The Japanese walking method, coached on your iPhone
Aruki coaches the Japanese walking method — three minutes easy, three minutes brisk, repeated — entirely from your iPhone. A soft chime and a quiet voice cue every switch, and a Live Activity shows the phase on your lock screen, so your phone stays in your pocket. No Apple Watch, no account, no backend, no subscription — just a one-time Pro unlock. The full guided walk is free.
Hi Product Hunt 👋 I'm Damiano, a solo dev — I build small iPhone apps under Bytamite.
"Japanese walking" (three minutes easy, three minutes brisk, repeated) blew up online, but every option I found either needed an Apple Watch or was a generic interval timer. So I built a calm one that coaches the whole walk from your pocket — a soft chime and a quiet voice tell you when to ease off and when to push, and a Live Activity shows the phase on your lock screen. Phone stays away, eyes stay up.
A few choices I'm happy with: it runs fully on-device, no account, no backend to babysit, and it's a one-time unlock instead of a subscription (currently $9.99 to launch). The free tier is the full guided walk.
Built it solo in a couple of weeks to ride the trend while it's hot. I'd genuinely love to hear what's missing or what you'd change — I read everything. Thanks for taking a look 🙏
About Aruki on Product Hunt
“The Japanese walking method, coached on your iPhone”
Aruki launched on Product Hunt on July 1st, 2026 and earned 97 upvotes and 41 comments, placing #25 on the daily leaderboard. Aruki coaches the Japanese walking method — three minutes easy, three minutes brisk, repeated — entirely from your iPhone. A soft chime and a quiet voice cue every switch, and a Live Activity shows the phase on your lock screen, so your phone stays in your pocket. No Apple Watch, no account, no backend, no subscription — just a one-time Pro unlock. The full guided walk is free.
On the analytics side, Aruki competes within Health & Fitness and Apple — topics that collectively have 98.4k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Aruki performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
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