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

It says the app is available in dutch, but apparently, the app takes the language from your phone as default, which is English for me. To change it, you can go to settings/apps, go to obsidentify, and change the language there. It works, but the app should have a toggle in the app itself, or otherwise, it should have this information available somewhere.

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.)

The new version is great! It recognizes so many species. Feedback for developers: sometimes(1/30 species) it crashes after determination of a picture right when i want to save it. Has to do with certain species (Wolf Spider Unknown for example). You just can't save the determination. Other then that, great app!

What’s new

- Add 'More photos' icon to species information gallery
- Bug fixes and UI improvements