A Spirit Animal at Your Side,
Every Day
The Path of the Paws is a quiet place on your phone. A spirit animal for today, a guided practice when you need one, and a journal that nobody but you reads. More than 70 animals, every text written by Carolin Mallmann herself.
Free to download · No account needed · Premium from 4.99 euros a month
Four Screens, One Rhythm
This is what a day with the app can look like. Two minutes or half an hour, both are right.
Not a Feature List. A Companion.
Everything in the app came out of Carolin’s practice with people, and every text is written by hand.
Your spirit animal for today
Every morning a new animal draws near, with its image, its keywords and a message you can read in your own time. On some days that is all it takes. This part stays free for good.
Eight ways to go deeper
Every animal comes with eight practices: guided meditation, shamanic drum journey, affirmation, breathing exercise, NLP coaching question, journal prompt, mindfulness exercise and shamanic dream interpretation. You choose what fits today.
Guided NLP coaching
The exercises lead you step by step instead of handing you a text to read. Anchor an inner resource with your spirit animal, or turn a heavy thought with a guided perspective shift. What you find goes straight into your journal.
Your seven inner spirit animals
In shamanism you carry not one spirit animal, but several. Each one guards a different layer of your soul. A short, intuitive journey shows you your seven: Core, Feeling, Meeting, Shadow, Healing, Guiding and Calling. Without any birth data.
Your companions
Every animal that has walked a day with you stays in your own collection. A daily encounter slowly becomes a relationship that you can trace back.
Your life-chapter spirit animal
Which animal belongs to the chapter you are living right now? Five quiet questions lead you there. No right, no wrong, only your first feeling.
Your private journal
What you write stays on your device. No account, no transfer to us, no look from outside. You can change any entry at any time, because a path never runs straight.
Moon and nature calendar
The moon as nature’s rhythm, not as a prediction. Astronomically calculated moon phases, each with its own spirit animal and a quiet ritual impulse. If you wish, the app reaches you softly on the morning of a full or new moon.
Soundscapes and a widget
Seven soundscapes keep you company while you write or fall asleep, and they carry on playing when you put your phone down. On the Home Screen, the widget shows today’s animal with its message. One tap takes you to the practices.
If the seven inner spirit animals draw you in, you will find them in full in your birth chart with the 7 spirit animals. If you would rather read your way through the animals first, the A to Z spirit animal guide is open to you. And the Path of the Paws oracle deck brings the same hand-illustrated animals to your table.
Four Steps, and You Are In
Download
Get the app free on the App Store. No account, no sign-up, no email address. You can start straight away.
Greet your animal
The first time you open the app, your spirit animal of the day steps to your side. Read its message and let it settle.
Choose a practice
Eight ways stand open. Take the guided meditation when you are looking for quiet, or the coaching question when you want to move on.
Come back
After a few days you have a small collection, a few journal entries and a rhythm that belongs to you.
Written by One Pair of Hands
Carolin Mallmann learned her craft from indigenous teachers in Mongolia, Siberia and North America. She is a certified NLP trainer and the author of The Path of the Paws, the deck and book this app grew out of.
Every text in the app is written by her: the meditations, the drum journeys, the practices and the journal prompts. Nothing is generated, nothing off the shelf. What you read comes out of her work with people.
What Costs Nothing, and What Premium Opens
The app itself is free, and it stays worth using without a subscription. Premium opens the areas where you really work with yourself.
| Area | Free | Premium |
|---|---|---|
| Spirit animal of the day with image and message | yes | yes |
| Your seven inner spirit animals through the short journey | yes | yes |
| Your companions, your growing collection | yes | yes |
| Soundscapes and the Home Screen widget | yes | yes |
| The eight practices with meditations and drum journeys | no | yes |
| Guided NLP coaching and the resource anchoring | no | yes |
| Your private journal | no | yes |
| Moon and nature calendar | no | yes |
| Your life-chapter spirit animal | no | yes |
The prices in plain words: Premium costs 4.99 euros a month or 39.99 euros for a whole year. The yearly plan starts with 7 days free, so you pay only after a week and can look at everything in peace beforehand. If you would rather not commit, you can unlock Premium once for 129.99 euros and keep it for good.
Subscriptions renew automatically unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the end of the period. You can cancel and manage everything in the settings of your App Store account, without writing to us. Prices are given in euros. The amount in your country can differ, because Apple sets the local price for each App Store.
Questions, Gently Answered
Does the app cost anything?
Downloading is free, and the spirit animal of the day with its message stays free for good. If you want to open the practices, the journal, the moon calendar and the life-chapter spirit animal, you need Premium: 4.99 euros a month, 39.99 euros a year with 7 days free, or 129.99 euros once. Apple sets the price for your country, so the amount you see can differ.
Do I need to know anything about shamanism or NLP?
No. Everything is written so that you can follow without prior knowledge. The practices lead you step by step, and terms are explained where they come up. If you already bring experience with you, there is still enough depth.
Does the app work without the internet?
Yes. All texts, meditations, drum journeys and soundscapes come onto your device with the app. You can use them on a plane, in the forest or with no signal. Only the Discover area loads new articles from the web.
What is a spirit animal, anyway?
A spirit animal is an inner image that makes a quality in you visible. The eagle stands for far sight, the turtle for calm, the wolf for instinct and community. You do not have to believe that an animal speaks to you. It is enough to use it as a mirror in which you recognise yourself more clearly.
Is this astrology or fortune telling?
No. The app tells you nothing about your future. It asks you questions and hands you practices. The moon calendar works with astronomically calculated moon phases, so with the actual position of the moon, not with readings of what lies ahead.
Does the app replace therapy?
No, and it is not meant to. The app is a tool for self-reflection and mindfulness. If you are in an emotional crisis or living with an illness, please turn to a doctor, a psychotherapist or a counselling service.
How do I cancel my subscription?
Through Apple, not through us. On your iPhone open Settings, tap your name at the top, then Subscriptions, choose The Path of the Paws and cancel there. The cancellation has to arrive at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Premium stays open until the end of the period you have paid for.
Is there an Android version?
Not yet. At the moment The Path of the Paws is available for iPhone and iPad only. An Android version is being worked on, but there is no date yet.
Do I need an account?
No. There is no registration and no sign-in. You download the app and can start straight away.
Where are my journal entries stored?
On your device. Your entries and your answers from the practices are not transferred to us, and we have no access to them. If you delete the app, this data goes with it.
Why does the sound stop sometimes?
The drum, the soundscapes and the meditations keep playing when your screen is locked. If a sound does stop, a call or another audio app has usually taken over. Just start it again.
Do notifications work?
Yes. You can set a gentle daily reminder and, if you like, be reminded on the morning of a full or new moon. If nothing arrives, check in your iPhone settings whether notifications are allowed for the app and whether a Focus or Do Not Disturb is switched on.
Your spirit animal
is already waiting.
Take a quiet moment. That is all it needs for a beginning. Free to download, with 7 days of Premium free.
If You Need a Hand
Questions, feedback or something not working? Write to info@shamanism.one and we will come back to you as soon as we can.
The app is built to gather as little as possible: no account, no analytics, no advertising, no tracking. You can read the privacy policy for the app in full.