BugJug: Bug Pets in a Jar

Every bug has a story. BugJug helps you find it. Take a photo of a bug, and BugJug works out what it is right on your phone, with no internet needed. It knows more than 8,000 kinds of insects, spiders, snails and other creepy-crawlies. Then it turns your find into a cute, hand-drawn pet with its own name, personality and colors taken from the real bug, and puts it in a glass jar on your bookshelf. CATCH • Point the camera at a bug and watch BugJug lock on and name it as you get closer. • Auto Catch for bugs that won't sit still: tap once and BugJug watches for up to 10 seconds, picks the sharpest moment and catches the bug for you. • Meet your bug: its name, how rare it is, and a "Did you know?" fact. • Fill your Bugdex and see how many kinds you can find. CARE • Pat your bugs, feed them and give them toys. They get lonely, hungry and bored, but nothing bad ever happens. They're just happy to see you. • Dress them up in hats, celebrate their birthdays and grow your friendship one heart at a time. • Raise a caterpillar into a butterfly on a real timeline: it hangs in a J, spends over a week in its chrysalis, then unfolds as a surprise grown-up. Ladybird larvae, cicadas and moths grow up too. • Several bugs of the same kind share a jar, and every original photo is kept in their field notes. SHARE • Give a bug to a friend: show them a code, their BugJug scans it, and a copy of your bug moves onto their shelf. It works face to face, with no internet and no accounts. • Gifts get a present on the shelf, so you always know who came from a friend. PLAY • Let a bug out into your room through the camera and take a photo together. • Play fetch, feather and bubbles. • Make scenes on mountains, beaches and starry skies, or on your own photos. • Explore: hunt bugs with a net in 19 places around the world, from the Smoky Mountains to Antarctica, and collect the ones that really live there. SAFE AND PRIVATE • Everything happens on your phone, even in airplane mode. No accounts, no ads, no tracking, and photos never leave your device. • Backups and purchases are behind a grown-ups check. • Gentle reminders to look, not touch: identifications can be wrong, so never use BugJug to decide whether a bug is safe to handle. Free to download with five bugs and one place to explore. A single purchase unlocks everything, for keeps, with no subscriptions.