ObsIdentify

Observation International

About this app

Recognize nature in one click! Take a photo in Europe or the Dutch Caribbean and find out which species it is. Collect all your wildlife observations in the app. You'll be rewarded with tips to find new species, earn badges, and be invited to join challenges. Create groups with colleagues, family or friends, to share your stunning nature observations. Your observations, and those of others, contribute to biological research and knowledge about nature. Every observation counts!

ObsIdentify only recognizes wild animals, plants and mushrooms in Europe and the Dutch Caribbean. Please do not use the app for selfies, people, pets, house or garden plants.

The image recognition in ObsIdentify is made possible by millions of observations from thousands of users of Waarneming.nl, Waarnemingen.be and Observation.org. ObsIdentify is a product of the Observation International Foundation, in collaboration with Naturalis Biodiversity Center (The Netherlands) and Natuurpunt (Belgium).

Ratings and reviews

Awesome service. The app can be buggy but mostly works well, and I'm glad to have it. My top two requests: (1) more sort options for my observations: by location, animal type, etc. and maybe a way to combine duplicates so I can just see a list of local species I've identified, (2) a widget/shortcut directly to the camera feature, as when I see an insect I want to be able to take a picture before it leaves. (I prefer not to use the normal camera app for this, as I don't like to geotag my photos.)

Love the app! If the observation is unsure, you can just add more pictures and it automatically determines the location, which is very convenient. However, I would like to be able to remove observations (I could not find a possibility to do this), since I found one wrong determination. Also, it would be nice to have a function that allows you to follow friends and see their observations.

Not a bad app, but it does get it wrong sometimes (e.g. keeps suggesting mandevilla is gold chain). I would really appreciate an option to correct or fill in the species manually. Also, even though you get the option to make an observation either through the camera or a picture saved in your phone's gallery, it won't let you save observations from the latter in the app.

What’s new

New: discover and join BioBlitzes without ever leaving the app

Bug fixes:
- Unintended rotation of photos shared to the app
- Previous photo is cleared after upload or save
- Badge details for a group observation are accessible