Know what you're looking at.
Descry is an iPhone app for naming the landscape around you. Stand at a viewpoint, hold up your phone, and it overlays geographic labels along the horizon: which peak is which, where the pass is, how far away that ridge really sits. Take a photo, and the labels come with it.
It's early. If the compass is a little off, drag the labels into place with one finger. Automatic alignment to the real skyline is next.
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Point your phone at the view
Labels for peaks, passes, and ridges sit right on the live camera image, each with its distance, so you can tell the far summit from the near shoulder.
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Take the view home
Save a full-resolution photo with the labels drawn in, tagged with where you stood and which way you faced, ready to share or to look back on.
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Only what you can actually see
Descry computes the skyline from exactly where you stand. Mountains hidden behind a nearer ridge stay hidden, or show dimmed if you want to know what's back there.
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Works past the last bar of signal
Geography for your area downloads ahead of time. Everything after that runs on your phone, from the trailhead to the top.
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Fog, dusk, or no view at all
The panorama draws the full 360° horizon around you from the terrain alone, so you can learn the lay of the land before the clouds lift.
Lit up where the mountains draw a crowd.
The whole planet is the goal. For now, Descry builds geography region by region: the mountain places people visit most, and wherever our testers ask for. Everything lit up below is ready to download today.
Don't see your mountains? Tell us where you go, and we'll light them up.
Test Descry where you explore.
Descry grows wherever its testers go. We're looking for TestFlight testers in ranges, canyons, and coastlines we haven't mapped yet, and we want them spread all over the world.
Tell us where you'd use it. We'll build geography for your area and send you an invite. You'll need an iPhone running iOS 17 or later.