In this app, you can identify plants and animals by recording observations and exploring suggested matches. Includes community discussions, project participation, and data sharing features.

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About iNaturalist

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

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Reviews for iNaturalist

Hannah Wortman

12/28/2025

App keeps crashing and is completely unusable. Glitched and made me spam an observation

Glenadel Febe

12/26/2025

good app for curious minds. makes strolls or nature watching more interesting. i do wish the interface for android would be more intuitive and allow projects to be created on the app instead of having to go to the website. also wish we could upload offline drafts because mobile data can be spotty in nature trails sometimes.