Know what you're looking at.
VeldGuide is a field guide, map, drive planner and field journal for Kruger. 941 species, all 12 main camps, gate hours that move with the season, and a day planner that tells you whether the drive fits before the gates close.
Launching soon on iOS and Android.
Built for the park, not the lodge wifi
Everything in VeldGuide is made for the moment you're actually in: bad light, worse signal, and something interesting disappearing around the next bend.
Everything you'll see. And a lot you won't.
941 species with the details that matter at a sighting: size and weight, gestation, diet, habitat, behaviour and the tracks they leave. Where we have a recording, the call plays with a waveform you can scrub. 519 birds, 142 mammals, and the reptiles, insects, fish, frogs and arachnids that fill the gaps in between.
Can't name it? The trait finder narrows the guide by what you noticed — mammal, night, open savanna, eating insects — and works offline. Spotted something we get wrong? Every page takes corrections, and we fix them.
A map that knows the seasons. And the clock.
All 12 main camps, gates with their summer and winter times, picnic spots, hides, waterholes and viewpoints, and every road labelled with its distance. Filter it back to just the thing you care about, or change the basemap.
Travel times come from SANParks' own camp-and-gate table at a game-viewing pace. Leave-by reminders work back from your gate, a countdown shows how long you have, and the weather panel runs the forecast next to sunrise and sunset.
Plan the day, not just the drive.
Eight curated self-drive routes with numbered stops — the Sabie River road, cat country south of Lower Sabie, the H1-4 north from Satara — each reversible when you're coming the other way. Or build your own: add camps and gates, set how long you'll linger, and get distance, driving time, stop time and the total.
Then the sentence that matters: leave by 14:25 to be back before the gates close at 18:00. All of it worked out on the phone, with no signal.
The park's sightings. And your own.
Log what you find with a species, a pin and a photo. Reports are checked before they go public, and approved ones can be shared as a link. Exact rhino locations stay out of circulation. When reports are thin we say so, because even the lions take days off.
Your field journal keeps the trip: every sighting grouped by day, a life list with first-seen dates, a year recap, and the Kruger collections — Big Five, Little Five, Ugly Five, Secret Seven — filling in as you spot them.
Field notes
Practical Kruger guides from the people building the app. New posts land here, and in the RSS feed.
When to go to Kruger
Dry season, green season, crowds and cheap flights: what each month actually gives you.
Big FiveWhere to see lions in Kruger
The central grasslands earn their reputation. Here's how to work them, hour by hour.
BirdingBirding in Kruger: start with one dam
500-plus species is intimidating. One waterhole and a slow hour is all you need to begin.
Launching soon on iOS and Android
VeldGuide is in final preparation for both stores. Want a nudge the day it lands? Email us and we'll ping you first. Bug reports, feature ideas and "you got the springhare gestation period wrong" all welcome at the same address.