TickGuard
Know your local tick season
Free · In-App Purchases
See when ticks are active where you live and what the local diseases actually look like. Log a bite, follow the 30 day watch, and check where people are finding ticks.
TickGuard opens on your own region. It shows when ticks are active near you month by month, which species you are likely to meet, and which diseases matter where you live. Most of it works with no connection at all.
YOUR TICK YEAR
A twelve month strip marks the current month and shows how busy ticks usually are. Underneath sit the local notes: common species, the diseases worth knowing about, and the precautions that make a difference in your area. A German phone gets Germany, Austria and Switzerland with the FSME risk areas called out. A Japanese phone gets Japan and Korea. Twelve languages, each written for that region rather than translated from one country's advice.
WHAT THE DISEASES LOOK LIKE
Lyme borreliosis, tick-borne encephalitis, anaplasmosis, babesiosis, Rocky Mountain spotted fever and tick-borne relapsing fever. For each one: where it occurs, how long symptoms usually take to appear, what the early signs look like, what happens if it goes untreated, and the point at which you should stop reading and call a doctor. Written from ECDC, CDC, WHO and national health authority guidance.
COMMUNITY MAP
Look at where people have run into ticks lately. Reading the map asks nothing of you: no account, no permission, no report of your own. If you want to add one, it sends an area of roughly a square kilometre and the date, plus the species if you recognise it. Nothing else. No account, no device identifier, no photo, no free text, which also means a report cannot be traced back to you.
AFTER A BITE
Log it with a photo and where on the body it was, then work through the 30 day symptom watch. Reminders are scheduled on your own phone, never on a server. The removal guide covers the steps in order, including the folk remedies that make things worse.
IDENTIFY A TICK
Point the camera at one and a model I trained myself on 3,258 labelled photographs names the likely genus with a confidence score. It runs entirely on the phone. A Smart Invert view helps when a dark tick is sitting in dark fur.
HEALTH AUTHORITY LINKS
Straight to your own country's health service, matched to your region and language.
PRIVACY
Everything except the community map works with no connection. There is no account, no advertising, no analytics and no tracking of any kind. Camera frames are processed in memory and thrown away. Your bite log stays on your phone. Location is only used if you choose to report a sighting, or if you switch the Guide tab's region to Automatic.
NOT A MEDICAL DEVICE
This is a reference tool, not a diagnostic one. Identification suggests a likely genus and can be wrong. If you suspect a tick bite, or symptoms appear, contact a healthcare professional. For pets, ask your vet.
PRICING
TickGuard Premium unlocks the whole app: the regional guide, the disease reference, the community map, the bite log and the identify camera. New subscribers get one week free. After the trial, TickGuard Premium Monthly is 0.99 USD a month, billed to your Apple Account and cancellable anytime in Apple Account Settings. If you would rather not subscribe, TickGuard Lifetime is a 9.99 USD one-time purchase for the same access, for good. Family Sharing is on for both, so one purchase covers your family group. Payment is charged at confirmation of purchase. A subscription renews automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the current period ends.
Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Privacy Policy: https://tickguard.pawels-apps.workers.dev/privacy
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TickLens is now TickGuard. Same app, same developer, new name and a new icon. Your bite log, your region and your purchase all carry over, and nothing else about the app changed.
Setting the Guide's region to Automatic now works: it picks up your region as soon as you allow location access, instead of saying it couldn't find you, and it remembers the region the next time you open the app.
The tick map now centres on you the first time you allow location access, instead of waiting until your next visit.
The developer, Pawel Szydlowski, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Location
Accessibility
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Information
- Provider
- Pawel Szydlowski
- Size
- 41.1 MB
- Category
- Health & Fitness
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 18.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 18.0 or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 2.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
English and 11 more
- English, Arabic, Dutch, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese
- Age Rating
9+
- 9+
- Contains
Health or Wellness Topics
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- TickGuard Lifetime USD 11.99
- TickGuard Premium Monthly USD 0.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Paweł Szydłowski
