A pocket field journal

The species are real.

A pocket-sized field journal where every creature you find gets a name. 228 species. Eight categories. The wild already nearby.

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Pocket Wild's home screen — Aldo the frog, the day's weather, and a species worth looking for today

A field journal.

You log what you find outside. Every entry holds the date, the weather, the season, the moment.

A registry of 228.

Eight categories — birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, insects, plants, trees, fungi. The species worth knowing. Everything else fills your Field Log, and no two sightings are the same.

A quiet companion.

There's a frog named Aldo who points things out. What's in season. What's nesting. What just came through.

How it works

A glance becomes a journal entry.

01

Photograph it.

Point your phone at whatever caught your eye — a bird at the feeder, a mushroom on a log, a tree you've passed for years.

02

iNaturalist identifies it.

Pocket Wild sends the photo to iNaturalist's computer vision and suggests what it likely is.

03

It's named and kept.

Every sighting gets a name and a place in your journal — held with the date, the weather, and the season it was made in.

The naming

Every creature gets a name.

Spot a Carolina Wren and Pocket Wild names it Clover. Spot a Heron and meet Down. Spot a Raccoon and meet Wee Biscuit.

Every sighting is automatically given a name from a curated list — a small gift, a tiny piece of magic. Want to rename your sighting yourself? Tap and rename. The journal is yours.

A Mourning Dove being given a name in Pocket Wild — 'Meet Brown Pewee', with Fierce and Curious traits

A Mourning Dove, just named

The Pocket Wild Registry — a grid of pixel-art species portraits, numbered like field-guide plates

The Registry

228 species. The ones worth knowing.

Eight categories: birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, insects, plants, trees, fungi.

Common enough to find. Beautiful enough to remember. Varied enough to surprise you for years.

Aldo, the frog who lives inside Pocket Wild and points things out

A frog who notices

Meet Aldo.

A frog with a sense of what's around. He'll point things out — a goldfinch passing through this week, the first frost, the species worth looking for today.

Aldo notices. So can we.

The Collection

Your collection. On display.

A pixel-art museum that fills as you go. Every sighting, every name, every season. The journal you keep without trying to keep one.

The Meadow — a pixel-art museum where every species you've logged gathers in one scene

No feed. No algorithm.
No subscription. No ads.

A one-time purchase. Yours forever.

The journal stays on your device. Your sightings are your sightings. We don't sell anything but this app.