dobudex: Animal Identifier
Scanner Game for Real Wildlife
Only for iPhone
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
Scan any animal, learn what it is, and watch your Dex fill up. Rarer finds earn more XP. Explorer includes 100 scans a month, cancel anytime.
Scan animals and grow your collection. Each catch is a new unique card and some creatures are rarer than others, and your dex grows with every walk.
dobudex identifies the species and turns it into a card you keep. Your dex fills up with the wildlife you find in nature.
Every walk with your kids becomes a fun game. A safari! Suddenly they want to go outside and will soon know more animals than you do.
You will start recognising garden birds you never noticed. The scanner works just as well at the zoo as in your own garden, so the collection grows wherever you are.
Something you can do together with the kids.
Free to try. Explorer is an optional monthly subscription and it only raises how many scans you get. Every card, stat, map and journal entry stays free.
more Fixes and stability improvements.
1.0.32 17h ago
Fixes and stability improvements.
1.0.31 5d ago
Fixes and stability improvements.
1.0.30 6d ago
Fixes and stability improvements.
1.0.29 Oct 12
Streaks are simpler now.
• Daily streak: catch an animal every day to keep it going. Miss a day and the streak ends. Your next catch starts a new one. No more free days to keep track of.
• Fixes and stability improvements.
1.0.28 Oct 6
Dobudex now speaks Swedish.
• Svenska: the whole app in Swedish, including every animal's name, description and fun fact. It follows your phone's language, and you can switch any time under Profile > Language.
• Weekly challenges: the next medal and the catches to go now match everywhere you see them.
• Fixes and stability improvements.
1.0.27 Oct 5
Dobudex now speaks Spanish.
• Español: the whole app in Spanish, including every animal's name, description and fun fact. It follows your phone's language, and you can switch any time under Profile > Language.
• Reports: when you report a picture, we now tell you what we decided, in the app and with an optional notification.
• Fixes and stability improvements.
1.0.26 Oct 4
Safaris: animal scavenger hunts with friends and family.
• Safaris: pick animals from your Dex, share the code, and tick them off together by scanning them. Print the sheet for a class or a day out. Find it under Profile > Safaris.
• Zoom lenses: on phones with a telephoto camera, the Scanner shows lens buttons such as 3× or 5×.
• Free scans: an optional notification tells you when we give you free scans.
• Fixes and stability improvements.
1.0.25 Oct 2
Streaks, sets, and animals near you.
• Daily streak: catch an animal every day to keep it going. Your first catch of the day earns bonus XP.
• Dex sets: birds, mammals, insects and more, with bronze to master badges.
• Lives near you: see which animals live in your area.
• Jump straight into scanning when you start. Take your selfie later.
• New optional notifications for your streak, friends' rare finds, and a challenge's last day.
• Fixes and stability improvements.
1.0.24 Oct 1
Dobudex now speaks Dutch.
• Nederlands: the whole app in Dutch, including every animal's name, description and fun fact. It follows your phone's language, and you can switch any time under Profile > Language.
• Legendary animals stand out in your Dex: a gold sunburst tile until you catch one, and a glowing gold frame once it's yours.
• Fixes and stability improvements.
1.0.23 Sep 29
Explore without a signal.
• Scan anywhere: with no connection, your scans are saved and finish on their own as soon as you're back online. Your scan count already includes them, so you never go over.
• Your Dex, Journal and profile now open offline, sprites and all.
• A clearer notification question from Fiona.
• Fixes and stability improvements.
1.0.22 Sep 28
Notifications! Put your phone down while a creature is being drawn: dobudex tells you the moment it's ready. You also hear when someone sends you a friend request or accepts yours, and when a new weekly challenge starts. You choose: switch each one on or off under Profile → Notifications.
Your plan card now shows the renew date next to your monthly allowance, and scan-pack extras say they never expire.
1.0.21 Sep 24
Weekly challenges! Every Monday Fiona announces a new challenge: scan your way through three tiers for bonus XP. Track your progress on your Profile and on the Scanner, see the moment a catch counts on the reveal, and tap the Profile card to read the week's announcement again.
Reporting a creature or its description now shows what you already flagged.
1.0.20 Sep 23
The Explorer screen now leads with the monthly price, so what you pay after any first-month offer is clear at a glance.
1.0.19 Sep 22
• A quicker start: one welcome screen, then straight to the camera.
• Your name is asked while your first scan finishes, not before.
• Faster app launch.
• Fixed a bug where a brand-new account could get stuck reloading during its first scan.
1.0.17 Sep 3
Explorer's first month is now discounted for new subscribers. The offer and the price it renews at are both shown on the upgrade screen before you subscribe.
1.0.16 Sep 2
Your Dex tiles now show their artwork edge to edge, so a card reads at a glance instead of sitting inside a frame.
Fiona has been redrawn onto her speech box everywhere she talks, from your first run to the paywall, so she looks and sounds the same on every screen.
