iNaturalist

4.2
10.1K reviews
5M+
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Content rating
Everyone
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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
Updated on
27 Feb 2025

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
No data shared with third parties
Learn more about how developers declare sharing
This app may collect these data types
Location, Personal info and 5 others
Data is encrypted in transit
You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

4.2
9.81K reviews
Sawdoug29
14 March 2025
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".
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Nina B
14 February 2025
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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Earl
2 March 2025
App works great! Is it possible to filter out dead species when in explore mode? When choosing a specific park, it auto renames the park to the town's name in which the park resides. Also seems to have some kind of memory leak as the app crashes after having it open too long.
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