Mallards flushing over a fall wetland

The hunting log that finds your patterns.

A smart hunt journal and 50 state rooms, built by hunters who wanted a log that actually learns. Private by default. Your spots stay yours.

Works offline in the field · no ads, no trackers · Add to Home Screen

Patterns by moon phase, from example hunts
Patterns
Hunt list in The Spread, with example hunts
Hunt log
A Duck Tales state room in The Spread
State rooms

About us

Who we are, and what we built.

We're hunters who got tired of notebooks that never added up. The Spread is the app we wanted: log every hunt, see what actually works, and talk with people who hunt where you do.

A smart hunt log

Every hunt is lined up against the moon, the weather, the temperature and the time of day, so you know when to go.

50 state chat rooms

Duck Tales gives every state its own room. Post what's flying, share a photo, and talk hunting with people nearby.

Friends and sharing

Your log is private until you share it. Exact GPS only goes to a friend if you choose to include it.

From the field

Hunting scenes and the animals that bring us out.

A white-tailed deer buck in velvet
Whitetail buck
A wild turkey in strut
Wild turkey
Ring-necked pheasant roosters in tall grass
Ring-necked pheasants
A bull elk bugling
Bull elk
Mallard decoys on the water at first light, with hunters on the far bank
Decoys on the water at first light

The hunt log

Every hunt you log makes the next one smarter.

Weather fills itself in from where you're hunting. Wind, pressure, sky, temperature and moon phase get saved with every hunt. Then Patterns shows what's actually working:

  • Moon phase: full moon vs. new moon, hunt by hunt
  • Weather: wind direction and speed, pressure rising or falling, clouds and rain
  • Temperature: from below freezing to warm days
  • Time of day: dawn, morning, midday, afternoon, evening

7-day Outlook rates the coming week against your own history, and Find my best spot matches today's wind and temperature to the spots that produced.

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Patterns grouped by moon phase: hunts, birds taken per hunt and success rate for each phase
The hunt log: each hunt with spot, birds taken, wind, temperature, pressure trend, moon and time of day

Statistics & probability

See what actually worked, and what the week ahead looks like.

Patterns, Best Spot and Outlook all come from your own hunt log — the conditions you hunted in, and how those hunts went. Nothing here is a guess from someone else's season.

Patterns grouped by moon phase, with hunts, birds taken per hunt and success rate for each phase
Patterns · Moon phase
Patterns grouped by wind direction, highlighting which winds produced more birds
Patterns · Wind
Patterns grouped by temperature band, with success rate and birds taken per hunt
Patterns · Temperature
Patterns grouped by time of day, comparing dawn, morning and afternoon hunts
Patterns · Time of day
Find my best spot: a success probability and a ranked list of spots for today's wind and temperature
Best Spot
7-day Outlook scoring each part of the coming days against past hunts
Outlook · Probability score

How it works

  1. You log the hunt

    Weather, wind, temperature and pressure fill in from the conditions at that time and place — you can edit any of them. Moon phase and time of day come from the date and time you logged.

  2. Patterns groups your results

    Pick a condition — moon phase, wind, temperature, time of day, and others. The app adds up your hunts in each bucket and shows how many you logged, birds taken per hunt, and how often you marked the hunt Successful. It calls out the best and toughest buckets.

  3. Best Spot matches today to similar hunts

    Enter today's wind and temperature. The app finds past hunts with similar conditions: the same or neighboring wind direction, wind speed within 4 mph, and temperature within 6°. It reports a success probability from those similar hunts, then ranks your spots by success rate, then birds per hunt.

  4. Outlook scores the week ahead

    Once you have at least 5 hunts, at least 2 marked Successful, and weather on at least 3, Outlook pulls the 7-day forecast. For dawn through evening each day, it scores the forecast against your history. For each condition — wind direction and speed, pressure trend, moon, time of day, temperature and sky — it compares your success rate and birds taken per hunt in that condition with your overall numbers, and gives less weight to conditions you've only hunted a few times. 50 is an average day for you; higher is better. Ratings are Great, Good, Fair or Poor. Slow days count too: they teach it what to avoid.

