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.

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

I enjoy this app a lot but I think it has a lot basic functionality flaws and some poor design. My biggest issue is that the app is so ridiculously slow. It's so inconvenient and I'll be sitting there for 10 minutes just trying to get to one specific thing. The app functions like it's an abandoned amateur student project. edit 2025: I think it got worse. it's borderline unusable.

iNaturalist has became my favorite app, It made it easier to identify my findings and gave so much more meaning and incentive to do so. The mobile app itself is... ehh. If you have a computer, use the website instead. The app is missing quite a few useful features, and I have came across a few issues. However it is still useful for doing quick observations on the field. iNat itself is still 10/10. Also, stop putting your houseplants on it, and stop leaving it as "unknown".

2/14- When is this bug going to be fixed? Very disappointed that I can't use the app anymore! 2/09- Still can't upload or share to iNat. 1/31- I really like iNaturalist, but for the past 4 days it crashes every time I try to upload a photo, whether by sharing from my gallery or uploading through iNat and then I end up with unknown species that I can't do anything with except delete it. I've cleared the phone cache and restarted my phone multiple times and it still doesn't work. Very frustrated.

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