Daily Bestiary

Get to know a new animal every day.

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Inspiration

I'm a biology teacher with a folder of drawings nobody asked for: the weird animals, not the famous ones. They'd been sitting in a repo with photographs, licences and a few hundred facts, doing nothing.

The other half was irritation. Every app I open wants me to stay: feeds, streaks, daily quests, badges with numbers on them. I wanted the opposite. Something that hands you one thing and then tells you to go away.

What it does

One hand-drawn animal card a day. Unlock it and it's yours: flip it for a photograph, three facts, the scientific name, and a four-question quiz.

Your first three are free, one of them holo. Tilt the phone and the foil moves across it, which is the entire reason holo cards exist.

How I built it

I learnt iOS-Development in 2019 with an udemy-course. Many courses and tutorials followed. Today many tasks did Claude Code.

Challenges I ran into

CoreMotion was tough to understand

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

I think it's a no bullshit, clean and fun app.

What I learned

  • iOS-Development gets easier
  • revenuecat is cool ;)

What's next for Daily Bestiary

  • drawing more animals
  • Share Sheet for Cards
  • extend idea to plants, historical persons, whatever

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