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. iNaturalist is a joint initiative by the California Academy of Sciences and the National Geographic Society.

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

As a beginner at identifying mushrooms this app has been fantastic, I'm just annoyed that ever since a recent update (I believe?) i can't upload pictures that I've already taken. I always get told "photo format is not supported" this didn't happen when I first got the app. I can still take a photo from within the app, just can't upload from my gallery.

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!

Update: not sure what's going for everyone having technical issues. I use it on iPhone and android both work well. Fantastic. Great way to catalogue your discoveries, easy to use, and a must have for anybody who is curious about what that weird growth on that tree might be. Start as a hobby taxonomist and get the input of professionals to become highly skilled at identifying plants, fungi, insects, arachnids, animals, and everything in between. Love it. Can't reccomend enough.

What's new

Fixed crash when viewing obscured observations in Italian.