# Giornale di Scavo Archeologico — Excavation diary, GNSS, finds

> Excavation diary, GNSS, finds (iPhone/iPad app by enzo cocca.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/giornale-di-scavo-archeologico/id6792657222 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [enzo cocca](https://appshunter.io/developer/1881795953)
- Category: Productivity, Education
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 95 MB
- Languages: American English, Arabic, French (France), German (Germany), Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Persian and 7 more
- Released: 2026-08-05
- Data updated: 2026-08-26
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/giornale-di-scavo-archeologico/id6792657222/reviews.md

## What is Giornale di Scavo Archeologico?

Giornale di Scavo is the digital replacement for the paper excavation diary. It is built for one thing: documenting a dig quickly, in the field, with no signal and no server.

THE DIARY WRITES ITSELF
Every day is a page, and everything you record that day — notes, weather, attendance and hours, survey points, drawings, photos, finds — is collected onto it automatically. Nothing is copied twice: the weather where you are is filled in with one tap, and the diary can be dictated, with transcription entirely on the device.

FINDS, WITH THE TRAYS IN FRONT OF YOU
At the end of the day you record what came out: provenance, class, quantity, code, and the state from washing to hand-over. The record opens with today's date and the last provenance already filled in: twenty trays go in one after another. Export to CSV, or to HTML with thumbnails. Free.

COUNT AND MEASURE THE FINDS
Photograph the tray from above: the app outlines the sherds, counts them and measures each one, longer side by shorter side. It looks for the scale bar itself and reads the label, but you confirm the count, tapping out whatever is not a find. A batch of photos is processed one after another (Pro).

CENTIMETRE-LEVEL SURVEY
A point with one tap, numbered automatically. The app reads the built-in GPS, MFi receivers such as Emlid Reach RX or Bad Elf, and Bluetooth NMEA receivers. With NTRIP the RTK corrections come in over the internet: centimetre accuracy without a second radio. Both ellipsoidal and orthometric heights are stored, antenna height already subtracted.

3D MEASUREMENT WITH LiDAR
On devices with a scanner, two taps on a surface give distance, horizontal distance and height difference. Anchored to a benchmark of known height, the measurement also carries the elevation of both ends, and goes into the diary (Pro).

BENCHMARKS AND LEVELLING
Benchmarks by hand, from CSV or from the current RTK position, with live ΔNorth / ΔEast / ΔHeight deviations. And the levelling booklet for the optical level, with computed heights and closure check.

MAPS, DRAWINGS AND PHOTOS
Points on standard, satellite or hybrid basemaps, with WMS layers. Draw with Apple Pencil or your finger over a photo used as a tracing sheet, with convention hatches, line styles and automatic outline tracing. Photos are geotagged, remember which way you were facing, and can come out as a documentation record, with map and shooting direction (Pro).

VIRTUAL SCALES AND VECTORS
Two taps on a known distance and the photo takes a scale. From there you place scale bars, ranging poles, squares and a north arrow — on photos and on drawings — and measure any distance. Export with a legend, or as SVG and DXF: a DXF georeferenced in UTM places itself in your GIS (Pro).

REPORTS READY TO HAND IN
Daily, weekly, monthly and final reports as PDF or Word (DOCX), with your logo, photos and drawings. Points as CSV or GeoJSON for QGIS. Report language is chosen independently of the app's.

YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS
No account, no cloud, no tracking: everything lives on your device, and you decide what leaves it. A whole site exports and re-imports as a single ZIP archive.

FREE AND PRO
Free: one site, internal and MFi GNSS, finds with CSV and HTML, virtual scales, hatches and line styles, the levelling booklet, the daily report, CSV export and dictation. Pro: unlimited sites, Bluetooth NMEA and NTRIP, count and measure, 3D measurement, automatic tracing, every report, PDF without watermark, DOCX with logo and photos, GeoJSON, SVG and DXF.

Pro is available as a monthly or yearly auto-renewing subscription, or as a one-off lifetime purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; you can manage or cancel them in your Apple Account settings at any time.

