# A snarky cat that gets "low-energy people" moving 5 minutes a day: Miko is easy to learn, hard to follow · Mobile app

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> It nailed the 'low-energy people' and '牛马' slang that's trending on Xiaohongshu to reach people who don't want to exercise. Add the backing of a media matrix, likely paid acquisition, and a 21-day check-in challenge on the App Store with prize drawings, and it has been climbing the charts since late October.

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Miko - Daily Light Exercise · Lingyue Youchuan (Shanghai) Technology Co., Ltd.

# A snarky cat that gets "low-energy people" moving 5 minutes a day: Miko is easy to learn, hard to follow

**What it is** A free Chinese app where a little cat keeps you company for 5 to 10 minutes of light exercise a day and gives you a sticker when you finish. Built for sedentary office workers who don't like to move.

**Why it took off** It found people who don't want to exercise using Xiaohongshu slang like "low-energy people" and "workhorses", backed by a portfolio of resources from its parent, probable paid promotion, and an App Store 21-day check-in campaign with physical prize draws. Its ranking climbed steadily from late October.

**C** **How you could follow** Don't go head-to-head in the Chinese market. Rebuild "pet companion + 5 minutes + sticker makeup days" in Japanese, Korean or another language, build subscriptions in from day one, acquire users with self-deprecating short videos, and after cold start add check-in campaigns with small physical prizes.

C grade: the product thinking and incentive design are worth learning, but it took off on resources and paid promotion that a follower wouldn't have. It is still small, has zero revenue, and hasn't proven the business makes money. A non-Chinese version has a real shot, but you're betting on willingness to pay. Buzz in niche circles

Data (updated daily) · First launch 2026-08-15 · China ratings 1,698 · Charted in 11-08 of 3 stores

iOS · best category chart rank · by store

China Macau Hong Kong

Data 2026-10-28 → 2026-11-08 (12 days, 12 observations). Lower rank is higher; gaps mean it wasn't charted that day

iOS · Rating count · China

Data 2026-10-28 → 2026-11-08 (12 days, 12 observations). Apple doesn't publish download counts; rating growth is a proxy for downloads.

Miko is a Chinese fitness app that launched on Aug 15 and is completely free. A little cat keeps you company for 5 minutes of light exercise a day and gives you a sticker when you finish. Less than three months after launch, it climbed from #107 to #37 on the China store's free Health & Fitness chart. The product is well built, but what pushed it up was mainly the team behind it, which has ties to Xiaohongshu. Indie developers can learn how it positions itself and designs its incentives, but it's hard to pull users in the same way.

### "Can't bear to break the win streak"

In 2026 Aug 26, a user left a 5-star App Store review titled "Very cute, and really useful for a REST-type personality." She said she "doesn't like exercise, likes lying down wherever," but "kept exercising every day for the cute cat stickers." Her only request: when office workers work late and can't keep up with the routine, could you add "take the day off" and "make it up later," because "I can't bear to break my win streak."

A month later, the Sep 30 1.3.0 version notes read: "Supports making up check-ins with dried fish snacks, and unlocks a win-streak achievement sticker."

Both moves are in this app. First, it found the right people: those who don't want to exercise, not those who want to train. Second, the team behind it moves fast, shipping 10 versions in three months.

### What it is

Open Miko, tell it your goal, fitness level, how much time you have each day, and any physical issues, and it builds a set of 5 to 10 minute moves. You can set it to "no running or jumping," so you can do it in a dorm or next to your desk. A cat keeps you company while you move. The store page says: "It sometimes talks back, but it won't push you to go all out. You only need to finish today's little bit."

After you finish, it logs your duration and calories and gives you a sticker. You get one for your first session, for consecutive days, and for milestones, and **you also get one when you come back after a break** . The store page's exact words: "Resting and starting again both count as not failing."

No in-app purchases, no ads, Chinese only. Rating 4.9, 1,617 total ratings (App Store, 11-06), almost all from the China store.

