Ammodia

Every collector knows the drawer full of unlabelled finds. Ammodia is the app that gets them out of it: photograph a fossil or a mineral, and it is catalogued. ADD A FIND IN SECONDS • The photo is the entry — take it, and the specimen is in your collection. • The app searches for similar pieces you already own and offers to carry the shared details over: taxon, geological age, formation, find site. One trip to the quarry, one round of typing. • Every field is optional. A photo on its own is a perfectly good record. • Identify a specimen only as precisely as you know it — stopping at order, say, and choosing "Ammonites", is a complete entry. FIND IT AGAIN WITHOUT TYPING • Point the camera at a specimen and the app finds it in your collection by image. • Text search covers names, notes and all details. THE FIELDS COLLECTORS ACTUALLY USE • Fossils: taxonomy from kingdom to species, geological age, formation, preservation, find site and date, measurements. • Minerals: mineralogy, geology, find data, measurements. • Several photos per specimen, so the reverse side and the detail shot stay together. REMEMBER WHERE YOU FOUND IT • Save the places you collect at as find sites: a name, a spot on the map, and how far the site reaches — 250 m to 25 km. • The find location of a new specimen comes from the photo or from your current position, and inside a saved site's radius it is matched to that site by itself. • Record how to get in: publicly accessible, permit required, private land, opening hours, a fee. Directions, what to bring and who to ask go into notes that guests never see. • Browse your sites as a list or as pins on a map, satellite view included. • You decide what guests see: one switch hides coordinates and map pins from them, while sites you shared on purpose stay visible. SHARE YOUR COLLECTION • Invite others by email — they get full access to the same collection. Made for couples, clubs and working groups who collect together. • Hand out a guest code for read-only access: visitors, fellow collectors or an exhibition audience can browse the collection without changing anything. • Revoke the guest code at any time and every guest loses access at once. YOUR DATA • Start straight away — no registration, no user account. • Add an email address later and you can restore your collection on a new phone or manage it from several devices. • Photos are stripped of their metadata the moment they reach the server. Where a photo carries the place it was taken, that location is read out first and kept as the find location — nothing else from the file is stored. • Delete your collection yourself at any time, from inside the app. WHAT IT COSTS • Free to use. Up to 20 photos without an email address; after that an address is needed, so that a lost phone does not take the collection with it. • 200 uploads are currently included. If you need more, just get in touch. • Paid plans for more uploads and further features will follow. Whatever you use for free today stays free.