
iNaturalist 4+
Discover nature around you
iNaturalist
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- Free
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Description
Point the camera at plants, animals, & fungi to see species suggestions while you’re outside, or import photos from your library. iNaturalist helps millions of people like you learn more about nature using AI suggestions backed up by a global community of knowledgeable nature lovers.
iNaturalist goes far beyond AI identifications—your observations are reviewed by real people and shared for science to help protect species.
KEY FEATURES
Identify species from anywhere in the world
Keep a record of species you see
Contribute to science by sharing your observations
Explore and protect biodiversity
Connect with and learn from other nature enthusiasts
iNaturalist’s nonprofit mission is to connect people to nature and advance science and conservation. iNaturalist is freely available thanks to generous support from our community of donors.
Explore and learn even more at https://www.inaturalist.org.
What’s New
Version 1.0.2
Try the new iNaturalist app!
• Press and hold on the AI camera button to access more ways to create an observation, including multiple photos and sound recordings.
• Refined Camera & Suggestions: Enjoy a cleaner AI camera interface, better offline suggestions, and better suggestion photos.
• UI and Usability Updates: Updated sign up and login screens, notifications, My Observations list, map tiles, and more—making the app easier and more pleasant to use overall.
If you prefer the classic iNaturalist iOS interface: go into Settings, enable Advanced Mode, then select “Edit Observation” in the middle section.
Thank you for using iNaturalist! Please let us know what you think about the new app by using the Feedback form available in the main menu.
Ratings and Reviews
Great But Lacking Features for Powerusers
So far, I'm really liking this update! The UI is a lot less clunky and is much more responsive than the old one. It took a minute to figure out how to bring back the more advanced editing, although I was somewhat disappointed when I did.
What I love:
- Batch upload of photos & sorting options
- Easier to navigate and much more intuitive UI
- Ability to save and come back to obs later without uploading them
What I'm missing from the old app:
- Ability to type in an address/coords for the location field (currently, only iNat Places show up and hitting enter/search does nothing if you try entering/searching for anything else)
- Adding obs to projects while uploading
- Date does not seem to accurately fill based on your current time when uploading photos.
What I would like to see that isn't in either mobile app:
- Batch editing/uploading obs with same time/location/etc.
Definitely a 5-star app if these things get addressed. It's already showing lots of progress!
Developer Response ,
Thanks for letting us know what you like compared to the Classic app! Can you send more details about a possible date error location using the feedback form in the app? That will help us investigate the issue.
If you have enabled location services for your camera, photos should come in with accurate metadata, and you can batch import up to 20 photos at once and group them. Either long press on the camera button, or turn on the advanced mode in settings to easily access the photo library to select multiple photos.
Overall Great! Two Suggestions
I’m very happy to see some of Seek’s best features integrated into iNaturalist. I’ll use iNaturalist much more now, especially since the AI camera is soooo much faster compared to Seek. Overall, I think this is a great next step for the app and have enjoyed using it so far. I hope the developers will consider two additions. First, it would be helpful to be able to copy the coordinates from one observation to another in the app. It is super annoying to have to zoom in on a map while looking at a rural area without a lot of landmarks to find the right spot when I could just copy and paste from another nearby observation. The search function also didn’t bring up some towns in Colorado as an option so the location/map feature seems a bit incomplete/unwieldy. (I’m also not sure why some of my observations didn’t have a location when the observations a few minutes later did.) Second, it would be helpful to be able to crop photos in the app itself. Otherwise, thank you for these great updates!
Too much reliance on AI
I’m struggling with a couple of the update features. Many of the ways to make observations scientifically accurate are buried or much more difficult to do. For example, you have to hold down the camera button to upload more than one photo/angle of an observation, which is not intuitive—there is also no button within the camera part (once opened) to change to more than one photo upload. Now the ID appears to be entirely based on AI, where you don’t have any clear way to suggest an ID that isn’t AI-predicted within the app. It feels like iNaturalist is moving closer to a pop science usage (Seek-ish) and losing much of what makes it scientifically valuable. Without intuitive ways for (newer) observers to know how to upload additional angles of an observation and suggest IDs that disagree with AI, it seems like the data will become increasingly less accurate.
App Privacy
The developer, iNaturalist, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Location
- Contact Info
- User Content
- Search History
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- iNaturalist
- Size
- 195.4 MB
- Category
- Education
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 13.4 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 13.4 or later.
- Languages
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English, Afrikaans, Albanian, Arabic, Basque, Belarusian, Bosnian, Breton, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Esperanto, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, Gaelic, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Kazakh, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Luxembourgish, Macedonian, Malay, Malayalam, Maori, Marathi, Norwegian Bokmål, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Santali, Serbian, Simplified Chinese, Singhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2025 iNaturalist
- Price
- Free