GroundPlot turns your site photos into report-ready figures — numbered stations, camera-facing arrows, site diagrams, and a photo log — right on your phone. No desktop GIS, no formatting hours.
Shoot inside the app and every photo is stamped with live GPS and the compass direction you were facing — even with your camera's location tags off. Built-in calibration corrects a compass that reads wrong near the truck.
Draw arrows, areas, and labels on satellite imagery or your own site plan. Stamp wetlands, weeds, well centres, boreholes, and the rest of the Rec / Phase 1 / Phase 2 symbol library. Measure distances and areas as you go.
One tap prints a titled figure, site diagram, photo log, and per-photo appendix sheets. Export Word documents, CSV, KML, GeoJSON, and shapefiles. UTM coordinates built in.
Each photo becomes a numbered station on the map with an arrow showing where the camera pointed. Same-spot shots group into one clean ring.
Dictate descriptions instead of typing — right in the camera. Annotate photos, draw the site diagram, note weeds and wet areas — all offline if you've downloaded the area.
Save the PDF — cover page, figures, log, photo sheets — or export the Word document your report template is waiting for.
Annual reclamation monitoring lives and dies on repeat photos. Open last year's project, tap a station, hit Retake — the original photo ghosts over your viewfinder while a live guide walks you back: "26 m NW to spot · face 135° SE", turning green when you're standing where you stood.
The new photo links itself to the original, and the report prints them as a labelled ORIGINAL / REPEAT pair on one page — the before-and-after your client actually wants to see. Your walked route records too, so the figure shows exactly what ground you covered.
| Free | Pro | |
|---|---|---|
| Photos, stations & projects | ✓ unlimited | ✓ unlimited |
| Live capture — GPS, compass, lens switch | ✓ | ✓ |
| Repeat-photo retake mode & walked path | ✓ | ✓ |
| Site diagrams, symbol library, measuring | ✓ | ✓ |
| Photo annotation & voice dictation | ✓ | ✓ |
| Offline maps & autosave | ✓ | ✓ |
| PDF printing | watermarked | clean, client-ready |
| Your logo & company on the title block | ✓ with watermark | ✓ clean |
| Cover page with logo & report text | — | ✓ |
| Per-photo appendix sheets · before/after pairs | — | ✓ |
| Word (.docx) export with embedded photos | — | ✓ |
| CSV · KML · GeoJSON · Shapefile · KMZ with photos | — | ✓ |
| 11×17 / A3 figure sheets | — | ✓ |
Open groundplot.ca/app in Chrome → tap Install app when prompted
(or menu ⋮ → Add to home screen).
Open groundplot.ca/app in Safari → Share → Add to Home Screen.
Allow camera and location when asked — that's what stamps your stations. Then tap Offline maps before heading somewhere without service.
Nowhere. GroundPlot has no server and no accounts — photos, projects, and exports are processed and stored entirely on your device. We couldn't see your sites if we wanted to.
Yes. Download your site's satellite tiles before you go, and everything — capture, diagramming, the log, printing — works offline. GPS doesn't need data.
Yes — drop them in and GroundPlot reads the GPS and compass EXIF. If location tags were off, place stations by hand and type or dictate bearings.
Drop in a PDF or image of the plan, calibrate the scale with two clicks, and place stations on it — made for indoor and no-GPS work.
No. Pro is a one-time key, per person. Free stays free.
Only while the camera or the location dot is on, and only onto your own device — the route never leaves your phone. Hide it or delete it with one tap.
Dictation uses your phone's built-in speech service (Google or Apple), the same one your keyboard mic uses. Everything else in GroundPlot stays on-device.
Purchases go through Gumroad — reply to your receipt email and we'll make it right.
It's on the way. The web app is identical, always current, and installs in two taps meanwhile.