iNaturalist
Observe and identify plants and animals with your friends
Total ratings
4.14
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spammy, or outdated. Pros
- Accurate species identification
- Great community for sharing observations
- Fun and engaging to use, similar to a nature collection
- Good mapping and search features
- Ability to contribute to scientific research
Cons
- Frequent bugs and crashes, especially when uploading photos or browsing observations
- Difficulties with uploading pictures from the gallery after updates
- Confusing user interface and unintuitive navigation
- Inconsistent functionality on slow internet or older devices
- Issues with time and date settings for observations
Most mentioned
- App frequently crashes or becomes unresponsive
- Problems with uploading and syncing photos
- Need for better navigation and user interface improvements
- Desire for additional features like following users or viewing conservation statuses
- App performance differences between Android and iPhone devices
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3.60
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| Date | Author | Rating | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-10-31 |  | | I love that I can identify almost anything and that it helps contribute to science. But I really wish once identified I could get some more information about the plant/ animal etc. Especially if it is native/ invasive. It would also be great if the conservation status was listed, and some tips on how we could help or encourage that type of butterfly into our garden (for example) |
| 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! |
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