UplandJournal vs Uplander
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
UplandJournal
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Upland Journal preserves the precious memories of your days in the field—so you can relive your best hunts, track your dogs’ journeys, and build a season history you’ll be proud to keep. Upland Journal is a modern hunting logbook built for upland hunters who want to remember every trip, every dog, and every bird find. Designed for the way upland hunters hunt • Log trips and hunts with location, date, and notes • Track dogs and connect them to hunts and bird finds • Record bird finds with counts, taken, species, dog, notes, and GPS location • Map-based logging to place finds on the map in the field • Season summaries that help you see patterns over time Why you’ll love it • Fast, minimal UI designed for use outdoors • Keeps your history organized (no more scattered notes) • Helps you spot trends: where birds were found, what dogs were working, and which species showed up Upland Journal is built to be simple, reliable, and useful—from opening day through the last hunt of the season. Start your season log today and build a journal worth keeping. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Note: Upland Journal provides a free trial with limited Bird Finds allowed. An annual subscription will unlock all features.
Uplander
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Uplander is a hunting journal for upland bird hunters. Log every hunt, build a spot book you actually trust, and keep the notes that decide where you go next season. Free, private, and built to work with no signal. LOG A HUNT IN SECONDS Bird, spot, birds down, shots fired, weather, gear, who was with you, and your dogs. TWO SCOREBOARDS This season and your lifetime, side by side, with an accuracy rating from Warming Up to Eagle Eye. Hide either one if you would rather not see it. BRING YOUR HISTORY WITH YOU Already keep your seasons in a spreadsheet? Import it. Uplander reads CSV, JSON, and the GPX or KML files your mapping app exports, so years of hunts come across in one go. A SPOT BOOK THAT TRACKS ITSELF Mark a spot Candidate, Scouted, Proven or Ruled out, and note its condition this season. Notes from a past season flag themselves, because a field that was cut clean last year tells you nothing about this one. GET BACK THERE Drop a pin, import one from a photo you took in the field, or share one from Apple Maps. Then show it on the map, or start directions. FIELD NOTES WORTH KEEPING Tie a note to a spot, to a particular hunt, or to the birds it applies to. Search everything by place, bird, or tag. PACK LISTS Build one once, check it off before every trip, reset it for the next. SEASON COUNTDOWNS Track your openers and closing days, with an optional nudge about your license before the season starts. WILD-GAME RECIPES Six of them, for dove, pheasant and quail. All included. BADGES First Shot, Limit Out, Dead Eye, Mixed Bag, and more to find. TRIP IDEAS Ten hand-picked destinations, from a weekend away to the trip of a lifetime. PRIVATE, AND FREE Uplander is free. There are no in-app purchases, no subscription, and no ads. There is no account to make and no server: everything you log stays on your iPhone, so we never see your hunts, your spots, or your photos. Logging works fully offline, which matters where you hunt. Bag limits and season dates are your own entries plus generic defaults, not official regulations. Always confirm with your state wildlife agency before you hunt. Built by an upland hunter, for upland hunters. See you in the field.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Uplander at 17.0 against UplandJournal's 26.2. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
UplandJournal ships an update every 9 days, Uplander every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 29, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | UplandJournal | Uplander |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 26.2 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 22 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | smallPond Technologies, LLC | Chad Cooper |
In-app purchases
UplandJournal
No in-app purchases
Uplander
No in-app purchases
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