The view from a hunting stand at dusk. A knee and a rubber boot in the bottom corner, and a rifle leaning against a weathered wooden post on the right. Ahead lies a yellowed bog, and beyond it a forested ridge under an overcast sky.

Tools for the hunt.
Not a platform.

We build small apps that do one thing well, work without a signal, and collect nothing about you. The first one is called Älglock.

Coming toApp Store

Coming toGoogle Play

Älglock's home screen. Below the title are six choices: bring in a bull, call a cow, sweep the area, a bull answers but will not come, the moose is close, and manual mode which opens the sound library.

Guided mode

You pick the situation.
The app suggests the next step.

Instead of searching a library, you describe what is happening. The app takes you through calls, waiting times and choices, one step at a time, with touch targets that work in gloves.

Read about Älglock

The sound library in manual mode, with the calls grouped by animal and tagged by intensity, length and range.

The first step of the scenario for bringing in a bull. A card describes the step; below it sits the call Cow · contact, soft with its waveform, duration and a large play button, plus volume and a choice between playing once or repeating.

No signal is not an error state.

The app is built for the absence of a connection, not merely to survive it.

A narrow forest track with a strip of grass down the middle, lit by low morning sun from the right. Birch and spruce on both sides and yellowing leaves, early autumn. — The last place
with a signal.
After that, everything the app needs is already on the phone.

Manual mode

Calls that are tagged,
not merely named.

Anyone who knows what they are after goes straight into the library. Every sound belongs to an animal and carries tags for intensity, length and range, so you find the right one without listening through everything.

Cow: Contact and rut
Bull: Grunts and answers
Calf: Contact calls
Other: Movement and surroundings

Intensity

low · medium · intense

Length

short · long

Range

close · long range

Purpose

contact · search · rut · unease

Cow · contact

The sound library

10 calls and 66 recordings. Each call exists in several variants, so the same situation never sounds quite the same twice.

See the whole library

Cow · contact

0:06

Cow – contact, soft

0:02

0:06

Soft

Medium range

Contact

The only sound documented in the brief. The library is still being built.

Specification

Everything sits on the phone.
Nothing leaves it.

This is not a stance but a construction. The app makes no outbound calls, which is the same thing as saying it works as well out on the bog as at the kitchen table.

Read the privacy policy

Specification

Älglock

Platforms: iOS and Android
Language: Swedish
Network calls: None
Data collection: None
Permissions: None. Not the microphone either
Account: No
In-app purchases: No
Price: €8.99
Google Play: As soon as possible
App Store: Not decided

A one-time purchase, VAT included. The store shows the price in your own currency, and that price is the one that counts.

Two grey elkhounds standing close against the wire of a kennel panel. One rests its muzzle in an outstretched hand reaching in between the bars.

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Tools for the hunt.Not a platform.

You pick the situation.The app suggests the next step.