AppLink Apps
GCBuddy - geocaching
GCBuddy is a comprehensive tool for serious geocachers solving multi-caches. This application allows users to record found values for A...Z and automatically calculates new waypoint coordinates using these values. The final cache coordinates are also calculated once all required puzzles are solved and entered. In addition, users can record the location of their parked vehicle to easily find it after caching.
Features of GCBuddy include the ability to manage multiple caches in a downloaded cache list, download caches from various Geocaching websites, and prepare multi-caches at home or on a PC/Mac using a web interface. The application also supports paperless caching by downloading all images in the cache description.
Users can navigate to the parking place and enter answers to questions at each waypoint, with the option of performing common text calculations such as word values, stack counting, and conversion of roman numbers. The application displays the effect of changing an answer value on a map with waypoints. Waypoints and the location of the final cache are automatically calculated using the recorded values.
Other features include a built-in compass/map for navigation, an overview map with all waypoints, warning signals when near a waypoint, the ability to record data at waypoints with a camera, and an album for each cache where pictures can be viewed in an ultra zoom photo viewer. Users can enter notes before or during the cache, log directly on geocaching.com after finding the cache, and find their way back to the car park.
Additional features include the ability to send cache information via email for backup or to share with a friend, write cache information in a personal cache note with one click, restore a cache from a backup email, protect a cache against changes, and backup/restore via iCloud.
For any problems, questions, or feedback, users are encouraged to send an email to [email protected] for a prompt response.