Cachly Intelligence

Cachly Intelligence helps you write better logs faster and can summarize a cache’s logs and description into a quick read — in any language — using on-device or cloud AI. You stay in control: it drafts, you edit and post.

What It Does

When you’re logging a find, Cachly Intelligence can draft a log for you — turning a few notes (or just the cache’s context) into a friendly, well-written log you then tweak and submit. It’s designed to fix the TFTC problem — logs that say nothing more than “Thanks For The Cache” — not to post on your behalf.

Setting It Up

Cachly Intelligence is on by default, and everything lives at the top of Settings › Cachly Pro, in the Cachly Intelligence section:

1. Enable Cachly Intelligence is already switched on — turn it off here if you’d rather not see the AI features.
2. Tap AI Provider and choose who does the thinking. Apple Intelligence works immediately, entirely on-device. For Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini or Mistral, tap the provider to add your own API key first — until then the row shows API key not set.
3. Optionally open the three prompt rows below (Log Summary, Description Summary, Log Writing) and tailor them to your taste — each is fully editable.

While enabled, a sparkle button appears in the places Cachly Intelligence can help: a cache’s description, its logs list, and the log message editor.

AI Summaries

Beyond drafting logs, Cachly Intelligence can summarize for you. On a cache’s Logs screen and on its description, tap the sparkle button (bottom right): a Cachly Intelligence sheet slides up with a concise summary — how the cache has been doing, common tips from finders, or the gist of a long pirate-themed backstory — without reading a wall of text.

In CarPlay, Cachly Intelligence goes hands-free: it can summarize a cache’s logs and description by voice, reading the summary aloud so you get the gist while driving.

Choosing a Model

Cachly supports multiple AI providers, selectable under Settings › Cachly Pro › AI Provider:

Choosing a cloud provider adds a second section below the list, headed with that provider’s name and holding two rows: API Key, where you paste the key from the console above, and Model. The model list is fetched live from the provider, so new releases appear without waiting for a Cachly update — leave it on Default and Cachly uses a sensible current model for you.

Writing Prompts & the Prompt Editor

Every Cachly Intelligence feature is driven by a prompt you can see and change. Settings › Cachly Pro has three, and all three are fully user-editable:

• Log Summary Prompt — shapes how a cache’s logs are summarized; the logs are appended to the end of your prompt.
• Description Summary Prompt — shapes description summaries the same way.
• Log Writing Prompt — shapes generated logs; the cache’s info and your notes are appended to it.

Edit them to match your voice — always mention the trail, keep it short, write in your language — and the AI’s output follows.

Writing a Log with AI

In the log message editor, tap the sparkle button and describe what you want to say (“Found it quickly, thank the owner, mention the nice park setting”). The suggestion tags below the field add common phrases with a tap, and the globe button beside them picks the language the log is written in — it defaults to your device language each time, so a German speaker caching in the UK can switch that one log to English. Tap Generate and a Preview of the drafted log appears — Insert it into your log, or Try Again for a different draft. Nothing is added until you choose Insert.

Privacy & Control

Generated text is always a draft: nothing is posted until you review and submit it. You decide which provider to use, and you can edit or discard any suggestion.