# RealDex: Animal Identifier — Scan, Catch & Collect Wildlife > Scan, Catch & Collect Wildlife (iPhone/iPad app by Alp Yalay.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/realdex-animal-identifier/id6758669232 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Alp Yalay](https://appshunter.io/developer/1874300482) - Category: Education, Reference - Price: Free with in-app purchases - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 15.1 · 82 MB - Languages: American English - Released: 2026-04-01 - Data updated: 2026-09-05 - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/realdex-animal-identifier/id6758669232/reviews.md ## What is RealDex? Point your camera at any animal and know what it is in seconds — then keep it. RealDex identifies the wildlife around you with AI that runs on your phone, and turns every sighting into a card in a field guide you build yourself. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Scan any animal with your camera and get a species name in seconds • Save each sighting as a catch, with the date and the place you found it • Collect a printed trading card for every species you identify, foil and all • Claim real city territories with the species you find there • Browse your Dex by species and family, and see what you are missing • Open a detailed page for any species • See all of your finds on your own map • Follow your streaks, achievements and Field Record progress AI THAT RUNS ON YOUR PHONE RealDex identifies species with our own model, on your device. It works with no signal at all, so the camera and your collection keep working on a trail, in a basement, or on a plane. Your photos stay on your phone. Cloud AI is the one exception: when you want a second opinion, you tap for it, and only then is that one photo sent to be identified. It is optional and off by default. BUILT FOR THE OUTDOORS A park, a trail, a beach or your own street becomes somewhere to look properly. Backyard birds, insects, spiders, reptiles, mammals and fish all count. MORE THAN AN IDENTIFIER Most apps tell you what an animal is and then forget it. RealDex remembers. • Every catch builds a permanent collection • Every species you find gets its own trading card, holographic foil and all • Every place you find one becomes territory you hold • Every sighting gets a pin on your map • Every walk moves your Field Record forward FOR COLLECTORS, HIKERS, BIRDERS AND CURIOUS PEOPLE If you have ever wanted a real-world creature collection, a wildlife log, or simply a better reason to notice what is alive around you, RealDex was built for exactly that. Download RealDex and start your Field Record. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://realdex.alpyalay.org/realdex/privacy Support: https://realdex.alpyalay.org/realdex/support Data Deletion: https://realdex.alpyalay.org/realdex/data-deletion ## Pricing and in-app purchases Base price: Free. **Subscriptions** | Subscription | Price | Period | | --- | --- | --- | | RealDex Pro Monthly | $3.99 | per month | | RealDex Pro Annual | $29.99 | per year | **One-time purchases** | Purchase | Price | Type | | --- | --- | --- | | RealDex Pro – Lifetime | $89.99 | one-time | ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 1.6.0 — 2026-09-03 RealDex now identifies with FieldNet 1, a model we trained ourselves on the animals people actually photograph. It gets more of them right, and it loads faster. FIELDNET 1 The identifier we licensed before has been replaced by one we built. It is better on the things you are most likely to point a camera at — backyard birds, insects, the lizard on the wall — and it is quicker to be ready after you install. As before, it runs on your phone and needs no signal. FREE CLOUD AI CREDITS Want a second opinion on a hard one? You can now earn Cloud AI scans by watching a short video, instead of waiting for next month. FASTER EVERYWHERE • The Dex list loads and scrolls noticeably quicker • Re-checking the same photo no longer redoes work it already did • The model no longer takes over the screen while it loads FIXED • Importing two photos from your gallery back to back could close the app. It cannot now. • The shutter could stop responding after switching tabs and returning. • A false crash warning on cold start is gone. • Legal and support links now point to the right place. NO MORE INTERSTITIAL ADS Full-screen ads between actions are gone for good. The banner stays; nothing interrupts a catch any more. IN YOUR LANGUAGE, ALL OF IT Every badge, mission and quest is now written in all nine languages, and dates and numbers follow your phone's settings. SAFER SAVING A catch, its XP and its missions are now saved together in one step. Closing the app mid-save can no longer lose a catch or count it twice. ALSO FIXED • A failed purchase no longer reads as "cancelled", and a slow start no longer drops you out of Premium for the session • A network blip no longer empties your Cloud AI balance or shows the paywall by mistake • Re-identifying a species no longer spends extra Cloud AI scans • Tapping a result twice no longer records the catch twice • Imported photos keep their own location and orientation, and very large ones no longer fail • Streaks count calendar days — a late-night and early-morning pair now counts • Denying photo access now explains what to do instead of a dead button Something wrong? contact@alpyalay.org ### 1.5.0 — 2026-08-09 Every catch is now a collectible card — and that's just where this update starts. COLLECT REAL CARDS Every species you photograph is printed as a proper trading card: layered frame, cardstock grain, a category pip and its own stat plate. Catch something new and the card is dealt, then turned over to reveal it. Cards can be foil. Tilt your phone and the holographic layer moves with it — hold a card to take manual control and catch the light yourself. Pick which of your photos becomes a card's cover, and share the finished card as a clean transparent image. CLAIM YOUR CITY Territories now follow real city borders. Fill a city's local roster to stamp it for Bronze, then record 40 or 75 distinct species inside its boundary for Silver and Gold. Every city gets its own procedurally drawn crest, and a clue track points you toward what you're still missing. SHARPER IDENTIFICATION The on-device model has been rebuilt from the ground up — a new species classifier that is markedly more accurate than the previous one and still runs entirely on your phone, offline. Results now tell you how confident the match is in plain words instead of a percentage, and every result links straight out to look the species up. REDESIGNED THROUGHOUT Close to every screen has been rebuilt on a new design system: • Onboarding is three clear steps with real photography • The Dex switches between World Dex and My Territory, with a rebuilt toolbar and species pages built around the card • The map has a single tool dock, unified filters, and a nearby-species sheet • Profile is decluttered, and missions have a screen of their own • 98 achievements, struck as medallions, on a shelf-first Field Record FEEL EVERY CATCH Sound effects are gone, replaced by a designed haptic vocabulary — eleven distinct patterns built on Core Haptics, so a new species, a repeat sighting and a completed mission each feel different in the hand. NOW IN TURKISH Turkish joins the lineup, bringing RealDex to eight languages, and we closed a 185-string translation gap across every other language while we were there. Onboarding has been rewritten throughout in a proper field-guide voice. FASTER AND STEADIER • The camera preview stays live while the offline model downloads, instead of blocking the screen • Noticeably quicker startup and smoother scrolling on dense screens • Identification animations moved off the main thread • The identifier no longer re-runs work on an image that cannot have changed • Fixed back-to-back gallery imports, a shutter that could stay stuck after switching tabs, and a camera that could stop responding after recording a repeat sighting • Catches are now recorded through a verified progress ledger, so your XP and streaks stay consistent Thank you for being here. Photograph something. ### 1.3.1 — 2026-04-25 RealDex 1.3.1 improves the wildlife collecting flow with a more polished territory map experience, clearer local AI download handling, and better fallback options when on-device AI is still setting up. New in this update: - Tap territories directly on the map to inspect local species. - Return from a territory list back to the map more easily. - Improved local AI download and repair flow. - Better Cloud AI/manual identify fallback when local AI is unavailable. - Smoother picker and date editing behavior. - Bug fixes and reliability improvements for camera and AI workflows. ### 1.3.0 — 2026-04-03 Game ​Center is here. ​You can now compete on leaderboards and earn achievements for your wildlife discoveries. ​This update also includes stability and performance improvements. ### 1.2.4 — 2026-04-02 Version 1.2.4 adds Game Center leaderboard support so you can compare your total species recorded with other players. This update also includes small stability improvements. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. 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