Woven Walks — every walk, with everything on it

One

One app for the whole walk.

Tap Record Walk and go. Woven tracks your route, listens for birdsong as you walk, and files every bird it hears at the spot on your route where you heard it.

Photograph a tree, a wildflower, a beetle or a mushroom and Woven names it. Identification happens on your phone, so it works deep in the woods with no signal.

Confident, Likely or Unsure — Woven tells you how sure it is
It asks for the views that help — the whole plant, a leaf, the flower
Bring in your Merlin and eBird life list, and export back

A flower being identified: labelled slots for the whole plant, a leaf, the stem and the flower, three of them filled

Two

See the walk again.

Watch your walk unfold from above. The replay follows your route, pausing at each sighting and at your own photos — the views, the selfies, the moments worth keeping — right where they happened.

Then turn it into a video and share it with family and friends.

Birds and finds appear where they were met
Your own photos, with their captions, in the story
A shareable video, made on your phone
Walks, runs and rides from Apple Health replay too

Import from Health: a list of walks and a ride recorded in Apple Health, ready to bring in

The replay pausing on a photo of an abandoned barn, with its caption

Three

Free, private, yours.

No account, no email, no password. No subscription, no adverts, and nothing is ever sold. Just download Woven and head outside.

Your walks and sightings stay on your phone and in your own iCloud, so they are backed up and waiting on your next phone without you lifting a finger.

Bird sounds never leave your phone
Photos go online only when the phone isn't sure, and only if you say so
Share sightings anonymously with the community, if you choose

An answer on the phone: Honey bee, Confident, identified by AI locally on this device, with its story and a Save button

How is it free?

Woven is an independent project from a small team in the UK. There are no investors, and the running costs are modest. It doesn't depend on adverts, subscriptions or mining your data. Your records stay with you, on your phone and in your own iCloud.

Built on serious science.

Woven brings together tools used by researchers and naturalists, tuned for walkers in Britain.

BirdNET

Bird calls are identified with BirdNET, developed by the K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology with Chemnitz University of Technology.

BioCLIP 2

Photographs are named by BioCLIP 2 from the Imageomics Institute, trained on more than two hundred million images of living things.

Weighted for Britain

Answers are weighed against millions of British records from GBIF, so a common native species is preferred over a rare look-alike from abroad.

Questions

Does Woven need an internet connection?

No. Recording, listening for birds and naming your photos all happen on the phone. With a signal, Woven can check a tricky photo online, with your permission.

What can it identify?

Birds by their calls and song, and more than 12,000 species from photographs: trees, wildflowers, garden plants, insects, spiders, fungi, mammals, birds and more.

Where are my records kept?

On your phone and in your own iCloud. Woven has no account and holds no list of users. You can export everything at any time.

I already use Merlin or eBird.

Bring your life list into Woven, and export your Woven sightings in eBird's own format to upload yourself.

Is there an iPad version?

Woven is designed primarily for iPhone. An iPad version is being considered.

Every walk, with everything on it.