NaturaPin
A notebook for the forest
Only for iPhone
$1.99 · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
iPhone
Mark where you picked the chanterelles and blueberries, where the perch bit, the perfect wild camping spot, or where your car is parked, so you can find your way back.
You find a slope full of chanterelles. Next year you remember it as
"somewhere off the gravel road, past that clearing". NaturaPin exists so you
do not have to.
Press the plus button, pick what you found, and the place is saved. It takes a
second, with gloves on, in the rain. Back home on the sofa it is all still
there on the map.
MARK WHERE YOU STAND
The app waits for three readings that are each accurate to within ten metres
and saves the median of them. However accurate it turned out to be is always
written out, in metres. Nothing here pretends to be more precise than it is.
PLACE PINS BY HAND
Somewhere you already know goes on the map with a sight in the middle of the
screen. A hand-placed pin gets a small hand symbol, so you can tell a place you
measured from a place you merely pointed at.
MUSHROOMS, BERRIES, FISH — AND SOMEWHERE TO STOP
Around thirty kinds are ready to use, from chanterelle and porcini to perch,
pike and cloudberry, along with rest areas, campsites and motorhome stops.
Missing something? Add it yourself: a name, a symbol and a colour. It does not
have to be a species — a swimming spot, a woodshed or a gate works just as
well.
WEATHER AND DIRECTION OF TRAVEL
Temperature, wind and conditions are fetched automatically when you mark a
find. With no signal the find is saved anyway. Mark one while moving and the
direction you were heading is saved with it — most useful for rest areas, where
what you need to know next time is which side of the road it is on.
FINDING YOUR WAY BACK TO THE CAR
Mark Parking at the car door before you walk in. When you want to get back,
tap the pin and then Directions. The kind is in the plus menu from the start.
A PHOTO OF THE FIND
Take one as you mark, or add it later — from the camera, or one already in
Photos. The photo stays with the find.
BACK IT UP
One file holds everything — finds, photos, weather, time, position and
direction — and goes wherever you choose to keep it. Finds can also be shared
as GPX, the format other outdoor apps read.
SHARE A PLACE
Send a single find to someone — with its note, and with the photo if you like.
You see exactly what is being sent before it goes, and none of your other finds
go with it. They get a link, and one tap opens the find in NaturaPin.
YOUR PLACES STAY YOURS
No account, no sign-in, no server. Your finds live on your own device and
nobody else can reach them. The only thing that leaves it on its own is the
coordinate of a find, sent to the weather service at the moment the weather is
fetched — and the weather can be switched off. A find you choose to share is
placed in your own iCloud and reaches only whoever gets the link.
The app is written in Swedish, and that is the language it says exactly what it
means in. Fifteen more are included, translated with the help of AI without a
native speaker having read them through. It says so in the manual, and if you
spot something that came out wrong you are welcome to write.
NaturaPin does not tell you which mushroom you found. It is a map for marking
places on, not an identification app — what is safe to eat is your decision,
never the phone's. Several of the good mushrooms have poisonous lookalikes, and
some of those are deadly.
Weather data from MET Norway (yr.no), licensed under CC BY 4.0.
Ratings & Reviews
- This app hasn’t received enough ratings or reviews to display an overview.
Ready for iPhone Duo. Folded, NaturaPin works just as before, with the map and the buttons for marking a find. Unfolded, you get the whole screen: the map at full size with your list or a find on top. Stand the phone half open on a table and the map sits above with the list below, close to your thumb. Fold or unfold and you stay on the same find and the same spot on the map.
The plus button now also shows the names in a list, with every kind and a search at the bottom. Prefer the pictures? Choose them in Settings.
The developer, Henrik Johansson, 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
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Henrik Johansson
- Size
- 8.7 MB
- Category
- Navigation
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 26.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 26.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 26.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 26.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
English and 15 more
- English, Danish, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Swedish, Ukrainian
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © Henrik Johansson
