Detailed find records
Record a name, category, description, notes and structured details for coins, jewellery, relics and other finds.
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Private metal-detecting journal
TroveTrace
Keep the story and details of every find together.
TroveTrace gives metal detectorists a private place to record finds, organise hunts, attach photos and keep useful location and collection details together on iPhone and iPad.
- Build a catalogue of finds with photos, categories, notes and useful details
- Organise finds into hunts and revisit your detecting history
- Save a location only when you choose to use location access
- Keep personal records on your device, with user-controlled backup and sync options where supported
Feature overview
Useful details, organised around your finds
TroveTrace helps you preserve the context around a discovery without turning a personal journal into a complicated database.
Multiple photos
Add several photographs to a find so different views and important details stay with its record.
Detecting hunts
Organise finds into hunts and keep a useful history of each outing and its associated discoveries.
Optional locations
Record the location of a find or hunt when you choose to allow location access and want that context saved.
Catalogue browsing
Browse recorded finds as a personal catalogue and return to their notes, photos and details later.
Map views
View recorded finds and hunts on a map while remembering that exact locations should be handled carefully.
Favourite finds
Mark favourite or notable discoveries so the records that matter most are easy to revisit.
Collection insights
Review collection statistics and useful summaries where those insights are supported by your app version.
User-controlled backups
Create backups and restore personal records where supported, then choose where those backup files are kept.
Export and share
Export or share selected information where supported, while staying in control of files that leave the app.
Optional private iCloud sync
Where CloudKit sync is enabled, supported data can sync between your devices through your private Apple iCloud account.
Personal collection records
TroveTrace is a record-keeping tool. It does not authenticate, value, appraise or establish ownership of a find.
Collection views
A place for the record behind each discovery
Explore TroveTrace in dark mode with a populated private collection, photographed finds and completed hunts.
How it works
From the hunt to your collection history
Start a hunt or add a find
Begin with the outing or record a discovery directly.
Add the useful details
Attach photos and include notes, categories and the details you want to remember.
Save a location if desired
Choose whether location access should be used for that find or hunt.
Browse it later
Return to your catalogue, map, favourites and hunt history when you need them.
Privacy focused
Your private collection stays under your control
TroveTrace stores find records on your device. Location access is used only for features you choose to use, and the app does not use advertising trackers or sell personal information.
Where optional CloudKit sync is enabled, supported data is handled through Apple and stored in your private iCloud database. Backups, exports and shared files are under your control once they leave the app.
Device storage
Optional location
No ad tracking
Support and policies
Questions about TroveTrace?
Contact SKAV Digital for support, or read the product-specific Privacy Policy and Terms of Use before using TroveTrace.