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

Often, quick ID! If the subject is obscure or unpopular, ID may be delayed or not at all. The system is mostly easy to use. Search by name needs a lot of the words to find things. Providing certain info helps. Clear pics of important features, a date, time, and location. Additional info about things like gender, if its alive, stage of life, etc., can be added after you have submitted your observation. I would like to know if BAMONA and iBird are worth doing too?

Edit: it has a hard time identifying emergent plants. It's a problem. One of my favorite apps - I call it my most important gardening tool. The more I use it, the more amazing it is. Readily identifies plants, both cultivated and wild. I've recently discovered it can do mushrooms and insects too. The AI behind this is impressive.

Used to love this app but it is now extremely laggy to the point that it is much quicker to just look up things on the iNaturalist website on your phone internet browser. Also the automatic sync has often uploaded things I have deliberately deleted the upload for, but if you turn it off it will barely upload anything at all. Unimpressed.

What's new

New translations and a new font