iNaturalist

Name: iNaturalist
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Rating: 3.7613167762756348 (10892 reviews)
Author: iNaturalist

3.8

10.9K reviews

5M+

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Everyone

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.

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

Sep 30, 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

3.8

10.6K reviews

Kayleigh Ildiko

July 21, 2025

I LOVE THIS APP! I wish everyone had it, and would be amazed by the fact that nearly every ant, fly, flower, blade of grass has a name and story! It would be fun if it was more game-ified I wish there was a little more social aspect, I'd love to be more able to follow my friends and see what they've been recording/observing, and help ID! I couldn't find a way on the app to follow friends, but found them online, but then there doesn't seem to be any benefit once you're back on the app.

27 people found this review helpful

Evan

June 25, 2025

This app is super useful for being able to identify different types of animal/plant/fungus species. It's honestly pretty amazing. Being able to track which species you've seen in the wild is very cool, and the community around the app is incredible. However, I can't rate it higher simply because this app can sometimes be very buggy. Crashes are somewhat common and posts can sometimes refuse to be shown. Still, very cool app. Would recommend.

15 people found this review helpful

Jaime McCoin

May 24, 2025

Unfortunately I'm having similar issues as other users where the app tells me "you have to be connected to the internet to do that!" despite *being on the internet*, and then my submissions just sit and sit and are unable to be uploaded. It seems like I tried doing 1 submission weeks ago where I didn't have connectivity at the time and literally anything after that can't get processed correctly, so it seems like a "stuck in queue" issue. I hope they get it fixed, I really want to use it!

25 people found this review helpful