Introducing HabitatTracker: Built by a Keeper, for Keepers

HabitatTracker is now available on Google Play. If you’ve found this post through one of our care guides, or through a search for a reptile tracking app, here’s the honest, no-hype version of what it is and whether it’s worth your time.

The Problem We Were Trying to Solve

If you keep reptiles seriously, you’ve probably been through the standard progression: paper notebook → shared Google Sheet → “I’ll remember” (you won’t) → another Google Sheet → eventually losing track of when the ball python last ate and whether that was normal or not.

The problem with general-purpose tools for reptile husbandry is that they don’t understand what you’re actually logging. A spreadsheet column called “feeding” doesn’t know the difference between an accepted feed, a refused feed, and a regurgitation. It doesn’t know that the previous three entries should be read in the context of an upcoming shed. It doesn’t connect your weight data to a trend chart. It doesn’t remind you that the bearded dragon’s UVB bulb is six months old.

HabitatTracker is built around the specific events that matter in exotic pet care — not a generic notes app that you’ve adapted.

What It Logs

For every animal in your collection, HabitatTracker supports five log types:

Feeding — prey type, prey quantity, and feeding response: accepted, refused, or regurgitated. Every declined offer is as important as every accepted one; the pattern is what’s informative.

Misting — the event, and an optional post-mist humidity level. Useful for any animal where humidity is critical: dart frogs, crested geckos, tropical boas, axolotls.

Shedding — shed stage (in-blue, pre-shed, mid-shed, complete) and shed quality. Tracks the full cycle rather than just the end date.

Weight — charted over time. A trend you can see is far more useful than a number in isolation.

Notes — free-form journal entries, tagged by category: health, behaviour, shedding, feeding, or miscellaneous. This is where you put the observation that doesn’t fit a structured field: “left eye cloudy but not in shed yet,” “particularly active after a misting,” “stool looked abnormal.”

Reminders That Re-Anchor

Every log type can have a reminder schedule — set once, then self-maintaining. When you log a feeding, the next feeding reminder automatically re-anchors to that date. Miss a feeding? The reminder doesn’t stack up or send you five backdated notifications. It adjusts from the most recent log, and carries forward from there.

This is the behaviour that matters in practice. Real animal care is not perfectly regular — animals get sick, life intervenes, schedules shift — and a reminder system that can’t adapt to that quickly becomes noise you learn to ignore.

The AI Care Assistant

HabitatTracker includes an AI care assistant trained on reptile, amphibian and invertebrate husbandry. When you mention an animal by name in a message, the assistant receives that animal’s care history — recent feedings, weight trend, last shed, scheduled events — and uses it to give you a response specific to your animal rather than generic species-level advice.

“Juno hasn’t eaten in four weeks” is a different conversation when the assistant can see that Juno is a four-year-old adult female ball python, currently 1,650g, that has refused food for exactly this duration every autumn for the past two years.

The assistant is for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for veterinary advice. We’ve been clear about this throughout the app because the distinction matters — especially for keepers of unusual species where good exotic vet access in the UK is genuinely limited and it’s tempting to rely on app-based guidance more heavily than is appropriate.

Free tier: 5 prompts per day. Pro: unlimited.

Households

If you share care with a partner, family member, or fellow keeper, HabitatTracker’s household feature keeps everyone’s devices in sync. One collection, multiple contributors. Every log is attributed to whoever created it — “Feeding logged by Daisy, 09:15” — so there’s no ambiguity about whether something was done or who did it.

We built this because we use the app ourselves and were having the exact conversations described in our guide to shared reptile care.

Free Tier and Pro

HabitatTracker is free to download and free to use for up to five animals, with five AI prompts per day. No ads, no tracking, no selling your data.

Pro is £3.99 per month via Google Play. It removes both limits — unlimited animals, unlimited AI prompts — and everything else stays the same. Cancel any time through your Google Play account.

The split is intentional. A keeper with one or two animals should be able to get full value from HabitatTracker without paying anything. A keeper with a larger collection, or one who relies on the AI assistant frequently, gets proportional value from Pro.

What’s Coming

The app is in active development. Things on the roadmap:

• Prey inventory integration with feeding logs — auto-decrement stock when a feeding is logged
• iOS — dependent on Apple Developer licensing, planned but no firm date
• Offline-first sync — the current version requires an active connection; full offline support with sync-on-reconnect is the next major infrastructure investment

Where to Get It

HabitatTracker is free on Google Play.

If you have questions, feedback, or a feature you’d like to see: ashgreggors@gmail.com. We read and respond to everything.