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

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.

Extremely helpful identification, very good mapping and decent search feature. I recommend it to anyone and everyone to get them to appreciate and learn about nature. Good UI but very strange, could very much use a large menu button for seeing your favorited sightings; it's an odd choice to not have it included. The identification suggestion feature - the most important part for beginners - is kind of hidden.

Really love this app as an extension of the website! but there are a lot of features I wish were on it. For one, a "research grade" marker on my posts that are verified would be nice, because it's on everyone else's profile but your own. The app is also buggy and can be slow / crash doing basic tasks. I also see a lot of my posts duplicated on my profile, even though they aren't on the website. Clearing app data fixes this, but then it happens with new posts... besides that, the app is great!

What's new

* New translations
* Fixed a bug when updating your profile description
* Updated downtime notifications