iNaturalist
Observe and identify plants and animals with your friends
Total ratings
4.11
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spammy, or outdated.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
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| Date | Author | Rating | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-10-24 |  | | 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. |
| 2024-03-31 |  | | 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. |
| 2023-08-21 |  | | 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. |
| 2023-07-25 |  | | iNaturalist is such an amazing thing, and I cannot express how grateful I am that it exists. That being said, the app in its current state is incredibly buggy (no pun intended). It crashes reliably when I ID for more than 5 minutes. There are also many features that should be added, such as the ability to follow friends. I love iNaturalist, and this app could be so much better. |
| 2023-06-15 |  | | The user experience could be slightly better. It's unclear how to join groups or subscribe to guides. I don't believe there is a follow feature for users either. Overall the app functions well, but it's rather unintuitive. My favorite thing about iNaturalist is that it makes you much more conscious of every living thing around you. Each specimen becomes a beautiful and amazing new example of how vastly complex our world is. Every organism plays a part in the world, no matter how small. |
| 2023-03-24 |  | | This is like collecting Pokèmon but in real life! You find flowers, birds, or bugs out in the wild, take a photo of it, and the app identifies the species and builds your collection of sightings! I love photographing and documenting all the new wildflowers that I come accross on my hikes in different regions. Now I have my own personal library of my sightings with my own photos! I just wish there was a way to add friends or follow other users nearby. I need people to share this with. Amazing! |
| 2022-08-17 |  | | Extremely helpful identification, very good mapping and decent search feature. I recommend it to anyone and everyone to get them to appreciate and learn about nature. Good UI but very strange, could very much use a large menu button for seeing your favorited sightings; it's an odd choice to not have it included. The identification suggestion feature - the most important part for beginners - is kind of hidden. |
| 2022-07-23 |  | | This app was amazing for the first few days I used it! It helped me identify some things I had photos of saved in my phone, and is very accurate and fun to use. Unfortunately, it has suspended my account for an unknown reason. Even after resetting my password, uninstalling and downloading the app again, I am still not allowed back in. I've read in other reviews that the app is buggy on Android, so maybe this is an issue on my end. Hopefully I can have access again soon and get back to it! |
| 2021-11-08 |  | | Wonderful app that needs an update! Like a lot of people have said, the app is really struggling to load photos, which is particularly frustrating because the purpose of the app is to share ID photos. Hoping they update to fix this problem soon. That aside, the app is great. You can give permission for researchers and publishers to use your photos (and give you credit) which is very cool. Especially when your photo ends up as the main photo for an organism on the Wikipedia page! |
| 2021-06-26 |  | | I tried many apps to identify the flora & fauna during my hikes and in my yard. This is by far the best. The review and suggestion feature by others is what puts it over the top. The side by side comparison feature is helpful. My only wish would be a few more pictures of some plants during the different phases of the season, but most have good reference pictures. |
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