# Caretta Friends — Protect sea-turtle nests

> Protect sea-turtle nests (iPhone/iPad app by Rustam SALAVATOV.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/caretta-friends/id6794324877 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Rustam SALAVATOV](https://appshunter.io/developer/1872989980)
- Category: Education
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 16.0 · 52 MB
- Languages: American English, Russian, Turkish
- Released: 2026-08-01
- Data updated: 2026-08-21
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/caretta-friends/id6794324877/reviews.md

## What is Caretta Friends?

Caretta Friends is a field app for volunteers who protect loggerhead sea-turtle (Caretta caretta) nests — from the crawl found at dawn to the night the hatchlings reach the sea. Built for Caretta Gazipaşa on Türkiye's protected nesting beaches, and made to work for any sea-turtle volunteer community.

WHAT IT DOES

• Shared map of every nest, beach and trash spot — mark a nest in seconds with an auto-geotagged photo
• AR nest finder — point your phone and see nests pinned where they physically are
• Nest lifecycle — countdown to hatch, a timeline of updates, and an honest temperature-based sex-prediction range
• Excavation record — hatching and emergence success, exported as a PDF for the local authority
• Field guides and facts — what to do when you find a nest, no lights at night, beach rules
• Patrols and coverage — so volunteers don't re-walk a stretch someone already covered
• Your impact — how many hatchlings you helped reach the sea, a streak, badges

Offline-first: capture works with no signal and syncs when you are back online. Works without an account.

Interface in English, Türkçe and Русский.

Open source (MIT): github.com/fortunto2/caretta-friends
Website: carettafriends.com


## Version history (last 4 releases)

### 1.0.3 — 2026-08-13

Excavation counts add up now. Typing a number replaces it instead of being added on to the one already there — entering 3 where the field held 12 used to store 123.
Hatchlings dug out alive are counted as part of the ones found in the nest, so a nest can no longer report more hatchlings reaching the sea than it had eggs that hatched. Success rates round the way you'd round them by hand, and the clutch total is shown on screen and in the report.

### 1.0.2 — 2026-08-12

A nest can only be recorded where a turtle could have dug it: the app checks the photo's location against the shoreline and won't accept a picture taken in town — and it says so the moment you attach the photo, while you can still walk over and take it again.
A nest a coordinator removes now disappears from your map too.
Your nests are yours now: the ones you log appear in your profile, and other volunteers' nests no longer show up there.
Photos sync between phones — a nest logged by a teammate arrives with its picture.
Sending the same photo twice offers to add it to the existing nest instead of creating a duplicate.
Taking a photo from the add-nest form no longer clears what you typed.
Simpler profile, native dialogs, and the beach you patrol most is asked for once and pinned to the top.

### 1.0.1 — 2026-08-04

New app icon — a hatchling breaking out of its shell.

### 1.0 — 2026-08-01

No release notes.

## More apps by Rustam SALAVATOV

- [FaceAlarm - Face Yoga Tracker](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/facealarm-face-yoga-tracker/id6758454962)
- [Jaw Harp Synth](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/jaw-harp-synth/id6758465213)
- [SuperDuper Terminal](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/superduper-terminal/id6758515520)
- [CurrencyPals](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/currencypals/id6759005730)
- [Life2Film](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/life2film/id6761656888)

All apps by Rustam SALAVATOV: https://appshunter.io/developer/1872989980

---

*Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-21.*