I know, often people dislike the idea of technology outdoors, but I wanted to share a few apps that I've found very interesting and useful while out and about. 3 items to be exact.
1. BirdNET
2. Google Skymap
3. Fishing and Hunting Solunar Time
1. BirdNET is a Cornell Labratories/MIT program for identifying bird sounds. It's very, very intelligent. There's also an option to save recorded samples if you have no internet access at the time and analyze them later. I've found it to work very well and to be very accurate. I've made dozens of successful identifications with the software and it has helped me learn about many of the local birds near my home. Totally Free.
2. Google Skymap is a GPS/gyro based star char. It lets you identify what stars or celestial bodies you're looking at. Sometimes the calibration gets off, but you can usually map out what stars are what to know exactly what you're looking at. This is also a free application that I recommend to anyone who views the night skies.
3. Fishing and Hunting Solunar Time I have the paid version of, although the free version will give you good information for your current day and location, the paid version lets you check tide and moon charts at alternative locations/on alternative days. I mainly use it for tracking the tides, although I have had some luck fishing during high percentage solunar times as well and often try to plan my trips around the solunar calendar. I've found the tide charts to be accurate and have been very useful in beach outings.
I have a pretty large offline collection of software on my phone, but I have found that these 3 applications are the ones that I pull out when I'm outdoors the most.
All of these apps are on the Google Play store. I don't know anything about Apple.
1. BirdNET
2. Google Skymap
3. Fishing and Hunting Solunar Time
1. BirdNET is a Cornell Labratories/MIT program for identifying bird sounds. It's very, very intelligent. There's also an option to save recorded samples if you have no internet access at the time and analyze them later. I've found it to work very well and to be very accurate. I've made dozens of successful identifications with the software and it has helped me learn about many of the local birds near my home. Totally Free.
2. Google Skymap is a GPS/gyro based star char. It lets you identify what stars or celestial bodies you're looking at. Sometimes the calibration gets off, but you can usually map out what stars are what to know exactly what you're looking at. This is also a free application that I recommend to anyone who views the night skies.
3. Fishing and Hunting Solunar Time I have the paid version of, although the free version will give you good information for your current day and location, the paid version lets you check tide and moon charts at alternative locations/on alternative days. I mainly use it for tracking the tides, although I have had some luck fishing during high percentage solunar times as well and often try to plan my trips around the solunar calendar. I've found the tide charts to be accurate and have been very useful in beach outings.
I have a pretty large offline collection of software on my phone, but I have found that these 3 applications are the ones that I pull out when I'm outdoors the most.
All of these apps are on the Google Play store. I don't know anything about Apple.
