🎉 Now available for iPhone and Android

The app for everyone
who makes their own.

Your journal for self-sufficiency

Ernterei keeps you company through the season – record your harvest, learn from in-depth guides and swap notes with like-minded people.

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Free to download · 30 days of Ernterei Pro free

Pre-registered? Just sign in to the app with the same email – your founder Pro unlocks automatically. New here? 30 days of Pro free – then carry on for free or go Pro for €1.99/month or €14.99/year (save 37%). Whatever you create stays yours – even after the free period.
🍯 Beekeeping
🐔 Keeping chickens
🌿 Herbs
🫙 Preserving
🍷 Winemaking
🥕 Garden
🎣 Fishing & smoking
🍄 Mushrooms
🍞 Bread & sourdough
⚙️ Projects

The heart of it

Your harvest journal

Record what you harvest, forage and make – with date, quantity, place and photo. Your whole season at a glance.

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Beekeeping

Keep your hive journal. Extraction dates, supers, honey yields – all documented.

More about the beekeeping app →
See an example entry
🐝 Beekeeping14 Jul 2025
Quantity24.5 kg honey (lime & acacia)
First extraction of the season. Golden colour, perfect consistency. Colony 2 gave far more than expected.
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Keeping chickens

Track laying rates, coop, feed and the health of your hens – from the very first egg.

See an example entry
🐔 Keeping chickens3 Apr 2025
Eggs4 eggs · all hens laying
Finally! Rosemary laid her first egg today. All four hens seem to have settled in well.
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Herbs & wild plants

Note down spots, quantities and what to make with them, right after the foraging trip.

See an example entry
🌿 Herbs18 Apr 2025
ArtWild garlic
Location📍 Woodland edge, Oste valley
Quantity320 g
Perfect timing – just before flowering. Half went to pesto, the rest dried.
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Preserving & pantry

Keep track of the jars, recipes and best-before dates on your pantry shelf.

See an example entry
🫙 Preserving22 Jun 2025
ProductStrawberry jam
Quantity12 jars · best before 06/2026
2 kg strawberries from the farm down the road. Less sugar this time – fruitier than last year.
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Garden

From sowing to harvest – document your gardening year and learn from the season.

See an example entry
🥕 Garden12 May 2025
ActivityTomatoes planted out
Quantity20 plants · 4 varieties
A bit late because of frost. Varieties: Oxheart, San Marzano, Tigerella, Black Krim.
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Winemaking

Fermentation logs, batches and bottling dates – your cellar under control.

See an example entry
🍷 Winemaking7 Jun 2025
BatchElderflower sparkling wine
Quantity5 litres · fermenting
20 flower heads, 1 kg sugar, 2 lemons. Fermentation kicked in after 24 h – smells fantastic.
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Fishing & smoking

Record catches, waters, bait and weather – and how the smoking turned out.

See an example entry
🎣 Fishing5 Jul 2025
WaterRiver Weser · morning session
Location📍 Weser riverbank
Catch2 bream · approx. 400 g each
Early mist, water 18°C. Bait: sweetcorn. Both smoked over beech, 2 hrs at 80°C.
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Mushroom foraging

Record spots, species and quantities – your personal mushroom atlas grows with you.

See an example entry
🍄 Mushrooms14 Sep 2025
ArtPorcini
Location📍 Spruce forest, east slope
Quantity680 g
Best find of the season. 7 specimens, all flawless. GPS pin saved – come back next year!
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Bread & sourdough

Keep your baking journal – starters, proving times, flours and results.

See an example entry
🍞 Bread & sourdough9 Nov 2025
Bread80% rye sourdough
RiseVery good · 14 h bulk ferment
Refreshed the starter from the fridge – much livelier than last week. Moist crumb, perfect crust.
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Projects

Document projects like solar panels, irrigation, a greenhouse or a well – from planning to result.

See an example entry
⚙️ Projects22 Mar 2025
ProjectBalcony solar panels
Output600 W · south facing
Installed and connected today. The meter is running backwards – first yield 1.8 kWh. Pays for itself in about 4 years.

Straight from the journal

Pantry & recipes – all connected

What you record keeps working for you: your harvest quantities become your pantry, your entry becomes your recipe.

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Your pantry

Your pantry builds itself from the quantities in your entries – no typing anything twice.

  • Best-before traffic light and a reminder before anything expires
  • Remaining-quantity counter with fill level
  • Storage places with icons – fridge, cellar, cupboard …
  • Contextual search: "What's actually down in the cellar?"
See an example pantry
🫙 Strawberry jam 8 jars · cellar · 🟢 06/2026
🍯 Forest honey 3.2 kg · cupboard · 🟢 07/2027
🥒 Pickled gherkins 5 jars · cellar · 🟡 02/2026
🍷 Elderflower fizz 6 bottles · cellar · 🔴 expired
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Recipes from the entry

Record what you made from it right on the journal entry – with ingredients and steps.

