Mikke is a dog-walking app that maps the good walks — the sniff stops, the dog-friendly corners, the routes worth showing up for — so every walk feels like a local one, wherever you are.
Most maps treat a walk like a line between two points. Dogs don't. A good walk is a string of small decisions — where to sniff, where there's water, where dogs are welcome and where the pavement gets loud. Mikke captures that, then hands it to you ready to go.
We never build a route on the fly. Every walk is pre-made and cached — by dogs and owners who've actually walked it — so it's ready before you are, even with no signal and no plan.
A route doesn't arrive verified — it climbs there. The community builds it, walkers confirm it on the ground, and locals give it the final nod. And when something isn't tagged yet, we say so, rather than faking completeness.
Someone maps the route and its sniff stops. It's on the map, but nobody's vouched for it yet.
Walkers have followed it for real and confirmed the turns, the stops and the surface hold up.
Locals who know the streets give it the final nod. This is the goal — a walk you can trust in a place you don't know.
Mikke is a tribute to Woody — a dachshund who spent sixteen years teaching us that the walk is the point. He was a small dog with a big map: Estonia, Lithuania, Russia, the Netherlands, Malta, Italy and the UK, one sniff at a time.
He jumped on the snow mountains of a Tallinn winter. He swam in the freshwater of Lake Peipsi and in the blue sea off Malta. And in London, he sniffed his way around Tower Bridge like a perfect local gentleman — the same feeling we want every walk on Mikke to have.
He loved all of it. This app is our way of keeping his walks going — mapping the good ones so more dogs and their people get to feel like locals, everywhere.
Woody · a very good dog · 16 years, seven countries.
Mikke comes from みっけ, the word Japanese kids shout at the winning moment of hide-and-seek: found you! Not the word for searching. The word for the instant the searching pays off.
That's the whole app, really. A good walk with a dog is a string of small findings, made together: a bench in the sun, water to wade into, a smell so good he plants all four paws and won't move another inch. Woody found dozens of those on every walk, in every country he ever saw.
We wanted a name for that feeling, not just the walking. So we named the app after the word for finding it.
We're building Mikke borough by borough across London — Greenwich, Richmond, Hampstead and out from there — mapping the walks Woody would have loved. Once the map here feels truly local, we'll take it to the next city, and the next.
Mikke is launching on Android and iOS. Join the waitlist and help us map the good walks.