Zooniverse

The Zooniverse

About this app

The Zooniverse is the world’s largest and most popular platform for people-powered research. This research is made possible by volunteers—hundreds of thousands of people around the world who come together to assist professional researchers. Our goal is to enable research that would not be possible, or practical, otherwise. Zooniverse research results in new discoveries, datasets useful to the wider research community, and many publications.

The Zooniverse Mobile App provides push notification updates about our projects, as well as access to our most mobile-friendly projects and publications.

Ratings and reviews

I am helping with the Beta Plastic Litter Project. Whenever I click the field guide or the button to send feedback to developers about the game, it crashes. It is awesome and generally easy to use for the projects that have been adapted for phone. With that said, it needs some updating. The vast majority of the projects are "Out of Data." Even with those that are not Out of data, there are often many pictures that have been completed that they cycle through and have you classify anyways.

Nice app. Could do with the website account syncing with the app. I started a project on the website but it doesn't appear in the app. The tutorials on the app are not as informative as the website and don't work correctly.

Unfortunately I think this app needs more work to be useful. I've tried a few different projects and it's easy to see it could be made more user-friendly. For example, some images would benefit from a zoom, and ideally a pinch function or slider would be great for that. I have used Zooniverse's website in the past but have become too busy so I found this app. I'm hoping to contribute in the future with a more user-friendly version.

What's new

Bug fixes and performance improvements.