You can optionally include hunts friends have shared with you in Patterns, Best Spot and Outlook. Those hunts group by the area the friend named, not your spots, and no GPS pins are used.

A hunter and a retriever in silhouette at sunset, setting decoys
Setting decoys at last light

Duck Tales

50 state rooms. Talk hunting with people who hunt where you do.

Every state has its own Duck Tales room. Post what's flying, share a photo, and cheer on a good morning. You can also message your friends directly.

Room posts show the area, never your spot.

A Duck Tales room with a shared hunt card that shows the area, not the spot
A Duck Tales state room

Friends and sharing

Private by default. You decide what leaves your phone.

Yours until you share

A hunt only leaves your phone when you tap Share: to a room, or just to a friend.

Exact GPS is a choice

A pin only goes to a friend when you turn on Include exact location. Rooms never get it.

Take it back anytime

Stop sharing or delete a post whenever you like. Your call, every time.

A yellow Labrador retriever swimming with a duck
A retriever at work
A flock of mallards working a wetland
Mallards working a wetland

Price

The Spread is free.

Every feature is included, for now. No account upgrade, no paid tier, and nothing to buy in the app.

Plans

Pick the log that fits how you hunt.

Pricing coming soon · these are draft plans, not for sale yet

Nothing is wired up to take payment, and nothing on your account will change. This is a first look at how plans may work.

Free

$0 to start

  • Basic log book for one animal category
  • Your own state's Duck Tales room
  • No stats or probability

Coming soon

Smart Log

$34.99 / year

  • All animal categories
  • Stats and probability (Patterns, Outlook, best spot)
  • Your own state's Duck Tales room

Coming soon

Updates

What's new, and what's coming.

What's new

  1. v2.7.17 You can delete your account in Settings → Account. Hunt backup is on by default for signed-in accounts, and you can turn it off any time in Settings → Your data.
  2. v2.7.16 New app icon.
  3. v2.7.12 New users opening the app see a short photo carousel, then can get started.
  4. v2.7.11 Sign in from this website, and optionally back up your hunts to your account so they can follow you to a new phone or browser. The backup is off until you turn it on, and only you can see it.
  5. v2.7.10 New visitors to usethespread.com land on this home page first. Camo theme, hunting photos, and a short welcome in the app.
  6. v2.7.3 A website for The Spread, with a welcome page you can share.
  7. v2.7.2 Friends page fixes — Accept, Message and the other buttons work again — and the app stays signed in more reliably when you reopen it.
  8. v2.7.0 Photos in hunt field notes, and you can share them with a friend.
  9. v2.6.2 Shared hunts now count in Statistics.
  10. v2.6.0 About me builder: a hunter profile you control.
  11. v2.5 Duck Tales news feed.

What's coming

  • More to come.

Our privacy promise

📍 Your spots stay yours

No spot names or GPS are shared unless you choose to. Room posts never include your exact location. A pin only goes to a friend when you turn on Include exact location.

📱 Your log lives on your phone

Hunts are saved on your device and work offline. Nothing gets uploaded until you tap Share, or turn on Back up my hunts to my account: a private copy only you can see, exact GPS included, never shown to anyone else.

🙅 No trackers, no ads

No ad networks, no analytics, no selling your data. This page doesn't load a single third-party script until you choose to sign in.

✋ Your call

Share with one friend, a whole state room, or nobody. You can stop sharing or delete a post whenever you like.

How to add to Home Screen

The Spread is a web app: no app store needed. Install it once and it opens like any other app, even with one bar of signal.

📱 iPhone

  1. Open the app in Safari.
  2. Tap the Share button at the bottom.
  3. Scroll down, tap Add to Home Screen, then Add.
  4. Open The Spread from your Home Screen and sign in there. It keeps its own login, separate from Safari.

🤖 Android

  1. Open the app in Chrome.
  2. Tap the ⋮ menu at the top right.
  3. Tap Install app (or Add to Home screen), then Install.
  4. Open The Spread from your Home Screen or app drawer.

Photo credits

Photos on this page

Wildlife and hunt photos are from U.S. government sources, used under the public domain unless noted. No private spots or GPS are shown.