Seek by iNaturalist

iNaturalist

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!

• Get outside and point the Seek Camera at living things

• Identify wildlife, plants, and fungi and learn about the organisms all around you

• 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 you’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.

Ratings and reviews

It works pretty well most of the time. We have hundreds of IDs and it's fun using the app aside some infuriating bugs, though. Half the time it gets an ID, it freezes and fails to secure the ID (but the photo IS taken and in gallery) or you get a random location not applied error (even if it JUST ID'd with location). In both cases you have to recapture. The other issue on Samsung S22, the capture button loads behind the bottom nav bar meaning you often hit the minimize app button accidentally.

This app used to be amazing but now it doesn't take the picture to identify what you are looking at, it loses the location, it freezes after you "try a different angle" to identify what you are looking at. I don't know what went wrong with this app but I hope it is fixed soon. I loved using it not only for myself but on nature walks with my daughter so we can learn together.

good but could use improvement in some spots. if I know the genus of a plant I can take a pic of but can NOT input anything with the picture. ex: I know it's an orchid, but not which type. when I take pics it can't ID or give me bad suggestions. it's good if the plant is flowering and decent with animals. a Pokemon go for plant/nature people.

What’s new

Minor updates and bug fixes