Patchly

Know the ground you're working.

Patchly is the all-in-one gold prospecting and metal detecting app for exploring and understanding the goldfields. It puts the layers that matter on one map and records where you have been and which detector you used.

PRIVACY
Patchly asks for no account, runs no server that stores or processes your field history, and does not track you. Your sessions, finds, photos and Stash live in a plain database on your phone that you can export whenever you want. Optional backups and exports go only to storage you choose. Map and content downloads still use network services.

MAPS AND RESEARCH
• 100+ curated layers and growing: geology, geochemistry, tenements, land access, terrain, historic activity and more, chosen for prospecting
• Tenements refresh nightly, so leases, applications and expiries are current before you drive out
• Bare-earth LiDAR relief for New South Wales, Queensland and Tasmania, with Victoria as a separate add-on
• Stacks: build your own layer setups, reorder them, and switch between saved maps in a tap
• Layer controls: every layer has its own settings, filters and thresholds
• 3D terrain: tilt, rotate and exaggerate the ground to read its shape
• Section 40E permit builder for Western Australia, with Form 1A export
• Offline search for places and watercourses, with no reception
• Light and dark, for the hour you are in

FIELD RECORDING AND NAVIGATION
• Smart classification: Patchly works out which parts of a session were travelling, detecting or stopped
• Logbook+ draws detecting as lines or as Coverage, the honeycomb showing how hard a patch has been worked
• Record a session and see where you detected, and which detector was active for that section
• Off-road go-to: navigate to any find, pin or map point by bearing, distance and ETA
• Multi-stop routes: build an ordered route and work through it
• Classify finds by type, size and condition, each with its own symbol
• Pins that mean something: a colour dot, or an icon for camps, vehicles, water and hazards
• Draw and save lines and areas for boundaries and plans

RECORDS AND GOLD
• Logbook: filter and sort every session, inspect it, and return to the exact ground
• Stash: track nuggets, specimens, bars and coins in a simple or purity-aware mode, valued against the live gold price
• Overview and Calendar: totals, value, categories, daily hauls and season statistics
• Add photos to finds and pins, and link a find to its Stash item

OFFLINE, BACKUP AND PORTABILITY
• Offline regions: pick an area, download its satellite and layers, and the map keeps working out of range
• Automatic backup of records, photos, Stash, detectors and Stacks to your own cloud
• Guided import wizards for Trilobite CSV, Detector Maps KML and Gaia GPS exports, step by step
• Generic GPX, KML and KMZ import for everything else
• Share .patchly files for Stacks, sessions, finds, pins and shapes

PATCHLY FREE
Free is a real field tool, not a trial. The offline map, the land-access and place-name layers, full session recording, your Logbook, finds, pins, Stash and cloud backup. Free tracks up to one troy ounce in Stash and allows one active detector.

PATCHLY PRO
Patchly Pro adds the deeper curated Library including LiDAR relief, Logbook+ classified travelling and detecting sections, the Coverage honeycomb drawn over the ground you have already searched, and offline region downloads. Unlimited Stash and detectors.

• Patchly Pro annual: A$79.99 per year (first year A$23.99)
• Patchly Pro monthly: A$13.49 per month
• Victoria LiDAR relief add-on: A$59.99 per year, requires Patchly Pro

A subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Manage or cancel it in Google Play under Subscriptions.

Terms of Use: https://patchly.gold/terms
Privacy Policy: https://patchly.gold/privacy

Patchly is made in Australia by Patchly Labs Pty Ltd.