iNaturalist

Name: iNaturalist
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Rating: 3.886075973510742 (10547 reviews)
Author: iNaturalist

3.9

10.5K reviews

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About this app

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. iNaturalist is a joint initiative by the California Academy of Sciences and the National Geographic Society.

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

Updated on

27 Feb 2025

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.

No data shared with third parties

Learn more about how developers declare sharing

This app may collect these data types

Location, Personal info and 5 others

Data is encrypted in transit

You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

3.9

10.2K reviews

Noah

10 April 2025

I enjoy this app a lot but I think it has a lot basic functionality flaws and some poor design. My biggest issue is that the app is so ridiculously slow. It's so inconvenient and I'll be sitting there for 10 minutes just trying to get to one specific thing. The app functions like it's an abandoned amateur student project. edit 2025: I think it got worse. it's borderline unusable.

78 people found this review helpful

Kevin Achtmeyer

26 May 2025

Incredibly glitchy, and especially finicky when identifying, it randomly exits the observation, then makes it impossible to add any others, and often very slow, with seemingly random crashes that require you to restart the app entirely. Amazing website, which is why you get 2 stars instead of 1, but a horrible app, would not recommend.

4 people found this review helpful

RB Nation

24 June 2025

i'm in love with this app, the concept of it is beautiful but the (app)lication is a tad lacking. Can be glitchy especially after multiple obersavtions, and I highly recommend add a video option for obsetvations as well. With that said, I use it any chance I get. The suggestions both from the app and other observers as well as a brief page for the species is such a valuable teaching tool, it's such a great way to get people interacting with the outdoors, I act like mine's a pokedex