ButterflyCounts is an offline-first mobile companion designed for naturalists, field observers, and butterfly enthusiasts to systematically record encounters, track personal life lists, and contribute open-access biodiversity data.
Butterflies are vital indicators of ecosystem health, climate shifts, and habitat quality. However, systematically tracking field encounters in remote nature trails and forests is often hindered by a lack of cell connectivity. ButterflyCounts solves this for data collectors with a fast, offline-first mobile experience that keeps track of your personal sightings and life list in the field, with optional cloud sync when connectivity returns.
Data logged with the Open Access Data Sharing option enabled is made available for biodiversity research and public monitoring.
The platform automatically calculates mathematical diversity indices directly on the mobile app and web dashboard:
Measures species richness and abundance evenness across a count location.
Calculates the probability that two randomly selected individuals belong to different species.
Offline field count recording, personal life list cataloging, and automatic GPS coordinate boundary matching.