An interactive guide to the vast and varied biomes of your region. From forest floor to tide pool, bog to basalt field. Built for curious minds of every age.
What it is
An interactive map of the living world around you. And everything that makes it remarkable.
Navigate real ecoregions, habitats, and microbiomes. Zoom into the specific or out to the sweeping. The map is the interface.
Plants, fungi, insects, arachnids, and more. Data sourced responsibly from trusted scientific repositories. Always growing, always current.
Not a database. Not a textbook. Something designed to make you stop and think: I didn't know that was out there. Designed for kids and adults alike.
Touch-optimized for kiosk deployment. Configurable for any audience, institution, or biome. Runs where you need it.
Why it exists
There is something out there right now that you've never seen, never heard of, and would stop you cold if you knew it existed.
Biome Browser is a project of Sprouting Bear Labs, a mission-driven software studio building tools that use revenue to do something better than collect it.
The apps we build that earn well fund the ones that never will. Reduced and free access goes to the educators, community organizations, science communicators, artists, and advocacy groups who need good software and can't afford what exists. LGBTQ+ organizations. BIPOC-led nonprofits. Environmental justice groups. Small museums. Independent science educators. The ones doing the most important work with the least infrastructure.
The data powering Biome Browser is sourced from trusted scientific institutions and handled with the same ethic we apply to everything: we are stewards, not extractors. Of the natural world. Of the communities and organizations whose data makes tools like this possible. Of the infrastructure those communities depend on.
Interested in Biome Browser for your institution? Want early access? Just want to say something exists out there that you can't stop thinking about? We want to hear it.
tim@sproutingbearlabs.com