Read the country, hunt the right hour, and build a logbook that makes you sharper every season. Here’s how every part of the app works — the same guide that lives inside it.
The home screen turns today’s weather and the sun and moon into one honest number — and shows you the hours behind it.
Terra-Stalk reads the country and the day’s conditions to tell you where and when to hunt — then remembers what happened so it sharpens for you over time. Everything works offline, and your hunts, spots and photos never leave the phone.
Every day gets a score out of ten for your active spot and species. Inside the forecast window it is the weather that actually moves animals — wind, the temperature swing, where the barometer sits and which way the front is going, rain, cloud and humidity — weighted by what the species you’re chasing responds to, with the solunar feeding times added on top; further out, the moon table stands alone.
Today is rated on the hours that remain, so the evening dial describes the evening. A high day is worth the early start; a poor one tells you to save your legs.
The dial on the home screen is a 24-hour clock read from the top. It shades the legal-light and prime windows, marks sunrise, sunset and the moon, and shows the day’s wind — direction and strength — right on the ring, alongside the spot’s own preferred wind arc, so a glance tells you whether today’s wind suits it.
One look tells you when first and last light fall and where the good hours sit — tap the pieces to dig in. The evening window runs from an hour before sunset to five minutes before last light, so an evening rating is about light you can still shoot in.
The sun and moon drive major and minor feeding windows — the times animals are most likely on their feet. Terra-Stalk marks them on the clock and folds them into the day’s score, so you can time a sit or a stalk to when movement is likely, not just to daylight.
Wind is the whole game. Set the directions a spot actually hunts on — its huntable arc — and the app flags the days that suit it and warns when the wind is wrong.
On top of the forecast it models thermals: air drains downhill in the cool and lifts as the day warms, which is what really carries your scent in steep country.
Tap through from the score to the forecast graphs — temperature, wind, barometer, humidity and rain across the days ahead.
They aren’t raw weather: each chart lights up with tuned, species-aware reads only when the day actually crosses the line that matters — frost and scent-drains on the temperature, thermals-rule and a prime-stalking window on the wind, scent-carries and dry-and-noisy on the humidity, a pre-front feeding window as the barometer falls and the post-front recovery as it climbs back through the prime band. It’s the difference between a number and knowing what it means for the hunt.
Sambar, red, fallow, chital, pig, goat, tahr, chamois and more each behave differently — when they rut, how they handle heat, whether they wallow.
Pick your species and the rating, the wallow logic and the tips all shift to match. Change it any time and the day re-scores.
Topo, cover and aerial for all of Australia and New Zealand, a deep stack of terrain and animal overlays, room for your own maps — and what a route will cost you to walk.
Terra-Stalk covers all of Australia and New Zealand — Victoria included. TopoElite shows the roads, tracks and walking trails right across AU and NZ, all offline, so you navigate in to the spot and back out to the truck on the one app.
Cover+ shades the thick stuff that flags likely bedding, over live contour lines, and every bit of it downloads for full offline use. Aerial imagery streams anywhere you have signal for scouting new country from home; in the states that allow it, the aerial downloads for offline too. Grab the ground around a spot in Map Management before you lose signal.
Tap Layers for a stack of overlays you switch on and off. Read the ground — terrain shadows across the faces, line of sight from your spot, thermals (uphill by day, downhill in the cool), drainage gullies and slope steepness. Read the animals — Find the game for where they are bedded, crossings for where they cross a ridge, and feed/browse gullies where soft feed and cover sit, each a tap for the tactic. Plan the approach — your live scent cone and the safe downwind side, sun direction, bedding rings around feed, and a freehand sketch pad to draw your own plan.
Wind setups draws the huntable-wind arcs you set on each spot around its icon, so you can see at a glance which spots have one and which still need it. Burn age shades the fire scars of the last six seasons on huntable land by regrowth stage: magenta is one to three seasons old, the browse-height regrowth deer feed hardest on; yellow is this season, violet is thickening. Plus the public-land layers: VIC hunting areas, NSW State Forests, NZ DOC land, national parks and seasonal closures, so a glance shows where a permit lets you hunt.
Import your own georeferenced maps (GeoTIFF) — a scanned paper map, or a tenure or parcel map from a state portal like MapShareVic — and each lays over the country as a layer you can toggle, stored on your phone.
