RainBook

About this app

What RainBook does

The rain gauge on the fence post is the most important instrument on the ranch. Grazing rotations, stocking rates, hay buys, and USDA drought-program files all trace back to what actually fell in your pastures — not what a radar pixel guessed from forty miles away. RainBook is the offline logbook for those physical gauges: every gauge you run, every reading you take, kept in one dated record that is ready when the county office asks for it. Add each gauge once — Headquarters, North Pivot, Creek Crossing — and group them by pasture. On gauge-checking day, logging a reading takes two taps: pick the gauge, dial in the tenths, done. Trace amounts, empty checks, and hail or storm notes are all first-class entries, so the record shows the dry spells as clearly as the wet ones. There is no account, no sync, and no signal required — the far gauge on the back section logs exactly the same as the one by the house. The payoff comes at decision time. Water-year and calendar-year totals run per gauge and per pasture, side by side with last year and with the normal you set for your place, so you can see a failing season developing in June instead of admitting it in September. When Livestock Forage Disaster Program deadlines or Pasture, Rangeland, Forage insurance decisions come around, RainBook assembles your readings into a dated rainfall record — a clean, chronological document of what your gauges actually caught, built for the folder you hand the Farm Service Agency office, your insurance agent, or your own files. Pasture condition notes with photos ride along as supporting evidence. Radar apps estimate. Ranch platforms charge every month for a hundred features you do not need. The feed-store calendar fades. RainBook does one job completely: it is the permanent, portable record of your rain — every gauge, every tenth, every year. • Unlimited physical rain gauges with two-tap readings • Pasture groups that roll gauges up by grazing unit • Water-year and calendar-year totals with year-over-year comparison • Season-versus-normal tracking against the baseline you set • Dated rainfall-record document for FSA, LFP, and PRF files • Pasture condition notes with photos as supporting evidence • CSV backup of every reading • Fully offline — no account, no subscription, no signal needed