Leoveld

Know each lion by its spots.

A lion walks out of the tall grass. Have you met before? Open the loupe, copy the small spots at the base of its whiskers onto your field grid, and decide against your own ledger. The spots never change. Everything else does.

Coming soon to the App StoreiPhone, iOS 17 or later
Leoveld on iPhone: a lion's muzzle under the loupe, with the matching whisker spots copied onto the field grid below.

A field method, turned into a quiet puzzle

Researchers who follow wild lions tell individuals apart by the row of spots where the whiskers grow, a pattern each lion keeps for life. Leoveld hands you the same notebook. It is for anyone who likes careful, unhurried puzzles and nature films: no timers, no lives, nothing to buy, and a pride that grows a little with every sighting.

What you do in Leoveld

Read the spots

Copy a muzzle's whisker spots onto a nine-position grid. Touch a cell and the matching place lights up on the lion.

Keep a ledger

Every lion you identify gets a card with both sides of its muzzle, its sightings and its family.

Watch them age

Between sightings noses darken, manes grow, scars and torn ears appear. The spot pattern stays the same.

Five chapters

Look-alikes that differ by one spot, the other side of the muzzle, tall grass, and dusk with a lantern.

Sighting of the day

Once a day, a lion in the Serengeti, the Okavango Delta, Kruger or Gir Forest, with the real light and weather there.

From the app

The main screen: a dusk savanna with the pride resting on the horizon, the current chapter and the sighting of the day.
Your pride rests on the horizon.
A dusk sighting: only the circle of lantern light shows the whisker spots.
At dusk, the lantern shows a few spots at a time.
The ledger: lion cards with portraits and the recorded spot grids for each side.
Every card holds both sides of the muzzle.

Privacy in short

  • No account, no ads, no purchases, no tracking. Your ledger stays on your iPhone.
  • Notifications only if you turn them on in Settings, delivered by OneSignal.
  • On launch the app checks whether a newer version exists, sending a device identifier, the app version and its bundle identifier.
  • The sighting of the day asks Open-Meteo for the weather at a reserve. Only that reserve's coordinates are sent.
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