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Exotic Pet Atlas

Wonder responsibly.

A welfare-first exotic-pet encyclopedia, matcher and habitat planner covering reptiles, amphibians, inverts and more — with honest safety flags.

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Exotic Pet Atlas home screen with a search bar for over 100 exotic pets, tiles for browse, find my pet, compare, habitat and cost, care trackers and welfare and safety, and an exotic pet of the day
Home: choose, compare and care for the right exotic pet.

Worth knowing

Profiles are educational. The app flags venomous, restricted and invasive species, excludes them from beginner recommendations, and never provides instructions for acquiring or casually keeping dangerous animals.

Screenshots

Captured from the debug build running on an Android 14 emulator.

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  • Home: choose, compare and care for the right exotic pet.
  • 249 pets, each with lifespan, difficulty, handling and safety notes.
  • Planning tools, from habitat costs to seasonal care and welfare.

What Exotic Atlas is

Exotic Pet Atlas opens the terrarium world with its feet firmly on the ground. Species profiles cover reptiles, amphibians, invertebrates and other exotic companions with genuinely useful care detail — enclosure sizes, heating, humidity, diet, handling tolerance. Its welfare-first design distinguishes display-only animals from handleable ones, flags venomous, restricted and invasive species, and keeps dangerous animals out of beginner recommendations entirely. A matcher quiz and habitat planner help the right keeper meet the right animal.

What it does

  • Species profiles across reptiles, amphibians and invertebrates
  • Welfare-first flags: display-only, venomous, restricted, invasive
  • Beginner recommendations that exclude dangerous animals
  • Matcher quiz and habitat planner
  • Offline-first bundled catalogue

Some animals are for watching, and the app says so

Exotic Pet Atlas is deliberately opinionated about welfare: handling tolerance, enclosure minimums and legal restrictions are first-class data, not footnotes.

Getting Exotic Atlas

Exotic Pet Atlas is still in development and is not distributed yet. It is roughly 55% of the way to a first public release.

At a glance

Status
Active Development
Runs on
Android
Offline use
Works offline
Package
com.exoticpetatlas
Last updated

Privacy

The species catalogue is bundled and browsed on your device. Habitat plans and favourites are stored locally.

Full privacy information for Exotic Atlas →

Permissions

Internet
Declared in the current development build alongside the bundled offline catalogue; final network behaviour will be confirmed and documented before release.
Notifications
Optional husbandry reminders (feeding, misting, heating checks).

Support

Questions, bugs or ideas for Exotic Atlas?

Exotic Atlas support →

Technical details

Built with

  • Kotlin
  • Jetpack Compose
  • Hilt
  • Room
  • DataStore
  • Coil
  • WorkManager
  • kotlinx.serialization

How it is put together

  • Shares the Atlas engine, with a welfare-first content model that leads on whether an animal suits the keeper at all.

Development workflow

Built through Claude Code.

Accessibility in the app

  • Safety flags written as text labels, never colour alone
  • Full TalkBack support through Compose semantics

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