ObsIdentify

Observation International

About this app

Recognize nature in one click! Take a photo in Europe or the Dutch Caribbean and find out which species it is. Collect all your wildlife observations in the app. You'll be rewarded with tips to find new species, earn badges, and be invited to join challenges. Create groups with colleagues, family or friends, to share your stunning nature observations. Your observations, and those of others, contribute to biological research and knowledge about nature. Every observation counts!

ObsIdentify only recognizes wild animals, plants and mushrooms in Europe and the Dutch Caribbean. Please do not use the app for selfies, people, pets, house or garden plants.

The image recognition in ObsIdentify is made possible by millions of observations from thousands of users of Waarneming.nl, Waarnemingen.be and Observation.org. ObsIdentify is a product of the Observation International Foundation, in collaboration with Naturalis Biodiversity Center (The Netherlands) and Natuurpunt (Belgium).

Ratings and reviews

Such a cool app. Now I can actually see what bug it is instead of staring at it and just wondering what it is. And you're telling me I'm able to help a good cause along with it? This is amazing! However, it would be even better if you were able to make multiple pictures before having to identify an organism. Not all animals stay in one place for a long time, so having to load extra menus before you're able to make another picture can be annoying at times.

Came here to say pretty much exactly the same what Jip Berkelder said! I too would love the option to delete observations and connect/share observations with friends. Maybe even a possibility to do challenges together? Besides that, while taking a picture in the app it looks quite sharp but after it has been taken (so before identification) it suddenly gets (a lot) more unsharp. Those things aside, loving the app and how it is gamified with badges and challenges!

Good concept but missing functions. Doesn't offer to save the pictures to gallery automatically. Now I use the camera app and then upload. Would be nice to create observations without photos, and to save observations without uploading if they are uncertain. Badges and challenges are cool, but very animal focussed. Would be nice to create more, and track them in a similar fashion to stackoverflow. Can imagine automatic challenges based on nearby observations (that's how I use the website).

What’s new

- Fix for the app growing in size over time when using the camera.
- The dashboard now shows a link to the donate page
- Language of the terms and conditions has been clarified
- Update of the dependencies