### Who uses it, and why they stay

The reviewers almost all describe themselves with the same words: "low-energy mice people," "good news for low-energy people," "workhorses love it," "low-energy office workers suited to long-term desk jobs," "people with low blood." These are self-deprecating Xiaohongshu phrases, and Miko's copy is written in the voice of this crowd.

The reasons people stay are stated plainly in the reviews:

- **Short, no burden** : "5 minutes of exercise is no burden, and I can do it in my dorm" (10-06).

- **The cat and the stickers** : "It's perfect for someone like me who doesn't like moving and will lie down rather than sit whenever possible... they send cat stickers too, and checking in every day just makes me happy" (10-23); "the feeling of a carrot dangling in front of you" (10-23).

- **Clean and free** : "It's actually free!!!" (10-03); "No ads, five stars forever!!" (9-20).

The requests are concentrated too: extend durations to 15, 20 and 30 minutes, remind morning and afternoon, connect to Apple Health, make an Apple Watch version, and let users pick their own moves. Several reviewers are also worried about future paywalls: "I'm afraid they'll add a lot of messy features later, and I'm also afraid it'll start charging" (9-03).

### How it took off

**First, who's behind it.** The developer is 灵跃游川 (Shanghai) Technology Co., Ltd., a name you won't recognize. But Miko's privacy policy lists "RedLogin, Skynet, TrackerLite and other technical components" for login, networking and analytics, and those names match components in Xiaohongshu's own stack (inferred). The Android APK is hosted on tgccdn.com, a domain filed under 开若图科技. 开若图 has made a string of small apps, including 排版小动物 and 此间. In 2026 March, Sina Finance and 鞭牛士 reported that 小红书科技 had registered the 排版小动物 character copyright ahead of time. So Miko most likely comes from the same small-app portfolio tied to Xiaohongshu (inferred; we didn't find the equity link in company registry records).

This portfolio ships roughly one app a month: 灵跃游川 put out Flipin in September, Memonside in late October, and Starlet 星咔 in Nov 5. Its sibling 排版小动物 has 65k ratings so far. The playbook is the same: animal characters, healing art style, free, with copy written for the Xiaohongshu crowd.

**Second, paid acquisition.** Miko's Android build integrates 热力引擎 (SolarEngine), an ad attribution tool, and its iOS privacy label includes "data used to track you." In April, an indie developer complained on X that "almost every day, opening Xiaohongshu means ads from these same few apps." They were talking about other products in the same portfolio and didn't name Miko. Whether Miko buys ads, and how much, is not visible from outside (unverified). On Xiaohongshu you can find a note written in a "cat and its human servant" voice, titled "a light exercise app made for people with low energy."

**Third, an App Store event plus physical prizes.** The store page is running a "21-day health plan" (10-10 to 11-10): "This cat wants you moving, so we're giving away stickers, grip rings and sports water bottles!" Check in daily, hit the goal, and you can draw a prize or claim one. The ranking climbed during the second half of the event:

| Date | China store Health & Fitness Top Free | New ratings that day |
|---|---|---|
| 10-28 | #107 | — |
| 11-03 | #81 | 19 |
| 11-04 | #58 | 29 |
| 11-05 | #52 | 18 |
| 11-06 | #37 | 56 |

11-06 brought in 56 new ratings in one day, the biggest single day in this period. Only about sixty written reviews are visible, yet there are over 1,600 ratings, so most came from the in-app rating prompt. The jump may be from a batch of users completing a streak right as the event was ending, or it may relate to the new version released in Nov 2 (inferred).

Using the estimate of 20 to 50 downloads per China-store rating, iOS lifetime downloads are roughly 30k to 80k (estimate). The Android build isn't on the major stores; Tencent's 应用宝 shows only 655 downloads. It has never charted on the overall chart.

