# Tracks: Wildlife Scanner — Catalogue the wild around you > Catalogue the wild around you (iPhone/iPad app by Theorics Limited.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/tracks-wildlife-scanner/id6774238481 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Theorics Limited](https://appshunter.io/developer/1790044061) - Category: Education, Games - Price: Free - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 15.1 · 71 MB - Languages: American English - Released: 2026-07-16 - Data updated: 2026-08-26 - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/tracks-wildlife-scanner/id6774238481/reviews.md ## What is Tracks? Step out, scan your area, collect every animal on Earth. Tracks turns iNaturalist's research-grade observations into a field tool that surfaces the documented wildlife around you. Tap a hex on the map to see what's been spotted nearby: birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, fish. Each comes with a real photo, scientific name, and the location it was last seen. WHAT YOU GET - A radar that scans the hex you're standing in for documented wildlife - Real photos and species data from iNaturalist's community - Your personal Tracks: every species you've collected, with a counter for repeat sightings - Smart expansion in sparse areas (rural or open water) so you always have something to discover - Location used only while you're scanning, never in the background FOR FIELD WORK, WALKS, AND CURIOSITY Use Tracks on a coastal walk to learn what shorebirds frequent the cove. Use it in a city park to see which native mammals the iNat community has documented. Use it on a road trip to discover regional fauna you'd otherwise miss. DATA SOURCED FROM iNATURALIST All observations come from iNaturalist's research-grade dataset under Creative Commons licensing. Every photo is attributed to its observer. ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 1.0.10 — 2026-08-25 What's new in Tracks: The map is quicker and steadier. It opens on what you have already collected, keeps up while you pan, and keeps working when your signal doesn't. • Cells you can tap are visible everywhere on screen, at every zoom. • Markers arrive as a clean fade, nearest to you first, and stay sharp and tappable. • A revealed cell shows its species as photos. An empty one just says so. • Batteries turn up on a cell the day you earn it, by walking in or superscanning. • Signing out now erases this device's copy of your data, including where you have been. • When something fails to load, the map says so instead of looking empty. ### 1.0.7 — 2026-08-10 What's new in Tracks: Batteries come back. Every hex re-rolls its charge each day, so a cell you emptied yesterday can hold another one tomorrow. No more neighbourhoods that run dry for good. • Batteries now only show up where you can actually reach them: your own hex and the ones you've scanned around it, instead of anywhere you happen to scroll to. • The battery marker keeps its size when you zoom out, so you can spot one while looking at the wider map. • Cleared cells get their own pin on the map. • Signing in and getting set up looks cleaner, and the messages when something goes wrong now say what to do about it. • Counters roll to their new value instead of jumping, sheets fade in and out, and a message can be tapped to send it away. • Everything you can tap is now labelled for VoiceOver. ### 1.0.6 — 2026-08-09 What's new in Tracks: Hexes now hand you something extra when you scan them: batteries. Find one, and you can spend it to light up a whole area at once instead of walking cell by cell. • Superscan reveals the six cells around you; Hyperscan reaches two rings out, both play the same radar tell as a normal scan, just bigger. • A free battery charge is waiting every day, tap the new battery counter to claim it. • Scan an empty hex and the satellite picks up the wider area, so a quiet spot still gives you something to collect. • Scans are much faster, map markers stay sharp, and a scan that fails now says something you can act on ### 1.0.5 — 2026-07-29 Scanning a hex now tells you what's in it before the number lands. The radar takes on the colour of whatever rules that cell • Collected species show whether you've taken your own photo of them yet. • Much faster start: the map opens on your position and the Tracks grid is already filled. • Fixed a coarse first location fix that could open the map in the wrong part of town. ### 1.0.4 — 2026-07-28 What's new in Tracks: The map comes alive. Every scanned hex now plays a little animation of the animals that rule it, and unscanned hexes carry a mystery paw print. • Walk into a hex you've scanned and it clears from the map for good, so you can see the ground you've actually covered. • The map holds still when you open an animal card. No more sliding around. • Faster start: you're on the map as soon as Tracks is ready. • Clearer location steps during onboarding. ## More apps by Theorics Limited - [Phraser: Learn language faster](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/phraser-learn-language-faster/id6761637736) - [cafein: fun coffee tracker](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/cafein-fun-coffee-tracker/id6766194334) All apps by Theorics Limited: https://appshunter.io/developer/1790044061 --- *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 2026-08-26.*