# Pawdex: Gotta Spot ’Em — ID animals. Build your dex

> ID animals. Build your dex (iPhone/iPad app by Yuvraj Biswal.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/pawdex-gotta-spot-em/id6796361708 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Yuvraj Biswal](https://appshunter.io/developer/6796361710)
- Category: Education, Lifestyle
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 18.0 · 939 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-08-10
- Data updated: 2026-10-13

## What is Pawdex?

Pawdex is a living field guide for the animals you already walk past.

Spot a bird, a dog on your street, a fish in clear water, or a rabbit in the verge. Point your camera from a safe distance, Pawdex names the species on your phone, offline, and turns the encounter into a collectible card.

WHAT YOU GET
• On-device identification across tens of thousands of species no photo upload required to name an animal
• Creature cards with type, sourced stats, a signature ability, and rarity based on real conservation status
• Neighbors - tag individual animals and recognise them again on later visits
• A trail dashboard with species found, steps, and distance walked
• Breed suggestions for dogs and cats you can confirm or correct yourself

BUILT TO BE HONEST
Stats cite real sources when we have them, and say estimated when we don’t. Rarity follows IUCN status rather than invented scarcity. Corrections you make stay on your phone and improve identification for you.

WILDLIFE FIRST
Always keep your distance. Never approach, handle, or feed a wild animal to get a photograph. Pawdex is for noticing not disturbing.

Coming from the trail. Recognition runs on your iPhone.

## Is Pawdex safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Pawdex.

## Is Pawdex legit?

Pawdex: Gotta Spot ’Em has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Pawdex is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 3 releases)

### 1.0.2 — 2026-09-04

Better identification, especially for insects and pets.

• Species naming now uses BioCLIP 2.5 on your iPhone.
• Breed suggestions for dogs and cats are more reliable
• Every card now has field notes, and About text when we have a source
• Type, vitality, and might on cards are consistent instead of blank or lopsided

Recognition still runs on-device. Keep your distance from wild animals.

### 1.0.1 — 2026-08-11

Identification is much better, especially for birds.

Pawdex now weighs its models against each other properly, and it takes account of roughly where you are, so an animal that does not live on your continent is no longer offered ahead of the one in front of you.

Photos are now taken at your camera's full resolution. Identification used to run on a small preview frame, which is a lot of detail to throw away before naming an animal. 

The shared map now shows the photograph behind each pin, and the name its finder gave the animal.

The download is about 100 MB smaller.

### 1.0 — 2026-08-10

No release notes.

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