Wild Traveler
Lion Panthera leo
Legendary+205 XP
- Sighted
- 31 Oct 2025, 08:00
- Location
- Bengaluru, India
- Category
- Mammal
- Habitat
- Grassland
50 base + 80 Legendary + 75 new species = 205 XP
Wildlife & pet journal · iPhone, iPad and Android
That stray cat deserves better than your camera roll.
Snap any animal and FaunaFolio names the species right on your phone, pins where you met it, and files it in a journal you'll actually look back at.
- No ads
- No account
- No tracking
- Works offline
Real screen recording · London Zoo, Sept 2026
The discovery moment
Every find gets its own reveal
Log a sighting and the animal draws itself in before your new entry lands. Sixty animals have their own animation, from foxes and otters to platypuses and octopuses, and every bird and fish gets one too.
- Fox
- Otter
- Platypus
- Tortoise
- Elephant
- Hedgehog
- Panda
- Frog
- Giraffe
- Octopus
One tap, no forms
From photo to field entry in seconds
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Snap it, or pick it from your library
Tap the shutter. Hold it instead to import from Photos, pull straight from your own Immich server, or type the sighting in by hand.
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Identified on your phone
On-device recognition names common animals without uploading anything. When it isn't sure, it offers the alternatives it saw.
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Named, placed and dated
Every sighting gets its own field name, like “Wild Traveler”, plus place, time and weather from your location and the photo itself.
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Scored
XP for every log, more for rarer animals, and a bonus the first time you meet a species.
Sightings map
See everywhere you've been
Every located sighting lands on a live map. Zoom out for a continent of clusters; zoom in and the pins turn into your own photos.
- A heat layer shows where you find the most animals
- Tap a crowded spot for a list instead of endless zooming
- Save a map area for offline use before a trip
- Fix missing locations in bulk: search a place or paste coordinates
Trips & scrapbooks
Trips that put themselves together
FaunaFolio notices sightings that belong together, like a zoo visit, a weekend in Kotor or a summer in southern Italy, and suggests the trip. Accept it and you get a flip-through scrapbook to keep or share.
- Suggested from your own dates and places
- Scrapbook recaps that open with the best finds
- Share as photos, or as a package that opens in FaunaFolio
Pets & collections
Your own animals get their own page
Tag a pet once and every photo of them gathers in one place. Mark a favourite as Special for a full profile with feeding times, habits, a gallery and a cover photo you choose.
- One photo can belong to two pets who are always together
- Collections for anything: shelter animals, school pets, the cats on your street
- A duplicate finder merges repeat sightings of the same animal
XP, streaks & achievements
Level up with every find
Every species has a rarity, from Common to Legendary. Rarer finds earn more, weekly streaks keep you going, and your year gets its own recap.
- Common50 XP
- Uncommon70 XP
- Rare90 XP
- Epic110 XP
- Legendary130 XP
Plus 75 XP the first time you log a species. A new level every 500 XP.
- Weekly streaks: one sighting a week keeps it alive
- An activity heatmap of your whole history
- Achievements, rarest finds and a yearly recap
Appearance & widgets
Make it look like yours
The app comes in eleven colour palettes, light, dark or AMOLED black, and an optional comic style with ink borders and trading-card frames. Home-screen widgets follow along, or get a look of their own. This page runs on the same themes, so try them here.
Theme
Colour
Comic styleInk borders, halftone and hard shadows
Your pick is remembered in this browser only.
A closer look
Straight from the App Store
Why it sticks
The little things
- Finds the animals hiding in your camera roll
- Turns weekends away into trips on its own
- Voice notes for when your hands are full
- Your favourite pet, right on your home screen
- Your friends' pets get their own pages too
- Smooth, quick, and secretly a game
- Built by one person who reads every request
Privacy
Your sightings stay on your phone
FaunaFolio has no servers of its own, so there's nothing to sign up for and nothing to leak. Your journal, photos and locations live in the app's private storage on your device.
This website doesn't track you either: no analytics, no tracking cookies.
What it talks to, and why
No accounts, no analytics, no ad SDKs. The app only goes online for:
- Map tiles
- OpenStreetMap
- Weather for a sighting
- Open-Meteo
- Place names & search
- Your phone's geocoder
- Your photo server
- Immich, only if you add one
- App Lock with Face ID, Touch ID or your passcode
- Backups are one encrypted file, protected by your password
- Crash logs stay on your phone unless you choose to share one
And the rest
Small things that add up
Smart Import
Point it at your photo library and it finds the animals, groups each one's shots and suggests the trips they came from.
Immich, if you run it
Browse and log photos straight from your self-hosted Immich server. The originals stay on your server.
