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Seek by iNaturalist App Complaints & User Negative Comments 2024
Seek by iNaturalist app received 69 complaints, negative comments and reviews by users. Have you ever had a bad experience using Seek by iNaturalist? Can you share your negative thoughts about seek by inaturalist?
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Seek by iNaturalist for Negative User Reviews
✓ Toxic communityI have never participated in a more demeaning aggressive toxic and all around negative community in my life I contributed for over a year to have 90% of my observations i know a correct be altered to something it’s clearly not by an aggressive community who it seems wants to show off their inability to identify animals. I proved this by legitimately taking a picture of a painting of a grey heron and the community gave me all sorts of negative comments saying i had no business identifying animals because its obviously a great blue heron till i reposted the picture with the title show of grey heron. And i said that i cant participate in this toxicity anymore. Not worth the time. Good concept bad execution..Version: 2.15.0
✓ Great idea, needs a bit of refiningWhile the app is a great integration to iNaturalist, allowing you to post observations directly there, it lacks in its core functionality of using the camera and images to identify the subject in the first place. I’m on an iPhone with the 3 camera lenses and if I use the iOS camera app, it selects the best lens for close ups whereas Seek just remains blurred. Also it never loads my photo library so I have to go and edit which images it has access to every time I want to take a decent picture with Camera app to then add to Seek. Additionally, if it were possible to select eg “plant” or “animal” on the camera interface it would vastly assist when trying to take a photo of an insect on a plant!! I can’t recommend this app for a quick ID since it is way too frustrating to use, which is a real shame!.Version: 2.15.0
✓ MisidentificationThis app is really bad. It cannot tell the difference between a cat and a dog from a clear photograph. With its inability to correctly classify a simple house pet, I would not trust it to accurately classify anything..Version: 2.15.6
✓ Not recognizingI run a crystal clear photo through. Then, the results keep coming back as unable to identify. I even tried a zoomed version and same results occur. Please, create an update to fix this problem!!.Version: 2.14.8
✓ Feature requestPlease make this compatible with photos that are lower quality from low light..Version: 2.10.3
✓ J’ai une suggestionÇa fait quelques jours que j’ai commencé à utilisé l’application Seek par iNaturalist et je l’apprécie beaucoup. Et j’aimerais faire une suggestion… je voudrais pouvoir envoyé des informations complémentaires, qui proviennent de publication de ma région, à propos des observations que je fait avec l’application et qui pourrait être écrit dans une section « autres informations » Comme par exemple un autre nom commun utilisé dans ma province..Version: 2.14.10
✓ Love it butI love this app so much and it used to work well. Now, everything i scan is not recognisable by the app and I have to upload everything to inaturalist for people to identify. Very frustrating!!!.Version: 2.14.9
✓ Anti weebAnti weeb not fair don’t know who Naruto is.Version: 2.12.19
✓ InaccurateIt has so far identified two fungi - both found only in the US. I’m in the UK (and the app knows this). It would seem to be better suited to US users than UK - certainly for more difficult / unusual things such as fungi, lichens and mosses which is what I wanted it for. No way of telling the app that it is wrong either..Version: 2.15.7
✓ A good and promising start that needs some tinkeringSeek is a very promising extension of iNaturalist and has a lot of potential as a family-friendly game. The Badge System is pretty cool (interestingly similar to Pokémon GO?), but it’s unclear if there is any long-term “goal” or incentive to getting higher badge rankings other than bragging rights. I think this is ultimately what will hinder long-term use of the app. The interface is great though - much better than the actual iNaturalist app and more aesthetically pleasing. It feels like Seek can serve as an actual learning tool, and I sincerely hope that the core iNaturalist app adopts some of its concepts. In terms of how accurate it is... well, it’s limited and not always 100% accurate (it recognized my Goat observation as a Dog) but it’s also as complex as it needs to be. My biggest grievance is that when a genus lacks a Common Name, it doesn’t show up in a species’ taxonomy. It‘s a little jarring..Version: 2.0.2
