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The app for herping

Every find, every trip, one life list.

Build your life list, see what is around you and plan trips with friends.

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Free to use. Supporter lifts the caps and keeps Agama running.

A trip screen with a travel map, the route between stops, and the day journal.
The Life list tab: a grid of species cards with reference photos and scientific names.
  • 20,000+species
  • Worldwidecountry checklists
  • No exact GPSstored, ever
  • Offlinespecies catalogue

Life list

Your list, and what you are still missing.

Every reptile and amphibian you have found, with your own photos. Open a country to see what you have seen there and what you have not. Build your own checklists for the species you are still after.

  • Checklists for every country and US state
  • Your photo, or a reference photo until you take one
  • Custom checklists you can share
  • Bring in the records you already have, from iNaturalist or a spreadsheet
The Life list tab: a grid of species cards with reference photos and scientific names.

Explore

See what is likely around you.

Explore ranks the species most often recorded around you at this time of year. Search any country or region to plan ahead, with a month by month strip for each species so you know when to go.

  • Near you, or anywhere you are headed
  • Marks on the row for endemic, venomous, not native here, and already on your list
  • Month by month seasonality for each species
  • A filter for the species that are native there
The Explore tab listing the species most likely to be found around a searched place this month.

Trips

Plan a trip, log it, share it.

A trip is shared. Invite the people coming with you, and everyone logs into the same trip from their own phone. Tag a friend on a find and they can put it on their own life list with one tap. You all see one journal, one map and one species list, whoever logged what.

  • Invite the people coming with you, or join a trip you are asked on
  • A shared target list for the species you are hoping to find
  • A travel map that joins your stops into a route
  • A share card or a PDF report at the end
A trip screen with a travel map, the route between stops, and the day journal.

More in Agama

Species pages

More than 20,000 reptiles and amphibians, with range by country and native, introduced or endemic status.

Trophies

Tiered milestones for species, records, countries, continents, families, genera, venomous finds, rare species and endemics, plus a shield for every country you fill in.

Stats

Your list by group, by year and by family, plus your biggest year so far.

Your photos

Add your own pictures to a find. They become the image on your life list, fill a gallery on your profile, and carry the licence you pick.

Friends

Follow the people you go out with and see their latest finds, each with the country and broad area it came from.

Offline catalogue

Download the catalogue once and search, species pages and checklists all keep working with no signal.

Privacy

Your spots stay yours.

You decide how much to say about where you were, and you can pick an area as broad as you like. Only that area is saved, with its centre rounded to a 2 km cell. Exact coordinates are never stored: not for your friends, not for us, not even for you.

You pick the place, not a pin

You never have to hand over your GPS position. Name the area yourself, as vague as you like. Only its centre is stored, rounded to a cell of roughly 2 km.

Photos leave the GPS behind

Photos are re-encoded on your phone before upload, which removes the GPS and camera metadata. Only the picture is uploaded.

You choose what friends see

Notes can be private, your photo gallery can be hidden from followers, and you can require approval before anyone follows you.

The privacy policy spells out the rest.

Free, and Supporter.

Free

All features, with a few limits.

  • 50 new species
  • 1 new trip
  • 50 photos

Everything from before you joined is unlimited. Import your whole history and your past trips: none of it counts against the caps.

Supporter

Same Agama. No caps.

A monthly or yearly subscription that lifts the three limits and pays for the servers and the database behind Agama. Cancel any time from the store.

Questions

When can I download it?

Agama is not on the App Store or Google Play yet. The buttons on this page will turn into real download links as soon as it is.

Can I bring in the records I already have?

Yes. Import your iNaturalist observations by username, or a spreadsheet (xlsx or csv). A row needs a species and a country. The date can be a bare year or left out, the place can be rough, and no photo is needed. Records you already logged are skipped, so re-importing a corrected sheet does not double anything up.

Can I focus on reptiles or amphibians only?

Yes. If you only look for one group you can hide the other everywhere in the app: search, checklists, Explore and your life list.

What happens to what I log offline?

It waits on your phone and uploads when you are back in signal, photos included. You can keep logging all week with no bars.

What does a shared link show?

The countries and the numbers, never a spot. Whoever opens a link you sent sees the trip or the species, and can open it in the app if they have it.

What happens if I stop being a Supporter?

Nothing is deleted. Your records, trips and photos stay exactly as they are. The free limits simply apply again to new species, new trips and new photos.

Can I get my data out?

Yes. Settings writes a CSV with the same columns the importer reads, so you can edit it and bring it straight back in. Photos stay in the app.

Partners

Agama is proud to be supported by:

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