Field Notes

Luxanom Field Notes · for Android

Talk while you shoot.

Photograph a job and say what you see. Field Notes turns your voice into notes, stamps every photo with the time, place, coordinates and a map, and builds one clean picture you can send straight away.

Get Field Notes free Try it in your browser

Free to use. No account, no ads. Works in 16 languages.

The Field Notes screen: a waterfall photo beside a map, with the heading, the spoken note, the time, place and coordinates.

How it works

Made for the moment you're standing in front of the thing you need to record, with your hands full and no time to type.

  1. 1

    Take the photos

    Shoot inside the app. Free takes one photo per note; the paid editions take 4, 9 or more, labelled A, B, C as you go.

  2. 2

    Talk while you shoot

    Tap the Heading or the Note and just speak. Your words appear as you talk, in your own language, and you can edit anything.

  3. 3

    Time, place and map, done for you

    Every note is stamped with the date and time, street and suburb, exact coordinates and a map of the spot.

  4. 4

    One picture, ready to send

    Field Notes builds one clean picture: heading, photos, map, your note and a code that opens the spot in Google Maps. Your untouched originals are kept separately.

Try it here

This is the real Field Notes app, running in your browser. Hold the phone over the scene, take your photos, talk your note, then save it and see the finished field note.

  1. Tap the green camera button
  2. Move your mouse to aim, click to take a photo
  3. Talk, or type
  4. Save
A mountain lake: a stag on mossy rocks, a waterfall, snowy peaks, an eagle overhead and fish in the clear water.

Your browser asks to use your microphone when you start talking. Speech is turned into text by your browser's own speech service; the photos and notes stay in this page and disappear when you close it. Space or Enter also takes a photo; Esc finishes.

See it in use

Field Notes Free: one photo of a waterfall beside a map, with a heading, the spoken note, the time, place and coordinates, and a Google Maps code.
Field Notes Free · 1 photo
Field Notes Plus: four photos labelled A to D, a stag, a waterfall, clear water over mossy rocks and an eagle over snowy mountains, beside a map, with a note that refers to each picture.
Field Notes Plus · 4 photos
The finished field note: the heading in bold, four photos labelled A to D in two columns beside the map, the note describing each picture, then the time, place, coordinates and a code that opens Google Maps.
The finished field note · one picture, saved to your gallery

Real Field Notes screens and a saved note. Tap any to enlarge.
Photos: Some Mythical Place in Someone’s Imagination.

Editions

Start free. When a job needs more photos on one sheet, upgrade inside the app with a one-time purchase. No subscriptions.

Field Notes Free1photo per note

Everything in the app, one photo at a time. Time, place, coordinates and map are placed on every note automatically.

Available now
Field Notes Plus4photos per note

Photos A to D on one sheet: A and C, B and D, then the map, in equal thirds.

At Google Play launch
Field Notes Pro9photos per note

A 3 × 3 sheet, photos A to I, for bigger jobs and inspections.

At Google Play launch
Field Notes Unlimited50+photos per note

Whole walk-throughs: the first nine beside the map, the rest in rows underneath.

At Google Play launch

Plus, Pro and Unlimited arrive with our Google Play launch. They're upgrades inside the same app, so your notes and settings stay exactly where they are.

Speaks your language

Field Notes follows your phone's language, listens in that language when you talk, and writes dates, times and places the way you'd expect.

Drag the Earth to spin it. Day and night are shown as they are right now. Tap a flag to read this site in that language.

Earth images: NASA Blue Marble (day) and NASA Black Marble (night lights).

Who it's for

  • Tradespeople and builders
  • Property managers and inspectors
  • Insurance and claims
  • Field workers and surveyors
  • Hikers, anglers and explorers
  • Anyone who documents a place

Get Field Notes free

Field Notes is in early access on Google Play before its public launch. Join in three taps and install it like any other app. Updates arrive automatically.

  1. 1Tap Join early access on your Android phone.
  2. 2Choose Become a tester, using the Google account on your phone.
  3. 3Tap Install in the Play Store. That's it.
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Needs an Android phone with Google Play. Free to use, no account to create, no ads.

Your finished field note