Yes — it exists. Free on iPhone.
dobudex turns any animal you photograph into a collectible pixel-art card: its real species, six battle stats, a signature trait, and a rarity earned from how often the whole community has scanned it.
Download on the App StoreFree to try on iPhone · Android is on its way
A real scan — someone met a great crested grebe.
Three steps between “what is that?” and a card in your Dex.
Point your camera at any animal — a pigeon, your cat, a bee on a flower — and lock in the shot.
Vision AI names the species and builds the card in seconds: sprite, stats, trait, rarity.
Every catch lands in your Dex, organised by species. Then you go fill it out.
This house sparrow was scanned on an ordinary walk. Here’s everything its card carries.
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A species’ rarity is how often the whole dobudex community has scanned it — not a dice roll. The rarer the find, the more the card shows off.
Common
Everywhere you look — sparrows, pigeons, your own cat.
Uncommon
A good walk usually turns one up.
Rare
The find you text someone about.
Very Rare
Almost nobody has scanned one. Yet.
Those apps were built by naturalists to identify species accurately — and they’re free and excellent at it. dobudex identifies too, then turns the result into a game: stats, rarity, and a card worth collecting and sharing.
Reach for Seek as a field guide. Reach for dobudex to make a walk a collection run.
Pokémon GO has you catch fictional monsters layered onto a game map. In dobudex the creatures are the real animals actually around you — reimagined as pixel art with their own real stats.
No fantasy — just what’s out your door, made worth catching.
Want the full picture? We compared all twelve apps in this space — prices, ratings, and who each is for: real-life Pokédex apps, honestly compared. Or see what ten days of scanning actually produces: eighteen real animals, turned into Pokémon-style cards.
Yes. It’s called dobudex, free on iPhone (Android is on its way). Point your camera at any animal and it becomes a collectible pixel-art creature card with the animal’s real species, stats, a signature trait, and a rarity.
Any wild or domestic animal, identified at the species level — birds, insects, mammals, reptiles, sea life, and pets. Everyday animals absolutely count: a pigeon, a house sparrow, a bee, or your own cat.
dobudex identifies to species level (“Domestic Dog”, not a breed) using Vision AI with a confidence check. Low-confidence scans are saved and can be retried, so you never lose the moment.
It’s free to download and try. After your free scans, an optional Explorer subscription keeps you scanning — but every game feature (the stats, rarity, traits, and your Dex) is identical on the free and paid tiers. The subscription only buys more scans.
Yes. Each scan runs through cloud Vision AI, so you need to be online to scan an animal or retry a scan.
No. The word “Pokédex” is used only to describe what the app is like. dobudex is not affiliated with or endorsed by Nintendo, Creatures, or GAME FREAK.
The sparrow outside your window is card #001.
Download on the App StoreFree to try on iPhone · Android is on its way
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