Everything in here exists because one of us needed it on a hunt.

The map

Satellite, topo and hybrid. Parcel lines with the landowner's name for Michigan so you know whose fence you're looking at before you cross it. Public land shaded. Your pins, trails, and shapes on top, in folders you control.

• Works with no signal. One tap downloads the Michigan basics (parcels, public land, base layers) so the Upper Peninsula doesn't become a blank screen.
• Coordinate search that takes whatever your buddy texted you: decimal, degrees-minutes, with or without the letters.
• Drive there. Pick a stand, it finds the closest place to park and hands off to Google Maps.

Stands that know which way to sit

Every stand gets a facing and a type. Open the stand and the app draws your scent cone for the wind right now, grades the stand for today, and tells you what time the wind flips.

• Wind rated against your own deer. After a few sits the app knows where deer actually show up from at that stand. It rates the wind against that, not a textbook.
• Burn-out meter. How many times you've sat it this season, how the sightings have fallen off, and a plain suggestion: rest it.
• Deer travel layer. Your logged sightings become arrows on the map showing how deer move through the property by time of season, with a suggested facing if your stand is pointed wrong.
• Pressure. The barometer for the next two days, the front marked, and your own numbers next to it ("your evenings on falling pressure: 1.4 deer an hour").

The sit

Tap "Sitting here" when you climb up. The app records the wind, temperature, pressure and moon as you sit, and gives you a one-thumb way to log what you see: deer, turkeys, a coyote, the neighbor's dog. Heading picker is relative to the way you're facing, because nobody knows what 247 degrees looks like from a tree.

• Sit log of every sit you've ever done, with editable start and end times for when you forgot to tap.
• Log a past sit for the ones you forgot entirely.
• Buddy sightings show up on your map too, marked as theirs.

After the shot

Blood trail mode. Tell it where you hit the deer and it starts the wait clock with plain advice (liver hit: it'll bed and die if you leave it alone; push it and it'll go a mile). Then one button per mark: blood, heavy blood, bed, hair, last seen, found. Flashlight and red light built in.

• Every mark syncs to your folder as you drop it. Your buddy walking in from the truck sees the trail on his phone.
• The app projects the line the deer is most likely on from your last three marks.
• When you find it, the harvest is one tap away with the location already filled in.

Cameras, alerts, the small stuff

• Trail cams as pins with the direction they face; hide the ones that are pulled for the season.
• Pressure-drop alert once per front, not three times. Tells you the day before a front comes through.
• Regional activity index. Opt in and see how many deer per hour hunters near you are seeing this week, with no names and no spots. Nobody can see yours unless you share.
• Tools accordion so the stuff you don't use stays out of your way.
• Compass that doesn't lose its mind when you tilt the phone, with true north and a calibration nudge when it needs one.