### Who it's competing with

| Product | Scale (China store, iOS, 11-06) | Versus Miko |
|---|---|---|
| Keep | 2.94M ratings, Health & Fitness Top Grossing #1 | Full course library, membership model, also has short courses, but aimed at people who already want to train |
| Daily Yoga | 520k ratings | Specialized courses plus subscription |
| Tiantian Tiaoshengsheng (Daily Jump Rope) | 590k ratings, Top Free #6 | Student fitness tests, parent-child, AI rep counting |
| Qinglian | 488 ratings, launched in April | Professional training plans, paid |
| Finch (overseas) | US 770k ratings, US category Top Grossing #13 | The originator of "raise a pet to nudge yourself to look after yourself"; English, subscription, not only exercise |
| Huawei / Xiaomi Exercise Health | Xiaomi 1.89M ratings | Tied to hardware, only tracks, doesn't help you "start moving" |

The "light exercise" niche isn't empty, but on China-store iOS, Miko is the only one that combines "pet companionship + fully free + built for low-energy people." I found no copycats.

### Where the money comes from

It has no revenue yet: no in-app purchases, no ads, and many reviews ask it to "stay free." For a team spreading costs across a portfolio and building users first, that works. For an independent developer, reaching 3 to 80k downloads with zero revenue means losing money. What it can likely charge for later is a subscription (longer plans, an Apple Watch version) or merchandise. Reviewers already worry about it charging, and once it does, ratings will probably drop (inferred).

### If it were you

**Verdict** : the product idea is worth learning from, but copying it in the China store isn't. It was launched on the back of portfolio resources, paid acquisition and event operations, and it's still small. There's no revenue yet to show the business works.

**Good fit for** : small teams that already have a cute character and art style and know how to make Xiaohongshu content; or people who already build overseas habit-forming or self-care apps and want to add a "light exercise" line.

**Bad fit for** : solo indie developers who expect organic store traffic and one good idea to grow. In the Chinese-language market you'd be competing head-on with a team that ships one app a month and has paid acquisition and event capability built in.

**How to do it** : if you want to follow, the better bet is changing the language, not building another one for Chinese users. Japanese and Korean markets have the same "low energy" and "sedentary office worker" audience, and they also respond to cute characters. Finch there handles general self-care and doesn't focus on exercise. You can copy these pieces directly: 5 minutes a day, with a "no jumping, just rest" option; an animal that talks but doesn't nag; stickers as rewards in place of data dashboards; "resting counts as progress" and streak repair for people whose streaks break. Miko is free and monetizes nothing, so build in a subscription from day one: longer plans, a watch version, more than one reminder a day. Those are exactly what its users ask for in reviews.

**How to acquire users** : the character itself is your content. Short videos on Xiaohongshu, Instagram and TikTok in a "self-deprecating lazy/office worker" voice fit better than buying fitness keywords. After cold start, copy its move of running a 21-day check-in event on the App Store with a few physical prizes to push ranking and ratings.

**When to move** : Miko is Chinese-only for now. This team tends to test in the Chinese market first and scale once it works. If it starts releasing English or Japanese versions in the first half of 2027, the window for entering with a language change narrows.

**What would show this read is wrong** : after the Nov 10 event ends, if Miko's ranking and daily new ratings keep climbing, the product itself is keeping users and growing on its own, and the assessment should be revisited. If ratings hold and the ranking stays steady after it starts charging, the "cute pet light exercise" audience is willing to pay, and following it becomes much more valuable. Conversely, if the ranking drops back past #100 as soon as the event ends, it was only a single operations push.

[iOS store page ↗](https://apps.apple.com/app/id6792616933)

