Yes, and there is no sign-up. You pick a username and start. The only thing that costs money is an optional pack of printed cards.

Does it know it is the same cat?

It compares your photo with the cats already found near you. If it gets one wrong, tap "Not this cat?" and a person looks before anything moves on the map.

Is it fair on the cats?

The map shows the area a cat lives in, not a doorstep, and only people who have found a cat see exactly where they met it. Anybody can ask for a cat to come off the map, and it does.

An app for the street cats you keep meeting

Chonk Finder is a free app for iPhone and Android that keeps the street cats you meet. Photograph a cat and it becomes a card with a name, a place and a date, on a map you can come back to, and when three other people find the same cat it becomes a Chonk. No sign-up, and it works with no signal.

Free on iPhone and Android. No sign-up.

You meet a cat on the way to somewhere else. You stop, you take a photo, you carry on, and by the weekend the photo is one of four thousand and the cat is a vague memory of a ginger one near the bakery.

The same thing happens to everyone on your street, separately. Six people know the same cat under six names, and none of them knows that the others do. Nobody knows that it has not been seen for a fortnight.

A trading card for Max, a ragdoll who is king of his street

Every cat you meet becomes a card

Photograph it and you get a trading card back with its name, a Chonk Level, where and when you met it, and some silly attacks. The card is yours, and it is the same cat next time.

A live map of the cats nearby, with pins that fill as more people find each one

The cats near you are on a map

Open the app and the cats other people have found around you are already there. A pin fills as more people find that cat, so you can see which ones your neighbours know and which nobody has met yet.

A collection of cat cards, one for every cat found

Your collection is the walk, kept

Every cat you have found, in one place, with the date. A year later the trip to Istanbul is still there, cat by cat, which no camera roll has ever managed.

The three questions that stop people

Is it free?: Yes, and there is no sign-up. You pick a username and start. The only thing that costs money is an optional pack of printed cards.
Does it know it is the same cat?: It compares your photo with the cats already found near you. If it gets one wrong, tap "Not this cat?" and a person looks before anything moves on the map.
Is it fair on the cats?: The map shows the area a cat lives in, not a doorstep, and only people who have found a cat see exactly where they met it. Anybody can ask for a cat to come off the map, and it does.

There is probably a cat outside right now.

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