Nettle of the Hearth
A curious fox-rabbit Mipkin with a lantern tail. Nettle is alert warmth on four small feet.
Bright chirps, warm lantern chimes, and quick pleased huffs.
A little world is waiting.
Meet the Mipkin who finds you.
A tiny companion is waiting to make a home with you. Check in, do something kind for yourself, and see their room grow alongside your friendship.
How it works
A little care goes a long way.
A daily visit can take less than a minute. Stay longer when you feel like it.
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1 Tell them how today feels
Tap the weather, your energy, and what you need. When the day feels heavy, Mipkin offers gentler things.
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2 Choose one small thing
Three are offered each day, and one is plenty. Each one earns a little Warmth. Warmth is never sold.
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3 Come home to something new
Warmth brings new things into the room. Your Mipkin wanders, finds keepsakes, and grows through adventures, never days in a row.
A day in the Nook
The room fills as you go.
One small thing a day is plenty. Nothing runs down while you are away, and the room keeps everything it gathers.
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Say how it is in here
The check-in is optional. Tap the weather in here, your energy, and what you need. On a heavy day, the things offered are gentler.
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Pick one small, kind thing
Three are offered each day, and one is plenty. Each one you do earns a little Warmth and adds kindling to your Mipkin’s lantern.
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A wander brings more home
With enough kindling, your Mipkin goes wandering and comes home later with a keepsake and a little more Warmth. Warmth is never sold.
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Something new for the room
Spend Warmth at the stalls on a rug, a lamp, herbs for the sill. Each new thing is set down gently in the Nook.
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They go and see it
Left to themselves, they visit the things in their room. A new rocking chair gets a curious sniff, and it rocks.
Shown with Nettle, one of the ten Mipkins, in the Hearth. The Mipkin who finds you will be your own.
Optional check-in
How is the weather in here?
weather☀︎☁︎☂︎✦
energylowsteadybright
needrestspacecompany
Today
Send the message you keep meaning to send.8
Notice something someone did for you that you did not ask for.8
Walk somewhere you were going to travel to anyway.12
A little more kindling and Nettle can wander.
Kindling enough for a wander.
Nettle found a tiny spiral shell. +25 Warmth
From the stalls, paid in Warmth
One Mipkin will find you
Mipkins
Ten Mipkins at launch, shown exactly as they are in the app. You will not choose one from a grid. A short, mostly wordless ritual brings one through. The Mipkin who finds you is yours.
Poffle of the Conservatory
A capybara-cloud with a cumulus tail and a raindrop pendant. Poffle is a steady shelter and never in a hurry.
Soft rain taps, sleepy hums, and a tiny thunder puff.
Kittibug of the Observatory
A cat-moth with folded eyespot wings, curled antennae, and a crescent moon in the crook of her tail.
Restrained huffs, velvet trills, and a soft wing shimmer.
Tussock of the Conservatory
A hedgehog-mole with a crown of quills and a seed-pod lamp.
Low snuffles, rustling quills, and a contented burr.
Sundrop of the Hearth
A striped bumble-cub with little wings and a honey drop.
A soft wing hum, small bright chirrs, and a drowsy buzz.
Hoplin of the Conservatory
A frog-sprout on wide webbed feet, with a seedling for a cowlick and a lit toadstool held up like a parasol.
Round wet croaks, a rustle of leaves, and a pleased little gulp.
Pipwick of the Observatory
An owl-mouse in a wing-cloak, with a heart-shaped face, feather horns, and one star kept in a little cage.
Small querying hoots, a papery flutter, and a mouse-quiet squeak.
Twinket of the Observatory
A flying squirrel wearing her glide membrane like a cape, with a plume taller than she is and a comet-pebble slung from it.
Quick excitable chitters, a rush of air, and a satisfied trill.
Cindle of the Hearth
A salamander-pup with feathery gills, a ridged back, and a clay cup of live embers on her tail.
A low contented crackle, soft clicks, and a sound like a log settling.
Brackle of the Conservatory
A lichen-fawn on folded legs, dappled down the flank, with a crown of antlers still in velvet and a woven lantern at her hip.
Soft bleats, a rustle of dry grass, and a long steady breath.
Inside the app
A small life you build together.
These are real screens from the current app, with a Mipkin just getting settled in.
The bond
Keep the story of your time together.
Your Mipkin's page tells you how your bond is growing. There is no score to chase. Growth counts wanders taken, not days in a row.
Every keepsake they bring home joins the collection. The empty spaces hint at how much there is left to find.
