Pace Pulse: Japanese Walking

Walk in waves: 3 minutes fast, 3 easy, with a real recorded coach voice in your language, taps on your wrist and your music playing on.

Walk in waves. Pace Pulse is an interval walking timer that coaches you through Japanese walking (Interval Walking Training, IWT) and other brisk-and-easy walking workouts with voice, sound and taps. You never need to look at your screen.

Interval walking, like the Japanese method of 3 minutes fast and 3 minutes easy, is one of the most researched ways to build fitness without running or a gym.

COACHED EVERY STEP • A recorded coach calls each phase and counts you down, in your language • Your music keeps playing and dips briefly during each cue • Distinct haptics for fast and easy, and the coach keeps going with the screen locked • The phase and time left on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island

KNOW IF YOUR FAST WALK IS REALLY FAST (optional) • Step counter with live steps per minute, and a target of brisk 100 or vigorous 130 steps/min • A six-minute pace check finds your own fast target • A gentle voice tip if a fast phase is too slow, and how many fast phases were on pace • Auto-pause at crossings, auto-resume when you walk on • Walking with a weighted vest or backpack? Tag it and see your weighted walks each week

PLANS THAT FIT YOU • Guided programmes: Japanese Walking in 8 weeks, Couch to 30 minutes in 6, or Gentle Steps with rest stops • Japanese Interval Walk, Classic 30 / 40, Hill Power Walk, Beginner Builder, Quick 10 and more • Build your own: warm-ups, fast, easy, rest stops and cool-downs in any order, with repeat groups • Share any plan with a link or QR code: it opens in your friend's Pace Pulse, ready to save

GENTLE WALKS, AT YOUR PACE • Gentle Walk: 21 minutes of easy walking with a rest to stand or sit every few minutes • Gentle Steps: a 6 week programme that builds up slowly, made for older walkers and anyone easing back in • No nudges to speed up, and smaller weekly challenges

TREADMILL WALKS • Switch any plan to Treadmill and set the speed and incline for each part • Your coach reads them out as each part starts, in mph or km/h

PROGRESS THAT KEEPS YOU GOING • Weekly goal ring (150 minutes a week is the WHO guideline) • Daily streaks with a weekly streak freeze, and a new challenge every Monday • Badges, weekly to yearly charts, and walk cards to share • Your month, wrapped: a story of every month and year, each card shareable

WALK THE WORLD'S GREAT TRAILS • 20 famous journeys at their real lengths, from the Inca Trail and Tour du Mont Blanc to Kumano Kodo and Kashmir Great Lakes • Every walk moves you along, with postcards on the way and a trophy and tee at the end • Badges unlock outfits for your walker: caps, shades, a backpack, bright tees and more

MUSIC AND PODCASTS • Walk to the beat: a soft tick at your own fast pace • Play songs from your library or search and follow podcasts, right from your walk • Or keep your own music app playing: Pace Pulse lowers it for each cue

ON YOUR WRIST • Apple Watch app that walks on its own: leave your phone at home • Ring timer, taps on your wrist for every switch, steps and pace • Heart rate and zones as you walk, and your walks saved to Health as workouts • Zone 2 Walk: steady walking steered by your heart rate, with a tap if you drift out of zone • Complications and a Smart Stack card that start your last plan

ALWAYS AT HAND • Home Screen widgets: a streak that reacts to your day, your week day by day, and your weekly progress • A daily reminder, quiet on days you have already walked

YOUR WALKS, YOUR WAY • Adventure adds journeys, outfits and rewards; Calm keeps it to timer, plans and stats • In 53 languages, with a recorded coach voice in each: Español, Deutsch, Français, हिन्दी, தமிழ், മലയാളം, 日本語 and more

PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No ads. No analytics. Your walks and steps stay on your devices; only the optional podcast search goes online. Back up your walks, journeys and settings to a file to move to a new phone.

Pace Pulse is a fitness timer, not a medical device. Check with your doctor before starting a new exercise program.