Fixed: leaving an animal's detail screen now takes you back where you came from.
1.0.15 Aug 24
A new App Store preview, so you can watch a scan turn into a card before you install.
Inside the app, one small change: dobudex now notes whether an account started on iPhone or on Android, so we know where to put our effort next.
1.0.14 Aug 21
Fresh App Store screenshots and a clearer description, so it is easier to see what dobudex actually does before you install it.
Nothing changed inside the app this time.
1.0.13 Aug 19
THE WAIT IS NOW PART OF THE HUNT
• Biologist Fiona tells you what you caught while the scan is still running, so the name arrives seconds in rather than at the very end.
• The animal's outline lights up on camera while the scan works.
A NEW CONSOLE
• The casing is moulded and lit from above, the screen sits in a recess, the buttons are properly convex, and the speaker grille is drilled rather than painted on.
• A raccoon now handles the loading screens.
YOUR DEX AND JOURNAL REMEMBER YOU
• Come back from an animal and the grid is where you left it.
• The Journal shows every scan you have ever made, not just the newest 100.
REPORT WHAT THE AI GETS WRONG
• Artwork, species text and mystery silhouettes can each be flagged in-app.
Plus smaller fixes, including a paywall that no longer pitches Explorer to people who already have it.
1.0.12 Aug 17
LEVELLING UP
• Reaching a new level is now a moment that waits for you, instead of a message you could scroll straight past.
• Levels earned from your avatar photo no longer pass in silence.
• Dismissing a level-up no longer restarts the scan behind it.
GETTING AROUND
• Scanner, Dex and Profile now share one fixed set of buttons, so every destination stays in the same place instead of moving with the screen you are on.
• The button for the screen you are already on lights up gold, rather than looking broken.
• Dex: FILTER moves to a strip above the grid that says what you are looking at, like "3 TIERS · HP ↑".
• Profile: the upgrade and save-progress prompts are now cards with room to explain themselves.
RARITY
• The Very Rare tier is now called Epic.
POLISH
• The leaderboard's "you're ranked #N" teaser is a real control now, not something that only looked like one.
• The share button says CARD, with a card to match, so the tap tells you what you get.
• A scan that is still waiting on the server no longer shows a button you cannot press.
• The readout no longer changes height as you move between screens.
1.0.11 Aug 8
FRIENDS
• Your friends' catches now show the real creature in the activity feed. A species you haven't caught yourself stays a silhouette until you find your own.
• Dex tiles carry a badge when a friend has caught that species, with a show/hide toggle in the filter sheet.
SHARE
• Share cards now show the scientific name on the plaque.
• Fixed shares that could hang, trap you on the reveal, or reuse the previous card's image.
ACCOUNT
• Deleting a signed-in account now starts a 30-day grace period. Sign back in during that window and everything is still there.
• Entered your birthday wrong? You can now correct it in place instead of being locked out.
SCANNING
• A single capture can no longer use two of your scan credits.
POLISH
• Text no longer clips at large accessibility text sizes.
• The two look-alike welcome screens are now one.
1.0.10 Jul 29
Explorer now includes 100 scans every month. That's double the previous allowance, and it's already live if you're subscribed.
Friends you've accepted can now recognise each other on the global leaderboard, even when you're both hidden from everyone else. Pending requests still reveal nothing, and blocking always wins.
The upgrade screen now shows any free trial you're eligible for, with the full terms up front, so you always know what you'll pay and when.
Plus smaller fixes to the Friends and Dex screens.
1.0.9 Jul 28
Meet other explorers. Add friends with an invite code to see their latest catches in a shared activity feed, and spot which friends have already found each species. The global leaderboard is back too: climb the ranks by species, rare finds, and scans, with private-by-default controls so you choose if and when to reveal your name.
Scans now survive a dropped connection. Lose signal mid-scan and your capture waits safely in an outbox, then uploads itself once you are back online, so a find is never lost. Species cards now show a typical adult weight, and you can tap any scan photo to zoom in.
1.0.8 Jul 21
Level up your explorer.
• XP AND LEVELS — every scan now earns XP, scaled by how rare your catch is. Watch the level bar fill on your profile, and enjoy the victory fanfare when you rank up.
• LEGENDARY TIER — the rarest ~2% of animals now mint a legendary card in obsidian and gold.
• NEVER LOSE THE SHOT — if you run out of scans mid-catch, we now take the photo anyway and hold it for you, so the animal doesn't have to wait.
• TAP TO FOCUS — tap the viewfinder to focus and meter exactly where you want.
• SAVE YOUR DEX VIEW — pin your favourite filter and sort as the default.
• A CLEARER SCANNER — the capture button now says SCAN and carries a camera icon, the console frame no longer shifts as you navigate, and the camera stays put when you tilt your phone.
• Fixed sharing the same card twice to WhatsApp.
1.0.7 Jul 18
Fixes and stability improvements.
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