✓ Not hugely impressedApp doesn’t pick up recent photos taken on my iPhone 11 and often offers only rough ID even if the photo is clear. The ability to get feedback from the naturalist community is good, though. It’s excellent for keeping a record of wild plants you have seen plus locations but less good for identifying creatures ie insects caterpillars..Version: 2.12.6
✓ Cute for a few plants/treesIf you use it for a day, it’s cute and can ID a handful of things. Use it for a week and you’ll hate how it can’t ID insects, has a devil of a time IDing tree species even when in full leaf, can’t deal with anything in the frame moving (not the best for a naturalist app meant to be used outside) and forget about getting an ID on a bird, reptile or any kind of wildlife. I’ve basically been touching insects with my phone camera, using 20+ slow angles to check it out and it can still only barely get to genus without making it to species. Generally a frustrating experience overall as it sets you up to get the id and then no matter how many angles or zooms or approaches you try, it can’t figure it out. Pass on this app if you like apps that work well, go for it if you don’t care and are just hoping to ID one or two stationary shrubs basically..Version: 2.12.9
✓ Racial BiasUntil recently, I’ve enjoyed using this app and thought it was fun to identify different plants. However, I can’t rate an app more than 1 star when it can’t reliably identify the human species with darker skin tones. I’m referring to an unfortunate event that occurred with my 11 year old daughter and two of her friends. They were outside using this app to identify various plants and they decided to scan my daughter to see what would happen. It identified her as a human. Cool! Next, they scanned another girl and she was also identified as a human. Yay! Then they scanned another girl who happens to have a darker skin tone and it couldn’t identify her. What?!? She removed her glasses and still nothing. All three girls stood in the exact same spot with identical backgrounds. Let me be clear so that can sink in - two white girls were identified as humans and one black girl was not. I would like this app to improve its technology to properly scan and identify ALL humans with their varying shades of skin color. Until that happens, the classification of humans should be removed from this app until it can correctly identify ALL humans from ALL races..Version: 2.13.5
✓ Enjoying the app, but...The app really struggles (just can’t) is trees at all. I have tried from a distance, close up, single leaves and more. Also, the app really needs to pay attention to where it is. We don’t have half the plants it ids in the uk, so the list seems to default to northern US, and ignores the actual location it is located in..Version: 2.2.0
✓ Crashes upon open every time iPhone 13 Pro MaxCan’t open it on iPhone 13 Pro Max, multiple updates and it still crashes every time..Version: 2.13.2
✓ Very good but still cannot get to the photos intendedSo an update seems to have addressed an issue where you could not select photo folders. (A drop down arrow has now appeared). However, if the app does not find an id, I crop the photo and try again but the folder does not refresh within the app. Pulling the gallery down does nothing. Restarting the app does nothing. It is stuck at the gallery point from when you have permission to the app to access your photos. It’s simply impossible to select your intended photo with this app unless you use the camera in the phone there and then. (I use a dedicated camera). If it’s not fixed at the next update, I’m going to look for another app. Please test it first. UPDATE 2.13.1 photo stream (all photos) still not updating any new photos from time of giving permission to app to access. Give up - deleting.Version: 2.13.5
✓ Amazingly accurate, creatively awful UIAstonishing. At every turn, this application manages to have the most unwilledly, irrelevant, cluttered distractions on their homepage. Even listing previous “snapshots” is confusing. This metaphor of “pictures” as “bookmarks” of previous searches is unclear. The UX designers could not have crammed in more inconveniences. Hooray results, boo app design..Version: 2.14.2
✓ It sucksIt takes everything from Wikipedia and told me the a prickly bush was a rose.Version: 2.15.0
✓ Can’t even do basic identificationsThe app couldn’t identify any part of a tomato plant and called it a gourd. It didn’t even recognize a leaf. Google image identification is more accurate..Version: 2.14.11
✓ Sad to see what’s become of this appIt is sad to see the decline of this app. It is next to unusable now, and the group behind it now requires users to consent to tracking and data harvesting. Identification rarely works any longer so I won’t be missing this app. I will be filing a privacy complaint with authorities as well as, of course, closing my account. User beware! It would be nice if Apple actually enforced its supposed privacy rules that were enacted to protect users. This is just one of many apps that I have encountered that should be removed from the App Store for violations..Version: 2.15.0
