iNaturalist

Name: iNaturalist
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Rating: 3.9384615421295166 (11938 reviews)
Author: iNaturalist

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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

Observe and identify plants and animals with your friends

Updated on

15 Oct 2026

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
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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

11.6K reviews

E. G. Hoyt

5 May 2026

As much as I love the website, the app leaves much to be desired. I can essentially only post observations — attempting to see other posts, check notifications, edit observations, or anything else causes the app to immediately freeze and crash. I really wish it was more stable, I use the website all the time! I've changed phones too, and the problem continues...

58 people found this review helpful

Karla Salp

25 March 2026

Updated review - unfortunately as a daily user of the app for the past 3 years, it has become increasingly glitchy. You can still upload observations, but anything beyond that (exploring, identifying) results in frequent crashes after only a few records (often less than 10!) despite phone restarts, clearing the cache, etc. It is basically useless for identifying observations, so you are limited to identifying to when you are at a computer. Major opportunity loss for the platform.

44 people found this review helpful

Patte G

30 April 2026

I really enjoy this app for identifying critters and uploading photos and sounds. It is quite accurate on most things. The most frustrating thing while using it is after a few identifications it will stop working. like if I am identifying someone elses observation, it won't go through sometimes. or if I am uploading a photo for identification, sometimes it won't load the suggestions. Or when I'm scrolling through the explore page, it will sometimes make my phone hot and crash. Also no dark mode

42 people found this review helpful