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HerdCount is Live on the App Store — From Blog Post to Shipped Product in Two Weeks

DEV Community·Todd Sullivan·20 days ago
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Two weeks ago I wrote about building an offline-first livestock counter with YOLOv8 and CoreML . Today it's a real product on the App Store. HerdCount — Count your flock, even offline £3.99. No subscription. No cloud. No account. Pay once, use forever. What It Does Point your phone at livestock or plants. Tap a button. Get the count. HerdCount uses on-device AI (YOLOv8 + CoreML) to detect and count chickens, sheep, cattle, and plants from a single photo — in under a second, with zero internet required. Why I Built It I work with on-device computer vision professionally — building Axsy Smart Vision , an AI-powered field inspection platform for Salesforce. Retail planogram detection, product identification, compliance scoring — all running on-device. But the agricultural space has a simpler, more immediate problem: counting animals is tedious and error-prone . Farmers do it by eye, multiple times a day. Miss one sheep and you're searching hedgerows at dusk.…

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