Seek by iNaturalist

3.3
9.14K reviews
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Everyone
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About this app

Use the power of image recognition technology to identify the plants and animals all around you. Earn badges for seeing different types of plants, birds, fungi and more!

ā€¢ Get outside and point the Seek Camera at living things

ā€¢Ā Identify wildlife, plants, and fungi and learn about the organisms all around you

ā€¢Ā Earn badges for observing different types of species and participating in challenges


OPEN THE CAMERA AND START SEEKING!

Found a mushroom, flower, or bug, and not sure what it is? Open up the Seek Camera to see if it knows!

Drawing from millions of wildlife observations on iNaturalist, Seek shows you lists of commonly recorded insects, birds, plants, amphibians, and more in your area. Scan the environment with the Seek Camera to identify organisms using the tree of life. Add different species to your observations and learn all about them in the process! The more observations you make, the more badges youā€™ll earn!

This is a great app for families who want to spend more time exploring nature together, and for anyone who wants to learn more about the life all around them.

KID-SAFE

Seek does not require registration and does not collect any user data by default. Some user data will be collected if you choose to sign in with an iNaturalist account, but you must be over 13 or have your parents permission to do so.

Seek will ask permission to turn on location services, but your location is obscured to respect your privacy while still allowing species suggestions from your general area. Your precise location is never stored in the app or sent to iNaturalist unless you sign in to your iNaturalist account and submit your observations.

Our image recognition technology is based on observations submitted to iNaturalist.org and partner sites, and identified by the iNaturalist community.

Seek is part of iNaturalist, a not-for-profit organization. Seek was made by the iNaturalist team with support from the California Academy of Sciences, the National Geographic Society, Our Planet on Netflix, WWF, HHMI Tangled Bank Studios, and Visipedia.
Updated on
Feb 9, 2024

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 Photos and videos
Data is encrypted in transit
You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

3.3
8.96K reviews
Skylar Lima
March 15, 2024
The functionality of this app is great, I love making observations of the world around me, and being able to go back and look at past observations. It's kinda like a pokedex for real life! That being said, I have had to replace my phone twice this year, and each time I have lost my observations, which SUCKS. I had even taken a trip to my home state of CA, identified my favorite aromatic plant (California Sagebrush), and now I've lost the observation. Half the fun is collecting, and losing is sad
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Kara MacDowell
October 21, 2023
Great at identifying and giving information about the flora and fauna around you. I love the challenges and achievements as well. What I would improve is the ability to sort by dates observed. I would also like the camera to be better. My phone's camera is amazing with resolution and focus ability, but through the seek app, the resolution is horrible, and the ability to focus is lacking. These things knock a star off, even though this is my favorite plant ID app.
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Ryan Martinez-Ukulele lessons
December 6, 2023
The higher quality pictures I have taken using my factory camera app are somehow not good enough for the software. It tries for half a second and makes a lazy guess. It seems to prefer its own garbage camera that can't focus on small things. This is a jerk thing to do, but I still use this app because of its ability to at least get me in the ball park.
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What's new

- Bug fixes