**Research notes: competitor table, acquisition evidence, full research report**

Competitors

| Name | Where | Launched | Scale | How it differs from this one |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Keep - AI Fitness Coach | iOS | 2015 | CN 2.94M ratings, Health & Fitness Top Grossing #1 | Keep has full content, professional quality, and a membership model. Miko offers 5 minutes with zero barrier, free, mainly pet companionship. |
| Daily Yoga | iOS | 2012 | CN 520k ratings, category Top Grossing #22 | Specialized courses plus subscription. Miko has no specialties and is free. |
| Tiantian Tiaoshengsheng (Daily Jump Rope) | iOS | 2020 | CN 590k ratings, category Top Free #6 | Targets student fitness tests and parent-child use, with AI rep counting. Miko targets sedentary adults. |
| Qinglian - AI Exercise Health Assistant | iOS | 2026-04 | CN 488 ratings, category Top Grossing #42 | Professional training plans, paid. Miko is companion-style light exercise, free. |
| Finch: Self-Care Pet | iOS | 2021 | US 770k ratings, category Top Grossing #13; not charting in the China store | The originator of pet-driven self-care motivation. Broad self-care, English, subscription. Miko is exercise only, Chinese only, free. |
| Hey Ha Cat Fitness | iOS | 2017 | CN 534 ratings, barely moving | Only has a cat in the name, no companionship or collection mechanics |
| Huawei / Xiaomi Exercise Health | Big-company features | 2018 / 2020 | Xiaomi 1.89M ratings, Huawei 720k | Tied to hardware, mainly tracking; doesn't solve the "start moving" problem |
| Xiaohongshu "5-minute exercise quick charge" topic | Other | Around 2025 | Official platform campaign | Same philosophy, but only content. Miko turned it into a tool. |

Where users come from

- Inferred **Xiaohongshu-linked portfolio resources (resource-backed)** : the privacy policy names RedLogin / Skynet / TrackerLite components; the APK sits on tgccdn.com, filed under 开若图; media reported that 小红书科技 registered 开若图's product character copyright early

- Inferred **Paid acquisition / Xiaohongshu feed ads** : Android integrates 热力引擎 SolarEngine for ad attribution; the iOS privacy label includes tracking; an X user said they see 开若图-family app ads on Xiaohongshu every day (Miko not named)

- **Verified** **Official Xiaohongshu account note seeding** : a Xiaohongshu note "a light exercise app made for people with low energy," written in a "cat and its human servant" voice; the in-app Xiaohongshu share SDK is integrated

- **Verified** **App Store in-app event + physical prize draw** : "21-day health plan" 10-10 to 11-10, check-ins for stickers, grip rings and water bottles; reviews mention "check-in rewards make me more motivated"; during the same period, the category chart rose from #107 to #37

- Inferred **In-app rating prompt** : 1,600 ratings against 61 written reviews, 56 of which are five-star; 11-06 ratings in one day, 56

## Miko - Daily Light Exercise (ios_6792616933) Research Report

> Research date 2026-11-06. Data comes from our appstore library (agent-im server, from 2026-10-28), App Store pages and RSS, developer websites, and public reporting. Estimates are labeled, and anything unverified is marked "unverified".

### Bottom line

Miko is the latest from the RedNote-linked "small app matrix": a polished, low-barrier fitness app where a mouthy cat keeps you company through 5 minutes of exercise a day. It's completely free. It works mainly because of **backing resources** (a team with RedNote ties, RedNote's tech components, ad attribution and paid acquisition, and a proven "cute mascot + free + polished design" playbook), plus **a lift from an App Store event with physical prize draws** . The product gets one thing right: it cuts the fitness barrier to 5 minutes a day and frames exercise as "company + collecting stickers", which reviews back up. Its scale is still small, though: it peaked at #37 on the China store's free Health & Fitness chart, has 1,617 ratings in total, and no revenue.

