Iristick.Collector 3.0 follows the route you walk

Iristick.Collector 3.0, released on May 12 2026, follows the path you walk through a field trial instead of the order of a spreadsheet. It also takes voice commands in English, French, German, Spanish and Dutch, and keeps the display running when the iPhone locks, so a scoring round of hundreds of plots runs without a break.

Why did scoring follow the list instead of the field?

Until this release, Collector moved through your asset list from top to bottom. That works at a lab bench, but a trial field is a grid, and nobody walks a grid in list order. A scorer walks down one row, steps over and walks back up the next. At the end of every row the plot in front of them was no longer the next one in the app, so they had to find it in the list before they could score again.

When we launched Collector we named this as one of its two limits, together with English-only voice commands. Both came straight from plant breeders and trial teams, and version 3.0 removes both.

How does the serpentine walking pattern work?

The serpentine walking pattern puts the plot in front of you next in the app, every time. You give each asset in the Collector web platform two coordinates, a row and a column, and Collector works out the snaking path through the grid.

1. In the app, you pick your template and asset list and choose Serpentine as the flow mode.

2. You tell Collector which column is the X axis and which is the Y axis. Any column names work, from `Row` and `Column` to `Plot row`.

3. You pick the corner where you start and the direction you walk first, out of eight variants shown as small path icons.

4. You score. At the end of each row Collector turns with you and continues in the opposite direction along the next one.

The pattern needs a fully rectangular grid. If your field has missing plots, you fill the gaps with blank assets so every position in the rectangle exists. The walking patterns guide explains the setup step by step.

Row by row, the plot in front of the scorer is the next one in the app.

Can you score in your own language?

Yes. Voice commands, speech recognition and the app interface now work in English, French, German, Spanish and Dutch, and you switch language in the settings without restarting the app. A Dutch breeder scores in Dutch and a French trial team scores in French, without translating in their heads while they work.

Numbers got easier too. Values up to 999 can be spoken in full ("two hundred forty-five"), and anything larger is dictated digit by digit. Recognition of numbers in German, Dutch and Spanish is better than in earlier versions.

What else changes in Collector 3.0?

• On iOS, the display in the glasses stays active when the iPhone screen locks, so auto-lock no longer interrupts a round.

• Timestamps follow your device language, and the Voice Commands help screen is now the same on iOS and Android.

• Collector warns you when you try to log out while observations are still paused, so no session gets lost.

The rest of Collector works as before. You still scan a barcode to find a plot, add a photo or a spoken note at any point with "Add picture" and "Add comment", and export everything as a CSV, or a ZIP if you have photos, when you are back online. If you are new to it, start with how Iristick.Collector replaces the clipboard.

Collector 3.0 is available now on Google Play and the App Store. Existing users get it as a normal app update. For the serpentine pattern you add two coordinate columns to your asset list. Read how Collector fits into phenotyping and crop trials.

See how Iristick.Collector captures field data hands-free, or talk to us about your setup.