# Folio Field Journal — Encounters with the wild, kept

> Encounters with the wild, kept (iPhone/iPad app by Kunlei He.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/folio-field-journal/id6762229853 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Kunlei He](https://appshunter.io/developer/1893459584)
- Category: Lifestyle, Education
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 26.2 · 195 MB
- Languages: English, Chinese
- Released: 2026-05-14
- Data updated: 2026-05-23
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/folio-field-journal/id6762229853/reviews.md

## What is Folio Field Journal?

The world waits to meet you.

Folio is an app for the moments you didn't plan: the bird on your fence, the wildflower by the curb, the lizard on a sun-warm stoop. It's an app for noticing.

NOT AN ANSWER. A KEEPSAKE.

Other apps tell you what something is and disappear. Folio turns "what is this?" into "I'll remember this." Every encounter becomes a hand-painted watercolor portrait, archived in your folio with the date, the place, and the small story you choose to add.

HOW IT WORKS

Point your camera at a plant or animal. Folio identifies the species. A watercolor portrait — painted just for this encounter — appears moments later. The encounter is logged with an Encounter Index that marks how unusual the moment was: Common Find, Seasonal Find, Rare Find, or Fated Find. Add a Collector's Log if you want to remember more than the species name. Each entry settles into your folio.

FIELD NOTES, QUIETLY TOLD

Every species comes with a short, well-told Field Notes entry — the kind of thing a knowledgeable friend would tell you while standing next to you. No textbook prose. No taxonomy lectures. Just what's worth knowing.

A COLLECTION THAT GROWS WITH YOUR WALKS

Browse your folio as a grid of watercolor portraits, by date, or by rarity. Watch it fill in over weeks and seasons. The longer you carry it, the more it begins to feel like a record of where you've been and what you've stopped for.

DESIGNED TO SHARE

Each encounter generates a Field Journal card — composed like a specimen page, not a screenshot. Post it to Instagram, Xiaohongshu, or anywhere else you keep things. The encounter sentence shifts with the rarity tier — a Fated Find feels different from a Common one, and the card reflects that.

FOR ANYONE WHO WALKS OUTSIDE

You don't need to be a birder or a botanist. Folio is built for the city walker, the weekend hiker, the parent on a school run, the traveler with twenty minutes between meetings — anyone who has paused for something small and alive.

Free to start. An optional subscription unlocks unlimited encounters and keeps every portrait in your folio for good.

Step outside. Look up. The world has been waiting.

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| folio unlimited monthly | $4.99 | per month |
| folio unlimited annual | $34.99 | per year |



## Version history (last 2 releases)

### 1.0.1 — 2026-05-18

· Added invite code redemption — friends with a code can unlock full access from the subscription screen

### 1.0 — 2026-05-14

No release notes.

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