My Finds: Metal Detecting

Which metal detecting app is right for you? It’s this one. Here’s why: I couldn’t find an app that did what I wanted, in the field and afterwards, so I built my own, had a slew of detectorists beta test it, and have improved it ever since. TRACK YOUR SESSIONS Tap once and My Finds records your path, even with the phone locked in your pocket. Auto-end after inactivity; pause and resume cleanly when you stop for lunch. LOG YOUR FINDS Tap to log a find where you dug it, with optional category, subcategory, denomination, ruler, issuer, type, year, depth, metal, VDI and description. Curated lists for British, US, Dutch and German coinage; travelling detectorists can add the US or Dutch category set alongside the UK one. Colour-coded pins by category. NO TIME TO DIG? MARK THE SIGNAL A strong signal on the walk back to the car needn’t be lost. Mark it from Add Find or with one tap from the Lock Screen, and a question-mark pin waits on your maps until you return. Free and unlimited. ADD & SHARE PHOTOS Take photos in the field; pinch to zoom, rotate or crop. Bring older photos in from the Photos app via Share, and share any photo out with a tap. RETRACE YOUR STEPS The Map tab layers previous sessions’ paths, shaded to reflect their age, so you can see where you've been and where you haven't. Replay a session and watch your progress. HISTORIC MAPS, LiDAR AND ROMAN ROADS Overlay historic Ordnance Survey maps to research old boundaries, trackways and lost buildings, or switch on the UK public rights-of-way layer. The LiDAR Terrain overlay blends into the map to reveal ridge and furrow and other faint earthworks satellite imagery can’t show (England). Roman Roads draws the scholarly reconstruction of the network; tap any road for its name and route. PERMISSIONS AND PROTECTED GROUND Keep a record of landowners: contacts, dates, conditions and a copy of your agreement. Draw your boundaries, tap to select registered field parcels where open data exists (the Netherlands, parts of England), or import them from Google Earth, and get a warning as you near the edge. The Protected Areas overlay shows scheduled monuments in England, Wales and Scotland, plus SSSIs and other protected ground in England, and warns if you start a session on one. SHARE A SESSION REPORT Turn any session into a customisable PDF for the landowner: a map with find pins, plus a photo and details of each find. SEE YOUR PROGRESS The Insights dashboard charts your finds: totals over time, top sites, metals, periods and personal records. Pro adds custom queries by date, category, metal, depth, ruler, year and more. SAFE-KEEPING AND MOVABILITY Deleted a find by mistake? Restore it within 30 days. Merge duplicate finds, or move one to the right session. Back up everything to a single file to restore on a new phone or merge into an existing collection. Moving from another app? Import from FindSpot, GoTerrain, Digly and Tect O Trak, or from any app that exports GPX or Google Earth KML. UK FEATURES OS grid references for every find. Link finds to their PAS records, search finds.org.uk for similar objects, and get the Finds Liaison Officer contact info for the find spot. Detecting Know-How covers what every UK detectorist should know: permission, the law, reporting, beaches and field craft. PRIVACY No account needed. No ads. No behavioural tracking. Map tiles and overlay data come in; nothing about your finds goes out unless you share it. Anonymous crash reports help improve the app. PRICING Free for your first 20 finds, map overlays included. Pro removes the find limit, adds Custom Queries, and keeps the historic-maps, LiDAR Terrain and Roman Roads overlays past 20 finds. Monthly or annual, with a 30-day free trial on annual. Lapsed or not, you can always view, export and edit your finds. Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/