CLUSTER MINERALS-ALONG-ANALYSIS · 14 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2025-11-30
Specimen identification and exploration apps
This cluster consists of apps that help users identify and learn about natural and historical specimens, including minerals, crystals, antiques, and fossils. The cluster's dated history is too thin to read a shape from, as only four dated entries exist before the index start, so it predates the index or its members are undated. Traction leaders are Curio - Antique Identifier, GEMSCAN-AI, and BoneVault, each with 0 stars.
Entry timeline
ENTRY TIMELINE
Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.
Members by activity
Activity signals, not revenue.
Build origin · 4 ai-built · 10 unlabelled
Operator · 8 hobby · 1 indie · 1 open source · 4 unlabelled
Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 14 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.
- 01MaterialMatch0★10 dayslivehobbyWeb platform that predicts material properties from chemical composition, searches similar materials, and assists researchers with AI explanations.
- 02phasentic1★12 days—ai-builthobbyScientific app that identifies crystalline phases in powder X-ray diffraction scans by matching peaks against reference databases and fitting phase mixtures.
- 03MicroScaleEditor1★5 days—hobbyDesktop app for scientists that calibrates SEM/TEM images, adds physical scale bars and linked insets, and exports traceable results with offline OCR.
- 04XRD_Complex_Calculator0★20 days—hobbyWeb application that processes raw X-ray diffraction data and returns structural characterization metrics, plots, and reports.
- 05TerraQuest0★5 days—hobbyGamified web app that identifies plants and minerals from webcam photos and rewards discoveries with quests, badges, and a journal.
- 06mineral-atlas-workbench0★23 days—hobbyOffline browser workbench that models crystal faces, maps Miller indices, aligns photographs, and generates reproducible mineralogy reports for educators and researchers.
- 07GEMSCAN-AI0★15 days—indieMobile app that identifies gemstones, minerals, and jewelry from photos using AI analysis.
- 08Profex0★1 moliveopen sourceOpen-source GUI for Rietveld refinement of powder X-ray diffraction data, enabling phase analysis and structure determination.
- 09AI-Crystallography-Engine1★4 mo—A SaaS platform for crystallographic analysis that integrates physics simulation with AI vision to automate electron microscopy research.
- 10BoneVault0★5 molivehobbyCross-platform app that lets collectors catalog bone specimens, fossils, and natural history items with photos and scientific metadata.
- 11Random Mineral Viewer0★unknownliveai-builthobbyApp that displays random mineral or crystal specimens along with descriptive information for collectors and hobbyists.
- 12The Crystal Destiny Sage0★unknownliveai-builtWeb app for exploring metaphysical properties, chakra associations, and origins of crystals.
- 13萤石洞穴 | 洞穴生物和萤石矿床0★unknownliveWeb app that presents information about cave-dwelling creatures and fluorite ore formations.
- 14Mineral Identifier0★unknownliveai-builtApp that helps users identify minerals and crystals from their physical characteristics.
Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.