Shot Scout
A Flutter app for photographers to pin ideal shooting locations, track gear, and plan shoots around golden hour and weather.
A mobile app for finding and remembering great shooting locations.
When you find a great spot — good light, interesting geometry, a view worth coming back to — you shouldn't lose it. Pin it, note the conditions, and come back when the timing is right. A scouting companion that lives on your phone and doesn't send your location history to the cloud.
Pin locations, track conditions, calculate sun times.
Location Pinning
GPS coordinates auto-captured and stored locally. Never lose a good spot again.
Shooting Conditions
Track ideal times of day, weather patterns, and gear notes for each location.
Solar Calculations
NOAA algorithms compute accurate golden hour, blue hour, sunrise/sunset for any location.
Offline-First
Everything stored locally with Hive. No cloud sync, no analytics tracking, no account needed.
Frontend: Flutter (Dart) for iOS/Android from single codebase. Provider for state management.
Local Storage: Hive for fast, lightweight key-value storage. No SQL, no server.
Services: Geolocator for location, flutter_map for OpenStreetMap tiles, NOAA API for solar data.
Constraints clarify priorities. "Offline-first" meant every feature had to justify its weight. No cloud backend forced me to think about what actually matters: the core workflow of finding and remembering a spot.
Solar calculations were the hardest part—not the math, but getting the UX right. A time is just a number; communicating *why* that time matters (golden hour vs. blue hour) required a lot of iteration.
Core features functional. Not currently on app stores. Planned: weather API integration for condition tracking, push reminders when conditions are right, and in-app photo capture for direct comparison with saved locations.