My Finds
A new iPhone app for tracking detecting sessions, recording finds, and overlaying historic UK maps — privately, in the field.
Designed by a detectorist, for detectorists.
Start your session
Track your path
Record your finds
What you can do with My Finds
Track your detecting path in real time, with detector sweep width
Overlay historic UK maps (1888–1913 and 1937–1961)
View footpaths and scheduled historic sites without leaving the app
Pin every find to a GPS location with photos, depth, and metadata
Capture UK grid references for Portable Antiquities Scheme submissions
Keep track of every permission — landowners and clubs, with contact details, dates and conditions — and draw the fields you're allowed to search, with a gentle warning as you near the edge
See protected no-dig ground on the map — Scheduled Monuments and SSSI, SAC, SPA and Ramsar designations — with a warning before you start a session on protected land
Share a tidy PDF report with the landowner — a map, your finds and photos — by Messages, WhatsApp, email or AirDrop
Turn your finds into charts, and build your own filtered queries by date, metal, period, site and more
Reconstruct pre-app sessions by importing GPS-tagged photos from your camera roll
Choose from a deep category system — coins, buttons, buckles, brooches, military, household, horse tack, prehistoric, and more
Stay private — no account, no servers, all data stays on your device
Map your permissions
Avoid protected ground
Report to the landowner
What Detectorists Are Saying
“My Finds is now part of my dig routine, firing it up directly after the detector. It's an incredibly easy-to-use yet powerful tool in the field.” — Alan Sargeant, Oxford
“The ability to overlay historic maps in the field is an excellent tool.” — Dan Fox, Bristol
“The features you are including are quite simply exceptional and something I never expected in such an app.” — Eric Walker
Overlay historic maps
Categorise your finds
Review your sessions
Pricing and availability
My Finds is free to download. The free version supports unlimited sessions and up to 20 finds. A Pro subscription unlocks unlimited finds, keeps the historic-map overlay, and adds Custom Queries in Insights — £1.99 per month or £12.99 per year, with a 30-day free trial on the annual plan. All detecting data stays accessible whether you subscribe or not.
About the developer
Hugo Heriz-Smith has been metal detecting in the UK since 2019. He built My Finds because no existing tool fit how he actually worked in the field. For stories about his own finds — Roman brooches, hammered coins, a Gloucestershire police helmet plate — see Hugo Digs.
Press inquiries:
Contact Hugo Heriz-Smith.
