Count, map, measure and sample your sites with standard methods, with or without signal. Leave a spare phone out as a camera trap or recorder. Every measured value waits for your approval, and every app shares the same projects, sites, plots and transects.
HabitatLens is the field platform. FaunaLens and SongLens run on a second phone you leave in the field. Desktop brings everything together on your computer.
Each app stands on its own. Start with just the one you need: each does a useful job by itself. Used together, they become even more powerful, as camera-trap sessions and recordings flow into HabitatLens and Desktop, where everything from a site comes together.
However you collect it, HabitatLens makes sense of it.
Use the phone apps, or bring spreadsheets, GPS files, scanned data sheets and logger files straight into Desktop.
The field platform. Count species, walk transects with standard methods, sample quadrats, score streams, inventory forest plots, follow restoration plantings and describe habitat with the phone's sensors, all offline. Group everything into projects, one per course, thesis or contract.
iPhone, iPad and Android · Free tier · Field $49.99/year or $7.99/month · six-month season pass
Turn a spare phone into a camera trap. Motion zones that ignore moving vegetation, burst grouping, short video clips and remote viewing over WiFi. Timer mode takes a photo every few minutes from a fixed spot to follow plant phenology.
iPhone and Android · Free, Field $24.99/year
Turn a spare phone into a scheduled field recorder for birds, frogs and soundscapes. A small app of its own that asks only for what recording needs. Choose a microphone, set a schedule and leave it out; sessions go to HabitatLens or Desktop as a file or over WiFi.
iPhone and Android · Free, Field $24.99/year
Merge your team's or class's data project by project and get a reproducible R report with the code included, including maps of diversity across your sites. Give each site a profile, from biome and soils to land status, history, the peoples whose land it is and the groups working there, and attach articles with their citations, drawings and poems. Fill the profile from open sources in one click, draw its boundary on the map, then turn it, your field data and saved R analyses into a report or slides. Review camera-trap photos and sound recordings on a big screen, follow phenology curves, run class BioBlitz events, and build species libraries and identification keys with HabitatLens Studio. Run the lab too: find grants and follow each one from idea to award and spending, book equipment, see who is free, and know when to order supplies or renew permits. Work at sea too: check marine names against WoRMS, add a site's marine ecoregion, depth and sea temperature, and export dives and boat surveys for OBIS. Choose a biome landscape behind the pages, toned so text stays easy to read.
macOS (Apple silicon and Intel), Windows and Linux · runs analyses in your own copy of R · HabitatLens Studio also free in any browser
Field Counter is free. One Field subscription opens every other module, including the ones still to come. Every module shares the same projects, sites, plots and transects, so data entered in one appears in the others.
Tap or voice counting with your own species libraries and photos. Time and GPS stamps; Shannon and Hill diversity.
Sites, plots and transects created and navigated on offline topographic maps with contours. Live Activities on Apple Watch.
Distance sampling, belt, section, line- and point-intercept and point-centered quarter transects, and elevation profiles.
Terrain, soil, vegetation and water, with slope, canopy cover, tree height and more measured by the phone and saved only with your approval.
Random, grid or transect placement; cover classes and frequency grids; photo quadrats; a "have I sampled enough?" curve.
Macroinvertebrate samples scored with a published biotic index, plus water chemistry and discharge in one stream record.
Dives entered from a printable slate, with depth and bottom time as effort, and boat surveys that record the track, effort and sightings for distance sampling.
Permanent plots, tagged and remeasured trees, LiDAR trunk diameter, mortality and recruitment, and biomass and carbon estimates from published equations.
Tagged seedlings, survival by round, growth and causes of loss, and a PDF report for funders.
Record or import WAV files from SongLens and AudioMoth-type recorders; spectrograms and soundscape indices.
Import FaunaLens sessions and match each photo to its plot by GPS. In Desktop, a model pre-sorts the photos for you to confirm, and R gives activity patterns, detection rates, occupancy histories and a regression of detections on measured light.
Collection numbers that are never reused, printable QR labels, links to morphospecies, a custody trail and Darwin Core export.
Pick features with photos and the list of possible taxa narrows. Offline, in any language including Kichwa; built in HabitatLens Studio.
An organizer sets up an event, teams record, and their files merge into a species list and leaderboard, with no server.
Readings from Bluetooth probes such as Vernier Go Direct, attached to the plot or stream you are describing.
Build the course project once, with its sites, plots, species list and forms, and share it as a class file. Every student who opens it starts with the same setup, and every module in that project is unlocked for the course. No accounts, no server, nothing for students to buy.
Sites, plots, species list and protocol, on your phone or in Desktop.
Send it by email, chat or a shared folder. One file covers the whole semester.
The course project appears, fully unlocked, even without signal.
Collect the backups, merge them in Desktop and hand out the R report.
Prices in US dollars; lower prices in Ecuador. Free in every plan: export to iNaturalist, joining a class through a class file, backup and CSV export, night mode and high contrast.
Field Counter for one site, the guide and glossary, identification keys, backup and CSV export.
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Every module, PDF reports, offline maps and future modules.
$49.99 /year or $7.99/month
Field for six months, for a semester or a field season. Does not renew.
$29.99 once
Field for as long as we offer the apps, for the first 500 buyers.
$129 once
FaunaLens Field and SongLens Field $24.99/year each · All three apps $69.99/year
Instructor licenses with free class files for your students, station licenses for every researcher at one site, and project licenses for restoration and carbon teams.
The same small Tucson studio makes apps for the classroom, for freelance work and for home. Each one keeps your data on your own device, and each works in English and Spanish.
The heavy-duty planner for AP® Environmental Science teachers. It follows your school's real A, B and C days, paces the nine units over the class meetings you actually have, and says each day what to teach, assign and run in lab. It estimates how long each assignment takes to grade and plans your grading time, in English or Spanish.
Web, iPhone and iPad · Free for six weeks, then $39/year · gorilla.oddlyaudaciousapps.com
The work app for freelance interpreters and tutors in Arizona: a schedule that catches double bookings and syncs with Google Calendar, a booth timer, prep glossaries, automatic mileage, invoices, and a tax set-aside with a year-end package for your preparer. A collective can share a job board, sub requests and equipment.
In the browser on phone, tablet or computer · Piloting with Tucson interpreters · Ask to join
Shared chores for any group: a family, roommates or a club. Sign up for a chore, tick it off, and let the app suggest whose turn it is. Chores can repeat or wait for another to finish, and anyone who's away gets time off.
iPhone and iPad · $0.99 once, shared with Family Sharing · Questions