iNaturalist

Name: iNaturalist
Rating: 3.8 (11626 reviews)
Author: iNaturalist

3.8 • 5M+

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Compliance: Law-aligned
Category: Education
Download: 5M+
Safety: 100% Safe
Price: Free
Developer: 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. 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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Learn step by step

iNaturalist organizes lessons or practice into clear steps.

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Practice and review

Exercises and repetition help the material stick.

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Track progress

See what you have covered and what comes next.

Advantages

Content is broken into manageable pieces.
Progress is easy to pick back up between sessions.
Practice builds on what you have covered.

What users say

Patte G

Apr 30, 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

Ellie Hoyt

May 5, 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...

Kayleigh Ildiko

Jul 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.

Matt Chansler

Jun 19, 2026

Can upload, but viewing & identifying are almost completely nonfunctional! It freezes after trying to identify more than one or two observations. Why are the app versions both so bad? I used to do a lot of identification and I can't anymore. Not only that, but Explore is also buggy and slow! Even small searches load infinitely. I know it's a small team but it's like half the function of the app has just failed. Get it together.

Karla Salp

Mar 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.