### 1. Basic data

| Project | Data | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Developer | Lingyue Youchuan (Shanghai) Technology Co., Ltd. (灵跃游川), bundle `com.lingyueyouchuan.miko` | iTunes lookup |
| Launched | 2026-08-15; versions 1.0.0 to 1.5.0 (11-02), 10 releases in under 3 months | App Store version history |
| Pricing | Free, no in-app purchases on the store page; reviews repeatedly say "it's actually free" and "no ads" | App Store page, RSS reviews |
| Language / region | Chinese only; nearly all ratings come from the China store (cn 1,601, hk 12, mo 4) | App Store database app_profile |
| Rating | 4.9 stars, 1,605 to 1,617 of them; of 61 written reviews available via RSS, 56 are five-star | App Store, RSS |
| 7 new ratings per day | 175 (cn), 30 day 204 | appstore library |
| Category chart | China store free Health & Fitness chart: 10-28 at #107, 11-03 at #81, 11-04 at #58, 11-05 at #52, 11-06 at #37; never charted overall | appstore library app_day |
| New ratings in a single day | 10-29 to 11-05 new ratings a day, 4 to 29; 11-06 peaked at 56 in one day | appstore library |
| Android | Only on its official APK site and Tencent's App Treasure (应用宝), which shows 655 downloads | sj.qq.com |

Download estimate: in the Chinese market, one rating roughly corresponds to 20 to 50 downloads, so iOS cumulative downloads are around 30k to 80k (**estimate, unverified** ). Only 61 written reviews against 1,600+ ratings suggests most ratings come from the in-app system rating prompt.

### 2. Competitors

| Competitors | Where | Launched | Scale (cn, appstore library 11-06) | How Miko differs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Keep - AI Fitness Coach | iOS / Android | 2015 | 2.94M ratings, Health & Fitness Top Grossing #1 | Comprehensive content, professional fitness and membership model; Miko is 5 minutes, zero barrier, free, and mostly about companionship |
| Daily Yoga | iOS / Android | 2012 | 520k ratings, #22 on the category grossing chart | Specialized courses plus subscription; Miko has no specialties and charges nothing |
| Tiantian Tiaoshengsheng (Daily Jump Rope) | iOS / Android | 2020 | 590k ratings, #6 on the category free chart | Focused on AI rep counting, student fitness tests, and parent-child workouts; Miko targets sedentary adults |
| Light Training: AI Exercise & Health Assistant | iOS | 2026-04 | 488 rating, #42 on Top Grossing | Professional training plans and paid tiers; it also appears in Miko's "You might also like" section |
| Keep Fitness, Hard Sweat Fitness, Hot Sweat Dance, etc. | iOS | 2023 | 3k to 90k ratings | Traditional fitness tools for people who already want to train |
| Finch: Self-Care Pet | iOS / Android (overseas) | 2021 | US 770k ratings, #13 on the US category grossing chart; not on the China chart | The originator of "pet companionship to motivate self-care", reportedly earning roughly $30M+ a year (per a Facebook post, unverified). Miko borrows the "cute pet motivation" idea but only for exercise and only in Chinese. |
| Hey Ha Cat Fitness | iOS | 2017 | 534 ratings, #174 on the category free chart | Cat in the name, but that's it; largely dormant now |
| Huawei / Xiaomi Health, Apple Fitness | Big-company features | Already there | Xiaomi 1.89M ratings | Hardware-bound and record-focused; Apple Fitness+ is unavailable in mainland China |
| RedNote topic "5-minute exercise recharge" | Platform content | Around 2025 | RedNote official campaign | Same "bite-sized, anti-exercise-anxiety" idea, but as content, not a tool (socialbeta.com/campaign/22172) |

Takeaway: the "zero-barrier light exercise" niche isn't empty (Keep also has short courses), but on the China iOS store, no app uses a cute pet mascot for companionship, is fully free, and targets "low-energy" people specifically. Miko occupies that sliver.

