Take a photo. Save the tree. Build the map. Mseto is a community-built record of Kenya's indigenous hardwoods — Moringa, Meru oak, and the trees only your community knows.
You do not need to be a botanist. You do not need internet. If you can take a photo, you can help map Kenya's indigenous forest.
Find any indigenous tree near you — on your shamba, by the road, in the forest. Young or old, big or small.
Open Mseto. Tap Log a tree. Take one photo of the leaves and one of the trunk. The app does the rest.
Mseto identifies the species, records where it stands, and adds it to your map. Keep it private, or share with the community.
Half of Kenya's forest cover has been lost in a century. The trees that remain — Moringa, Meru oak, wild olive, and the species each community knows by its own name — hold soil, water, medicine, and memory. Yet no one has counted them. Not the government, not the UN, not the carbon markets. Mseto is changing that, with the people who live among them.
Your trees stay on your phone. You decide what to share, ever.
Designed in Nyambene with the farmers who walk this land every day.
Apache 2.0 licensed. Your data stays yours, in standard formats, forever.
An open AI model that runs on your phone, fine-tuned on Kenyan species.
Whether you are a farmer, a guide, an extension officer, or a student — every tree you log makes the map more real.