✓ Nice app, GPS problematicI love the app (and iNaturalist of course) and I wish i could give it 5 stars, but I can’t. On the positive side, it has a sleek UI (I wish that iNat main app would borrow some of it) and is easy to use. I like the challenges / achievements. On the negative side, the biggest issue is the location / GPS which is most of the time inaccurate and making the posting to iNat problematic. Also, if you change location, you always need to restart the app. Other problems include identifying some animals and plants as American species when the location is clearly in Europe, where other species are present. Lastly, despite using the best pics possible, it is unable to identify certain common birds (House Sparrow, Eurasian Magpie, Carrion Crow, Buzzard) at species level. On the iNat app or site, the same pics result in species Identification. Will all shortcomings, it is still a great app for nature lovers and the curious..Version: 2.12.6
✓ It’s goodThe premise is good and the app works pretty well for the most part. Although it does crash on a very regular basis for no apparent reason. I use a phone that can very much handle the app so the crashing is entirely a problem within the app. The second issue is that the seek camera is extremely bad. It doesn’t recognise about 60% of the wildlife that I try to identify. No matter how clear the photos are. I think that you would be well served to add a manual log feature where as I can log the plant or animal manually so that I don’t have to rely 100% on the camera which doesn’t work so often. I know that this could open the doors to cheating but honestly the amount of times the seek camera misidentifies a plant or animal has already opened that door long ago. The app is good. It just need a bit of polishing..Version: 2.14.8
✓ Observations don’t syncI got a new phone and my observations are gone even though I use the same account. Then I read in the app it doesn’t save observations. I now have no insensitive to keep observing as I’d have to start over..Version: 2.15.0
✓ Sadly and Frustratingly UnreliableI wish, wish, wish that the identifying tech was better because I want to use this regularly so badly. But photos I take — good, clear quality photos readily accepted by other apps — are only useable maybe 20% of the time. It’s so frustrating to have a photo considered “research-quality” on iNaturalist not be recognized on this app. This app seems like Pokémon Go but for natural species and it would be so fun. Really disappointed..Version: 2.14.2
✓ Lost years worth of data. 😭I’ve been using Seek for years. Had to reset my iPhone this week and even after logging back into my iNaturalist account (within Seek) I was super disappointed to realize that years worth of observations and challenges weren’t saved anywhere. Please update the the app to support some sort of cloud storage. 😔.Version: 2.14.2
✓ Great idea, hopefully will improveThis app is simple to use and a great idea, but still very limited in what it can recognise. Would be great to have the option for users to make suggestions if we know what the species is. Would also be great if it displayed the species name and any other common names (eg the Māori names of New Zealand species)... would make it more useful for my students..Version: 1.0.1
✓ Worst app ever!I just downloaded this app a few minutes ago and I can’t make it work. It asked me if I wanted it to use my location. I said no. I don’t understand why the app needs to know where I am. Then, when I tried to use the app, it said I can’t use it unless I let it know my location. Why does the app give you the option to say you don’t want it to use your location if that isn’t really an option? I really wanted to use the app,so I decided that I would let it know my location. It said I could configure that in settings. I went to settings and there was no option for turning the location on!! There are only three options in the settings: Select language,Seek camera, and species detail. So my advice to anyone downloading this app is to make sure you say yes to allowing the app to know where you are. If you don’t, apparently you won’t have the opportunity later to turn location detection on. I am deleting the app now..Version: 2.12.5
✓ Time wasterDidn’t identify any of 10 common plants.Version: 2.14.0
✓ Great in theoryI love the idea of this but it’s not as user friendly as I’d hoped. You can’t zoom in on photos to try to help with recognition and it seems to really struggle with plants that don’t have flowers. It also drains my battery faster than any other app! I wish the recognition rate was better, or you could add the name in of something when you know for sure what it is. It’s a good idea and I hope the algorithms keep improving over time..Version: 2.0.2
