dobudex

dobudex

A Pokédex for real animals*

Scan animals and turn them into unique collectible pixel-art creatures, each with its own stats, rarity, and a place in your Dex.

Download for iOS Download for Android

Free to try on iPhone and Android.

An American Bison creature card with stats and rarity
The Dex: a grid of collected pixel-art creatures

Three steps to your first catch

No field guide needed — if you can photograph it, you can catch it.

  1. Scan

    Spot an animal and frame it in the scanner. The duck at the pond counts. So does your dog.

  2. The finished card: a Black-tailed Prairie Dog with stats, a trait and its rarity

    Identify

    dobudex works out the species and draws the card: pixel-art sprite, stats, trait, rarity.

  3. The Dex screen: a growing grid of caught pixel-art creatures

    Collect

    The card lands in your Dex — and the real game starts: filling it.

Every catch becomes a card

This is the prairie dog from the three steps above, as its card: the species, six stats tuned to how the animal actually lives, a signature trait, a true biology fact — and the finder’s name.

Common as they come — and it still gets the full treatment. Go on, give it a spin.

A Common dobudex card: a pixel-art Black-tailed Prairie Dog with six stats, its trait, and a biology fact

How rare is your catch?

Tiers come from the whole community’s scans: the fewer people have caught a species, the higher it sits.

  1. Common card: a grey Domestic Cat sitting in a meadow, in a grey frame Common

    The pigeons. The gulls. Your cat.

  2. Uncommon card: a Six-banded Armadillo in a green frame Uncommon

    A proper look around usually pays off.

  3. Rare card: an African Lion cub in a blue frame Rare

    Now you’re bragging.

  4. Epic card: a breaching Humpback Whale in a holographic purple frame Epic

    Nobody believes you without the card.

A Legendary dobudex card with the animal withheld: a gold question mark on a sunburst stands where the pixel-art creature would be, the name and trait read as question marks, and the stats run up to a maxed-out 100 stealth Legendary

And one tier above that

Legendary is the rarest 0.1% of everything the community has ever scanned. We’re not going to show you what’s in it.

Watch a catch, start to finish

Forty seconds of real scans — animals in, cards out.

The dobudex Dex screen: a grid of caught animals with rarity labels, still-locked silhouettes below them, and a counter reading 60 of 151 animals

Curious how it compares to Seek or Pokémon GO — or what else is printed on a card? The real-life Pokédex page tells the whole story, we’ve honestly compared all twelve apps in this space, and here’s what ten days of real scans turn into.

The hunt starts outside your door

Grab the app — your first catches are on us.

Download for iOS Download for Android

Free to try on iPhone and Android

QR code linking to the dobudex download page On a laptop? Aim your phone camera at this.