My Finds: Metal Detecting

Hugo Heriz-Smith · Lifestyle

5.0 1 ratings Free

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What changed · US

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Aug 26, 2026
New version 1.6.0 → 1.7.1

Category and Subcategory are now two separate rows, each with its own picker, and a tap in either applies straight away — there’s no Save to remember. Subcategories used to be reachable only by going through “Change Category”, so most people never found them; now they sit alongside Denomination and Ruler as the optional field they are. Two new land types for a session: Cultivated and Failed crop. Worked-to-seedbed ground and a failed crop are their own thing, not quite ploughed and not quite stubble, and they sit next to those in the picker. Thanks to Bob Hughes for the request. Prepared sessions can be edited — tap the pencil on a plan to change any of its details. Saving updates the plan in place, so it keeps its spot in the queue. Counts throughout the app now read correctly whether there’s one of something or several — no more “1 finds”. Fixed: exported GPX files now match the GPX 1.1 schema exactly. Google Earth always accepted them; stricter mapping software may not have. The Denomination and Ruler pickers now show which region’s list you’re looking at, with its flag, and explain that it follows the session — not the region in Settings. If a session picked up the wrong country, you can set it right on the session’s Region row. Fixed: a stray GPS reading arriving out of order at the end of a session could be recorded as the final point of your track, putting a short backwards step into exported files. Delete All Data and the Replace option when restoring a backup now refuse while a session is recording, and say why. Adding a backup to your existing data is unaffected. New: import your finds from Tect O Trak — including photos. Tect O Trak has gone from the App Store, leaving its users no way to move on with their history; My Finds now reads the app’s CSV export and Images folder (zip the folder and pick the zip under Settings → Backup & Restore → Import from Another App). Grid references become map locations, finds are grouped into one session per day, and every photo comes across with its find. Fixed: typing a grid reference to place a find by hand put the pin up to a mile north or south of the spot the reference names. Grid references you type now land within a metre or two. (Locations recorded from GPS were never affected — this only touched manually-typed references.) Fixed: after Delete All Data, going back to the Sessions tab could quit the app if a session’s detail screen had been open before the delete.

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Which metal detecting app is right for you? It’s this one. Here’s why: I created My Finds because I couldn’t find an existing app to do what I wanted, the way I wanted, both in the field and afterwards. So I developed my own, invited a slew of other detectorists to beta test it, and have been tweaking and improving it constantly ever since. It works beautifully, looks good, and is getting better with every version. TRACK YOUR SESSIONS Tap a button to start and My Finds records your path. Auto-end after inactivity, pause and resume cleanly when you stop for lunch. LOG YOUR FINDS Tap to log a find at its location, and optionally note its category, subcategory, denomination, ruler, type, year, depth, metal type, VDI, and a free-text description. Curated suggestion lists for British and US coinage. Finds can be added later if you miss any while out. Finds are shown on the map with colour-coded pins to represent different categories. ADD & SHARE PHOTOS Take photos in the field. Pinch to zoom on a photo to read hallmarks and legends. If you have photos from previous sessions you want to include, select them in the Photos app, tap Share, and bring them straight into My Finds. You can also share images by tapping the share button on individual photos. RETRACE YOUR STEPS The Map tab layers previous sessions’ paths, so you can see the ground you’ve already covered, and the ground you have not. Replay any session and watch the path rebuild as the finds appear. HISTORIC MAPS AND LiDAR Overlay historic Ordnance Survey maps to research old boundaries, trackways, and lost buildings, or switch on the UK public rights-of-way layer. The LiDAR Terrain overlay reveals ridge and furrow, and other faint earthworks that satellite imagery can’t show (England and much of Wales). PERMISSIONS AND PROTECTED GROUND Keep a record of landowners: contact details, permission dates, conditions, and a copy of your agreement. Draw the boundaries of your permissions and get a gentle warning as you approach the edge. The Protected Areas overlay shows scheduled monuments in England, Wales and Scotland, plus SSSIs and other protected ground in England, with a warning if you try to start a session on one. SHARE A SESSION REPORT Turn any session into a PDF for the landowner: a map with find pins, a photo and details of each find. It's your choice of what info to include. SEE YOUR PROGRESS The Insights dashboard turns your finds into charts, including totals over time, top sites, metals, periods, and personal records. Pro adds custom filtered queries by date, category, metal, depth, ruler, year and more. SAFE-KEEPING AND MOVABILITY Deleted a find by mistake? Restore it within 30 days. Restore or migrate your My Finds database (finds, sessions, photos, settings) by backing it up to a single file you can restore on a new phone or merge into an existing collection. Want to move from a different app? My Finds supports importing your finds from FindSpot, GoTerrain, and Digly, or from any app that exports GPX or Google Earth KML files. UK FEATURES My Finds creates OS grid references for each find, and you can link finds to their PAS database records. REGION-AWARE Sessions auto-detect the country, with a manual override, and travelling detectorists can add the US category set alongside the UK one. PRIVACY No account needed. No ads. No behavioural tracking. Anonymous crash reports help improve the app. PRICING Free to try without a subscription for your first 20 finds — map overlays included. Pro removes the find limit, adds Custom Queries in Insights, and keeps the historic-maps and LiDAR Terrain overlays past 20 finds. Monthly or annual subscriptions available, with a 30-day free trial period on the annual plan. Your data stays accessible whether you have an active subscription or not — you can always view, export, and edit your existing finds. Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

What's new · 1.7.1

Category and Subcategory are now two separate rows, each with its own picker, and a tap in either applies straight away — there’s no Save to remember. Subcategories used to be reachable only by going through “Change Category”, so most people never found them; now they sit alongside Denomination and Ruler as the optional field they are. Two new land types for a session: Cultivated and Failed crop. Worked-to-seedbed ground and a failed crop are their own thing, not quite ploughed and not quite stubble, and they sit next to those in the picker. Thanks to Bob Hughes for the request. Prepared sessions can be edited — tap the pencil on a plan to change any of its details. Saving updates the plan in place, so it keeps its spot in the queue. Counts throughout the app now read correctly whether there’s one of something or several — no more “1 finds”. Fixed: exported GPX files now match the GPX 1.1 schema exactly. Google Earth always accepted them; stricter mapping software may not have. The Denomination and Ruler pickers now show which region’s list you’re looking at, with its flag, and explain that it follows the session — not the region in Settings. If a session picked up the wrong country, you can set it right on the session’s Region row. Fixed: a stray GPS reading arriving out of order at the end of a session could be recorded as the final point of your track, putting a short backwards step into exported files. Delete All Data and the Replace option when restoring a backup now refuse while a session is recording, and say why. Adding a backup to your existing data is unaffected. New: import your finds from Tect O Trak — including photos. Tect O Trak has gone from the App Store, leaving its users no way to move on with their history; My Finds now reads the app’s CSV export and Images folder (zip the folder and pick the zip under Settings → Backup & Restore → Import from Another App). Grid references become map locations, finds are grouped into one session per day, and every photo comes across with its find. Fixed: typing a grid reference to place a find by hand put the pin up to a mile north or south of the spot the reference names. Grid references you type now land within a metre or two. (Locations recorded from GPS were never affected — this only touched manually-typed references.) Fixed: after Delete All Data, going back to the Sessions tab could quit the app if a session’s detail screen had been open before the delete.

Details

ReleasedMar 2026
UpdatedJul 2026
Version1.7.1
Size25.2 MB
RequiresiOS 26.0 or later
Age rating4+
LanguagesDutch, English
PriceFree
Categories LifestyleReference
Bundle IDcom.HerizSmith.MetalDetectingTrackerApp.MetalDetectingTracker