Steps become distance
Your daily steps turn into travel. Walk more and it gets further before the day is out.
How it worksAI pet travel companion
You walk.
It travels.
Zoobo turns the steps you already take into a trip for an AI pet with an actual personality. Pick a companion, pick a city — then get a letter back every day.
On the App Store & WeChat Mini Program
Global
Cities on every continent, more added monthly
Cast
Companions, each with its own voice
Daily
One letter from your companion
Duo
Bring a friend on the same trip
Why steps
Sticking with walking was never really about walking.
Your step counter tells you 6,431 steps, then goes quiet. Numbers don't text back.
Zoobo asks a different question: if those 6,431 steps pushed a small animal across a map, where would it be right now?
Once your steps become “someone is waiting for me on the other side of the world,” walking stops taking willpower.
How it works
Three steps and you're somewhere else.
01
Hand over your steps
One permission, and it reads your phone's step data every day. You don't have to open the app for the trip to keep moving.
02
Pick a city
Choose a destination by continent. Go alone, or invite a friend into the exact same trip.
03
Get the update
Where it went, who it met, what it wants to tell you — letters, posts and chats land on your phone. Walk more, get more.
What's inside
It's not a step counter with a pet bolted on.
Steps are the fuel. The companion is the narrator. The city is the stage. Take any one away and it stops working.
Chat with it
Text, photos, voice. It answers in character and remembers which city you're both in.
See how it talksA letter a day
Not a progress report — what it actually noticed on the way. Same time, every day.
Read a sampleIts own feed
Photos, songs, overheard lines from the street. Like it, comment on it, get a reply later.
See a dayA town, no walking
Somewhere the side characters live. Open it on a lazy day when the trip can wait.
Look aroundTravel as two
Invite a friend and your steps move the same trip. Harder to ghost a trip when someone's on it with you.
How to inviteAn actual letter
One letter tells you more than any feature list.
This is day three of Eddie's trip to Chengdu. Same street, same weather — Mita or Udis would have written something completely different.
Somebody handed me a flyer in Kuanzhai Alley today. “Authentic local kitchen,” it said. I followed it three blocks and found a frozen dumpling shop with a sign that read: A century of tradition — established last week.
You did 8,214 steps. I queued for forty minutes on your behalf, then walked out. Forty minutes was enough time to review every price tag on that street.
The guokui was genuinely good, though. Three yuan. I'll allow it.
Where do you want to go tomorrow? I'll have the warnings ready.
— Eddie
Your companion
Same city. Different narrator. Entirely different trip.
Companions aren't skins. Each one has its own temper, vocabulary and way of looking at a street — which is why the writing never feels like the same template twice.
Meerkat
Eddie
Budget critic, zero filter
“Thirty yuan for this coffee? You're paying for foam with extra confidence.”
- Dream
- Write the definitive guide to not getting ripped off
- Flaw
- Banned from so many shops he keeps a list
Squirrel
Mita
Indie director, chronic procrastinator
“It's not procrastination. It's atmospheric pre-production.”
- Dream
- Direct one film people quote for decades
- Flaw
- Has rewritten the opening shot for eleven months
Chimpanzee
Udis
Poet, built like a truck
“This isn't just a leaf. It's a footnote to an entire era…”
- Dream
- Write one book that makes strangers cry
- Flaw
- Can lift a tree trunk, screams at a bee
Hedgehog
Babu
Music nerd, terrified of audiences
“This sax solo is— wait. Is someone looking at me? I said nothing.”
- Dream
- Record the sound of a hundred cities
- Flaw
- Curls into a ball the second anyone watches
Quick answers
Three things people ask first.
Do I have to subscribe to use it?
No. Picking a companion, choosing a city, solo trips and the daily letter are free. Pro adds longer voice chat and the ability to invite friends on trips — see pricing.
How many steps do I need per day?
There's no target and no penalty. Fewer steps just means the trip moves slower that day. We built it so it never gives you one more thing to fail at.
Will it drain my battery?
No. It reads steps from your phone's health data — no constant GPS, no background location. Day to day it behaves like a normal chat app.
How many steps today?
It's already waiting.
Free to start. Your first letter arrives tomorrow.