University in the international medical journal Mayo Clinic Proceedings in 2007 — and studied around the world for nearly twenty years since. Researchers in Denmark have put it to the test (Diabetes Care), studies have looked at its effect on bone density (PLoS One), and in recent years TIME and CNN have featured it as Japanese Walking, with university hospitals in the U.S. publishing their own guides. Studies have reported improvements in fitness measures, muscle strength, and blood pressure. No complicated rules, no fiddly settings.
The goal: just 150 minutes a week
No need to count a dozen things. There's one goal — a single gauge for 150 minutes of walking this week. That's about 75 minutes of brisk walking — covering the 50–60 minutes a week where studies reported change — while the 150-minute total lines up with what the WHO recommends.
Split it up if you like
Your walking time adds up even in small pieces. A day of just one 6-minute set still stacks onto this week's gauge.
Why “3 minutes”?
For most people, a somewhat-hard brisk pace stays comfortable to hold for about 3 minutes. So we cut it there — a length chosen so you can keep going.
Note: This app is not a medical device and does not guarantee any particular result. The studies mentioned are published research on this way of walking in general, not evidence of what this app does. This app is not endorsed by or affiliated with Shinshu University or any other research institution or organization. If you feel pain, severe breathlessness, or dizziness while walking, stop and rest right away. If you have any concern about your health, please consult a doctor beforehand.
Ready to go? The breeze out there feels awfully nice today.
We never blame you for a rest day.
Felitrot has no days in a row to keep up. No broken-streak marks, no nagging reminders. All there is: a weekly gauge that fills with paw-print stamps for every walk you take.
This week's walking
120 min / 150 min
"Resting is part of walking."
We meet again. You know, I really was waiting for you.
It stays quietly, as much as you walked.
A calendar of the days you walked, week-by-week trends, your running totals, and your weight over time (synced from the Health app). The numbers line up quietly, only ever as proof of your effort.
About Chopin.
- A silver tabby-and-white cat who walks every morning.
- Cheerful and kind — a dependable, classic coach. One steady step at a time.
- His catchphrase: “I've been waiting all day”.
Take it easy — even stepping out the door is plenty for me.
We won't show the dawn on the hill here.
That view belongs to those who've walked all 10 episodes with Chopin.
See you tomorrow. Let's pick up today's walk together.