Terms of use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Privacy policy: https://enzococca.github.io/giornale-di-scavo/

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pro — Monthly | $5.99 | per month |
| Pro — Yearly | $59.99 | per year |

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pro — Lifetime | $179.00 | one-time |



## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 2.0 — 2026-08-25

• Finds: a register of what comes out of the trench — provenance, class, quantity, code, and the state from washing to hand-over. The record opens with today's date and the last provenance already filled in. CSV and HTML export with thumbnails, and an appendix in the final report (free).
• Take into the diary: from the day's page, the finds you recorded become a diary line, which you correct before confirming (free).
• Count and measure: photograph the tray from above and the app outlines the sherds, counts them and measures each one. It finds the scale bar by itself and reads the label; you confirm the count, tapping out whatever is not a find (Pro).
• Batch processing: a group of photos goes through count and measure one after another, and each photo comes out with its own finds record to confirm (Pro).
• Virtual scales: scale bars, ranging poles, squares, crosses and a north arrow to place on photos and on drawings, once you have declared a known distance. Two-tap measurements recompute themselves if you recalibrate (free).
• 3D measurement with LiDAR: on devices with a scanner, two taps give distance, horizontal distance and height difference; anchored to a benchmark of known height it also carries the elevation, and goes into the diary (Pro).
• First week of Pro free, for anyone who has never had it.
• Fixes: in six languages the benchmark had two different names depending on the screen.

### 1.6.0 — 2026-08-19

• Hatch: tap inside a closed shape and it fills — masonry / stone, brick, mortar / plaster, clay, silt, sand, gravel, charcoal / ash, bedrock, wood — plus a colour wash with adjustable opacity (free).
• Line style: continuous, dashed, dotted, dash-dot, on new strokes and on strokes already drawn (free).
• Background opacity: the photo under the drawing steps back, in the reports too (free).
• Trace everything: the model traces every shape in the photo; in the preview you tap out the ones you don't need (Pro).
• Traced outlines come out smooth, no longer stepped.
• Tools menu: the drawing tools under a single button — on iPhone in portrait they all fit now.
• NMEA recordings: the external receiver's raw stream goes to file.
• Fixes: the drawing no longer drifts out of place when the device rotates; in Arabic and Persian the annotations are no longer mirrored with respect to the strokes.

### 1.5.0 — 2026-08-16

• Scale from the ranging pole: tap two points a known distance apart and the drawing's photo acquires its scale.
• Labelled points: crosshair and draggable label with name, elevation and GNSS coordinates.
• Export with legend: honest scale bar and north arrow (Pro).
• SVG and DXF export: the UTM-georeferenced DXF sits in the right place in your GIS (Pro).
• Photo documentation plate: shot data, satellite overview with shooting direction — shareable, and optionally in place of photos in reports (Pro).
• The app, the reports and the user guide now speak seventeen languages — welcome Turkish, Persian and Greek.
• Fixes and refinements.

### 1.4.0 — 2026-08-12

• Media and drawings by day: the Media tab opens on today; a drawing belongs to the days you worked on it and appears in each day's report.
• Levelling book: staff readings and total station, change points, closure error declared. Levelled points join the point list with their elevation.
• Automatic tracing in drawings (Pro): tap an object in the background photo and its outline becomes a stroke, refinable like a hand-drawn one. Works offline.
• Pinch to zoom in the drawing editor (1–6×): one finger draws, two fingers pan and zoom.
• Text boxes: select, move, pinch to resize, four typefaces.
• In tracing mode, colour and width change without leaving the mode.
• Fixes, including the direction of the tilted-pole horizontal correction.

### 1.2.0 — 2026-08-10

• Shooting direction: every photo you take records which way the camera was facing (degrees from true north), including top-down shots. Shown in the photo detail, in reports and in the file's metadata.
• Live compass in the viewfinder while framing, with a warning when iron disturbs the compass.
• Shared photos now keep all their metadata: position, elevation, date and direction — ready for GIS and photogrammetry.
• Instant shutter, no confirmation screen: the measurement happens at the exact moment of capture.
• Fixed the direction of the tilted-pole horizontal correction.
• Multi-line photo captions in reports.

## More apps by enzo cocca

- [FieldNotes](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/fieldnotes/id6759941826)

All apps by enzo cocca: https://appshunter.io/developer/1881795953

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