Mitochondria LifeHelp

1. Getting started: the daily cycle

What you can do

Record your meals, exercise, sleep, and weight, then give your Mitos the food that arrives the next morning. Fish increases their number, vegetables boost their energy, and meat helps unlock new body areas.

Keep at it, little by little!

The daily cycle

1. RecordRecord your meals, exercise, and other daily activities.
2. Receive foodThe next morning, review the previous day’s results on Home to receive food.
3. Feed your MitosDrag food from the bag at the bottom of the screen toward your Mitos.
4. Enjoy the changesFish increases their number, vegetables boost their energy, and meat helps unlock new body areas.

An app day starts at 5 a.m. A record made at 4:59 a.m. belongs to the previous app day; one made at 5 a.m. belongs to the new day. Sleep is an exception: it is recorded against the calendar day before you wake up.

You do not receive the day’s final food rewards as soon as you make a record.

Start hereView the start guide →

2. How food works

Fish, vegetables, and meat come in grades 1–3. The numbers below describe changes within the game.

Fish, meat and vegetables drop one grade every 24 hours after they arrive, down to grade 0. The growth effect uses the grade at the moment you feed them. The sooner you feed them, the bigger the effect.

Giving food

Drag fish, vegetables, or meat from the food bag at the bottom of the screen toward your Mitos. When they finish eating, large numbers appear in the center of the screen for energy, Mito count, or unlock points. There is no results pop-up.

3. Your daily records

Meals

1. Choose breakfast, lunch, dinner, or snack, then enter a dish name to analyze it.
2. If the dish is not in the dictionary, select its main protein source or choose “Not sure.”
3. If needed, use “Edit nutrients” to enter protein in grams. Review the details and confirm the record.

Editing the same meal slot on the same day updates that record. Unknown nutrients do not mean 0 g or 0 kcal. The morning prompt to enter yesterday’s meals lets you choose a missing breakfast, lunch, or dinner slot.

Exercise

Record the exercise type, duration or repetitions, and effort level. The standard duration choices are 5, 10, 15, 20, 30, 45, 60, and 90 minutes. Steps are imported through a health data connection. Overlapping steps and exercise are not simply counted twice.

Creating an exercise plan does not count as completing exercise. Ladder and burpee courses are recorded as completed exercise once you complete the course.

Sleep

Without a health data connection, answer the sheep’s morning questions about how you feel on waking and whether you had too little sleep, a normal amount, or plenty. With a connection, sleep duration is filled in automatically. Numeric sleep-duration fields and graphs appear only when you have a connection.

Sleep is recorded against the day before you wake up. Its effect is applied directly to the next morning’s energy, separately from meal-related food rewards.

Weight

Enter your weight to record it. Entering it again on the same day replaces that day’s value. A manual entry takes priority over an imported measurement, even if the imported one is newer. On days without a manual entry, the latest imported measurement is used.

4. The start guide

Open the card on Home using its view button and work through the guide at your own pace. It has three chapters:

1. Meal plan: plan your meals with Momo Sensei.
2. My exercise plan: plan activities with Muscle Mito. After saving, you are asked whether you want to add another activity.
3. The professor: learn how to read the app’s screens.

Making a plan is separate from recording the meals you eat or the exercise you do.

5. Health data connections

Health Connect on Android

The connection handles six data types: steps, exercise, weight, height, sleep, and VO₂max. Permission alone is not enough: the source app must also contain a measurement.

1. Open the health data connection in the app’s settings.
2. In the OS permission screen, allow access to the data types you want to import.
3. Check that the source app contains the relevant data.

The normal connection imports records from the time you grant permission and connect onward. Earlier records are not included in the normal automatic import. History displayed for reference is separate from records used for growth. History from before your initial setup does not generate a backlog of food rewards.

How imported sleep is handled

Sleep from multiple sources is not simply added together. Overlapping periods are merged and awake time is subtracted. Sleep is recorded against the calendar day before you wake up. Your own answer about how you feel on waking takes priority.

Garmin

Garmin integration requires a Connect IQ app, a compatible watch, device permissions, and other setup requirements. Not all Garmin Connect data is necessarily available through Health Connect.

6. Backups, a new phone, and data migration

Export a backup

1. Use the backup section in settings to export your records and growth data as a JSON file.
2. Check that the file actually exists in the save location. An export message on screen is not enough.
3. Load the exported file to check the backup.

Restore a backup

1. In the restore section of settings, select the backup you want to use. Selecting it does not replace your data yet.
2. Before replacing anything, export your current data too, then load that file back to verify it.
3. Confirm the restore after verification. Replacement may be stopped if your data changed after verification or the file has a problem.

Before switching phones

Check the actual backup file on your old phone and keep it somewhere your new phone can access. On the new phone, select it in the restore section of settings. Restoring a JSON backup does not necessarily transfer the same user number or invitation relationships.

Moving from 2.x to 3.0

What stays: weight, meal, exercise, and sleep records; your profile, settings, exercise plans, steps, and ladder and burpee course history.

What starts again: you begin with 1 Mito and 10 energy, and the collection returns to its initial state. Growth results, food, feeding status, and collection achievements are reset. The tutorial starts again with language selection.

Your earlier records remain, but the same old records do not earn growth or collection rewards again.

7. Frequently asked questions

8. Important information and sources

This app is not a medical device and does not provide diagnosis, treatment, or personalized diet or exercise guidance. This help page does not provide medical information or individual advice. If you have a medical condition or restrictions on diet or exercise, follow your healthcare professional’s instructions.

Meal points and grades, staple-food amounts, calorie targets, and activity factors are app-specific guides. In-game Mito counts and energy are not measurements of your body or evidence of a physical benefit.

Sources for nutrition values and dietary references

• Standard Tables of Food Composition in Japan, Eighth Revised Edition, Supplement 2023 (MEXT)
• USDA FoodData Central
• Dietary Reference Intakes for Japanese, 2025 (MHLW)

For other references, see the health information sources and cautions section in settings, or the sources and evidence disclosure on individual app screens.

9. Contact

The contact section in settings offers options to report a bug, send a suggestion, ask how to play, or get backup support.

• Email: [email protected]
• Official X: @akiplex_studio
• Privacy policy

When reporting a bug, include a screenshot, your device model, OS, and app version to help us understand what happened.