Two journals
Somewhere to put the day down.
Your pages begin with a gentle question, such as "What is unfinished, and is that alright?" Tap for another whenever you need it. You write on your phone, and your words stay on your phone.
Your Mipkin keeps a journal too, about where they went and what they found. Yours is yours. Theirs is theirs.
The stalls
Find something new for the room.
The stalls restock on their own schedule. Everything here is priced in Warmth, which you earn through small things and adventures. Warmth is never sold.
Plus adds more decor to discover, but everything your Mipkin needs is free.
The off switch
Take a real break.
Turn on quiet mode and the phone goes quiet. There is no streak to save and nothing to repair when you return. A day away is already free.
You can also export your data as a file or delete it from the device. Neither action depends on us.
Where they live
Every Mipkin needs a place to feel at home.
A Nook is their room. Tap the things inside, watch the light change with the hour, and make it feel like theirs. Here is a first look at all five:
You begin in your Mipkin's own room. Plus opens the doors between all five.
Our promise
Move at your own pace.
Your Mipkin will be glad to see you, whether you were gone for an afternoon or a month.
Ad slots.No ad slots, no ad breaks, at any price.Streaks you can buy back.Rest days are free, and your best run stays with you.Energy for sale.Nothing you need to care for your Mipkin runs out.Warmth for cash.Warmth is always earned.Fake urgency.Offers only expire when the terms say they do.Manufactured countdowns.Mipkin never ticks down by the second to pressure you.Guilt.Your Mipkin does not count what you missed.Paywalled care.Everything your Mipkin needs is free.
Local by default. No account is needed for the core app. Your Mipkin, your check-ins, and everything you write live in your phone's storage by default. Reflections, Talking freely, visiting, private friends, account backup, and care cues are separate optional features; each uses only the limited data described in our privacy policy.
Questions
A few things you may be wondering.
Is it really free?
Yes. The free app includes your Mipkin, every growth stage, check-ins, quests, adventures, keepsakes, both journals, breathing, grounding, the worry box, looking back over your time together, the shop, and the support route. Plus adds more rooms, themes, reflections, space to welcome more Mipkins, and, for adults in the United States and the United Kingdom, Talking freely.
How do I cancel Plus?
Subscriptions are billed and cancelled through the store. On iPhone, go to Settings, your name, then Subscriptions. On Android, open Payments and subscriptions in the Play Store. Cancelling stops the next renewal and leaves the current period running.
Where does my data live?
Core Mipkin data lives on your phone by default. No account is required for your Mipkin, journal, or Nook. Reflections, Talking freely, visiting, private friends, account backup, and care cues are separate choices with limited data use explained in our privacy policy. An optional account can recover a linked visiting code. If you separately turn on backup, it can also recover Mipkin progress, Nook choices, inventory, and settings. It never backs up journal text, reflection text, Talking freely conversations, or worry-box entries. Export gives you a local file, and delete removes local data from the device.
What happens if I disappear for a month?
Nothing bad. A quiet day costs nothing, your longest run is kept, and there is nothing to buy or repair. Growth counts wanders taken, never days in a row. Come back after a fortnight or a month and everything will be where you left it, with a playful return story waiting for you.
Do the Mipkins use AI?
Only in two optional parts of Plus, and only once you turn them on. Everything else your Mipkin says, including their everyday conversations, is written in advance by people, and so are their moods, journals, and stories.
Reflections. While reflections are on, each journal page you keep is sent to an AI service that writes one short reflection back. If you picked support areas when you started, such as “rest” or “connection”, those fixed choices go with it. Your check-ins, mood, your Mipkin’s name, and your earlier pages are not sent.
Talking freely. For people 18 and over in the United States and the United Kingdom, in English, you can type to your Mipkin in your own words and an AI writes their replies. Each message goes with the recent lines of the same conversation and a few fixed choices, never your journal. While it is on, the AI may also write their answer when you tell them about something coming up, or how it went. Conversations are saved on your phone, not on our service. It is not a person, therapy, or a crisis service; our safety page explains what happens if something heavy comes up.
For both, our service doesn’t keep the text, and it only goes to AI services that say they keep no copy of it and don’t train on it. Each is turned on separately, and you can turn it off at any time in Settings. The details are in our privacy policy.
Where can I get Mipkin?
Mipkin is available now on the App Store for iPhone and Google Play for Android. Questions go to a human at support@mipkin.app.
The door is open on iPhone and Android.
Your Mipkin is waiting.
Questions? A human is here: support@mipkin.app