Identify what I'm looking at
- Montana Field Guide
- Flyway Birding Building
- Fieldmark Building
Nature Tools – est. Missoula, MT
Field-ready software for the natural world.
Know the places you visit. Understand the life you observe. Build better records of what you find.
Missoula, MT · field kit
↳ Live — Montana Field Guide · iNat Publish Pro · GeoPlace · Missoula Ice Age Floods Simulator
v.2026.06
— FREE · PLACE
Read any landscape, right where you stand.
Place is a iOS app that turns any point on the map into one readable report — terrain, geology, water, land status, ecology, recreation, weather, and light. Use it at the trailhead, on the ridge, from the truck, or while planning from home. Start free with the core report and saved places; upgrade to Pro for every section, offline maps, AR peak ID, and the full field toolkit.
Built to read the whole landscape — terrain, geology, water, public-land status, ecology, weather, and the sky overhead.
In development
Tools you can use today.
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LiveFree
iOS
Montana Field Guide
Field reference for Montana's living world
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Live · Subscription
Lightroom Classic
iNat Publish Pro
Publish iNaturalist observations from Lightroom
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v.1.16.0
Live · Subscription
Lightroom Classic
GeoPlace
Rich location metadata for Lightroom Classic
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LiveFree
iOS
Missoula Ice Age Floods Simulator
Watch an Ice Age lake fill, fail, and drain
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Choose by intent
Pick the work you want to do. We'll point you at the right tool.
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Know where I am
- Montana Field Guide
- GeoPlace
- Missoula Ice Age Floods Simulator
- Place
- NaturalistTripper Building
- Bedrock Building
Log what I find
- Flyway Birding Building
- Fieldmark Building
Plan a trip
- Flyway Birding Building
- NaturalistTripper Building
Building next
In active development.
Each one solves a problem we keep running into in the field. We'll ship them when they're useful, not when they're announced.
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In development
iOS / iPadOS
Flyway Birding
Birding intelligence for active birders
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In development
iOS
Fieldmark
Evidence-first identification for serious naturalists
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In development
iOS
NaturalistTripper
Nature-first trip planning
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In development
iOS
Bedrock
Geology-first field awareness
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— FREE · MONTANA FIELD GUIDE
Explore Montana’s wild species in your pocket.
Montana Field Guide is a free iOS app for exploring Montana’s living world — mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, amphibians, plants, fungi, lichens, insects, and more. Use it in the field, classroom, truck, blind, trailhead, backyard, or anywhere curiosity kicks in. Browse species pages, photos, maps, habitat notes, seasonal patterns, conservation context, and taxonomy — without needing an account or subscription.
Built for Montana’s natural world — from alpine ridges and prairie breaks to wetlands, forests, riparian corridors, and backyard discoveries.
Trust
Built like a field instrument, not a feed.
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12+ datasets
Authoritative sources, named
Every claim our apps make is sourced. We tell you where the data came from, when it was last updated, and what it doesn't cover.
Local-first
We don't track you
No analytics SDKs, no marketing pixels, no behavioral profiling. Apps work offline. Your records are yours.
Citizen-science
Open in spirit
We contribute back to iNaturalist, eBird, and OSM. We respect API terms. We publish our data limitations alongside our successes.
For your work
We've thought about how you actually work.
Naturalists
Building a defensible record of what lives where
Birders
Watching birds with structure, not noise
Photographers
Cataloging field images with context that lasts
Geologists
Reading the ground — at amateur or pro depth
Explorers
Knowing the country before, during, and after a trip
Field Notes