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

Mostly a decent app, however, on mobile (android) at least, it is rather glitchy at times. After ID other observations a few times in a row, it glitches and keeps going around in circles asking to input what you think it is. Also, the projects feature doesn't work properly on the app- when trying to add the observation to a project, it doesn't let you click the project name to add in. Would also be good to prevent 'sheep ID'ers' who just click agree on anything without having a clue!

This app is a fantastic idea, but the follow-thru leaves a lot to be desired. Biggest issue is the use of only crowdsourced id. There simply aren't enough experts able to id organisms on this app (with the exception of birds). Most of my observations do not get IDed. I'm hoping that this is an issue that can be resolved in the future. I'm uninstalling the app because it is useless to me as it is, but will check back sometime in the future to see if it has improved, because I love this idea.

Love this app but I do find one thing really frustrating and time consuming. If you record an observation with no photo, the app helpfully takes your current location. However if you upload a photo from your phone, you have to manually find your location from anywhere in the entire world. Pls can you add options to use current location or at least use the previous location that you have just entered. When uploading multiple photos, it takes ages manually finding the correct location. Aargh!!

What's new

* Fixed bug resulting in unintended identifications
* New translations