Three minutes brisk. Three minutes easy.
Sokuho is your Japanese Walking app for Apple Watch. The interval timer keeps time and lets you feel each change between brisk and easy walking.
Available on the App Store, in Germany, the EU and many other countries.
Visual preview of the haptic feedback. You’ll feel the change on the Watch.
Sokuho at a glance
- Device
- Apple Watch with watchOS 10 or later
- Purchase
- One-time purchase. No subscription, no in-app purchases. The App Store displays the price for your country.
- Languages
- 18 languages, including German, English, and Japanese
- Version
- 1.0.0
One walk. Your pace.
The workout lasts 40 minutes. You’ll do 5 fast intervals with light recovery periods in between. The last fast interval is immediately followed by a 5-minute cool-down.
Adjust the times and number of rounds. Your saved settings are kept.
Revisit your walk.
Open a saved session under “Workouts.” View the available heart rate readings in the history and the phases of that session. The vertical scale adjusts to the curve; the full heart rate ranges can be displayed.
Understand your heart rate and historyYour health data is not transmitted to Sokuho servers. Data Protection
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Familiarize yourself with the setup, signals, and training process. Sokuho runs on the Apple Watch starting with watchOS 10.
View on the App StoreAvailable on the App Store, in Germany, the EU and many other countries.