Forager's Fieldbook

Base Nine Studios

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About this app

Log your finds. Set reminders. Return for harvest.

A foraging journal and personal field guide for foraging, wildcrafting, and nature journaling. Spot finds with AR or Camera, build a taxonomy-backed library one species at a time, track every harvest window with reminders, and return at the right time.

For mushroom hunters, wildcrafters, herbalists, naturalists, and journalers.

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7-day free trial

Forager offers a 7-day free trial for new subscribers. Full access to every feature — capture finds, build your Codex, track trips, set harvest reminders — with no charge during the trial.

After the trial, your subscription auto-renews at $9.99/month or $99.99/year (USD), whichever plan you selected, unless canceled at least 24 hours before the trial ends. Manage or cancel any time in Google Play → Payments & subscriptions → Subscriptions.

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• CAPTURE — Two ways to log a find. Both lock the spot.

- AR Spotter drops a 3D-anchored pin through your camera.
- Camera Mode is photo → confirm → save.
- Every find records GPS, altitude, accuracy, and reverse-geocodes city and state.
- Add photos, notes, status, and a reminder date.

Eight color-coded find types: mushroom, herb, berry/fruit, nut, flower, plant, fungus, other.

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• CODEX — FIELD GUIDE

Your own field guide, built one find at a time. Type a common name; the app returns the scientific name and full classification from the ITIS taxonomy database. Sort, filter, and search your saved library as it grows.

Not a photo identifier. You know what you found. The Codex remembers it.

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• CALENDAR — HARVEST REMINDERS

Ready Soon. Harvest Ready. Past Ready. Every reminder-tagged find moves through three states so nothing is missed and nothing is checked too early. Calendar view groups your foraging season by month.

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• TRIPS — GPS TRACKING

GPS-tracked forages, stitched to your finds.

- Start, pause, resume, save, or discard a walk.
- A foreground service keeps GPS recording with your screen off and your phone in your pocket.
- Every trip carries a route-preview SVG and the finds you logged along the way.

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• MAP

Three views: Normal, Hybrid Satellite, Pure Satellite. Toggle the route line and waypoints. Pins are color-coded by find type and ringed with a GPS-accuracy halo. Tap a pin for a bottom sheet. Tap the map to edit a location.

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• HOME

Sun and moon times. Current weather. GPS, cellular, and Wi-Fi signal strength at a glance. Recent finds. A small rotation of foraging tips.

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• WHAT IT ISN'T

Not a photo ID app. Not an edibility guide. No social feed, no leaderboards, no shared spots. You bring the knowledge. The Fieldbook keeps the record.

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• YOURS — Yours to tune. Yours to keep.

Every feature is built to work one-handed in the woods — fast capture, readable glanceability, and the privacy of a journal that lives on your device.

No third-party analytics. No trackers. No ad SDKs. Sign in with email or Google; your account is Firebase-backed.

Capture and browse work offline. Map tiles, weather, and thumbnails are cached. Your foraging journal syncs when you're back in range. Find metadata syncs across devices; photo files stay local to the device that captured them for now.

A foraging journal from Base Nine Studios.

What’s new

- Updated free trial includes no prior signup
- 30 days instead of 7
- restricted map view
- limited finds