A field guide in your pocket
Nearly 3,000 species to search, from the zoo's okapi to the common toad in your pond, plus a wanted list.
Voice field notes
Say what the animal was up to. It's transcribed on your phone and editable before you save.
Home-screen widgets
Your streak, your stats, your rarest find and your special pet. Tap one to jump straight there.
iPhone and iPad
Layouts and photo grids that use the whole screen, from a small phone to a big iPad.
Nine languages
English, Deutsch, Español, Français, हिन्दी, Italiano, ಕನ್ನಡ, Português and 中文.
Your data, your exports
One encrypted backup with everything, plus CSV and GPX exports for spreadsheets and GPS tools.
Pricing
Try everything. Pay once if you love it.
Free
Your first 12 sightings
Every feature unlocked from the first launch: recognition, the map, trips, pets, backups and exports. No account, no card.
FaunaFolio Pro
Unlimited, for good
One purchase removes the cap forever. Never a subscription. The price for your country is shown in the App Store or Google Play.
Roadmap
What's done, what's next
Built by one person, shaped by what you ask for. No dates on purpose: things ship when they're good.
Shipped
- Snap, name, collectOn-device species ID, rarity, XP and thirteen achievements.
- Map, trips and petsEvery sighting pinned, weekends grouped into trips, pets with their own pages.
- Smart Import and ImmichFinds the animals already in your camera roll or photo server.
- Smarter species IDTells look-alikes apart, like Bactrian from dromedary camels or alpacas from llamas, and still runs entirely on your phone.
- Learn more and breedsA page for every species with its family tree and an encyclopedia intro in your language, available offline, plus breeds for dogs, cats, cattle, horses and more.
- Nearly 3,000 speciesIncluding every animal on London Zoo's list.
- Widgets, themes, nine languagesPlus App Lock and encrypted backups.
Next up
- Even sharper on tricky groupsGulls, deer, penguins and butterflies, trained only on openly licensed photos.
- World catalogAn optional, search-only list of every known bird and mammal.
Later
- Global leaderboardOpt-in and anonymous. Only XP from sightings the app recognised itself counts; manual entries and locations never leave your phone.
- More zoo listsTell me which zoo you visit most.
Have an idea? Send it over, I read every one.
Questions
Good to know
Which animals can it recognise?
Common animals: pets, farm animals, garden birds and zoo favourites like lions, zebras and giraffes. For anything else, search the built-in catalog of nearly 3,000 species, or type your own name for it.
Does it work without an internet connection?
Yes. Logging, recognition, your journal and your stats all work offline. The map shows areas you've viewed or saved before; weather lookups and new map areas need a connection.
Where are my photos stored?
In the app's private storage on your device. Shots you take in the app are also saved to your Photos library. If you log from Immich, the original stays on your server and the app keeps a small thumbnail.
Can I free up phone storage if my photos are backed up elsewhere?
Yes, if you use Immich. Each photo you log is copied into FaunaFolio's own storage, so deleting it from your Photos library, or letting iCloud or Google Photos optimise your storage, doesn't affect your journal, and it doesn't free the app's copy either. To reclaim that space, connect your Immich server and use Settings → Free up space. FaunaFolio finds the photos your server already has by comparing file checksums (the check itself never uploads anything), deletes the local original and keeps a small thumbnail. The full photo then streams from your server, so you need a connection to view it at full size. Place, date and notes live in the journal itself and aren't touched. iCloud and Google Photos can't be used this way, because the app doesn't connect to them.
How do I move my journal to a new phone?
Go to Settings, then Backup & restore. Export everything into one encrypted file, then restore that file on the new phone.
Is FaunaFolio free?
You can log your first 12 sightings for free. A single one-time Pro purchase removes the cap for good. There are no subscriptions, ads or accounts.
Is FaunaFolio an animal identification app?
Yes. Take or pick a photo and it suggests the species on your phone, using on-device recognition, so your photos are never uploaded. Suggestions can be wrong, so you can always change the species. It is also a journal: every sighting keeps its photo, place, date and notes.
Can I keep a journal of my pets too?
Yes. Tag a pet once and every photo of them gathers in one place. Mark a favourite as Special for a full profile with feeding times, habits and a gallery.
Does it track me or need an account?
No. There is no account, no ads and no tracking. Your journal stays on your device. The privacy policy lists everything in plain language.
Is there an Android version?
Yes. FaunaFolio is on Google Play.
- First EntryEarned
- Rare EncounterEarned
- Forest ExplorerEarned
- World Wanderer3 / 5 countries
- Bird Expert21 / 30 birds
- Night Explorer4 / 10 at night
Start your journal today
Thirteen achievements to unlock. The first one takes a single photo.