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Aruki
The Japanese walking method, coached on your iPhone
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The Japanese walking method, coached on your iPhone
96 followers
Aruki coaches the Japanese walking method — three minutes easy, three minutes brisk, repeated — entirely from your iPhone. A soft chime and a quiet voice cue every switch, and a Live Activity shows the phase on your lock screen, so your phone stays in your pocket. No Apple Watch, no account, no backend, no subscription — just a one-time Pro unlock. The full guided walk is free.
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@curiouskitty Great question — this was the thing I obsessed over most. Aruki mixes with your audio instead of taking it over: your music or podcast keeps playing, and the app just ducks it for a second (drops the volume) for the chime and the spoken cue, then brings it right back. The Pro metronome rides on that same mix. The edge case that bit me: on the very first session, spinning up the audio engine could briefly grab the session and pause Spotify — I had to reorder setup so it mixes from the first frame. Now it stays out of your way. 🙏
How does the app know when to switch phases if you're not wearing a watch — is it just a timer, or does it use the motion sensors on the phone in your pocket to detect your pace?
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@sefa1224488 It's a timer, not motion based. Aruki coaches the protocol (3 min brisk / 3 min easy, five times) on time, so it works the same whether the phone's in your pocket, your hand, or on a treadmill. I went with time on purpose: pace detection from a pocket is noisy and eats battery, and the fixed interval structure is really the whole method. You just walk, and the app keeps time and tells you when to switch.
Does the chime volume adjust with my iPhone’s silent mode, or do I need to keep the ringer on to actually hear the phase switches?
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@kardelenme36957 No need to keep the ringer on. The cues play through the media channel, not the notification or ringer one, so they come through even with the silent switch on, just like music does. Volume follows your media volume, so you can keep the phone silenced and still hear every phase change.
Does the voice cue actually adjust if I’m doing the walk on a treadmill or somewhere with steady pace, or is it purely time-based regardless of speed?
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@ouzhan1998466 Purely time based. The cues fire on the interval clock (3 on, 3 off), not on your speed, so a treadmill walk behaves exactly like an outdoor one. You set the effort with your own pace, and Aruki just marks the switches. And if you want to tune the timing itself, custom intervals are in Pro.
How does the app know when to switch between easy and brisk if it’s not using the watch’s heart rate or motion data?
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@serapzpek3qih It's purely a timer, Serap, no heart rate or motion data needed. Aruki runs the fixed protocol (3 minutes brisk, 3 minutes easy, repeated) on the clock and cues each switch with a chime and a quiet voice. You bring the effort, the app keeps the timing. That's also why it works with the phone in your pocket and no watch.
Like the one-time unlock instead of a subscription, that alone makes me more willing to try it. One thing I'm wondering about: if a phone call comes in mid walk and takes over the audio session, does Aruki's interval clock keep running in the background and just resume cueing normally when the call ends, or does the call throw off the timing and you come back to a phase switch you missed?
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@galdayan Thanks Gal, and good edge case. The interval clock keeps running right through a call since it's independent of the audio, so your walk stays on schedule. While the call owns the audio session the cues go quiet, then Aruki picks them back up automatically when the call ends. Getting that interruption-and-resume right was one of the fiddly bits I focused on. Glad the one-time unlock resonates too 🙏