Have raw imagery or a scan that isn’t georeferenced yet? Terra-MapForge on Windows pins it to the real world and exports a Terra-ready GeoTIFF you send straight into Terra-Stalk. Find it in the menu under My maps.
Tap the ruler to measure distance across the map — a stalk route, how far off a face is, the size of a block.
In the field the same tool measures from your live GPS position, so you can range a spur or a clearing from right where you’re standing. Chain points into a route and Route Effort prices it as you draw — next topic.
Draw a route and it gets priced, not just measured: the climb, an honest walking time, and what it costs to carry an animal back out. Every route reads as a ratio to one reference walk you nominate, the loaded carry-out is always shown — with a plain warning when recovery may not be one trip — and a leave-by clock counts back from last light, running live in Stalk Mode against your parked car.
Flag scrub or boggy ground on a boundary and routes through it slow down; record real walks and it calibrates to your pace — it knows a drive isn’t a walk. Saved tracks show their climb as a colour-graded elevation profile. Times round up, never down, and it all works offline. Set your weight, load and reference walk under Settings › Route effort.
On the ground: your live position and scent, a read on where they’re bedded, and the wallows worth a sit.
When you’re hunting, Stalk Mode puts your live position on the map and draws your scent cone downwind, so you can see what is about to smell you before it does. It records your track in the background — screen off, in your pocket — so you can retrace the stalk and mark where things happened.
Take a shot and Stalk Mode becomes a recovery tool. Long-press Mark to start a Find: it pins where you fired and the exact spot the animal was standing, then counts down the live distance to that hit in the compass bar as you walk in.
Getting to the precise spot — not roughly where you think it was — is half the recovery. Both points save as marks.
Mark where deer step out of the bush to feed and Find the game works backwards from it — reading the terrain and the conditions for the day on the dial to show the benches, spurs and gully heads they are likely bedded on, and the cheapest routes back down to that feed.
A focus aid for glassing and the approach, not a claim a deer is there. Switch it on in the map overlays.
For wallowing species, wallows fire after rain and go quiet as they dry. Star the wallows you want watched and the app reads recent rain against your tuning for each one, flagging which are freshly re-marked and worth a sit.
Note whether a wallow is rain-fed (dries out) or spring-fed (holds water, can produce in summer heat) so it reads them right.
Point the truck at the right spot, keep your field intel in one place, tell someone where you’ll be — and learn from every hunt.
Best Spot Tomorrow ranks your favourite spots by tomorrow’s conditions for your species, so you know where to point the truck. Best Weekends ranks the coming weekends the same way — species, weather and your own model, for every weekend the forecast reaches; beyond that it falls back to the moon and says so.
Drop a waypoint for an exact clue — a rub, a scrape, a fresh wallow, a bed — as a visual mark, or use Photo Mark to drop one at your GPS with a photo attached in a single tap. Save a hunt area for the broader ground you hunt: that is what feeds the daily rating, the insights and Best Spot. A mark can be promoted to a hunt area later; nothing you record is thrown away.
A trail camera is a hunt area type of its own — pick Trail Camera when you save the spot — and what you log at it feeds the camera cards in Insights. Pin colours on the map: red with a white halo is the hunt area the predictor is set to, orange is any other hunt area, purple is a trail camera, teal is a wallow, blue is water and grey is parking.
A one-page plan a non-hunter can act on — where you’ll be, when to start worrying, and exactly who to ring — sent in one tap before you leave signal.
Mark the car when you park and get a nudge if you run overdue. It is a way to share your plan, not a rescue service: the app can never call for help on your behalf, so still carry a PLB.
Log your hunts — what you saw, the conditions, the result — and Insights answers the questions hunters actually argue about, from your own record: does a falling barometer move your deer? which wind produces, and which spot backs it up? It finds the patterns that work for you, not the textbook — and with the “+ User” model chosen in Settings, the more you log, the more the ratings lean your way.
Log trail-camera visits and the camera view asks its own questions: are they on the camera in shooting light, is it a stag camera or a hind camera, does your hunting push them off it, what the moon does at night, feeding or travelling, and whether the rut is on where you hunt.
Offline, on your phone, and private by design.
Everything lives on this phone and works with no signal — which is exactly where you hunt. Nothing is uploaded. Photos are stripped of their hidden GPS on the way in and out, and a shared map file can be fuzzed by a kilometre or two so a spot never leaks.
Share a single track, mark or area straight from its row in Map items, or export the lot as GPX or KMZ. Back up everything any time and restore it on a new phone.
