ASI Snakes

Johan Marais

About this app

African Snakebite Institute is the leading training provider of Snake Awareness, First Aid for Snakebite, and Venomous Snake Handling courses in Africa, as well as the largest distributor of high-quality snake handling equipment on the continent.

Use our app to learn about snakes and first aid for snakebite, find trained snake removers in your area, browse our free resources, and more.

Ratings and reviews

Very disappointed to find that this app doesn't work offline. It's not an app (like Roberts birds) that includes all its data and will work without an internet connection. So that left us trying to ID a snake in the bush with an app that couldn't load snake images (each snake page is a PDF) because we had no signal (i.e. we were in the kind of area where you find snakes). Once back in civilisation, no problem. Worked nicely, but I'd give it zero stars because its neither a real app (more like a hosted web page) and doesn't work offline. When you need it.

As to the app itself, I would strongly recommend to allow content to be downloaded onto the device as someone might be easily out of network when in need of info. It would be nice if the app could run on Android 7 devices for poorer villagers. When it comes to the quality of the info, I consider this to be the best information available regarding snakes, spiders and scorpions, especially for species home in southern Africa.

Fantastic app. One request, it would be nice to have a shareable link to the web page for a snake or other profile. This would allow you to identify or get the snake details and send it to a social media post such as Facebook. Not the PDF version. That's not an easy way of getting the information out quickly.