The view from a hunting stand at dusk. A knee and a rubber boot in the bottom corner, and a rifle leaning against a weathered wooden post on the right. Ahead lies a yellowed bog, and beyond it a forested ridge under an overcast sky.

Älglock.
Learn the moose calls.

Ten moose calls and 86 recordings, arranged by situation. Listen, learn the difference between cow, bull and calf, and practise before you head out. Works with no signal and no account.

Älglock's home screen. Five situations to choose from — bring in a bull, call a cow, sweep the area, a bull answers but will not come, the moose is close — and below them three shortcuts: the sound library, the recognition test and the display mode.

Guided mode

You pick the situation.
The app suggests the next step.

Instead of searching a library, you pick a situation. The app shows the call that belongs to it, how long the wait usually is and what may follow — one step at a time, so the sequence can be learned.

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The sound library in manual mode. The heading counts the calls and the recordings, the list can be filtered by animal, and each call is tagged with what it is used for and how many recordings it holds.

The first step of the scenario for bringing in a bull. A card describes the step; below it sits the call Cow · contact, soft with its waveform, duration and a large play button, plus volume and a choice between playing once or repeating.

No signal is not an error state.

The app is built for the absence of a connection, not merely to survive it.

A narrow forest track with a strip of grass down the middle, lit by low morning sun from the right. Birch and spruce on both sides and yellowing leaves, early autumn. — The last place
with a signal.
After that, everything the app needs is already on the phone.

Manual mode

Calls that are tagged,
not merely named.

Anyone who knows what they are after goes straight into the library. Every sound belongs to an animal and carries tags for intensity, length and range, so you find the right one without listening through everything.

Cow: Contact and rut; 5 calls · 43 recordings
Bull: Grunts and answers; 3 calls · 27 recordings
Calf: Contact and unease; 2 calls · 16 recordings
Total: 10 calls · 86 recordings

Intensity

low · medium · intense

Length

short · long

Range

close · long range

Purpose

contact · search · rut · unease

Cow · contact

The sound library

Ten calls and 86 recordings. Most calls exist in several recordings, so the same situation rarely sounds quite the same twice.

See the whole library

Cow · contact

0:06

Cow – contact, soft

0:02

0:06

Soft

Medium range

Contact

The waveform is measured from the audio file. The call exists in several recordings, and the app draws a different one each time.

Specification

Everything sits on the phone.
Nothing leaves it.

This is not a stance but a construction. The app makes no outbound calls, which is the same thing as saying it works as well out on the bog as at the kitchen table.

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Specification

Älglock

Platforms: iOS and Android
Language: Swedish
Network calls: None
Data collection: None
Permissions: None. Not the microphone either
Account: No
In-app purchases: No
Price: €8.99
Google Play: Out now
App Store: Out now

A one-time purchase, VAT included. The store shows the price in your own currency, and that price is the one that counts.

Two grey elkhounds standing close against the wire of a kennel panel. One rests its muzzle in an outstretched hand reaching in between the bars.

Available in the App Store and on Google Play.

Downloads always happen through the stores, never from this site.

Älglock.Learn the moose calls.

You pick the situation.The app suggests the next step.

Calls that are tagged,not merely named.

The sound library

Everything sits on the phone.Nothing leaves it.

Älglock.
Learn the moose calls.

You pick the situation.
The app suggests the next step.

Calls that are tagged,
not merely named.

Everything sits on the phone.
Nothing leaves it.