iNaturalist

iNaturalist

About this app

One of the world's most popular nature apps, iNaturalist helps you identify the plants and animals around you. Get connected with a community of over 400,000 scientists and naturalists who can help you learn more about nature! What's more, by recording and sharing your observations, you'll create research quality data for scientists working to better understand and protect nature.

KEY FEATURES
• Discover species new to you both near and far
• Record your own observations and share them with the community
• Receive suggestions and crowdsourced identifications of what you've seen
• Discuss and help others identify what they've seen
• Follow projects comprised of smaller communities and fellow citizen scientists passionate about a particular place and/or species

For more info, check out http://www.inaturalist.org

Ratings and reviews

I LOVE THIS APP! I wish everyone had it, and would be amazed by the fact that nearly every ant, fly, flower, blade of grass has a name and story! It would be fun if it was more game-ified I wish there was a little more social aspect, I'd love to be more able to follow my friends and see what they've been recording/observing, and help ID! I couldn't find a way on the app to follow friends, but found them online, but then there doesn't seem to be any benefit once you're back on the app.

This app is super useful for being able to identify different types of animal/plant/fungus species. It's honestly pretty amazing. Being able to track which species you've seen in the wild is very cool, and the community around the app is incredible. However, I can't rate it higher simply because this app can sometimes be very buggy. Crashes are somewhat common and posts can sometimes refuse to be shown. Still, very cool app. Would recommend.

Wonderful app that needs an update! Like a lot of people have said, the app is really struggling to load photos, which is particularly frustrating because the purpose of the app is to share ID photos. Hoping they update to fix this problem soon. That aside, the app is great. You can give permission for researchers and publishers to use your photos (and give you credit) which is very cool. Especially when your photo ends up as the main photo for an organism on the Wikipedia page!