How Peeka works.

The whole loop

1. 01

   Point

   Find something with a heartbeat. Your own cat, next door’s dog, a magpie eyeing you from the fence.

2. 02

   Tap

   One tap. No modes, no settings, no account in the way — the free three a day never needs one.

3. 03

   They answer

   Two or three sentences in their voice, built from what is actually in the frame — the ears, the eyes, where they’re standing.

Name them

It remembers who they are.

Tap Recognise them? Name them under any reading and that animal stops being a stranger. Peeka keeps what it noticed about them — the coat, the ears, the way they sit — and every later reading is written by something that has met them before.

The byline under each line tells you which meeting you’re on. Free keeps three named animals; paid plans keep twelve. Named or not, nothing is uploaded anywhere it doesn’t need to be — the photo is used for the reading and then it’s yours.

The Library

Fifty-four species, and none of them are free.

Every tile starts as a silhouette. It only fills in when you photograph that animal — there are no samples, no demo photos, no way to unlock a tile except by actually meeting one. Cats and dogs are the easy end. Kookaburra, capybara and moose are not.

Badges

Proof you went outside.

Filling the Library earns badges, by count and by region. They arrive on their own — there is nothing to opt into and nothing to buy.

• Getting StartedThe bare minimum, exceeded.
• SeasonedHalfway through the field guide. Nobody made you do this.
• Wild SightingThe couch doesn’t count anymore.
• Field NaturalistEvery wild tile filled. Actually impressive.

Sharing

One tap turns it into a card.

Share on any reading and Peeka draws a card — your photo, what they said, and their name if you’ve given them one — then hands it straight to your phone’s share sheet. Free cards carry a small Peeka mark; Plus and Pro drop it.