dobudex
A Pokédex for real animals*
Scan animals and turn them into unique collectible pixel-art creatures, each with its own stats, rarity, and a place in your Dex.
Free to try on iPhone and Android.
Three steps to your first catch
No field guide needed — if you can photograph it, you can catch it.
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Scan
Spot an animal and frame it in the scanner. The duck at the pond counts. So does your dog.
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Identify
dobudex works out the species and draws the card: pixel-art sprite, stats, trait, rarity.
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Collect
The card lands in your Dex — and the real game starts: filling it.
Every catch becomes a card
This is the prairie dog from the three steps above, as its card: the species, six stats tuned to how the animal actually lives, a signature trait, a true biology fact — and the finder’s name.
Common as they come — and it still gets the full treatment. Go on, give it a spin.
How rare is your catch?
Each tier has its own frame. Rarity can change as the community’s collections grow.
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Common
The pigeons. The gulls. Your cat.
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Uncommon
A proper look around usually pays off.
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Rare
Now you’re bragging.
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Epic
Nobody believes you without the card.
Legendary
And one tier above that
Legendary has a frame of its own. The animal inside is yours to discover.
Curious how it compares to Seek or Pokémon GO — or what else is printed on a card? The real-life Pokédex page tells the whole story, we’ve compared every real-life Pokédex app we could find, and here’s what ten days of real scans turn into.
Come along for a day at the zoo with dobudex, with original animal footage and the cards made from our saved scans.
Your Dex starts outside your door
Grab the app — your first catches are on us.
Free to try on iPhone and Android
On a laptop? Aim your phone camera at this.