NaturaPin
A notebook for the forest
Only for iPhone
$1.99 · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
iPhone
Mark where the chanterelles stood, where the perch were biting — and where the car is, so you find your way back. Stays on your phone. No account, nothing passed on.
Imagine finding a wooded hillside full of chanterelles.
The following year, you might only have a vague memory that it was
somewhere along the gravel road. NaturaPin exists so you don't have to guess.
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.
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 ever leaves it 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.
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.
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Parking. A new kind for marking where the car is before you walk into the forest. When you want to get back, tap the pin and then Directions. It is in the plus menu from the start.
Finds close together no longer clump when you zoom in. They ease apart into a ring, each with a thread to the place it really marks, and settle onto the exact spot as soon as there is room.
Photos from your library. A find can take a photo you already have, not only a new one from the camera.
Satellite with names is now the map shown on first launch.
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
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Information
- Seller
- Henrik Johansson
- Size
- 8.2 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
