The phone stays in the pocket

24 October 2026

Lauma now runs on Garmin, Apple and Android watches, and that changes the hunt: the dogs and the party are on your wrist and the phone stays in the pocket. The testers' feedback decides what we build: safety, your own places and the Swedish maps are now in the app.

Lauma now works on the three most common watches: Garmin, Apple Watch and Android watches. The Garmin app is in Garmin's app store, and the Apple and Android watches get theirs with the Lauma app.

A Garmin, an Android watch and an Apple Watch on the same wrist, the same dog on all three.

Three watches, one dog: the arrow turns with the wrist.

The hunt from the wrist

The watch changes tracking more than we expected. The phone hardly ever needs to come out of the pocket: the wrist shows every dog and every member of the party, each with a name, an arrow, a distance and a compass bearing, and a moving dog's speed too. The arrow points the right way as you turn on the spot, just like a compass.

When a dog barks or points, the watch alerts and shows where to go.

The watch also shows the other hunters in the party, the same way as the dogs: a name, an arrow and a distance. A hunter on a stand sees from the wrist which way the handler is coming from and how far away they are, and the handler sees where the stands are. A button press moves to the next dog or the next hunter.

Apple Watch: the dog, the arrow, the distance and the speed.

A Garmin and an Apple Watch in the rain, the same dog on both.

The phone still does the work in the pocket: it talks to the personal node and the cloud and passes the watch what is worth looking at. There is nothing to set up on the watch.

The feedback decides what we build

Several parties test Lauma all the time, and it shows in what we build: the order of development comes straight from the feedback out of the forest. The three most requested things are now in the app:

Safety. Grey shapes on the map show roughly where other people and their dogs are, including those outside your own party. You can pick the other side of the swamp in peace, and leave that direction unfired. While safety is on, you are shown to others the same way.
Your own places. A stand, a gate or where the dog bayed is marked with a long press on the map, with no signal. Places sit on the main menu, each with its distance from where you stand. Old places can be imported as a file, from Karttaselain for example.
Swedish topographic maps. Many hunt across the border. The maps of Norway came earlier, and now the Swedish topographic map is in too, and it can be downloaded to the phone in advance as well.

The Swedish topographic map in the app, around Kiruna.

The next things come the same way: tell us what is missing in the forest.

More parties, more devices

The group of users grows steadily, and new test devices leave for parties all the time. One batch on the table before packing: collars, personal nodes and cloud nodes, one set per party.

One batch of test devices on its way to parties.

If you have a dog and a party that wants to try, create an account at the top right of the page and we will be in touch.