January · water everywhere
The shutoff valve, under snow
A pipe lets go at 6pm. The main shutoff is somewhere under four hundred square feet of white. Every minute of guessing is water in the wall.
Artifact Tracer · offline GPS field marker
It's under here somewhere.
The shutoff valve. The trail cam. The property pin. The thing you buried on purpose. You knew exactly where it was — eight months ago. Mark it once with re-averaged GPS and a note, and the compass walks you back to it. Every time. Offline. Yours for $15.99, forever.
No account · No signal needed · No cloud · Not $99/month
You already know this feeling
Four times a year, your land hides something from you.
Fall blowout · spring startup
The sprinkler heads that sank
Heads bury themselves under thatch and landscaping. The irrigation guy charges by the hour while you both stomp around looking.
Camera pull · end of season
The trail cams you forgot
Cameras get moved all season. Come pull time, you're re-walking every ridge line trying to remember which tree — and some stay out there.
Fence quote · property dispute
The corner pin from the survey
The surveyor found it once — that cost you real money. The flag is long gone, and the neighbor is confident about your fence line.
"I was surprised several times by finding cameras on trees that I'd forgotten about." — hunter, DeerBuilder forum, "Keeping track of all your trail cameras"
"I keep a spreadsheet on my laptop, that I use to track the locations of my trail cameras." — the current state of the art, same thread
The price of not knowing
Guessing is the expensive option.
Every one of these is a real bill that exists because a location wasn't written down. You don't need any of them — you were standing right there when you knew where it was.
Plumber's emergency call-out while the water runs$150–400
Professional property-mapping service, per property$299+
Surveyor re-marking a corner the survey already found once$300–800
Valve Finder — the "app for this," built for utility crews$99/month
A trail camera you never find again$120 each
Artifact Tracer — every mark, every property, forever$15.99 once. that's it.
Honest about the hard part
Phone GPS drifts. So we don't trust it alone.
A single GPS snapshot can be off by 10–30 feet — anyone who says otherwise is selling you something. Artifact Tracer is built around that truth: average the fix, keep a human note, let the compass do the last stretch.
Step · Mark
Stand on it. Mark it.
Tracer re-averages GPS readings while you stand on the spot, and saves a relative note with every mark — "11 ft NE of the maple." Photo it, tag it, done in 20 seconds.
GPS·AVG + relative note + category + photo
Step · Walk back
Follow the needle.
Next season, open the mark. A live compass and distance readout walk you across the field — 87 ft, 40, 12 — and your note finishes the last step to the exact spot.
Live heading + distance + your own words
Step · Keep
It's your data. Literally.
One offline file on your device. No account, no cloud, no subscription. Draw zones, organize by property, and export GPX/KML any time — it works in every mapping tool on earth.
Offline file · GPX/KML export · multi-property
One tool, every buried thing
If you'll ever need to find it again, mark it now.
sprinkler heads
main shutoff valve
trail cameras
property corners
septic lid & cleanout
invisible dog-fence wire
metal-detecting finds
where you parked the trailer
morel & berry spots
tree stands
irrigation valve boxes
buried downspout drains
geocaches
the good fishing hole
a cache you'd rather not label
Works with zero bars
It's your land, not a coverage map. Everything runs on-device — mark and walk back with no signal at all.
Nobody else's cloud
These are the coordinates of everything you own and hide. They never leave your phone. That's a security decision, not a feature gap.
No account. Ever.
Open the file, use the tool. Nothing to sign into, nothing to expire, nothing to get breached.
Bought once, yours for keeps
The file is yours like a hammer is yours. No renewal email will ever ask you to keep access to your own property.
▲ 0 ft — you're standing on it
Mark it once. Find it again.
$99/month elsewhere $15.99 · once Valve Finder charges $99+ every month and keeps your locations in their cloud. This is the other philosophy.
Personalized with your name · Works on phone & computer · 811 first for anything utility-adjacent