### 3. Growth tactics (evidence)

1. **Backed by a RedNote-linked app matrix (resources-based); the evidence is strong but not officially confirmed.**
    - Miko's privacy policy says login, networking, and analytics use "technical components such as RedLogin, Skynet, TrackerLite" (mikogogo.com/privacy, sections 2.6.1 and 2.6.2). These names match RedNote's own login, networking, and tracking components (inferred, unverified); an independent small team would not normally use them.
    - The Android APK is hosted on `static.tgccdn.com`. The ICP filing for tgccdn.com is held by **Kairuotu Technology (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. (开若图科技)** (Tianyan Check filing page). Kairuotu is the developer behind TinyType (排版小动物), herein (此间), dooo0t, MindBack, and Campus. Media (Bianniu Shi, Sina Finance, 2026-03-04) found that RedNote Technology Co. registered the TinyType logo and character copyrights in advance. Indie developer @10xmylife posted on X (2026-04-24) that "Kairuotu and RedNote are related." So Lingyue Youchuan and Kairuotu share infrastructure and can be read as one matrix.
    - Results from the same matrix (appstore library): TinyType has 65,209 cumulative ratings, with 7 new ratings on 2,793; herein at 2,818; dooo0t at 1,048. Lingyue Youchuan also runs Flipin (launched 9-18, #18 on the China category free chart), Memonside (10-26), and Starlet 星咔 (11-05), roughly one app a month.

2. **Paid acquisition, likely but no direct evidence (unconfirmed).**
    - The official site's third-party SDK list says the Android build includes **SolarEngine (热力引擎)** , used to "analyze ad channel sources and campaign performance and optimize acquisition strategy." The iOS privacy label lists "Identifiers and Usage Data used to track you."
    - X user @xin_pai88825 (2026-04-24) posted: "RedNote says it supports indie developers, yet batch-produces a pile of small apps and buys heavy ads. Every time I open RedNote, it's ads for these same apps." This refers to Kairuotu's apps and doesn't name Miko directly.
    - Our ad library only tracks products on its watchlist; Miko didn't turn up.

3. **Official RedNote account and content seeding (official notes confirmed).** RedNote has a note titled "a light exercise app made for low-energy people" (rednote.com/discovery/item/6a86bbf6…), presenting the product in a "cat and its owner" voice. The body requires login, and engagement numbers weren't available. The app also integrates RedNote's share SDK, so check-in stickers can be shared to RedNote.

4. **App Store event with physical prize draws (confirmed).** App Store "Featured Event": "21-day Raise-a-Human plan", 2026-10-10 to 11-10; daily check-ins and hitting goals earn draws or rewards (stickers, grip rings, sports water bottles). One review says "the check-in prize event makes me more motivated now" (10-06). The category chart climbing started in late October (from #107 to #37), matching the second half of the event.

5. **In-app rating prompt (inferred).** Written reviews and rating counts differ by more than 25x, and 11-06 saw 56 ratings in a single day, the highest in the monitoring period. Possibly 11-02 changed the rating prompt in 1.5.0, or users hit a streak milestone en masse as the event wound down (unverified).

6. **Channels not found.** Searching the X corpus (x-radar) for "Miko light exercise" over the last 90 days and "Kairuotu" over the last 180 days each returned 0 results; no media coverage and no TrustMRR records. No trace of Douyin or TikTok so far (not systematically checked).

### 4. Why users come and stay

- The audience that keeps showing up in reviews is "low-energy people", "lazy people", "office grinders / wage slaves", "sedentary", and "REST personality". These labels are already RedNote slang, and the product copy is written in this group's language.

- There are four reasons people stay: ① 5 to 10 minutes is enough, and it can be set to "no jumping", so it works in dorms and at desks; ② the cat is mouthy but doesn't nag, offering emotional company; ③ the sticker album, streak achievements, and "dried fish streak-saver" turn persistence into collecting; ④ the interface is minimal and polished, free, with no ads.

- The feature requests are consistent too: longer sessions, multiple reminders a day, Apple Health integration, an Apple Watch version, custom exercises. That suggests people use it daily (1.3.0's added "dried fish streak-saver" answers the complaint in 8-27's review about not wanting to break a streak).

### 5. Differentiation, and whether that's why it broke out

- The differentiation is not "more professional" but "less tiring". The target is people who don't want to exercise, not people who want to train; motivation comes from pet companionship and sticker collecting, not data and courses. Commercially it's completely free and in no hurry to monetize.

