Älglock
A situation-led sound library for learning the moose calls
You pick a situation. Älglock shows the call that belongs to it, how it sounds, and what usually follows.
The app in brief
- Works without a signal
- Every sound is packaged inside the app. Nothing is fetched, and nothing stops working because you walked into a valley.
- Sends nothing anywhere
- The app makes no outbound calls at all. No analytics, no telemetry, no tracking.
- No account
- No sign-in, no subscription and no in-app purchases. You open it and use it.
- No microphone
- The app never asks for microphone access. It plays sound; it does not listen.
- Stays on the phone
- Favourites and settings are stored locally on the device and do not follow you anywhere else.
- iOS and Android
- The same app on both platforms. Swedish is the app's first language.
The last place
with a signal.
After that, everything the app needs is already on the phone.
Three ways to use it
Guided mode
You pick the situation you are actually in. The app then takes you through calls, waiting times and choices, one step at a time.
- Bring in a bull
- Call a cow
- Sweep the area
- A bull answers but will not come
- The moose is close
Manual mode
You go straight into the sound library and choose for yourself. Sounds are grouped by animal — cow, bull and calf — and tagged by intensity, length, range and when they are used.
- Low, medium, intense
- Short and long
- Close range and long range
- Contact, rut, unease
Recognition test
The app plays a random call and you guess which one it was. Ten questions, and your best result is kept on the phone.
- Ten questions
- A random call each time
- Best result saved locally
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.
Cow · contact
0:06
Cow – contact, soft
0:02
0:06
- Soft
- Medium range
- Contact
Sounds are grouped by animal
- Cow
- 5 calls
- Contact and rut
- 43 recordings
- Bull
- 3 calls
- Grunts and answers
- 27 recordings
- Calf
- 2 calls
- Contact and unease
- 16 recordings
- Total
- 10 calls
- 86 recordings
Every call is tagged
Intensity
low · medium · intense
Length
short · long
Range
close · long range
Purpose
contact · search · rut · unease
What the app does not do
Älglock is decision support, not hunting instruction. It makes no claim to know what the moose is doing. You read the situation — the app keeps track of the calls and the steps. How and where you use it is your own responsibility.
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.
Why the app looks the way it does
Älglock is built to be used, not read. The interface is dark from the outset, because dawn and dusk are when it is used. Touch targets are large enough for gloves, and everything that matters is reachable one-handed — the other hand is probably busy.
There is no mandatory walkthrough, no sign-in and no advertising in the hunting flow. Sounds never start by accident while you navigate; playback takes a deliberate press.
About the sounds
The sound library consists of clearly classified calls, grouped by animal and tagged by intensity, length, range and when they are used. The whole library has been listened through and approved — the app used to describe the recordings as drafts, and it no longer does.
What it looks like
Available in the App Store and on Google Play.
Downloads always happen through the stores, never from this site.