A complete stalking record, from the hill to the return
Deer Journal logs culls, sightings and outings on your phone — in the field, with no mobile signal — and turns them into the season reports and statutory returns that have to be filed afterwards.
Works on iPhone, Android and desktop. Access is currently by invitation.
What it does
Built around how a day on the hill actually goes
Ground is set up once. After that an outing is the container for a day out — where you were, when you started and finished, and everything you took or saw while you were there.
Outings, culls and sightings
Everything sits in one hierarchy: property, then area or DMU, then the outing, then the culls and sightings within it. Set the ground up once and it is there next season.
Works with no signal
The app loads from your device, so records can be created, edited and browsed with no connection at all. Anything saved offline is queued and synced automatically the moment signal returns.
Your ground on the map
Draw property and area boundaries, or import them from a file. The app works out which area a cull falls in, gives you the acreage of each block, and drops a pin for every record with a GPS fix.
A map that draws without a connection
Online maps show a grey screen on a hill with no signal. Deer Journal can store the map itself on your phone, so your ground and your pins still draw when there is nothing to fetch them from.
Shared outings
When two of you are out together, one shares the active outing with a join code and the other logs from their own phone. Both see each other's records appear as they are entered.
Reports and statutory returns
A live season summary — culls, outings, hours, hours per deer — plus monthly summaries against target, a full cull-by-cull table, an Excel workbook, and the NatureScot return in its required column format.
Also in the app: barcode scanning to find a cull from the tag in your hand, gates and access codes stored against the ground, photographs against records, import of historical cull data, and a three-column desktop layout on larger screens.
Screens
What it looks like
Real screenshots from the app.
Video
A walk through the app
Getting access
Deer Journal is in use on working deer ground and accounts are set up by invitation rather than public sign-up. If you already have an account, open the app and sign in with Google or your email address.
If you manage deer and think it would be useful on your ground, get in touch.
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