A design & engineering brief · 03
Floradex
the botanist
Plant ID apps tell you a name and then forget you were ever there. I grew up completing Pokédexes, so I built the version I actually wanted: snap a plant, catch the species, and watch your city's deck fill in.
The deck, live
Click through. It's live.
open the real thing ↗
Design notes
- Species have rarity tiers, common weeds up through legendary natives, so an unusual find actually feels like something.
- Every catch can carry field notes: where it was, what you noticed.
- Each city has a completion count. Mine still isn't done.
Engineering notes
- 41k species, recognisable from a phone photo.
- Identification works offline. No signal needed on a trail.
- iOS native, and quick enough to use mid-walk.