Logging a Find

Logging records your visit to a cache. Cachly lets you log a single find quickly, log for several accounts at once, save drafts for later, reuse text templates, attach photos, and award a favorite point.

The Log Geocache screen

From a cache’s details, start a log to open the Log Geocache screen. Top to bottom it contains:

• Send Log Now — a switch controlling whether the log posts immediately or is saved for later.
• Date and time — tap either to change when the find happened (they default to right now).
• Log Type — opens the type picker. A status line underneath confirms what will happen: Your log will be sent now, or Your log will be saved and you can send it later from the Pending Logs.
• A section per signed-in user — each account gets its own Message, Favorite Cache toggle, Save as Draft toggle and Trackables row (see multi-user logging). The Trackables row selects which of that account’s trackables are dropped or visited with the log.

Choosing a log type

Tap Log Type and pick one:

• Found it — you found the cache.
• Didn’t find it (DNF) — you looked but came up empty.
• Write note — a comment without claiming a find.
• Owner Attention Requested — the cache needs maintenance from its owner.
• Reviewer Attention Requested — flag a serious problem to a community reviewer.

Cachly picks a sensible default type for you: on a webcam cache a Found It becomes Webcam Photo Taken; on a future event it defaults to Will Attend and on a past one to Attended; and Owner Maintenance is offered only on caches you own.

Send now, or save for later

At the top of the log screen is the Send Log Now switch:

• On (the default) — the action button reads Send and posts your log to Geocaching.com right away.
• Off — the button becomes Save and your log is kept as a pending log to upload later.

If you tap Send while you’re offline, Cachly notices and offers to save the log as pending instead of failing. Likewise, if you cancel a log you’ve started, it offers to Save as Pending rather than lose your write-up. Editing a pending log reopens this same screen, and pending logs can be submitted or exported in bulk from the Logs tab — see Pending logs.

Multi-user logging PRO

Cachly can log a single cache under multiple geocaching.com accounts at once — see the dedicated Multi-User Logging page.

Writing the message

Tap Message to open the log editor. A counter tracks your length against the 5,000-character limit, and a Write / Preview switch lets you check how formatting will look before you post. From the editor you can also:

• Attach photos — the image button offers Take Photo, Choose From Library and Personal Note Photos; images upload with your log.
• Insert a template — drop in one of your saved text templates, or jump to Edit Text Templates. A Clear Message Text option starts you over.
• Insert keywords — pick placeholder keywords from the keywords picker instead of typing them by hand; Cachly replaces them with real values when the log is posted.
• Draft with AI — the sparkle button opens Cachly Intelligence, which can write a log for you using Apple Intelligence, Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini — you then edit and post it.

Log templates

If you write similar logs often, save text templates and drop them into a log with one tap. Templates can include keyword placeholders that Cachly fills in (such as the find count or date), so each log still feels personal. Manage them in Settings › Templates or via Edit Text Templates in the message editor.

Each template can be given a log type: when you create a log matching that type, the template’s text is inserted automatically — a Found It template for finds, a DNF template for the days that don’t go so well. In multi-user logging, each account’s own templates are applied to its message.

Drafts vs. pending logs

Cachly has two ways to hold a log you’re not posting as a finished log — they sound similar but work differently:

• Drafts (field notes) — turn on Save as Draft and the log is saved to Geocaching.com as a Draft. Drafts sync to the website and across your devices, and you can finish them later in Cachly or on the site. The first time you use it, Cachly explains what a Draft is.
• Pending logs — turning Send Log Now off (or saving when offline) keeps a finished log on your device, ready to upload. Pending logs upload when you reconnect, and can be edited, bulk-submitted or exported from the Logs tab. See Pending logs.

Photos, favorites & corrected coordinates

• Photos — attach images to your log from the message editor.
• Favorite point — if you’ve found it and have points available, turn on Favorite Cache to award one to a great cache. (On certain cache types, such as events, the option is hidden because it doesn’t apply.)
• Trackables — the Trackables row logs drops and visits for the trackables you’re carrying; auto-visit can handle this automatically.
• Corrected coordinates — update the cache’s coordinates (for solved puzzles or owner adjustments) as part of the flow. See Waypoints & Coordinates.