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, and The Meadow. 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.

The button starts out wearing Sprout, the cream MossMug mug, after its label. Choose another mug, something you found, or an emoji in Settings, Appearance.

The line under the greeting changes with the day: now and then a thought your last walk carried or a walk from around this time before, or the weather on the hills when it is not clear. While your hills follow the seasons, it also marks the day a season reaches them and has lines for the season and the hour. It never counts your days or names a gap.

Your logged walks, earned milestones, and rewards stay through breaks. Some badges celebrate consecutive walking days. 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.

A daily quote, question, or small thing to notice. Choose Another thought for a different one; that choice stays for your local day. Take this along keeps it on your account until your next walk, even if you come back another day or on another device. Choose another puts the held thought aside so you can pick again, and Let this go returns to the daily thought.

When you log your next walk, the thought you took along shows under the celebration on Today and at the top of the optional reflection, and it stays with that walk in your journal. You can add a note, one good thing, or a photo, or leave it as it is. Nothing needs completing. Walks added through the calendar leave the thought waiting. An Android walk saved without reception takes it along when it syncs, provided the thought was already waiting when you tapped.

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; after a few walking days, Today offers a small card about them if you have none yet. 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. When someone no longer walks with you, archive them in Settings, Companions: they leave the walk picker, and every walk together, their page, and their stats stay. Restore them any time.

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, and to see the badges you earned that day. 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. On a day you walked, a small gold dot means you also earned a badge.

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 clear 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 companion's page also gathers the good things you noted on your walks together, and you can keep one walk as a favorite memory and set one photo from a walk together as the page's cover. It quietly notes a round number of days together once you pass it, and the anniversary of your first walk together for the week it falls in. On a public companion page, the favorite and the cover show only where the walk itself would. "Your year together" on a companion's page opens Year in Walks for just your walks with 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. Tap a companion there, or "Your year together" on their page, for the same recap of only your walks with them.

When you walked on today's date in an earlier year, a card brings that walk back, one row per year. On other days it may bring back one walk from around this time last year, about six months ago, or about a month ago, with its real date shown. Those walks need a photo, a note, a good thing, a place, or a companion to come back. A badge you earned on today's date in an earlier year can come back too, one a day and below any walks; your first walk at a place comes back with the place's name. The same walk can stay for a few days, and on days with nothing to bring back the card stays away.

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; 365 marks a year of walking days. They count the days you walked, ever. Nothing about them resets, and there is no pace to keep. The bigger markers also send a note and tell your friends; the small markers in between, which carry on past 365, show only in the walk's own celebration.

Little markers along the way: walking at different times of day and on different days of the week, in each season, on many days of one month, in four of any six weeks (the missed weeks are fine), in many separate months over the years, coming back after two weeks or more away, your first walk with a companion and ten days with the same one, your first walk at a place and the same place in all four seasons, and a few hidden ones you find by walking. A few dates have a badge of their own, among them the solstices and the equinoxes, when day and night are about equal; we go by your time zone's hemisphere, so a walk in late September counts as the autumn equinox in the north and the spring one in the south. Many unlock a reward. Some badges celebrate consecutive walking days; a missed day interrupts that run, but your logged walks and earned badges stay. A badge we no longer offer stays in the collection of everyone who earned it, rewards included. A new badge you already qualified for joins your collection quietly, dated to when you first did.

The page opens with your collection and what you earned most recently, then one or two markers along the way (your next milestone, and this season's badge while it is still ahead), then everything, with search and an earned or locked filter. An earned badge about a place or a companion names it on the card, in the notification and in the email: "Riverside, ten different days", "Ten days with Pepper".

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 or permanent unlock keeps that history. Anything you have found can sit on your walk button: tap Wear it when a walk turns one up, or choose it in Settings, Appearance. 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 small 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 your chosen after-walk 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.

Use one rare or legendary discovery per scene to unlock Moonlit glade or Cottage porch. Rest under the moon beside a lantern, or on a log-cottage porch with a warm mug and the woods at dusk. Preview either for free, choose an available find, and confirm before spending it. That copy cannot also fund a charm, but it stays in your collection history. The scene stays unlocked without using walk charges or replacing an active charm. Choose it in Settings, Appearance whenever you like; unlocking it does not change your current scene. Deleting a walk keeps the unlock. Deleting all walking data or your account removes it.

Achievements and milestones unlock things to make MossMug yours: button icons and painted button mugs 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, Today shows it under "You walked today!" with a small preview and "Use this", so you can put it on right there; a track becomes the music player's track, and nothing plays until you press play. When a walk unlocks more than two, the rest are named with a link to where you can use them. A milestone's celebration names its unlocks and links to them.

