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 created by the iNaturalist team. iNaturalist is a joint initiative of the California Academy of Sciences and the National Geographic Society. Seek was originally created with support from HHMI Tangled Bank Studios and enhanced with support from Our Planet on Netflix and WWF.

Ratings and reviews

This is a great app for learning about the natural world we're a part of. Usually pretty accurate but would very much appreciate the option to correct inaccurate observations made by the camera. Would be especially nice if it would sync back and forth with iNaturalist when an observation is corrected.

I spend a lot of time outside and I've had an absolute blast with this app. I've started compulsively adding to my observations. It's like a real life pokedex and I wear every entry like a badge. From the streets to the trail, I love to learning more about all the life I encounter. It's well made and I haven't encountered any bugs so far (software bugs that is) I would absolutely recommend for anyone with a curious mind.

I've loved using this app overall; such a helpful real-time encyclopedia. However, I just wish it was a little bit more discerning. I can't count how many times I've been stuck on the "Dicot" stage of identification for obvious plants, wanting to scream at my phone: "It's a crababble tree!!" Also, I often get stuck on the "almost a species" stage, and the app will not identify the plant no matter how many different angles I use. I just wish the app could record an "almost" sighting frankly.

What's new

- Bug fixes