LensTrails
Photo Scout & Shoot Planner
Only for iPhone
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
iPhone
Save your best photo spots, remember why they matter, and know when to return with weather, sun path, cloud cover, and shoot suggestions.
LensTrails is a private scouting journal for photographers who collect places, not just pictures.
LensTrails includes a 7-day free trial. After the trial, an active subscription is required to continue using the app.
Save a promising location from the map, a new photo, or a geolocated camera roll image. LensTrails turns it into a practical scouting record with coordinates, notes, tags, rating, location type, photos, visit timing, weather, light, and return-planning details.
Instead of digging through your camera roll or trying to remember where a shot was taken, open LensTrails and browse your saved places as a map, a list, or a photo grid.
KNOW WHY A PLACE MATTERED
Every saved spot can keep the details that make it useful later:
• Photos and location notes
• Tags for subjects, conditions, and ideas
• Star ratings to prioritize stronger spots
• Location types such as landscape, cityscape, seascape, forest, mountain, architecture, nature, wildlife, industrial, and more
• Visit month and preferred time of day
• Address, distance, coordinates, sharing, and navigation
PLAN WHEN TO RETURN
LensTrails helps turn saved places into shoot plans.
For short-term planning, the app can suggest a next visit window using the location type, tags, preferred timing, sun movement, sunrise and sunset quality, cloud cover, current weather, and the 5-day outlook. You get a simple score, a practical time window, a suggested facing direction, and the reasoning behind the suggestion.
For long-term planning, LensTrails can estimate the best typical month and time of day to come back, using multiple planning signals together with the character of the location.
SEE WEATHER AND LIGHT IN CONTEXT
Each location can show current conditions, cloud cover, wind, rain risk, humidity, visibility, sunrise, sunset, and a 5-day forecast. A 24-hour cloud cover graph helps you decide whether a place is worth visiting soon or better saved for another day.
UNDERSTAND THE SUN PATH
Use the map overlay and camera preview to understand how light moves around a saved place. Preview daylight, golden hour, blue hour, night, sunrise, sunset, and the current sun direction before you commit to a return shoot.
BUILT FOR FIELD USE
LensTrails is designed to stay quiet and practical while scouting. Core features work without an account, your archive is kept on your device for everyday use, and the main actions are easy to reach when you are outside.
LensTrails is useful for landscape, cityscape, seascape, travel, drone, street, and outdoor photographers who want a better way to remember promising places and return when the conditions are more likely to work.
Terms of Use: https://lenstrails.jerome.photo/eula.html
Privacy Policy: https://lenstrails.jerome.photo/privacy.html
Ratings & Reviews
- This app hasn’t received enough ratings or reviews to display an overview.
- Minor bugfixes
- List view now supports drag-refresh
The developer, Jerome Bei, 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 Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Jerome Bei
- Size
- 46.8 MB
- Category
- Photo & Video
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Pro Monthly $3.99
- Pro Yearly $44.99
- Copyright
- © Jérôme Bei