Smart Mineralogist

Yakobo

Contains ads

About this app

Do you need a mobile reference to your mineral collection? Smart mineralogist has the answer for you. With it, you can browse large selections of rock forming minerals numbering over 5,000 unique mineral species. As a geoscientist, most likely you may be working in areas without cellphone coverage hence Smart mineralogist hosts all its content offline.
Don’t know much about minerals or mineralogy? Don’t worry, Smart mineralogist has a very detailed and easy to understand guide to get you started on everything discussed in it.
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MAIN FEATURES:

• Get on demand details on the composition, physical, optical, crystallography and classification data on 5,000+ minerals.
• Browse through detailed photographs of 2500 plus minerals.
• Perform simple to advanced mineral properties search. For example, you can search for a mineral if you know its color, streak, hardness or to what crystal system it belongs to.
• Learn about minerals through a devoted reading section containing known analogies you may encounter in the realm of mineralogy or geology.
• Manage your own mineral collections with the ability to save favorites minerals for easy review.
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LANGUAGES:

• Only English (United States) is currently supported.
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OPTIONAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Class 10 or higher Micro SD card is recommended if you intend to install the App on it.

Keywords: mineral, mineralogy, geology, IMA, crystallography, gemstone, gemology, petrology

Ratings and reviews

Great details on minerals on a technical level. Ideas for improvement: *Add minerals reaction to long wave and short wave ultraviolet light. *Break some minerals into subgroups that can have divergent traits or properties. For example in its lattice Beryllium is partially replaced by Cesium. *Have a option to download and cache locally all mineral photos. *Create an ad free, paid version (same content, no ads) *Add 3D models of crystal structure like they use on mindat.

So far so good! However, I would like to see some way to hear each minerals name pronounced. Like a play button next to the name for people who do not know how to say it. That can be so embarrassing when you're new to something and in a tight knit and smart community like rockhounding is, it would just be helpful to not worry about looking like an idiot to people a bit more legit sounding than I am currently when discussing our hobby via fb groups etc

I'm for something very simple. I don't need to know composition. Just mineral, ore, common rock. I collect rocks for how unusual, fascinating, color, texture. And very app I try is sooooo frustrating for a visual collector!

What's new

MAINTENANCE UPDATE #22
• Android 14 Support
• Stability improvements and bug fixes.