Patchly vs Prospector Mate

Know the ground you're working. Patchly is the all-in-one gold prospecting and metal detecting app for exploring and understanding the goldfields. It puts the layers that matter on one map and records where you have been and which detector you used. PRIVACY Patchly asks for no account, runs no server that stores or processes your field history, and does not track you. Your sessions, finds, photos and Stash live in a plain database on your phone that you can export any time. Optional backups and exports go only to storage you choose. Map and content downloads still use network services. MAPS AND RESEARCH • 100+ curated layers and growing: geology, geochemistry, tenements, land access, terrain, historic activity and more • Tenements refresh nightly, so leases, applications and expiries are current • Bare-earth LiDAR relief for New South Wales, Queensland and Tasmania, with Victoria as a separate add-on • Stacks: build your own layer setups with per-layer filters, and switch between saved maps in a tap • Custom layers: bring your own GeoTIFFs and map services into a Stack • 3D terrain: tilt and exaggerate the ground to read its shape • Section 40E permit builder for Western Australia, with Form 1A export • Offline search for places and watercourses FIELD RECORDING AND NAVIGATION • Smart classification: Patchly works out which parts of a session were travelling, detecting or stopped • Logbook+ draws detecting as lines or as Coverage, the honeycomb of how hard a patch has been worked • Record a session and see where you detected, and which detector was active for that section • Off-road go-to and multi-stop routes, by bearing, distance and ETA • Finds by type, size and condition, and pins with icons for camps, vehicles, water and hazards • Logbook Editor: edit tracks, finds, pins and shapes on the map, draw lines and areas, and reclassify travelling, detecting or stopped by hand • Recording setup checklist: keep a session running all day • Nametag: sign on to the Palmerville camp board from your phone, no more trips to the office RECORDS AND GOLD • Logbook: filter and sort every session, inspect it, and return to the exact ground • Stash: track nuggets, specimens, bars and coins in a simple or purity-aware mode, valued at the live gold price • Overview and Calendar: totals, value, categories, daily hauls and season statistics • Add photos to finds and pins, and link a find to its Stash item OFFLINE, BACKUP AND SYNC • Offline regions: download an area's satellite and layers, and keep working out of range • Automatic backup of records, photos, Stash, detectors and Stacks to your own iCloud Drive or Google Drive • Sync your Logbook between your phones and tablets, through your cloud or straight over Wi-Fi • Guided imports for Trilobite CSV, Detector Maps KML and Gaia GPS, plus generic GPX, KML and KMZ • Share .patchly files for Stacks, sessions, finds, pins and shapes PATCHLY FREE Free is a real field tool, not a trial. The offline map, the land-access and place-name layers, full session recording, your Logbook, finds, pins, Stash and cloud backup. Free tracks up to one troy ounce in Stash and allows one active detector. PATCHLY PRO Patchly Pro adds the deeper curated Library including LiDAR relief, Logbook+ classified travelling and detecting sections, the Coverage honeycomb over ground you have already searched, and offline region downloads. Unlimited Stash and detectors. • Patchly Pro annual: A$79.99 per year (first year A$23.99) • Patchly Pro monthly: A$13.49 per month • Victoria LiDAR relief add-on: A$59.99 per year, requires Patchly Pro Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. A subscription renews automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Manage or cancel it in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use: https://patchly.gold/terms Privacy Policy: https://patchly.gold/privacy Patchly is made in Australia by Patchly Labs Pty Ltd.

Prospector Mate is an offline map for gold prospectors. Track where you walk, mark every find with a photo, read the ground with historical gold records, geology, land access and 1-metre Bare Ground LiDAR, and at the end of the day let the arrow point you straight back to where you parked. It all works with no mobile reception, and your data stays on your phone. KNOW EXACTLY WHERE YOU HAVE BEEN • Record an outing: your route, distance and time, with the screen off and the phone in your pocket. • Mark finds with a photo, weight, depth and the detector and coil you used. • Mark waypoints and navigate to them. Return to start points you back to your vehicle or camp with an arrow and a distance. • Load earlier outings onto the map, several at once, and replay a day. READ THE GROUND • Historical Gold: recorded gold workings and what they produced. • Former Mining Features: shafts, adits, mullock heaps and alluvial workings. • Geology, Gold Hosting Ground and Gold Geochemistry. • Land Use & Access: public land coloured by whether you can prospect it. • Mining Tenements, refreshed daily, with search by number or holder. • Rivers & Creeks, Live Fires and Burnt Ground, Magnetics and Radiometrics. • Historical Sites: heritage places on the goldfields, with their stories. BARE GROUND LIDAR A 1-metre laser survey with the vegetation stripped out. Under tree cover that hides everything from the air, a costean looks like a costean and a line of shafts looks like a line of shafts. Queensland, New South Wales, the ACT and Tasmania are included with the Prospector Subscription and download for offline use like any other layer. The free LiDAR Coverage layer shows exactly where 1-metre coverage exists. WORKS WITHOUT RECEPTION Download any area, with every layer you choose, while you have signal. Once it is on the phone the app asks for nothing. Position comes from the phone's own GPS, so tracking never needed a connection in the first place. YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS There is no sign-up. Outings, tracks, finds, photos and waypoints are stored on your phone and, if you switch on Backup, in your own iCloud Drive. They are never uploaded to us. No analytics, no ads, no trackers. Export a day as a .pmate file, PDF, CSV, GPX or KML, or share it with a mate. Lock an export with a code and nobody can open it without the code, including us. ON YOUR WRIST Wear an Apple Watch and the way back to your start shows on the watch, with your distance and time, then a summary when you stop. The phone can stay in your pocket. THE WEB MAP VIEWER Open a .pmate on a big screen at prospectormate.com. The file is read in your browser and never uploaded. The Web Map Viewer is included with the Prospector Subscription. FREE, OR SUBSCRIBE The free version has the topographic, street and satellite maps in 3D, search, the return-to-start arrow, LiDAR Coverage and everything you have recorded. The Prospector Subscription unlocks recording, finds, waypoints, every map layer, LiDAR relief, offline downloads, weather and the gold price. Cancel or lapse and every outing, photo and waypoint stays readable on your phone. Australian data from state and federal open-data programs, credited in the app. Built for the bush by prospectors. Terms of Use: https://prospectormate.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://prospectormate.com/privacy