CloudSpotter

Cloud Appreciation Society

About this app

Discover the amazing world of clouds with your pocket guide to the wonders of the sky and have your spottings verified as you build your own collection of clouds.

Learn how to spot 58 different cloud formations and optical effects, from the common ones like Cumulus clouds and rainbows to rare ones like the fleeting fluctus cloud or the hard to spot circumzenithal arc. Learn what makes each formation special with expert text from the Cloud Appreciation Society and stunning reference photographs by our app users around the world.

Build up your Collection of spottings and gain CloudSpotter Stars as you do so. Our innovative tools will help you decide what type of clouds or optical effects you’ve spotted. You will hear back from the rest of the community whether they think you got your spotting right. You can see New Spottings by other users around the world and say (with our help) if you think they got theirs right. Becoming an expert cloudspotter has never been easier – or more fun!

And if you’re a subscribing member of the Cloud Appreciation Society you’ll be able to access our Cloud-a-Days each morning. These feature curated photographs by our members, explanations of the clouds featured, inspiring sky quotations, and even examples of clouds depicted in art.

Looking up will never be the same again!

Ratings and reviews

Love the idea of this app and it works great when you have solid cell service. However, when I tried to use it with limited service, it said it would upload my spotting later but this didn't happen. I can't find a queue of "unposted" spottings and what's even more frustrating is that I can upload a photo for AI ID, but once I select a type, I can't upload my previous photo from my gallery. I think this app has a lot of potential but this is a frustrating limitation.

Only my first spotting is listed in my collection. Every time I spot a new one it says cloud spotted but never saves it. I really want to like this app, I think it has the potential to be awesome. My suggestions: -Fix spottings -Add camera controls like zoom within the app -Make it interactive between users so you can see other people's spottings, where it was, comment, and help identify (like on iNaturalist) Edit: the bug I mentioned was fixed long ago. Also: NEED LANDSCAPE PICS, SQUARE BAD

The app is a wonderful way to learn more about clouds from a large library of info but when using the option to add your own photos of clouds you may have spotted you must then wait for a cloud verification (from other users, I'd expect). Should your cloud photo be labelled as "considered unlikely" perhaps it would be helpful if whoever is verifying the photo be kind enough to correctly label the type of cloud for you so that a new user might be able to learn from this app. Just a thought.

What’s new

This is just a minor update to fix a bug causing the app to ask for device audio permissions, which are not necessary for spotting clouds! Thanks to Tze Shuang Chai for pointing this out.