Pinecone
What's out there today?

Any bug, bird, or plant — snap a photo and
Schultz will introduce you to it.

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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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Friends
Add friends by code, see what they've found, and challenge them.
💡 Tip: Rare and legendary finds are the hardest to spot — keep an eye out for them!
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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.

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

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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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Your collection

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Collection Map
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Schultz is checking if this is a …

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Verified
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
👤 You
📍 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.
📏 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.
Pinecone · v0.31.0
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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New here or coming back — enter your email to continue.

One account for the whole family. Each person gets their own profile with a separate collection and streak — kids don't need their own email or password.

Under 13? Ask a parent to set this up with their email — you'll still get your own profile.
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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
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Schultz taking a photo
Take a photo or video
Tap to open your camera — switch to video for anything moving fast, like a bird in flight
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Choose from your photos
Something you photographed earlier — Schultz reads when and where from the photo
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Identified
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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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Friends

Load a location first to see activity here.
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Species

Ask Schultz

Schultz is looking this up…
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Global Species Database
🌐 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

Today · resets tomorrow 💡 3 hints left
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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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Sighting submitted!

Your photo is in review. Once verified it'll appear in the Schultz community catalog.

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My find

📋 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
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Badges

Earned by winning Scavenger Hunt cards, finding perfect cards, and completing Explore Lists.

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These always appear on the bell inside Pinecone. Turn one on to also get an alert when the app is closed.
Alert
Push also needs to be allowed in your device settings. Turning everything off here keeps the app working normally — you just won't be told about it.

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Takes about ten seconds, and saves you signing in twice.

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Opens full screen, with no browser bar in the way.
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On iPhone and iPad, this is the only way notifications can reach you.
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Sign in once, in the app — instead of here and then again after adding it.
You'll need to sign in again after adding it later.

Who's using this device?

Pick a profile and this device is theirs. You can change it later in Settings.

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Add a friend
Your friend code
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Share this with someone so they can add you.
Enter their code
Friends can see each other's collections. Requests have to be accepted by both people — and for a child's profile, a parent approves it first.

Someone wants to be friends

Their friend code
PINE-____
Already have Pinecone?
Copy the code, then open Pinecone from your Home Screen and paste it into Friends → + Add.
New to Pinecone?
A nature scavenger hunt — point your camera at a bug, bird or plant and find out what it is.
The code is saved either way — it'll be waiting on the Friends screen.

What should we call you?

This is the name your friends will see.

Your name
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Your name
How you'll appear to friends
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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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