# Lithify: Geology Field Guide

> Rock & Mineral Field Guide

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## Overview

- **ID:** `id6792598886`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Robert Corbin
- **Category:** Reference
- **Version:** 1.0
- **Last updated:** 2026-07-29
- **First published:** 2026-07-29
- **Size:** 115 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-21
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/lithify-geology-field-guide/id6792598886)
- **Website:** [https://shadowfetch-ios-apps.pages.dev/lithify/](https://shadowfetch-ios-apps.pages.dev/lithify/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://shadowfetch-ios-apps.pages.dev/lithify/privacy/index.html](https://shadowfetch-ios-apps.pages.dev/lithify/privacy/index.html)

## Description

A serious offline field guide for rockhounds: a genuine identification engine paired with an illustrated reference to 101 rocks and minerals — all on your device.

Lithify is a serious, offline field guide for rockhounds, geology students, prospectors and hikers. It pairs a genuine identification engine with a richly illustrated reference library of 101 rocks and minerals — all on your device, with no account, no subscription, and no photos leaving your phone.

Most rock-ID apps upload your pictures to a cloud service and hide the answer behind a subscription. Lithify takes the opposite approach: it teaches you to identify a specimen the way a geologist does — by its diagnostic properties — and shows its work every step of the way.

IDENTIFY, HONESTLY
• Dichotomous Key — an adaptive question-and-answer key that starts from luster, hardness and streak and narrows the field with each answer, showing the live candidate count so you always know where you stand.
• Property Matcher — enter whatever you observed (hardness band, streak color, cleavage, magnetism, acid reaction, color) and get a ranked shortlist scored by how well each specimen agrees. Partial information still helps.
• Photo Color Assist — sample a photo's dominant colors on-device to suggest color-consistent candidates. It is an aid, never an automatic verdict — and it is honest about that.

A REAL REFERENCE LIBRARY
• 69 minerals and 32 rocks (igneous, sedimentary, metamorphic), each with a curated photo gallery.
• Factual structured properties: Mohs hardness, streak, luster, cleavage, fracture, specific gravity, crystal system, chemical formula, diaphaneity, tenacity, magnetism and acid reaction.
• Classification by mineral group plus Dana and Strunz numbers.
• Formation environments, notable localities, common uses, and field-identification tips for every entry.
• Search and filter by type, rock class, hardness band, and color.

FIELD TOOLS
• Mohs Scale — the ten index minerals, common field-test tools (fingernail, copper coin, steel, glass), and how to run a proper scratch test.
• Specific Gravity Calculator — compute SG by the hydrostatic (Archimedes) method or mass ÷ volume, then match your result against minerals of that density. Real physics, not a lookup.
• Test Reference — how to read streak, luster, cleavage versus fracture, and the acid test.

YOUR COLLECTION
• Log the specimens you find with a photo, a linked field-guide entry, the locality, the date, and optional coordinates.
• Record your own hardness and specific-gravity measurements.
• Everything is stored locally on your device.

PRIVATE AND OFFLINE BY DESIGN
• Works everywhere — the quarry, the trail, the plane — with no signal.
• No account, no sign-in, no subscription.
• No analytics, no tracking. Your photos and collection never leave your device.

Specimen photographs are sourced from Wikimedia Commons under public-domain, CC0, CC-BY and CC-BY-SA licenses, with full per-image attribution inside the app.

A note on photo identification: Lithify does not pretend an AI can name a rock from a single picture. Automated mineral photo-ID is unreliable, so the honest, accurate path is the dichotomous key and the diagnostic field tests — with the reference library always one tap away to confirm.

Buy it once. Own it forever. Take it anywhere.

## Rankings

- #1,068,747 — Overall

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