iNaturalist

If you want a fun free app that makes a difference this is it. Pictures of anything g from animals, to bugs, to plants. The program is user friendly and very efficient.

I can’t image anyone would want your new app with new ai features. It destroys the authentic meaning of iNaturalist. It can’t even get anything right anymore. It keeps telling me my bioluminescent mushrooms are common mushrooms and shows me 30 different pictures of each one of those pictures all being different species 💀💀 it’s not even just that it’s trees to flowers etc 😭 How ridiculous. Never use this bs app only use the old app and if the devs choose to have spite and try in anyway remove the old app to force us into this Ai garbage I already saved the source code and bundle for the old app and will host it server side on a tor server to get the data and put the app for all devices on my GitHub without any restrictions or data collection. Even better I will just launch my own at that point but leave it a option (or added into mine) to keep using the old app if it ever becomes a issue. Hope the devs read this review and 1 not pay for fake reviews like everyone else does to cover this up and 2 actual make a change for the better. It’s a shame real research gets thrown away with horrible America language models that deceive the public every single day (Ai). At least use a Russian or Chinese language model that isn’t built for deception and mass surveillance and control by our tyrant country and build off it yourself with open source software on your own infrastructure it’s not that hard and it’s not expensive (unless your a complete idiot only using Ai to build and code 💀💀) then you could actual make this bs app work somewhat decent but that’s a long shot! Looks like I’m gonna use the old app and use alternatives the old school way and focus on my project that is built for the people without Ai The new app layout is nice for a standard Ai template 😂 but it’s still garbage. Use real human code and you’ll be respected more in the community and not get dogged. Hope change comes so I don’t gotta be the one to spend weeks reverse engineering your garbage and building something better. I don’t say any of this with hate I say it with disappointment and truth. Do better.

I've used this app for years and always have loved it for its usefulness in both AI- and human-generated identifications. However the most recent major update to the user interface made it much less usable -- it is super confusing now to try to navigate through the various menus to figure out how to do simple things like upload an observation or search for a particular species on the map. The app developers clearly wanted to add more functionality to the app but by doing so they made it much less fun, and way more confusing, to use.

Have used this app in multiple states and on plants animals and fungi. Does what it says, and rates its own confidence

this is a fantastic app with so much information to be learned!!! i hope people continue to donate to keep this app running - it’s my favorite thing to do on my phone!!!!

They are using your uploaded pictures to train their AI model, google lens, and the defense departments probably anyone else who pays for the data too. I’m not training anyone’s computer program for them. Once a few people identify a species and it gets marked as research grade they start feeding it to the AI. Delete all your content then delete the app.

The old version, why weird in some ways, is still preferred. But they’ve clearly paid attention to feedback and are improving the app continuously, to benefit both the public use and scientific use. Uploading is now much better on this app, as is ID. I still use the old app for viewing my uploaded records (it’s easier to view more records at once cleanly), and definitely prefer the map of the old version. Hopefully the old map functionality is brought to the new one soon!!

iNaturalist is absolutely amazing. Of course the AI image analysis and life list functions are nice, but the community is really what makes iNaturalist special. It’s a group of hundreds of thousands of people who all truly care about nature and not only that but want to help others by IDing and providing insight into what they see. Be sure to also check out the website that accompanies the app (or rather vice versa): it’s a detail lover/organization freak’s dream!

Really great tool for identifying nature! Works well, and the “experts” are always helpful in narrowing down the details if the app doesn’t immediately show you the correct information. Super easy to use.

It’s handy, it’s easy, it’s free. I love it!

I have more than 70 observations, but only 18 are uploaded. The 50+ others will not upload. Nothing happens. No error, no upload. It just sits there uploading 1. Their advise? Log out and looses all the observations! Terrible.

Used to work. Now it’s awful