The Tick App

University of Wisconsin-Madison Shared Apps

About this app

Help prevent tick encounters and tick-borne diseases. By sharing when and where you encounter ticks you will help researchers at the University of Wisconsin and Columbia University to better prevent tick-borne diseases. The Tick App also provides information on tick identification, tick removal and other prevention ideas. You can also submit ticks for identification by university staff.

The Tick App was developed as part of a collaborative research study between the Midwest and Northeast Centers of Excellence in Vector-borne Disease.

Ratings and reviews

Latest update has created a persistent notification which is annoying. It's also broken the update daily log functionality. Now when you create a daily log it's locked and permanent, no updating if you find another tick later. Otherwise it's a useful tool if you live in the survey area.

Don't bother until they get the app working better. They ask you to sign up and then require you to answer screen after screen of questions. After minutes of doing this it flipped back to the first page and none of my inputs were saved. 10 minutes of work for nothing.

Cool citizen science ap with useful safety and prevention info. I helped a friend get appropriate medical attention for a bite because of what I learned from the ap. Have contacted the scientific team using this and found them very helpful.

What's new

Minor bug fixes and system improvements