Trail Letters
A small adventure, a few steps at a time

Your everyday walks carry the story.

Walk the way you always do. Later, open Trail Letters: your steps carry a traveler along a quiet island shore, delivering letters for the lighthouse keeper and bringing home keepsakes for your camp.

In development · coming to theApp Store How it works

iPhone · iOS 17 or later · English, 简体中文 · Early preview — artwork is temporary

Journey screen with steps ready to use

How it works

No workouts to start, no streaks to keep. Just your day, and a story that moves with it.

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Go about your day

Trail Letters uses the steps your iPhone already counts. Nothing to start or track — and you never need to look at your phone while walking.

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Continue your journey

Open the app when you like. Your new steps carry you toward the next place on the shore, where a letter is waiting.

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Bring something home

Each letter leaves a keepsake. Place them around your camp and watch it slowly become yours.

A letter from the shore with a keepsake
The shore map with places reached
Your camp with keepsakes placed

What's inside

Short letters, small choices, a camp that grows — and no pressure.

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An original island story

Help Marigold, the lighthouse keeper, and Tobin at the post office untangle the island's mail, one letter at a time.

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A journey you can see

A path of places along the shore shows where you've been and how far it is to the next stop.

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Small choices

Some letters ask you to decide — peek at a note or keep it sealed. Choices change the words, never take anything away.

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Keepsakes for your camp

A wooden post sign, a blue glass bottle, an old stamp… arrange them in your camp however you like.

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Reading mode

Prefer not to share motion data, or your device can't count steps? Read every letter and decorate your camp anyway.

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Rest days are fine

Nothing is lost if you don't walk. Unused steps wait for you, and your traveler never gets punished.

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Honest numbers

Steps count from the moment you begin your journey. Opening the app twice never counts the same steps twice.

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Share a postcard

Turn your camp or a favourite letter into a postcard to send to friends. Postcards never show your steps, dates or location.

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Friendly, not fierce

Optionally compare with your Game Center friends — by letters delivered on foot each week, never by raw step counts.

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Made for everyone

Built with Dynamic Type, VoiceOver labels and Reduce Motion in mind, in light and dark mode.

Early days

Trail Letters is being tested on TestFlight right now.

  • The first world — the shore and its lighthouse — is playable from start to finish.
  • Illustrations are temporary placeholders while the story and pacing are tested.
  • No ads and no subscription. We'll publish pricing here before anything is for sale.

Your steps stay on your iPhone

Trail Letters has no account and doesn't send your data anywhere.

Read the privacy policy
  • Reads only the step count from your iPhone's Motion & Fitness data — and only after you choose to.
  • Your journey is saved on your iPhone only and is excluded from iCloud backup.
  • No account, no ads, no analytics, no tracking. The app doesn't connect to our servers.
  • Game Center friends are optional and off by default — only the number of letters you've delivered is shared.
  • Never writes to Apple Health. Not a fitness or medical tool.