Everything in MossMug

Today is where you log a walk, add a reflection or photo, and share it. Dashboard is the overview of everything around your walks: days walked, your next milestone and weekly aim, then a card for each part of MossMug you use, such as friends, circles, companions, places, what you earned lately, The Meadow and Paths. Parts you have not tried yet wait in one row at the end. After a walk, Today sometimes shows one small card about a part you have not tried yet, at most one a day; "Not now" puts it away for good. Your calendar and walk stats are in Footprints.

Use Today and Dashboard in the website's top bar or menu to switch between them. In the Android app, Today opens the walk scene and Home opens the dashboard. In mobile apps without a Today tab, Home opens Today and Dashboard is in Menu.

One button. Press it after a walk and the day counts. No distance, time, steps, or route are asked for, and a walk is whatever felt like one to you. You can log more than one walk a day (up to ten); milestones count the days you walked, not the number of presses, so a second walk never inflates anything.

Your logged walks, earned milestones, and rewards stay through breaks. Some badges celebrate consecutive walking days and show progress toward them. A missed day interrupts that run, but your total days walked keep adding up whenever you return.

Forgot to log yesterday, or walked twice? Tap a day on the Footprints calendar to add a walk to it, any day in the last 30 days, and the Today page lets you log another walk for today.

After a walk a small form appears with optional cards: when you walked, how it was, a note, one good thing, your tags, companions, place, and a photo. Every card is optional and a walk with none of them still counts. Everything in it can be edited for 30 days.

In the mobile app, unfinished notes and good things stay as a draft on this device for up to 30 days. Reopen the same walk to recover your writing, or choose Discard local draft. Tap Save details to save it to your account.

Pick early morning, morning, afternoon, evening, or night, or a time. It only matters for the time-of-day achievements and the journal; the walk counts either way.

Hide the reflection cards you never use so the form stays short. Anything you have already filled in on a walk stays put. Tags appear once you have created some. Before you have any companions or places, their cards offer a field to name your first one. The same switches live on the Preferences page.

Logged a walk by mistake? Remove it and the day is recounted. Achievements you have already earned stay earned.

Five moods from great to hard day, up to three weather conditions, a felt temperature from freezing to hot, and the season, which is worked out from the date but can be changed. These feed the "How walking feels" reflections on Footprints and the seasonal achievements.

A note of up to 280 characters for anything you want to remember, and a separate line for one good thing you noticed. Good things are searchable in the journal and resurface in the weekly summary and the Year in Walks recap.

Up to three photos per walk, each with an optional caption of 140 characters. The first one is the cover photo on cards and in the journal. In the Android app, choose Take photo or Choose photos. You can select the remaining photos together and give each its own caption before saving; if any photo cannot be saved, the selection stays ready to retry.

Labels you make yourself, like Solo time or Mobility aid, up to 30 of them. Add any number to a walk. Footprints shows how walks with a tag tended to feel.

The people and pets you walk with: the dog, a neighbor, grandma. Each has an emoji or a photo and a short bio. Name your first one right in the reflection form, or add them in Companions. Add any of them to a walk, and Footprints keeps count of your days together. Each companion has a page of your walks together: how they felt, where you went, the photos, and the walks themselves. Tap a companion on any walk to see their card.

Where you walked, in your own words: the river loop, around the block, the forest trail. A place is only a name you choose, with an emoji and an optional line about it. Name your first one right in the reflection form, or add them in Places. A walk carries one place. Each place has a page with every walk and photo from there, and Footprints can tell you which spot your good days tend to happen at.

Your walking, all in one place, in three views: the Journal of every walk, the Calendar for adding and editing walks, and Insights with days walked, this week, milestones, how walking feels, the people and places you walk with, and your photos.

Every walk, newest first, with its details and photos. Search your notes and good things, and use Filters to narrow it by mood, who came along, place, tag, weather, or walks with photos. Open any walk to read it, share it, or go edit it. Older walks load as you go.

A month at a time with the days you walked marked. Tap a day to see its walks, add a forgotten walk, or edit a walk within the past 30 days.

Every walk photo as a gallery, by year, with a place filter once you use places. Open any photo to see it large with the walk's date, mood, weather, note, and caption.

Reflections drawn from the moods, weather, temperatures, tags, and places you have noted: which time of day tends to feel best, how walks with a tag or at a place felt, where sunny days tend to take you. Never targets or scores.

