Sanpou — Walking Journal & Voice Memo App for iOS

Life is busy. Ideas slip away fast. Sanpou can help.

You have so many ideas. You just haven’t noticed them yet.

Because in 2026, the most precious thing you own is your focus — and everyone out there is fighting for one more millimeter of it.

You don’t want to shut yourself off. You want to be here, in this moment. But by the time you look up, the idea is already gone. The thoughts you don’t want to forget are the ones weighing on you.

All it takes is one tap. Stash it in a second, and come back to now. Nothing left to carry. You’re allowed to forget — being able to forget is happiness.

Nothing leaves your device. No ads, no account. One purchase.

Sanpou widget on the lock screen

One tap from the lock screen — you’re recording before you’ve even unlocked your phone.

Writing a memo

Say it out loud, or type it if the street is noisy. Either way, it takes a second.

Memos saved with time, place and steps

It’s kept with everything around it: the time, the place, the steps you had already walked.

Memos pinned on a map

Weeks later, your ideas have a geography. You start to see where your thinking actually happens.

Reading text from a photo

Words on a sign, a menu, a page — they come along too, straight into the memo.

A walk replayed as a slideshow

A walk comes back to you as a slideshow. You remember the day, not just the note.

And none of it is locked in. Send it to Obsidian, Notion, or plain Markdown — it was always yours.

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