What is Fieldcraft Labs?
Fieldcraft Labs is a small independent software studio that builds practical tools for people who work on site. This page answers the common questions about the studio and its first app, PikPix, in plain terms.
What is Fieldcraft Labs?
Fieldcraft Labs is a small, independent software studio. It builds practical tools for field professionals: the people who spend their day on site and then have to write it up. Most software handed to these workers is built by developers who have never done the job, so it fits a sales demo better than a real day's work. Fieldcraft Labs builds the opposite, software shaped by the work itself, made one tool at a time and made solid before the next one starts. The studio is independent and made in Australia.
What is PikPix?
PikPix is the studio's first app. It is an iPhone app that turns a roll of site photos into a clean, client-ready report the same day. You take your photos on site, mark them up and caption them as you go, and export a finished report, as a PDF or Word (DOCX) document, before you have left the car park. No laptop, no reformatting, no lost evening.
Who is PikPix for?
PikPix is built for people whose job is time on site followed by time writing it up. That includes field engineers, inspectors, surveyors, loss adjusters, and building inspectors. If your work ends with a photo report due by Friday, it is built for you.
What problem does PikPix solve?
After a site visit you come back with a phone full of photos and hours of work still ahead: captioning each one, laying them out in order, placing them on a map or against a location, and exporting the lot into a document a client can actually read. That write-up is the part of the job that eats evenings. PikPix collapses it into the time it takes to walk back to the car, so the report is done before you leave the site.
How does PikPix work?
You take photos on site, with the location captured, or pick them straight from your camera roll. PikPix reads the location data stored in each photo and places them on a site overview map automatically, with pins that cluster as you zoom and no re-tagging. You mark up a photo where it needs it, with a freehand pen, shapes, and callout bubbles, and caption as you go, helped by a reusable snippet library that learns the phrases you use most, so the captions you wrote on the last job are ready for the next one. When you are done, you export. PikPix produces a PDF for clients or a Word (DOCX) document to drop into a master template. Your logo, brand colours, header, and footer are set once and then applied to every report.
Key features:
- Photo capture with GPS location, or pick from your camera roll.
- On-photo annotation: freehand pen, shapes, and callout bubbles.
- Captions with a reusable snippet library that learns your phrases.
- A site overview map with pins that cluster automatically.
- Export to PDF and Word (DOCX), with your own branding.
- Per-project report titles and a saved reports library.
- Photo zoom and crop, and a dark mode for late nights.
What does PikPix cost?
PikPix is free to start, with every Pro feature included for your first 5 reports. Those first 5 reports export as clean, unbranded PDFs. After that, the free version keeps working but defaults to a PikPix-branded template. A one-time Pro unlock costs AU$29. It removes the report cap, unlocks your own branding, and is yours forever. There is no subscription and no renewal.
Does PikPix keep my data private?
Yes. Your projects, photos, and reports are stored on your own device. Fieldcraft Labs runs no servers and receives nothing from the app. When you generate a report, you choose where it goes: keep it on the device, save it to your own iCloud Drive or any Files location, or share it. PikPix does not auto-sync your content to the cloud. Because everything stays on your device and in your own Apple account rather than passing through any service of ours, it is usually a simpler conversation with a company's IT team than a cloud-backed tool.
What platforms does PikPix run on?
PikPix is an iPhone app. It also installs and runs on iPad at iPhone size, with a proper native iPad layout on the roadmap. Mac support is on the list for later. There is no Android version in the near term; the studio builds one platform properly before splitting focus.
Where can I get PikPix or learn more?
PikPix is launching on the Apple App Store. You can read the full feature and pricing detail on the PikPix page, see what is planned on the roadmap, and reach a real person through the support page. Everything about the studio lives at fieldcraftlabs.io.