Nature Tools software

Purpose-built tools for knowing nature better.

Field guides, birding intelligence, biological identification, place awareness, geology, trip planning, and Lightroom workflows—built around real naturalist work.

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Available now

Live tools

Released products that are currently available to use.

Field guide Live

Montana Field Guide

An offline-first guide to Montana biodiversity with species accounts, maps, habitat clues, conservation context, and strong filtering.

iPhone & iPadFreeOffline-first
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Lightroom Classic plugin Live

iNat Publish Pro

Match photographs to iNaturalist observations, write taxonomy and conservation metadata into Lightroom, and maintain the catalog over time.

macOS & WindowsSubscriptionLightroom Classic
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Lightroom Classic plugin Live

GeoPlace

Turn embedded coordinates into useful place metadata, mapped context, and a cleaner geographic workflow inside Lightroom Classic.

macOS & WindowsSubscriptionLightroom Classic
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Landscape simulator Live

Missoula Ice Age Floods Simulator

Explore the scale, depth, and landscape effects of Missoula Ice Age Floods Simulator through an interactive geographic simulation.

iPhone & iPadFreeInteractive
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In active development

Building now

Products currently being designed, developed, tested, and prepared for release.

Birding intelligence Building

Flyway Birding

Live sightings, personal history, notable birds, target lists, hotspots, saved places, and route-aware birding intelligence.

iPhone & iPadIn developmentBirding
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Evidence-first identification Building

Fieldmark

A taxon-neutral identification workflow combining media, visible traits, geographic priors, specialist models, and transparent evidence.

iPhone & iPadIn developmentAI-assisted
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Place intelligence Building

Place

A layered place report for terrain, geology, water, land status, ecology, recreation, weather, air, light, and astronomy.

iPhone & iPadIn developmentWestern U.S.
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Wildlife trip planning Building

NaturalistTripper

Plan trips around likely wildlife using iNaturalist, eBird, and GBIF records with seasonal context, routes, targets, and offline preparation.

iPhone, iPad & WatchIn developmentTrip planning
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Geology companion Building

Bedrock

Field geology, deep time, paleogeography, rock identification, geologic maps, hazards, fossils, and a serious field notebook.

iPhone & iPadIn developmentGeology
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How Nature Tools works

Serious software without losing the field perspective.

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Field-ready

Designed around outdoor use, imperfect connectivity, and the realities of collecting biological and geographic information.

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Evidence-aware

Confidence, provenance, limitations, and source context remain visible instead of being hidden behind a polished answer.

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Data-respectful

Your observations, photographs, catalogs, and field notes remain useful, portable, and under your control.