Leszy

Leszy

Wildlife photography journal

The journal: a list of observations with species, time and site

Journal

  • Recording an observation takes a few seconds: species, count, behavior, GPS position.
  • Weather is added automatically when you are online.
New observation: species, count, behavior and time

Notebook

  • Notes with links to species, observations and sites.
  • For longer writing than an observation's comment.
The notebook: notes grouped by month

Offline map

The parts of the map you have looked at stay on the phone and work in airplane mode.

The map with satellite imagery and sites, the phone in airplane mode

Calendar

  • Your own periods and dates with reminders: the rut, courtship displays, migration.
  • A site keeps a history of visits and shows which species are worth looking for there and in which months.
The calendar with periods, dates and reminders

Camera traps

  • A camera trap at a site.
  • A check date, a reminder, a checklist for the check.
A camera trap check: the checklist, from the battery level to the mounting

Backup

  • No account. Your data is on your phone.
  • A backup in one file: save it to Files, a cloud drive or email it to yourself.
  • Restore it on a new phone; restoring adds what the journal lacks and overwrites nothing.
Settings, Data: backup and restore from a backup
Red deer rut. Photo: Wojciech Bednarczyk

Who it is for

For wildlife photographers, mainly of mammals and birds, who take notes in the field: in a hide, at dawn, without cell coverage.

Leszy records what the camera does not: the time, the place, the species.

From the author

Leszy is made by one person. I have photographed wildlife for years and built this app out of passion, first for myself: to take notes fast in the field and to always have the journal at hand. I want to share it with everyone who photographs wildlife. No account, no tracking; the data stays on the phone.

Wojciech Bednarczyk

What’s new

  1. Version 0.20.1

    • On iPhone the location permission prompt has new wording: “Leszy needs your position to save where you saw something and to show the position on the map.”
    • Nothing else changes.

  2. Version 0.20.0

    • “More” → “Community”: a link to Leszy’s Discord server (help, ideas, sightings); it opens in the browser.

  3. Version 0.19.1

    • “More” → “Field ethics”: a new intro, and each tip has a dash and a highlighted title.

All release notes

Community

The Leszy Discord server: help, ideas, sightings, in Polish and English.