  • Enter quantities with a simple dial
  • Private to you – or shared with the community
  • Share as a neat card with family and friends
See an example recipe
Recipe · from the entry "Elderflowers picked"
🍹 Elderflower cordial
20 flower heads · 1 kg sugar · 2 organic lemons · 1.5 L water
1
Boil the water with the sugar until dissolved, then let it cool.
2
Add the elderflowers and lemon slices, steep for 24–48 hrs.
3
Strain and bottle in sterilised bottles – keeps 6 months when cool.

Your personal map

📍 GPS foraging spots

Save your secret foraging and fishing spots straight to the map – with a pin, a note and a photo. Your personal atlas grows with every trip.

Example Your atlas of spots
Example map
Fundort wählen Abbrechen 🔍 Ort suchen, z. B. Goslar Stadtwald Plessestraße K 1 Eddigehausen FriedWald Burg Plesse Wittenberg 385m Maiberg 260m Ibenberg 388m 🍄 Steinpilze Fichtenwald · 680 g 14.09.2025 🍄 🌿 🌿 Bärlauch Waldrand · 320 g 500 m © OpenStreetMap Mein Standort Pless-Forst, Bovenden 51.59512, 9.96932 ✓ Übernehmen
📍 Save spots on the map 🔍 Place search and your own location 📝 A note and photo for every spot

Your app, your rules

Show only what actually interests you

Ernterei adapts to you, not the other way round. Categories (your own, if you like), community and layout can all be set up around your hobbies and preferences.

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Choose categories
Show or hide whole areas – beekeeping, fishing, gardening and more. Quick settings for vegetarian and vegan included.
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Community optional
Prefer to document just for yourself? Hide the community with one tap – the tab disappears.
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Light / dark / text size
Dark mode and three text sizes – all set in your profile, no system settings needed.
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Your own categories · Pro
Not enough as it is? With Pro you can add up to 5 categories of your own – with a name, emoji and colour. "Cheesemaking", say, or "Goats".

Never forget again

⏰ Reminders & seasonal tips

Turn any entry into a task for later – and be reminded of the right job at the right time.

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Recurring reminders

Right on the entry: "Rack the wine in 6 weeks", "Check the colony in 10 days", "Feed the starter tomorrow". The app remembers so you don't have to.

  • Any interval you like, per entry
  • A local notification at exactly the right moment
  • Everything coming up, at a glance
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Monthly seasonal tips

Tips each month for your hobbies: when do elderflowers bloom? When is the grape harvest? When do you extract honey? Ernterei knows your rhythm.

  • Automatically matched to your categories
  • Beekeeping, gardening, fishing, herbs and more
  • A Pro feature – included in the 30-day trial

New · Ernterei Pro

🔥 The baking companion

Say when you want your bread ready – Ernterei works backwards and walks you through bulk ferment, cold proof and baking time with reminders. No more mental arithmetic.

  • Planned backwards: enter the finish time and every start time is worked out.
  • A nudge at the right moment: "9 hrs at room temperature now."
  • Live progress: see which step you are on at any time.
  • For any recipe: sourdough, yeasted dough, cheese, pickles.
Also included · Pro
🫧 The starter planner
Say when you want to bake and the app works back to when the starter needs feeding. With peak window, quantity calculator and a reminder at the right moment.

🔓 Schedule preview free · reminders and live progress with Pro

Your community

For everyone at home in the outdoors

Share your recipes and stories – see what others are harvesting, brewing and preserving. Recipe cards for family and friends included.

🐝 Beekeepers 🐔 Chicken keepers 🌱 Herb foragers 🍷 Winemakers 🫙 Preservers 🥬 Veg growers 🍄 Mushroom hunters 🎣 Anglers & smokers 🍞 Bakers & sourdough 🌾 Smallholders ⚙️ Tinkerers 🔥 Fermenters 🏡 City gardeners

Your data belongs to you

🔒 Safe & private

Your harvest journal is personal – and we treat it that way. No ads, no selling of data.

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Encrypted
Transferred over TLS, stored encrypted (AES-256) – in transit and at rest.
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Servers in Germany
Your entries, photos and pantry live on servers in Frankfurt. For a few features – such as the text recognition behind the recipe scan – we work with providers outside the EU; the privacy policy lists them.
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For your eyes only
Strict access rules: nobody but you reads your journal, your pantry or your reminders.
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No location leaks
GPS data is stripped when photos are uploaded – your mushroom patch stays your secret.

🎉 Available now

Get Ernterei.

For iPhone and Android. 30 days of Pro free to start – then carry on for free or go Pro for €1.99/month or €14.99/year (save 37%).

Download on theApp Store Get it onGoogle Play
Pre-registered or were you a tester? Sign in to the app with the same email – your founder Pro unlocks automatically. Whatever you create stays yours – even after the free period.