A page for each companion and each place: days together or days there with first and latest dates, how those walks felt, who came along or where you went, the photos, and the latest walks, with a link into the journal filtered to them. The cards in Footprints Insights link straight to those walks too.

A recap of a whole year: days walked, moods and weather, the tags, companions, and places that came up most, the places you found for the first time, a few good things, some photos, and the milestones you reached. Pick any year you have walked in.

When you walked on today's date in an earlier year, a card brings that walk back: its photo, note, or mood, one card per year.

How many days you have walked this week, the mood that came up most, who came along, where your walks went, and one good thing or note from the week.

Days-walked markers from your first day to your thousandth, celebrated when you reach them. They count the days you walked, ever. Nothing about them resets, and there is no pace to keep.

Little markers along the way: walking at different times of day and on different days of the week, in each season, a full month, coming back after a break, first companion, first place, and a few hidden ones you find by walking. Many unlock a reward. Some badges celebrate consecutive walking days; a missed day interrupts that run, but your logged walks and earned badges stay.

Some walks turn up a discovery: a feather, a beechnut, a paper crane, some common and some rare. Your Discoveries page shows how many of each find you have available and everything you have found. The find also stays on its walk in Footprints. Using a find for a charm keeps that history. Deleting a walk keeps its earned discoveries; resetting all walking data clears them. Walk on the same day as a friend and you may cross paths.

Use one discovery for a charm. A common find lasts three walks and an uncommon find seven; the find is used when you activate, and your collection history keeps it. Firefly Glow adds golden lights and Petal Drift adds soft pink petals to the cards of your next walks, wherever those cards appear: your Footprints journal, the Meadow and your profile. Decorated walks keep their effect. Offer a find to invite Mossling, a little woodland creature, or a Sparrow to sit beside your avatar for your next walks. Any find invites the same friend, and your chosen frame returns when the visit ends. Fox on the Ridge, Geese Crossing and Lantern at Dusk visit the evening scene on the Today page, the one you see once you have walked today. Rarer finds change the horizon itself: a rare find brings the Aurora above the hills for fifteen walks, and a legendary find opens the Lakeside for sixty. Shooting Stars, Fox by the Fire, Season's Drift and Mossling by the Fire play in the campfire scene when you log your first walk of the day from the walk button, and only those walks use one of their charges. Your cards, your avatar, the Today page, your horizon and the moment you log a walk each hold one charm at a time, and a new walk uses one charge from each active charm. Long charms keep their count private until a few walks remain.

There is no timer. Only newly logged walks use a charge: backdated walks, walks logged soon after deleting a recent walk, and offline walks recorded before activation do not count. Deleting a walk does not return a charge.

Achievements and milestones unlock things to make MossMug yours: button icons for the walk button, colour themes, palettes for Today and Dashboard and for your public profile, avatar frames, and cozy music tracks. A few are yours from day one. When a walk unlocks something, the celebration names it and links to where you can use it.

Soft instrumental tracks to play while you visit. Off until you press play. More tracks unlock as you walk, and you can have one play when you log a walk. There is also a small chime for logging a walk, on or off.

A short thought for the day: a quote, a prompt, something to notice, or a line for the season. It changes at your local midnight and is the same for everyone in your season. If you have written your why under Settings, Goal, it shows here too.

Optional and pressure-free: a number of days a week you would like to walk, or particular weekdays. The dashboard shows how the week is going, and you can ask for one mid-week reminder. You can also write your why, which shows on Today before you walk and is never measured.

Find people by name, send a request, or share your personal invite link. A request sent to you reaches you in your bell menu, by email, as a count on Friends in your menu, and on the dashboard, where you can accept or decline it. Your friends page shows who walked today and a feed of their recent walks with the details they share. The whole feature can be switched off on the Preferences page.

A tap on a friend's walk from the last seven days to say well done. No counts, no leaderboard, just a small hello back.

Small groups that walk in the same week, up to 100 people. Create one and invite by link, browse public circles, or join a random open one. A circle has a feed of members' walks, a photo wall, a shelf of discoveries, posts and reactions, and events you can plan together. The feed shows who walked, never who did not. A friend's invite reaches you in your bell menu, by email, on Today after a walk, and in the circles card on the dashboard. If you are in no circle, Today introduces circles once after a walk, from your third walking day; Not now puts the card away for good. Joining your first circle unlocks the Campfire theme. The creator can remove a member, who can then come back only through a new invite from the creator.

