Rockd 4+

This is crucial to a research project I have going, and I need to look up hundreds of sites manually. Sometimes I need to leave to app to check an exact location in another app but when I come back, the app refreshes and I have to go zoom in to that location again. This is infuriating to deal with over and over and over again. There’s no reason the app needs to refresh and start over from the beginning like this. Please consider changing this, or at least provide a setting that I can flip on and off. Thanks for the otherwise great app.

I downloaded this when it first came out, and while it was fun right out of the gates, it was pretty clunky with much room for improvement. Well, the developers have heard the feedback and consistently added new features and are always fixing small bugs to make this the best (and only) “geological social media” app available! Anyone from a casual rockhound to a geology student (which I was when I first started using it, now have my B.Sc.) to PhD researchers can use this, and every checkin added by users helps supplement the amazing amount of data already built into the app. I love the recent additions of paleomaps, the ability to click through to linked literature in professional journals, and the interaction with other rock nerds!

I look forward to whatever is coming next, but at the moment this app is top-notch and I struggle to recommend any new features or fixes.

I moved to an area whose geological history helped create earth and life as we now know it. I’ve spent a lot of time exploring and became a real amateur geologist. This app is perfect. First, it has convenient, high quality geological maps. I’ve tried other solutions, which are usually overlays in google earth or a hiking app. They’re pretty inconvenient and they don’t give you the detailed information Rockd does about different stratigraphic units and lithologies. The paleo maps are fun and help make sense of the landforms as you explore. The minerals reference is fun, especially because Rockd actually gives you the mineralogy of igneous rocks in the area.