FrogID

Australian Museum

About this app

FrogID is Australia’s first national citizen science frog call identification initiative – a project led by the Australian Museum in partnership with Australia’s leading natural history museums.

Use the App to create a free profile and record frog calls. You can choose to match your calls to the frog calls on the app, then submit your recordings to the Australian Museum frog experts to listen and verify the species.

With your help we can put more frog species on the map and track changes to their species and habitats over time, and therefore monitor the health of our ecosystems.

Ratings and reviews

I do looove the concept - I am a big fan of citizen science. However, I find this app quite clunky to use. The two biggest issues I see are the inability to upload recordings that weren't made in the app and the inability to see where your uploaded recordings were actually made? So when I look back at my submitted and verified frog calls, I just have no idea where they are actually from? Which really sucks for getting an understanding of your local frog population.

Not sure why the app isn't working correctly for me. I hadn't used it in a while but have started to again lately. Even with location on and permissions allowed, after each recording it says location not found or a similar message re-location and it also doesn't save my recording anywhere so I lose the recording and any chance of ID'ing the frog. Is there any way to save the recording before submitting if the location is an issue? Am I doing something wrong? It used to work perfectly 🤷‍♀️

Handy little app. It's easy to use, easy to record the frogs and submit even if I don't know what is making the noise. Lots of info on the frogs. No crashing or instability. The only downside is that it takes months for submitted recordings to be reviewed but I can understand it can be hard work deciphering all that noise :) Would be good if I could choose my location as sometimes it must think I'm somewhere else as the list changes and I'm standing in the same spot.