Xipoe
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Your walks find themselves
No start button, no GPS. Xipoe reads the steps your iPhone already counts in Apple Health and spots each walk and run by itself.
For you and your dog · iPhone
Your iPhone counts every step. It never noticed your dog.
Xipoe finds the walks you take together in Apple Health, asks one question, who came along?, and grows every day into a living tree.
Free · No account · No ads · Walks stay on your iPhone
Start button
None. Walks find themselves.To tag a walk
One tap per dogEvery day
A tree of your ownYour data
On your iPhone onlyHow it works
Walk the way you always do. That's it.
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Tap who came along
One tap per dog and the walk is theirs too. Your steps together become the score, and each dog keeps its own walks and streak.
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Watch your day grow
Every day becomes a tree in Poetree. Your steps grow the wood, every dog that walked with you grows a limb of its own.
Poetree
Every day grows a tree.
At night your day plays back as a story. A meteor plants the seed, the tree grows through every walk, and in autumn the leaves fall into the time you spent together.
Your footprints
Pixie's paws
Nova's paws
01Made of your steps
Every 25 steps opens a leaf: footprints for you, paw prints for each dog, on the limb that dog grew.
02Yours to hold
Tilt your iPhone and the tree leans into the wind. Shake it and the leaves drop into everyone's step count.
03A story every night, a week every Monday
Watch the day's story at 21:00 and the whole week on Monday. Save it as a video to keep or share.
Streaks, the kind way
A good week, not a perfect one.
Pick a daily target of steps together and how many good days make your week. A ring fills to your target, then keeps going in blue.
Big days count
Up to two days in one
Walk twice your target and it counts for two, so one long Sunday can make up for a busy Tuesday.
Rest week
One a quarter, on us
Missed a week? A rest week keeps your streak alive once every quarter.
Days off
Sick days don't count against you
When you or your dog are unwell, or the weather says no, mark a day off and it still counts.
Each dog, counted too
Their side of the walk.
Every dog has its own page: its walks, its streak, the photos from your walks, and its paw steps, an estimate from your steps and its height. A little dog takes a lot more steps than you do.
- Paw steps, worked out from published research on how dogs walk
- One photo per dog per walk, kept with the walk it was taken on
- In memory: when a dog passes away, its walks and photos stay
Every Monday
Your week, together.
Monday morning brings the week recap: the dogs who walked with you, the walks you took together and how the week went. Share it as a picture, or watch the whole week grow as one tree.
Journal and widgets
Every day, at a glance.
The Journal keeps your days and weeks as clear charts. Widgets bring today's ring and your dogs' week to the Home Screen and Lock Screen.
Health Journal · optional
For the years they need you most.
Care dates are free: vaccines, the vet, flea and tick, worming and the groomer, with a reminder the evening before. The Health Journal adds what an older or recovering dog needs.
- Daily medicine, supplements and food, with a reminder at each time and Given right on the notification
- Weight with its whole history, notes and a log
- For the vet: a period of walks, doses and weights to show or share. Trends over the last 8 weeks
Monthly
$3.99
a month, first month freeYearly
$24.99
a year, first month freeLifetime
$49.99
once, yours for goodPrices in US dollars; your App Store shows your local price. Cancel anytime in your Apple ID settings. If you stop, everything you logged stays readable. Xipoe never gives medical advice.
Why the walk matters
Good for you. Better for them.
You
Dog owners are far more likely to reach 150 active minutes a week.
Westgarth C. et al. Dog owners are more likely to meet physical activity guidelines than people without a dog. Scientific Reports 9, 5704 (2019). doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-41254-6Your dog
Dogs given time to sniff came out more optimistic.
Duranton C., Horowitz A. Let me sniff! Nosework induces positive judgment bias in pet dogs. Applied Animal Behaviour Science 211 (2019) 61 to 66. doi.org/10.1016/j.applanim.2018.12.009Private by design
Our promise
Your walks are yours. Xipoe has no server to send them to.
- No account
- No ads
- No analytics, no tracking
- Your walks stay on your iPhone
- Reads Apple Health, never writes to it
Read the privacy policy. It says the same as the one inside the app.
Questions
Before your first walk.
Do I need to press start before a walk?
No. Your iPhone already counts your steps. Xipoe reads them from Apple Health and finds each walk by itself: 5 minutes or more at a walking pace. You just tap which dogs came along.
Do I need an Apple Watch?
No. Your iPhone in your pocket is enough.
Is Xipoe free?
Yes. Walks, dogs, streaks, Poetree, the week recap, widgets and care dates with reminders are free. The Health Journal is an optional purchase with a free first month.
How are my dog's paw steps counted?
They're an estimate from your steps and your dog's height, based on published research on how dogs walk. Add your dog's size and Xipoe shows them; the app explains the maths in Settings, About. Read more in how many steps your dog takes.
I cycle with my phone in my pocket. Will that count as a walk?
Sometimes a ride shows up as steps. Tap "Not a walk" and it's set aside; you can always bring it back.
Where is my data kept?
On your iPhone only. There is no account and no server. When iCloud Backup is on, your data is in your iPhone's backup, so a new iPhone set up from it keeps your dogs and walks.
Can I walk more than one dog?
Yes. Each dog gets its own walks, streak, page and limb on the tree.
What do I need?
An iPhone with iOS 18 or later, and Apple Health.
Go for a walk. We'll count you both.
For iPhone · iOS 18 or later · Free