Any bug, bird, or plant — snap a photo and Schultz will introduce you to it.
Pinecone
Welcome, explorer!
Here's everything you can do. Tap any card to jump in — or use the buttons at the bottom anytime.
Schultz is your field guide
Snap a photo and he'll tell you what it is, check your scavenger hunt finds, answer questions about any species, and help you figure out what to look for nearby.
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Explore
Search for any species to learn about it, or build your own list to share and race a friend.
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Scavenger Hunt
6 things to find outside today — any bird, any flower, any mushroom counts. New card daily!
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Scan
Point your camera at anything in nature and AI identifies it on the spot.
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Collection
Every species you've found, with your photos, dates, and field notes.
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Hub
Your streak, stats, list progress, recent finds, rivals, and friends — all in one place.
💡 Tip: Rare and legendary finds are the hardest to spot — keep an eye out for them!
Pinecone
Something's always waiting to be found.
We believe screens have pulled a generation indoors. Pinecone is our small push back — with Schultz, your AI field guide, helping you notice the real, living world right outside your door.
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Get your local hunt list
We pull real, recent wildlife sightings near you and build a hunt list ranked by how hard each one is to find.
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Go find them
Snap a photo. Our AI identifies what you found and crosses it off your list. Animals, bugs, and plants all count.
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Rare finds are special
Rare and legendary species are the hardest to spot — keep exploring to find them all.
📲 Tip: tap the Share icon below, then "Add to Home Screen" — Schultz will open full-screen like a real app, and location access will work properly.
In an embedded preview? Location is usually blocked — use the demo button or open this in Safari for real location access.
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Explore
📍 Showing species near Long Island, NY
Schultz is finding local species…
Pulling sightings near Long Island, NY
📍 Featured Near You
Browse Species
Tap a category to open it, then tap any species to learn more about it.
🎯 Build a List to Explore (optional)
Tap the + next to any species above to add it to a list — a "Save Explore List" button will appear at the bottom of the screen once you've picked at least one.
🏡 Backyard List
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You've been challenged!
A friend wants to race you to complete a list — 0 species to find. Accept and start hunting?
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Captured!
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Legendary find
Bald Eagle
🦅 Fun fact: a bald eagle's nest can weigh over 1,000 pounds — heavier than a grand piano!
Added to your collection!
Keep exploring to find more rare and unusual species.
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Settings
👤 Your name
Shown to friends when you challenge them, and used to track your head-to-head record.
🔐 Account
🔒 Parent profile PIN
📍 Location
Showing species near Long Island, NY
📍 Map pins: when you take a photo, Schultz asks for your exact GPS location so map pins are accurate. If you say no or it can't get a signal, that pin falls back to an approximate spot near your area instead.
🔔 Daily reminder
A nudge to get outside each afternoon
📏 Distance units
🗂️ Data
Clears your collection, streak, and captured species. Cannot be undone.
🐞 Feedback
Found a bug, have an idea, or just want to say something? It goes straight to the developer.
👋 How Pinecone works
A quick tour of scanning, daily hunts, collections, and family profiles.
Pinecone · v0.11.5
Species data via iNaturalist · AI via Anthropic Claude
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Feedback
📧 This opens your email app with everything filled in — just hit send from there. It goes directly to the developer's inbox.
What kind of feedback is this?
Tell us more
A few helpful details (like which screen you're on) get included automatically so bugs are easier to track down.
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Account
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Sign in
New here or coming back — enter your email and we'll send a code. No password to remember.
Enter the code from your email:
Why an email? It's what brings your collection back if the app is ever deleted or you switch devices. Just enter the code we email you — no links to tap.
Family profiles: one account covers everyone. Each person gets their own separate collection and streak — and only the account holder's profile needs the email.
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Family profiles
Each profile keeps its own collection and streak.
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Keep your collection safe
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Scan anything
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Curious about something outside?
Snap a photo of any animal, plant, bug, or fungus — not just what's on your hunt list. Schultz identifies it, teaches you a fact, and saves it to your Collection.
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Any species, on or off list
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Learn a quick fact
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Saved to Collection
Ready to identify🔄 Retake
Take a photo or video
Tap to open your camera — switch to video for anything moving fast, like a bird in flight
Recent Scans
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Identified
📝 Add a field note
What did you notice?
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Challenge a friend
Send this week's hunt
Share this link — your friend will get the same 3-species challenge and can compete to find them all first.
CHALLENGE LINK
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Hub
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Playing offline
Progress is only on this device.
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Species
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🌐 This species isn't in your local sightings data — showing what's available from a global species database instead.
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🎯 Daily Scavenger Hunt
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Rainy day? Try an indoor hunt!
Free today, no subscription needed →
Today · resets tomorrow💡 3 hints left
🕰️ Replaying
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Card won!
You found 5 of 6 — nice work!
More with Explorer
Calendar lets you replay any past day's card. Premium Hunts adds themed daily cards — Beach, Zoo, Farm & Forest. Both need a Schultz Explorer subscription — today's free card above doesn't.
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Scavenger Hunt
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That's an Explorer feature
Upgrade to Schultz Explorer to replay any past day's Scavenger Hunt card.
This is a prototype — no real payment is charged. In the live app, this connects to the App Store or Google Play billing.
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Sighting submitted!
Your photo is in review. Once verified it'll appear in the Schultz community catalog.
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My find
📸 Your photos
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📋 Most recent sighting
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Scavenger Calendar
Won that day's card (5 of 6)
🌟 Perfect card (all 6 found)
🔒 Past days need Schultz Explorer to replay
Unlock replaying any past day's Scavenger Hunt card with Schultz Explorer.
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Badges
Earned by winning Scavenger Hunt cards, finding perfect cards, and completing Explore Lists.
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Rivals
Your head-to-head record from friend challenges. Tracked on this device, based on the challenge links you've sent and received.
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Friends
📡 There's no live connection between devices here — each friend's status is a snapshot from the last time they shared it with you, not a running update.
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Family
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Nobody here yet
Sign in and add profiles to see what everyone's been finding.
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Collection
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👑 Premium Hunts
Themed scavenger hunts on top of your free daily card — a fresh set of things to find in each one, every day.
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👑 Premium Hunts
🔄 Today's card · refreshes tomorrow, just like your daily hunt
Reset today's card
🎉 Today's card complete — nice work! A fresh one is waiting tomorrow.
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Help Schultz learn
Schultz guessed . What is it actually?
This updates your Collection right away, and helps Schultz avoid this exact mix-up with you again.
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Item name
🔒 No hints left today — you'll get more tomorrow! Time to look around and think it through.
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📸 Submit to catalog
Your photo and sighting help build the Schultz community catalog — a real-world record of what is living near you.
🔒 Submissions are reviewed before appearing in the catalog. No personal info is shared — just the photo, species, and general location.
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