Falconry · for falconers, especially in the Gulf
Falqora is a falconry journal for falconers who weigh their bird every morning, designed first for falconers in the Gulf. You give your falcon a card with a name and a species, type today's weight in grams, and a dot lands on her season curve against a hunting weight band you set yourself. Feeding, training sessions such as lure work and manning, and days out during maqnas, as the hunting season is called in the Gulf, sit as markers under the same curve. Everything stays on your phone, with no account and no signal needed.
Tap Today's weight on your falcon's card and type the grams on a large keypad. A dot lands on the season curve at today's date, the line reaches out to meet it, and the band you set sits behind it, so you see at once whether this morning's reading is inside, above or below. If a digit slipped, Undo is right there, and any reading can be edited later.
Record the food, picked from a list such as quail, pigeon or chick or typed in your own words, with the amount in grams if you weighed it. Training gets its own entry, whether lure work, free flight or manning, with minutes and a note. Each entry becomes a small marker on its date beneath the weight line, and Falqora reads nothing into the pattern; that part is yours.
In the Gulf the hunting season is called maqnas (مقناص). Set the season's start and end dates yourself, then add each day out with the place, the falcon that flew and a few words about the day. Days out appear as flags on the same weight curve, so the season reads as one story instead of scattered notes.
Falconers weigh their birds every day and write the number down. The International Association for Falconry's welfare guidelines say it plainly: monitor the weight daily on proper scales and document it in written form. In practice that record lives in a pocket notebook, on a board in the mews, or in a chat thread with yourself, next to what the bird ate and how she flew.
That works until you want to see the season. A notebook shows today's number and yesterday's. It does not show, at a glance, that she has been sitting a few grams under the top of her band for a week, or where the line turned. Falqora keeps the same daily habit and gives it one picture: a weight curve that grows by a dot each morning, with the band you work to drawn behind it.
Start with two fields, a name and a species: saker, peregrine, gyrfalcon, a hybrid, or anything you type. Sex, a photo, the date she joined you and free notes can wait. The card opens on the curve, because that is what you check first, and you can switch it between the season and the last 30 days. Under the curve sit three plain numbers: the latest weight, your band, and how many days you have logged.
Weight is recorded in grams only. You can weigh more than once a day, before and after flying for example; every reading is kept and the latest one is the dot on the curve. Every entry can be edited or deleted, from a single weight to the whole card, and the curve redraws when you do.
A good flying weight differs from bird to bird and from falconer to falconer. Falqora asks you for your falcon's band as two numbers, low and high, and draws it behind the curve. It never suggests a band, never works one out from another weight, and never calls a reading good or bad.
What you get is a statement of fact: In band, or 18 g above band, or 12 g below. There are no warnings, no feeding suggestions and no alarm colours. The band can also be left empty; the curve works without it, and Falqora will ask about it once, quietly, after your first reading.
Falqora is designed for an Arabic, right-to-left layout from the start rather than flipped at the end, because most of the falconers it is made for read Arabic first. Dates use the Gregorian calendar in your phone's regional format, and weights stay in grams.
Desert camps often have no signal, and Falqora never needs one. There is no server, no account and no analytics, and photos stay in the app's own storage on your phone. You can export everything to a single JSON file through the share sheet and restore it on a new phone; photos are not inside that file, and the app tells you so. One option in Settings deletes all data, photos included.
Falqora is a record, not an adviser. It does not recommend flying weights or feeding amounts, interpret how food and weight move together, grade a training session, or offer anything that reads like veterinary care. It carries no content on hunting permits, quotas, protected species or CITES; those rules differ by country and by year and belong to the authorities that set them.
There are no quarry tallies and no rankings: a day out is a date, a place and a few words. There are no reminders either. Weighing the bird is already the first thing a falconer does in the morning, and the app does not need to ask.
Falqora is a record-keeping tool. It does not give veterinary advice or tell you what your falcon should weigh or eat. For your bird's health, talk to an avian veterinarian; for hunting rules, permits and moving falcons across borders, follow your national wildlife authority.
No. You enter the hunting weight band yourself, as a low and a high number in grams, and Falqora only shows where each reading sits against it. It never suggests a band, a target weight or a feeding amount.
Yes. Every reading is kept, for example before and after flying. The latest reading of the day is the dot on the curve, and the earlier ones stay listed under that day.
Yes. Falqora has no server and makes no network requests, so weighing in, the curve and the season log all work with the phone in airplane mode.
There is no account. Everything, photos included, is stored on your phone. You can export a JSON backup through the share sheet and restore it on another phone; photos are not part of that file.
No. Falqora records weight in grams only.
No. It is a journal for weight, feeding, training and the season. Rules on hunting, protected species and moving falcons between countries vary by country, so check them with your national wildlife authority.
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