Built by keepers, for keepers
We built Scutely because managing a growing collection with spreadsheets and notebooks stopped working for us.
Once you're tracking dozens or hundreds of animals, things start to slip. Feedings get missed, breeding records end up spread across notebooks, and finding one gecko's shed history or a tarantula's last molt means digging through weeks or months of notes.
We tried everything to keep up. Spreadsheets turned into a mess of tabs the moment the collection grew. Notepads were fine until we needed to actually find something. And the software we tried was either built for one species, missing the things we needed, so complicated it wasn't worth opening, or simply too expensive.
So we built the tool we wanted for ourselves: easy to navigate, quick to log events, easy to look up history, and capable enough to run breeding projects across reptiles, amphibians, tarantulas, scorpions, and more.
The features come from keeping animals ourselves. We wanted a tool that would make our own keeping easier, and we built it for ourselves. We're always happy to hear how other keepers run their collections so it keeps getting better for everyone.
Shaped by the community
Scutely keeps getting better because keepers tell us what they need. A lot of what's in the app started as a request from a keeper who wanted something that would make their own keeping easier.
We'd rather build what people actually use than guess. If there's something that would make Scutely fit your setup better, send it our way. We read every message, and plenty of those ideas end up shipping.
What we care about
Better care
Good records make for better care. Scutely helps you notice patterns and stay on top of the things that matter.
Built with keepers
The HerpDex is built by the people who use it. Trait entries, species profiles, and feature ideas come from other keepers.
Fast and reliable
Made for the animal room. Logging an event takes a couple of taps, so keeping your records up to date doesn't slow you down.
Who's behind Scutely
Jonathan
Owner of Castle Reptiles LLC & Lead Developer of Scutely
I've kept reptiles since 2007 and started breeding in 2009 with my first ball pythons. I've worked in software since 2014, mostly in the video game industry. As my collection grew, I went looking for something to help me manage it and never found a tool that quite fit, so I started building one.
Scutely is that tool, and I still keep and breed animals alongside working on it. That's mostly how it moves forward I run into something in my own collection, or another keeper mentions how they do things, and it turns into the next update.