A public feed of walks across MossMug. Walks that share nothing grow as small sprouts along the trail; a charm, a shown name, or a pinned circle keeps a walk in its own clearing instead. Walkers who opt in can add their mood, weather, note, photo, or discovery, show their name and a walking circle, and public tags, companions, and places ride along. You can send a small heart on a walk, or tap a sprout to send one, and that is all. To report a walk that does not belong, open it and use the menu.

Walks worth taking and places worth walking to, written up by the walkers who know them: a title, the place and country, a few sentences on where it starts and what to look out for, and up to three photos. No distances, timings, or maps. Anyone can read them; posting one is under your name, and you can edit or delete yours whenever you like.

An optional page at your own address, mossmug.com/@username, for sharing a little of your walking. Turning it on suggests a username from your name; nothing goes live until you save. Choose what it shows: your name and bio, days walked, achievements, calendar, friends, high fives, member since, a photo wall, your recent walks, and the companions and places you have marked public. Presets set them all at once, and you can let others find you by name in search, or not.

Each companion listed on a profile has a small page of the walks they came along on, following the same visibility as the profile's recent walks and photo wall.

An image of a walk, made for posting elsewhere, with the day, mood, weather, and photo if you like.

Friend requests and acceptances, high fives, achievements, friends' walks and achievements, discoveries, crossing paths with a friend, circle invites, joins, walks, and events, replies to your feedback, and a summary when Meadow hearts gather on your walks. Each type is its own switch, and you can turn on device push notifications for the ones you keep. On Android, Open notification settings takes you to the phone’s controls; MossMug checks them again when you return.

A welcome, a note when you unlock an achievement or reach a milestone, a note when someone sends you a friend request (once per person), a note when a friend invites you to a walking circle, and a Sunday reflection on your walking week, which includes the week's walks in your circles when there were any. All optional, and every email has a one-click unsubscribe.

Four, each one you can switch off: a reminder a week after signing up if you have not logged a first walk, and one within a couple of weeks of your first walking day if a second has not followed (both under Getting-started reminders, each sent once), a short hello if a long stretch goes by without a walk (at most a couple of times a year), and a mid-week note if you are behind the personal goal you set.

Sign up with an emailed link, a password, or Google. Signing in with Google to an existing account on a non-Gmail address sends a link to that address first, and opening it in the same browser connects Google. Sign-in links work once. Password resets go by email. A new email address in account settings takes over once you open the link sent to it. Your timezone is picked up from your browser so walks land on the right day.

Night mode, a colour theme, one palette shared by Today and Dashboard (including one that shifts with the hour), a separate public profile palette, an avatar frame, and an icon for the walk button. The unlocked ones come from Rewards.

The hills on Today after your walk change with the season where you live: blossom in spring, full leaf in summer, turning leaves in autumn, snow in winter. The trees, flowers and stones move around from day to day, and now and then a snowman or a birdhouse turns up. Under Seasonal hills you can keep one season all year instead; Summer keeps them green. A Today-page charm changes the sky and brings its visitor, and the hills stay in your season.

MossMug works as an app on your phone or computer: add it to your home screen from the install page and it opens without the browser around it, and can send push notifications if you allow them. If you are out of signal, it shows a short page and picks up again when you are back.

On Android you can also install the MossMug app from Google Play. It is an early version, with a Today tab, a home screen widget, and walk logging without reception.

The Android app saves your tap on the phone before sending it. Without reception, it shows “Saved on this phone” and retries when a connection returns, even if the app is closed. The original time is kept, and a retry never adds the same walk twice. Your totals update after syncing. Photos and reflections still need a connection to save to your account.

Open Pending walks to see anything waiting or needing attention. You may need to sign back in to the same account. Walks older than the 30-day editing window cannot sync; they stay listed with an explanation until you remove the pending copy.

Write to us from inside the app, read replies there too, and write back in the same conversation. What's New lists what has changed, newest first. Now and then a short survey appears on the dashboard; answering is optional and shapes what gets built next. Some surveys include “Something else”, which opens a text field for your own idea. Survey responses go to the MossMug team and are not shown to other walkers.

Delete all your walking data and start again, or delete your account entirely. Both are permanent and take effect straight away. Everything else about what is stored and shared is in the privacy policy.