Your steps.
Their problem.
Patoosa turns your daily step count into a race against your friends. Walk more to pull ahead — then throw a banana at whoever is winning.
Free on iPhone · Android is in beta and anyone can join
The daily race
Every step moves you down the track
Patoosa reads your step count — from Apple Health on iPhone, Health Connect on Android — and turns it into distance on a shared road. Everyone in the crew is on the same road, all day, and the leader at midnight takes the day.
Keep scrolling. He keeps walking.
That's the whole game, really.
Three ways to ruin
someone's afternoon
Power-ups move people around the track. Your real step count never changes — nobody can take a single step off you.
The bat
Knocks a rival back 750 steps. Aim it at whoever is smug.
The rocket
Launches you forward 500. The only honest one in the bag.
The banana
Half the time it slips and helps the person you threw it at.
Power-ups
Then it gets petty
Win a day and you earn coins. Spend them on a bat, a rocket or a banana, pick a victim, and watch the cutscene. It only moves people on the track — your steps are yours.
Crews
Six letters,
and you're racing
Make a crew, send the link, and the daily race starts the moment a second person walks in. They tap it, the app opens already knowing the code, and that is the whole of joining. No usernames to hunt, no friend requests to approve, no follower count.
One person on their own isn't a race, so nothing counts until somebody joins you.
Or just the code
P4T00S
3 walkers · racing since Monday
Your patoosa
A little guy who is unmistakably yours
Four body shapes, a wardrobe of shirts, hats and eyes, and new accessories dropping every week. Everything is bought with coins you won by walking.
Day two, and day thirty
Something to come
back for
🔥 Streaks
Every day you clear your goal adds one. Your crew has its own, held together — one big day carries somebody who had a quiet one. Miss a day and it goes back to nothing, which is the point.
🏆 Crew battles
Your crew against every other crew, ranked by the steps of the day they are actually in. Gold, silver and bronze at the top, and your own crew shown wherever it lands — even if that is 340th.
🔔 It tells you
When somebody takes the lead. When a bat lands on you. And in the evening, if your streak is about to end and you are still short. Off by default, one switch, and never more than one nudge a day.
🥇 You won the day
Races settle at midnight while the phone is face down. So the celebration waits, and goes off the next time you open the app — confetti, the crew, and what the win paid.
🪙 Coins worth winning
Win a day and you are most of the way to a rocket. Power-ups are bought, not handed out every morning, so throwing one is a decision rather than confetti.
🌱 What a car would have made
Tap your step count for the distance you covered and the CO2 a car would have emitted going the same way. Not what you saved — most walks were never a drive — just what the alternative costs.
Five levels. No shortcuts.
Steps and wins raise your level, and it never goes down. You cannot buy your way up — coins are for hats.
Sprout
0 steps
Strider
50k steps
Racer
200k steps
Champion
500k steps
Legend
1M steps
A step counter that
isn't after your data
Reads steps. Writes nothing.
Patoosa asks Apple Health, or Health Connect on Android, for one thing — your step count — and never writes back to it.
No ads. No trackers.
There is no advertising SDK and no analytics SDK in the app. Not throttled, not configured off. Absent.
Only your crew sees you.
Your name, character and daily steps are visible to the friends in your crew, and to nobody else.
Leave whenever.
Delete your account from inside the app. Your profile, steps, coins and crew membership go immediately; past races stay, without your name on them.
Android beta
On Android too,
if you'll test it
The Android build is finished and racing — it just isn't on the public store yet. Google asks for twelve people to run a new app for two weeks first. Two steps and you're in.
Join the tester group
Google will not let anyone install a test build unless they are on the list. Joining the group puts you on it. One click, nothing to fill in.
Join the groupOpen the tester link, then install
Say yes to the test and Play hands you the download. Give it five minutes after step one — Google takes a moment to notice you joined, and until it does this page will claim you are not a tester.
Open the tester link
Steps come from Health Connect on Android, so you'll be asked for that once. Stick around a fortnight and you're the reason it reaches the public store — leaving early resets the count for everyone.
Somebody in your
group chat walks
more than you.
Find out who. It takes about a minute to set up.