- That's why it keeps people and reaches 4.9 ratings; but the reason so many people **see** it is mainly the matrix behind it, not differentiation (design and brand capability, RedNote-ecosystem seeding, attribution-driven ads, App Store event operations). An independent developer building the same product would struggle to sustain this release cadence and physical prize campaign in 3 months with zero revenue.

- It runs the same playbook as its sibling TinyType (65k ratings): animal IP, healing art style, free, anti-anxiety copy, drawn from the RedNote audience. Miko copies that playbook into fitness and is currently at a small fraction of TinyType's early scale.

### 6. Visibility and copycats

- Visibility: **circulating in niche circles** . The product itself has no media coverage and no big X account has written about it. But the "Kairuotu / RedNote batch-producing small apps" story was discussed from 2026 3 to April on Sina Finance, Bianniu Shi, Sohu, and in X indie-developer circles, just without naming Miko or Lingyue Youchuan. Revenue isn't public (it's free anyway).

- Copycats: none found.

### 7. What to borrow

- The "anti-exercise-anxiety" positioning, plus the RedNote slang audience (low-energy, introverts, wage slaves), with copy that lifts users' own phrasing straight from their mouths.

- Gamifies with cute pet IP and sticker collecting instead of data and courses; "rest and come back still counts as an achievement" and "make-up check-in" cut churn after a break.

- Uses App Store in-app events with small physical prizes to pull rank and ratings in the later cold-start phase.

- Small teams or solo devs ship one app a month on shared accounts, tracking and attribution infrastructure, then double down on whatever works.

### 8. Still unclear

- Whether 灵跃游川 and 开若图 and 小红书 have an equity relationship in company registration (no registry details found; inferred from SDK names and CDN).

- Whether Miko pays for Xiaohongshu 聚光 or other channels, and how much.

- How 11-06 single-day 56 ratings are generated (rating prompts, event milestones, or paid acquisition).

- Monetization path: currently fully free. An early review mentioned wanting less paid content (9-05), suggesting paid content was or is planned (unverified).

- Download numbers are only a rough estimate from rating multiples.

### Sources

- App Store: [apps.apple.com/cn/app/id6792616933](https://apps.apple.com/cn/app/id6792616933) (version history, in-app event "21 天养人计划" 10-10 to 11-10, privacy labels); iTunes lookup / RSS reviews [itunes.apple.com/cn/rss/customerreviews/id=6792616933/json](https://itunes.apple.com/cn/rss/customerreviews/id=6792616933/json)

- Developer's other apps: [itunes.apple.com/lookup?id=6792616935&entity=software&countr…](https://itunes.apple.com/lookup?id=6792616935&entity=software&country=cn)

- Website and privacy: [www.mikogogo.com/](https://www.mikogogo.com/), [www.mikogogo.com/privacy/](https://www.mikogogo.com/privacy/), [www.mikogogo.com/third-party-sharing/](https://www.mikogogo.com/third-party-sharing/)

- tgccdn.com filing (开若图): [beian.tianyancha.com/iabd01755229347967530](https://beian.tianyancha.com/iabd01755229347967530)

- 开若图 and 小红书 link: [finance.sina.com.cn/roll/2026-03-04/doc-inhpuwss3967861.shtm…](https://finance.sina.com.cn/roll/2026-03-04/doc-inhpuwss3967861.shtml), [www.sohu.com/a/992496293_362225](https://www.sohu.com/a/992496293_362225), [x.com/10xmylife/status/2047585939300761654](https://x.com/10xmylife/status/2047585939300761654) (includes a post by @xin_pai88825 about ad buying)

- Xiaohongshu note: [www.rednote.com/discovery/item/6a86bbf6000000001700329c](https://www.rednote.com/discovery/item/6a86bbf6000000001700329c)

- Tencent App Store: [sj.qq.com/appdetail/com.lingyueyouchuan.miko](https://sj.qq.com/appdetail/com.lingyueyouchuan.miko)

- appstore library: app_day / app_profile (2026-10-28 to 11-06), checking the cn health & fitness category and apps whose developer name contains "开若图 / 灵跃游川"

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