CloudSpotter

Cloud Appreciation Society

About this app

Discover the amazing world of clouds with your pocket guide to the wonders of the sky and have your spottings verified as you build your own collection of clouds.

Learn how to spot 58 different cloud formations and optical effects, from the common ones like Cumulus clouds and rainbows to rare ones like the fleeting fluctus cloud or the hard to spot circumzenithal arc. Learn what makes each formation special with expert text from the Cloud Appreciation Society and stunning reference photographs by our app users around the world.

Build up your Collection of spottings and gain CloudSpotter Stars as you do so. Our innovative tools will help you decide what type of clouds or optical effects you’ve spotted. You will hear back from the rest of the community whether they think you got your spotting right. You can see New Spottings by other users around the world and say (with our help) if you think they got theirs right. Becoming an expert cloudspotter has never been easier – or more fun!

And if you’re a subscribing member of the Cloud Appreciation Society you’ll be able to access our Cloud-a-Days each morning. These feature curated photographs by our members, explanations of the clouds featured, inspiring sky quotations, and even examples of clouds depicted in art.

Looking up will never be the same again!

Ratings and reviews

Love the idea of this app and it works great when you have solid cell service. However, when I tried to use it with limited service, it said it would upload my spotting later but this didn't happen. I can't find a queue of "unposted" spottings and what's even more frustrating is that I can upload a photo for AI ID, but once I select a type, I can't upload my previous photo from my gallery. I think this app has a lot of potential but this is a frustrating limitation.

I love this app so much, and I love that you cannot help verify other people's clouds, but since the last update, I can no longer upload pictures I have already taken, only ones I take using the app. This isn't ideal, because it's quicker to just open my camera to snap a cloud if it's fleeting, or I'm using a different camera. it would be nice to see the upload feature return please!!

It worked great for a couple of weeks. But now I can't use the camera in the app or upload photos to identify clouds. I have reinstalled the app but no luck.

What's new

This minor update includes some behind-the-scenes work and a few text and design tweaks:
• Updated how the CloudSpotter AI is accessed by the app to pave the way for an improved AI that will be included in a forthcoming update.
• Added new text to the 'Don’t Confuse With' section of clouds and optical effects in the Cloud Library.
• Improved the text styling in the info to help you vote on clouds in the Sky Feed.
• Tidied up a few minor design issues.