Safari Companion: Field Guide
Prep & track every sighting
Only for iPhone
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
iPhone
Now covering 17 parks across 7 countries - from Kruger to Etosha. Spot it, tap it, log it. Your safari field guide and checklist, working fully offline.
Every unforgettable safari begins long before your first game drive - and Safari Companion is with you the whole way.
Part trip planner, part field journal, Safari Companion helps you prepare for your adventure and capture every sighting, all from a calm, beautiful app that works completely offline out in the bush.
PREPARE WITH CONFIDENCE
Get a curated, region-aware checklist tailored to the exact park you're visiting - documents, health and malaria reminders, smart packing, and before-you-go essentials. It even surfaces the details that catch
travelers out, from tsetse-fly clothing tips to the altitude and cold on the Ngorongoro Crater rim. You can even add your own things to remember like camera battery or favorite book.
TRACK EVERY SIGHTING
Chase the Big Five with a live progress tracker, and log any animal with a single tap. Each park comes with its own species list - big game, antelope and small game, birds, and reptiles - with around 35 to 40
animals to look for. Every species includes a field-ID tip, its Swahili name so you can call it out to your guide, and real field photographs.
RELIVE THE JOURNEY
When you're home, your Trip Recap gathers it all into a keepsake: summary stats, your Big Five status, prep progress, and the full list of everything you saw.
FEATURES
- Region-aware prep checklist, tailored per park
- Big Five progress tracker
- One-tap sighting logging
- 57 species with 147 real field photographs, credited in an in-app Credits screen
- A field-ID tip and Swahili name for every species
- Swipeable photo carousels in each species detail view
- Trip Recap keepsake
- 7 iconic parks across South Africa, Tanzania, Kenya, and Botswana
PARKS INCLUDED
Kruger (South Africa) · Serengeti, Tarangire, Lake Manyara, and Ngorongoro Crater (Tanzania) · Maasai Mara (Kenya) · Okavango Delta (Botswana)
FREE VS PRO
Safari Companion is free to download and free to use on your first trip.
- Free: sighting logging, Big Five tracking, the full prep checklist, one best photo and ID tip per species, one park per trip, and one trip.
- Pro (one-time €4.99 - not a subscription): multi-photo carousels with extra views per species, combine several parks in a single trip, unlimited trips, and the full Trip Recap with a share feature.
Unlock Pro once and it's yours to keep. No subscription, ever.
PRIVATE BY DESIGN
Safari Companion works entirely offline, on your device. There's no account and no login, and no network connection is required - ideal for remote camps with no signal. It asks for no permissions: no camera, no
GPS, no photo access. Your trip data stays on your phone, and we collect no personal data - the only thing that ever leaves your device is a purchase, handled securely by Apple.
Pack your bags. Safari Companion takes care of the rest.
Welcome to Safari Companion 1.1.
Plan your trip with a park-tailored prep checklist, track the Big Five and log every sighting with one tap, and browse 57 species with real field photos, ID tips, and Swahili names - all fully offline. When
you're home, look back on your adventure with Trip Recap.
Karibu - enjoy your safari, and tell us what you'd love to see next.
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Ten new parks - and a checklist that now matches where you're actually going.
NEW PARKS
Addo Elephant, Madikwe and Pilanesberg (South Africa), Amboseli and
Samburu (Kenya), Chobe (Botswana), Hwange (Zimbabwe), South Luangwa
(Zambia), Etosha and Damaraland (Namibia). That brings Safari Companion
to 17 parks across 7 countries.
BUILT AROUND YOUR PARK
Your species goal is now sized to the park you picked, so a Damaraland
trip no longer asks you to find animals that don't live there.
EASIER TO PICK
The park list is grouped by country — find yours at a glance instead of
scrolling past everywhere else.
MORE PHOTOS
Gemsbok, springbok, hartebeest, gerenuk and puku now have full photo
sets, bringing the guide to 61 species and 161 photos.
FIXES
• Swiping between photos in a species card now works.
• The keyboard no longer covers what you're typing on Android.
• Picking a park or a date now closes the keyboard.
The developer, Theophile de Cagny, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Purchases
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Theophile de Cagny
- Size
- 71.3 MB
- Category
- Travel
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 16.4 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 16.4 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Safari Companion Pro $4.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Théophile de Cagny
