Built, and with Apple for review

The newest app from Puff Labs has just gone to Apple for review. GainScout answers one question: could this piece of land in England be a candidate for Biodiversity Net Gain?

Biodiversity Net Gain is the planning rule that has developers paying landowners to make land better for nature. Working out whether a field is even worth a closer look usually means an afternoon spent cross referencing government maps. GainScout does that first pass in one tap.

One tap, official data, plain English

Point the map at a spot in England and press Check. GainScout reads that exact location against official public government datasets and gives you a plain English answer in seconds, with the source and the date shown for every finding. Statutory designations, ancient woodland and priority habitats, farmland grade, flood risk, national landscapes and heritage, the local nature recovery strategy, stewardship agreements already on the land, and registered gain sites nearby. Nothing is estimated and nothing is invented.

No AI, on purpose

There is no AI anywhere in GainScout. Every result comes straight from the dataset that published it, so you can trace any answer back to its source and stand behind it in front of an agent or an ecologist. It is there to help you decide where to look, not to replace a statutory BNG assessment, and it covers England.

Built to hand over

Save a site and track it from watching, to visited, to in talks. Add a walkover checklist, notes and timestamped photos on the day. Then export a dated PDF report with the findings, their sources, your photos and a grid reference, ready to give to an agent, an ecologist or a buyer. Everything syncs across your own devices through your own iCloud, with no account and no server of ours.

How it got here

GainScout was built one dataset at a time, each official source wired in and then checked against real land across England, candidate fields, protected sites and plain built up ground alike, so the answers hold up. Only then did it go anywhere near the App Store. It went to Apple for review that day, and it has been on the App Store since 26 August.