Walk through the city. When you pass a park you haven't visited, the app gives you one gentle nudge. Step inside, tap, and the park becomes a pixel-art card with a small poem — in Chinese, Finnish, and English.
In the Name of Parks is not a fitness tracker — it doesn't count your steps or shame you for resting. It's not a social network — there's no audience but you. It's a private collection of the green moments your city quietly offered you.
Version one ships with about 100 hand-curated Helsinki parks. Every single one has a name, a description, and a short poem written in three languages — read by human editors, not just generated. Over months, you fill a personal field guide of everywhere the city let you breathe.
Go outside, like you already do. The app stays in your pocket — the map is the only feed.
Within 500 meters of a park you haven't collected, you get one gentle nudge: "Esplanadi is just ahead." Once per park, ever.
Tap to collect. A pixel card flips open with the park's poem. It's yours now — stamped with the date and the spot where you stood.
Five categories — urban, forest, island, national, wetland. Three rarity tiers. The legendary ones (★★★) you'll have to earn with a ferry ride.
~100 Helsinki parks at launch. Card art shown is a web preview — the in-app scenes are hand-pixelled.
Hand-picked, hand-edited, human-read. Better to ship 80 great parks than 100 mediocre ones — that's the editorial bar.
Every park carries a short poem in Chinese, Finnish, and English. Not translations of each other — three parallel poems.
One local notification when you first come within 500 m of an uncollected park. No reminders, no re-engagement tricks.
A scrollable grid of every card — collected in color, the rest waiting in slate. Filter by category and rarity, watch the percentage climb.
Any collected card exports as a tall postcard image for sharing. An iMessage sticker pack of the hero parks ships with the app.
No account, no login. Collections live on your device and sync through your private iCloud. The app works fully offline.
The developer never receives your location, your collection, or anything else you do in the app.
An iOS app that turns visiting parks into a slow collection ritual. You walk in the real city; when you're within about 500 meters of a park you haven't collected yet, the app gives you one gentle nudge. Tap to collect it, and the park becomes a pixel-art card with a short poem in Chinese, Finnish, and English. Over months you fill a personal Pokédex-style collection of the green places your city offered you.
No. There are no step counts, no streaks, no goals, and nothing that punishes you for not walking. The app's only ambition is to make walking feel a little more rewarding — it should make you walk more, not stare at your phone more.
Version 1 launches with around 100 hand-curated Helsinki parks, each with a name, description, and poem in Chinese, Finnish, and English. More cities — Shanghai, Beijing, Tokyo, Berlin — are planned for later releases using the same editorial pipeline.
The app requests "While Using the App" location only. Your position is processed on your device to tell you when you're near an uncollected park. The coordinate where you collect a park is saved with that record in your own private iCloud. Your location is never sent to the developer or any third party — there is no server at all. See the privacy policy.
The app is targeting an App Store launch in early August 2026, starting with Helsinki, in English, Chinese, and Finnish.
Launching on the App Store in August 2026, starting with Helsinki. Private and quiet by design.
Coming Soon · August 2026