The guide
Every feature: what it does, where to find it, and what stays private. Nothing here is required. The walk button is the whole app; the rest is there when you want it.
The one button, and the small things around it.
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.
Missing a day changes nothing. There are no streaks in MossMug, only milestones, and nothing is ever reset.
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 dashboard 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.
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, companions, and places appear only once you have created some. 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.
The optional details a walk can carry.
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.
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. 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. 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.
Everything you have walked, kept for you.
Your walking, all in one place: days walked, the next milestone, this week at a glance, the calendar, how walking feels, the people and places you walk with, and the full journal.
Every walk, newest first, with its details and photos. Search your notes and good things, filter by mood, tag, companion, or place, and open any walk to read or 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.
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.
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.
Small markers, found rather than chased.
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. None of them punish a missed day.
Every walk adds a step to a trail, and some walks turn up a discovery: a feather, a beechnut, a paper crane, some common and some rare. The Trail page is your journal of what you have found. Walk on the same day as a friend and you may cross paths. You can switch the Trail off on the Preferences page.
Achievements and milestones unlock things to make MossMug yours: button icons for the walk button, colour themes, dashboard and profile palettes, avatar frames, and cozy music tracks. A few are yours from day one.
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.
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 MossMug shows you now and then before a walk and never measures.
Company on the walk, with nothing to keep up with.
Find people by name, send a request, or share your personal invite link. 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. Circles show who walked, never who did not.
A public feed of walks across MossMug. Most cards say only that someone walked. 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 card, and that is all. Cards that do not belong can be reported.
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.
Everything here is off until you turn it on.
An optional page at your own address for sharing a little of your walking. Choose what it shows: your name and bio, days walked, achievements, calendar, Trail, friends, high fives, member since, a photo wall, featured walks, 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.
Any walk can get a public link to send to someone. The page shows the walk with the details you allow: mood, weather, note, photo, discovery, and public tags, companions, and places. Turn a link off again at any time.
An image of a walk, made for posting elsewhere, with the day, mood, weather, and photo if you like.
Pin a few shared walks to your profile as a highlight reel. A pinned walk only shows while its share link is on.
Choose what reaches you. Anything encouraging is a switch.
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.
A welcome, a note when you unlock an achievement or reach a milestone, and a Sunday reflection on your walking week. All optional, and every email has a one-click unsubscribe.
Three, each off unless you want it: one reminder a week after signing up if you have not logged a first walk, 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.
The practical side.
Sign up with an emailed link, a password, or Google. Password resets go by email. Your timezone is picked up from your browser so walks land on the right day.
Night mode, a colour theme, a dashboard palette (including one that shifts with the hour), a public profile palette, an avatar frame, and an icon for the walk button. The unlocked ones come from Rewards.
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.
Write to us from inside the app, and read replies there too. 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.
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.
Looking for something shorter? How it works is the two-minute tour, and the FAQ answers the common questions.