Egg incubation tracker: hatch countdown, candling & lockdown reminders. Offline.
Hatchwise is the egg incubation tracker for backyard keepers: it counts the days, tells you
exactly what to do today, reminds you to turn, candle and lock down, and keeps every egg on record.
Free, no account, and it works offline.
HATCH COUNTDOWN AND TODAY'S JOBS
- Day-by-day countdown to hatch day for every batch in the incubator
- A "Today" list: turn, candle, lockdown tomorrow, keep the lid closed, hatch watch
- The right temperature, humidity and turning for the stage you are in
REMINDERS THAT TELL YOU WHAT TO DO
- Turning reminders at the times you choose, which stop by themselves at lockdown
- Candling, lockdown-tomorrow and hatch-day reminders that say what to do
- Finished hatches stop all their alerts
CANDLING, EGG BY EGG
- Mark each egg developing, clear, stopped or hatched, with notes and photos
- An illustrated candling guide: what a good egg looks like on the days you candle, and which
eggs to take out
- Hatch rate, fertility and hatch-of-fertile for every batch
IS YOUR HUMIDITY RIGHT?
- Weigh your eggs a few times: Hatchwise charts the weight loss against the target for your
bird and tells you whether to raise or lower the humidity
- Log temperature and humidity and see them charted against the target band
- °F or °C, grams or ounces
HATCH DAY
- Hatch-day mode: tap each egg when it pips and again when the chick is out, with zip times
- Hatch running late? Add a day and every reminder moves with it
- Your own hatch and lockdown days for late breeds or any other bird
ON YOUR HOME SCREEN AND CALENDAR
- A home-screen widget counting down to your next hatch
- Add candling, lockdown and hatch day to your phone's calendar in one tap
11 SPECIES WITH THE RIGHT NUMBERS
Chicken (21 days, lockdown day 18), duck, Muscovy (35 days), goose, turkey, Coturnix quail
(17 days), Bobwhite quail (23 days), guinea fowl, pheasant, peafowl and chukar. Schedules and
targets follow university extension guidance, with waterfowl cooling and misting tips.
YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS
- Everything is stored on your phone: no account, no cloud, no sign-in
- Back up every hatch and photo to one file, and restore it on a new phone
- Multiple incubators, staggered hatches and a full hatch history with stats
Built for backyard chicken keepers, quail and duck breeders, 4-H families and small hatcheries.
Egg incubator app, egg hatching app, incubation calendar, chicken egg hatch tracker, candling log,
lockdown reminder: Hatchwise, free and ad-supported, from Fernhart Labs.