iNaturalist

Observe and identify plants and animals with your friends

iNaturalist

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By: iNaturalist

Users: 5,000,206

11.17K

Rating: 4.11

(9,933)

0.02

Version: 1.35.5 (Last updated: 2024-11-04)

Creation date: 2011-12-30

Email: he*****@inaturalist.org

URLs: Website ,Privacy policy

Permissions

Identity: find accounts on the device

Contacts: find accounts on the device

Location: approximate location (network-based), precise location (GPS and network-based)

Photos/Media/Files: read the contents of your USB storage, modify or delete the contents of your USB storage

Storage: read the contents of your USB storage, modify or delete the contents of your USB storage

Camera: take pictures and videos

Microphone: record audio

Wi-Fi connection information: view Wi-Fi connections

Other:

receive data from Internet
view network connections
full network access
run at startup
use accounts on the device
prevent device from sleeping
read Google service configuration

Ranking

# 20,532 ▼ 19

Other rankings

#2 in nature keyword 29 #4 in reference keyword 46 ▲ #13 in identify keyword 59 ▼ 3 #13 in merlin keyword 36 #16 in blätter keyword 58 ▲

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App summary

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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

User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Google Play Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.

Pros

Great species identification capabilities
Helpful community for feedback and identification
Fun and engaging to use, similar to nature collection
Good mapping features for exploring local flora and fauna
Easy to use interface for uploading observations

Cons

App is buggy and prone to crashing
Issues with uploading photos and syncing observations
Difficulties with location search on the map
Inconsistent performance on Android compared to iPhone
Unclear navigation and missing features like user following

Most mentioned

Bugginess and crashes
Uploading and syncing issues
Species identification accuracy
Community engagement and feedback
Difficulties in using the map for location

User reviews

As a beginner at identifying mushrooms this app has been fantastic, I'm just annoyed that ever since a recent update (I believe?) i can't upload pictures that I've already taken. I always get told "photo format is not supported" this didn't happen when I first got the app. I can still take a photo from within the app, just can't upload from my gallery.

Jared Jacobson, 2024-10-24

i love inaturalist, but the interface on the app is not great. posting observations is just ok, sometimes tricky. trying to look at other people's observations or just browsing through animals a lot of problems arise. i can't sort by favorites, recent, species, most of the stuff i like really. when im out i gotta rely on opening inaturalist in my browser which is a bit odd on mobile. inaturalist is a great community, i hope they can optimize the app so it's easier to access on the go.

Cialin D., 2024-03-31

great app! a bit easier to navigate than the website, though it has fewer options (like following inat users). it's fun to add annotations to other observations that are missing some. maybe that is just because i am incredibly autistic. also, some genera pages with their automatically displayed wikipedia articles show the wrong article! i found no way to report the problem. example: genus Nepa shows an article about the village and market center in nepal.