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 question, something to notice, or a line for the season. Unless you pick your own, it is the same for everyone in your season and changes at your local midnight. Picking another one, or taking one along to your next walk, is covered under A thought to take along. If you have written your why under Settings, Goal, it shows at the top of Today before your walk.

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.

Friends opens on Activity: recent walks, achievements, high fives and other updates, with new items at the top. The menu dot stays until its updates have been shown; requests keep a separate count until handled. Choose Your friends to review requests or manage connections, and Add friend to search by username or share an invite link. Invite links work for existing members and newcomers without a public profile. Requests also reach your bell menu, email and dashboard, according to your notification settings. 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.

An optional page at your own address, mossmug.com/@username, for sharing as much of your walking as you choose. 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. Your first walking days announce nothing the walk's own celebration already showed, and neither do the small milestones between the round numbers, First of the Month, or a monthly badge earned again; those show only on the walk. 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 round-number milestone (the small milestones in between, First of the Month and monthly badges earned again stay quiet), 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 on an address Google doesn't run (not Gmail or a Google Workspace domain) sends a link to that address first, for new and existing accounts alike, and opening it in the MossMug app or the browser you used for Google connects it. In the iPhone app you can also continue with Apple. Apple signs you in or up on its own only with an Apple address (iCloud or Hide My Email); with any other address, an existing account logs in the way it usually does and a new one gets a sign-up link by email. 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. The welcome, shown once per account, asks what to call you; a first name is enough, and Settings, Account is where to change it later.

Choose By the fire, By the brook or Dawn clearing for the short scene that plays when you log your first walk of the day. By the fire has a mug beside glowing embers, slow smoke and drifting sparks; By the brook rests beside the stream. Dawn clearing has soft morning light, a sheltered clearing and a small fire. A robin or a small book may be waiting in the painting. Visitors stay still while the scenery moves gently. All three are available to everyone. Preview any place without logging a walk or using a charm. Moonlit glade and Cottage porch can each be unlocked permanently with one rare or legendary discovery on the Discoveries page. Cottage porch has changing lantern light and rising mug steam, with seasonal drift kept outside the shelter. Surprise me picks from your unlocked places that support your active scene charm. Fox by the Fire and Mossling by the Fire can visit either fire scene. If you chose the brook, Moonlit glade or Cottage porch, By the fire plays until those charms end, then your saved choice returns. Shooting Stars brings an evening sky, so it visits By the fire, By the brook, or an unlocked Moonlit glade or Cottage porch; if you chose Dawn clearing, By the fire plays until it ends. Extra walks and calendar entries do not play this scene.

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 what sits on the walk button. The unlocked ones come from Rewards. Under Button mugs you can set a painted mug after the label; the button starts out wearing Sprout, the cream MossMug mug, and everyone also has Fern and Woodland Tree from day one. The rest come from badges, among them a rainy-day mug for walking in rough weather, a sunrise mug for early mornings and a heart mug for warmth received in The Meadow. Under Found on your walks you can wear any discovery you have found the same way, even one you used for a charm. Emoji icons, below them, are the plain choice: an emoji next to the label, or none at all. The button wears one at a time, so choosing a mug, find or icon puts the others away.

The hills at the foot of Today change with the season where you live: blossom in spring, full leaf in summer, turning leaves in autumn, snow in winter. Each day is a little different: the ridges themselves, the trees and their stands, the flowers and stones, the weather, from clear to misty, overcast or breezy, the light on the land, and whether petals, a butterfly, leaves or snow drift through the air. Now and then a snowman or a birdhouse turns up, and some autumn days the trees blaze scarlet and gold. Before your walk the hills stand in the light of your local hour: mist lies over them on a misty morning, sunbeams slant through by day, the sun sets behind the far ridge on a clear evening, and from nine at night the sky goes dark over them, with fireflies on summer nights. A mug waits on the grass of the near ridge every day, steam rising. Once you have walked, the fire is lit below them. Under Seasonal hills you can keep one season all year instead; Summer keeps them green. A Today-page charm changes the evening 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 has a Today tab, a home screen widget, and walk logging without reception.

The app’s version is at the bottom of its Menu tab. When a newer version is on Google Play, Home and Menu say so, with a link to update.

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 once you have a few walking days behind you; answering is optional and shapes what gets built next. Some surveys have an option that opens a text field, so you can answer in your own words. 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.