Reptile Care: Feeding Log — A husbandry diary that knows each species' own clock

A reptile tracker needs to handle more than one feeding schedule at once, because a juvenile and an adult of the same species genuinely eat on different clocks. Reptile Care: Feeding Log does this with a feeding queue ranked by species and life stage, seven separate log types covering feeding through photos, a 29-species care guide, and reading-drift alerts for temperature and humidity. It's free on Android, with iOS coming.

It depends entirely on species and life stage, which is the most common mistake in flat feeding schedules. Juvenile reptiles of most species feed more often than adults of the same species because more of what they eat goes into growth, and a bearded dragon's schedule tells you nothing about a ball python's. Reptile Care's feeding queue sets each animal's next-due date from its own species and life stage rather than one shared interval.

A single skipped meal is common and usually not a sign of a problem on its own — stress from a recent move, a coming shed, or seasonal brumation can all explain it. What's actually worth acting on is a run of refusals, especially alongside weight loss, which is a pattern that only becomes visible if both are logged over the same stretch of time. Reptile Care flags repeated refusals paired with weight loss with a prompt to see an exotic vet.

Brumation is a seasonal slowdown in activity and appetite that many temperate reptile species go through during cooler months — it's a normal response, not illness. Feeding typically needs to pause and resume on a different schedule during that window. Reptile Care's brumation record pauses feeding reminders and switches to a weekly weight check, without telling you when or how to brumate your own animal.

It depends on the species: most reptiles need a thermal gradient, with a warmer basking side and a cooler side to move between, plus species-specific humidity and UVB needs. Reptile Care's 29-species guide lists basking and cool-side temperatures, humidity and UVB for each covered species, and compares your own logged readings against that reference range — labelling them in range, marginal or out of range, with a run of readings in one direction flagged as drift.

Yes. Up to two animals, the full species guide, all seven log types, schedules and reminders, charts and history, and a small number of AI care plans are free, and the free version shows ads. Pro adds unlimited animals, unlimited AI care plans and reading explanations, and more species questions per day, with no ads.

Not yet. Reptile Care: Feeding Log is live on Google Play now; the iOS app is built and the App Store listing exists, but it has not launched there yet. The Android app already covers the full feeding log, species guide and AI care plan.

It generates a care plan tuned to one animal's species and life stage, covering things like temperature, feeding and supplement guidance. It runs only after you consent, and only the species, life stage and a short summary of recent logs are sent to an AI provider through the app's own server — never a photo or the animal's name. Health or symptom questions are refused by the AI and pointed to a vet instead.

No, and it says so directly: Reptile Care is a husbandry record, not veterinary advice, and it does not diagnose, treat or dose anything. No number in the app guarantees that a temperature, humidity level, UVB setup, prey size or supplement schedule is safe for a specific animal. For any sign of illness or injury, or before changing supplements, the app points you to a qualified reptile vet.

No. You can start as a guest with no sign-up, and photos stay on your device. Creating an account later is optional and mainly useful for keeping your collection when you move to a new phone, rather than something required to begin logging.