iNaturalist

Name: iNaturalist
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Rating: 3.5968379974365234 (11314 reviews)
Author: iNaturalist

3.6

11.3K reviews

5M+

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Editors' Choice

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

Apr 07, 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

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

3.6

11K 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.

63 people found this review helpful

Karla Salp

March 25, 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.

18 people found this review helpful

Enya MacKennedy

April 4, 2026

Doesn't deserve such a low review when there's nothing not to love about it! I've been posting pictures of wild animals and plants. It works well and the other people are very helpful! The app unfortunately doesn't have all the same features as the website, the main annoyance I've had that I have to copy the link to someone's profile into my browser if I want to follow them. But it's really great!