✓ Good app, needs a few more housekeeping itemsI just downloaded this app in early June and thought it was amazing. It instantly identified some trees that I have been wondering about for a while. However, I have gotten slightly concerned over a few of the identifications. For example I recently scanned an eastern hemlock, but the scanner said it was western(I’m on east coast and it did this for multiple specimens). A fix that wouldn’t be to hard would be a flagging system (which would let the scanner know an organism isn’t getting identified correctly) or the option to go back from “western hemlock” to just the “hemlock” ID. This would allow seek to realize that you haven’t actually identified a specific species. Another useful function would be the ability to post to iNaturalist after viewing the species page without having to rescan the organism. These suggestions may sound “easy”, but coding and implementing them is complicated. Thanks for all the work so far!.Version: 2.1.0
✓ InvasiveDoes not seem to identify highly invasive non-native plant material.Version: 2.13.5
✓ Can’t identify in forestCan’t differentiate between plants.Version: 2.14.9
✓ Faulty updateThe moment I updated the app and tried to open it told me to turn on my location services but wouldn’t let be click settings OR cancel. After locking my phone for it to go away it was stuck on that pop up and it wouldn’t let me use my screen at all. Had to force restart my before I could get it to go away. So I’ve deleted the app..Version: 2.12.7
✓ Right 75% of the TimeWhen I first discovered this app, while we were visiting Oklahoma, I was extremely impressed. However the people that showed me had the newest iPhones with excellent cameras. I have not had as much success, now that it’s on my slightly older iPhone, or bc I’m now in Iowa. But to be honest, it’s now very frustrating and disappointing. Many times it will say it is almost at a species, but after trying for 5 to 10 minutes on a few plants, not kidding, it still has not detected a species!! After that long I gave up on identifying a willow, an African violet and a couple other plants. Other times, it gets to a species, only to be wrong. Probably the most frustrating thing about this, is that once it determines a species, even if it’s incorrect, it saves it to my observations and I have no idea how to delete those. So now I have multiple saved “observations” that are literally wrong. And if I choose to take a picture and try to save an observation before it has reached species, it may briefly tell me the family or genus, which I find helpful, but apparently it does not save this information! So I cannot go back and review this helpful information since it did not reach species status! Overall I enjoy this app, but wish there was a way to delete observations, and a way to save “incomplete” observations, even if it hasn’t reached species..Version: 2.9.1
✓ Doesn’t work to identify plantsWhich I thought was the main purpose! I was hoping to use it as a plant ID app, knowing that it wouldn’t fair very well on Australian native plants due to it being an American app, however it says literally everything in my garden is a member of the Dicot family (even a common mulberry tree) and ‘can not identify the exact species’. Pretty useless for a garden/plant lover sadly and I will be deleting it..Version: 2.14.8
✓ Pretty goodIt’s pretty good but I keep trying to get my chickens but it says that they’re Red jungle fowl when they are marans.Version: 2.13.5
✓ Improper identificationImproper identification and also takes a while for the camera to take the picture when it’s on a mammal for some time..Version: 2.13.6
✓ Wrong oneWhen I scanned my cat, it identified him as a “domestic dog”. He is very big and fluffy, not to mention has unique markings, but you can obviously tell that he is not a dog. Otherwise, the app is pretty good. I like the whole badge thing and that it’s free..Version: 2.14.0
✓ Needs workUnlike iNaturalist, there is no option to see what the most likely possibilities are and choose one. If it doesn’t correctly identify the organism by itself, you’re just out of luck. It also doesn’t identify still photos very well. I tested it with the camera and it correctly identified a tree when I took the photo. I then used the saved photo that it took and it was unable to identify it even though that was the photo that it took when it previously identified it. And unlike iNaturalist again, you cannot choose other folders when selecting photos. So my only option to identify things in older photos on my phone is to spend a considerable amount of time scrolling as there is no way to scroll quickly in the app because it only loads a few photos at a time. I love the idea of this, but it’s missing some basic functions. I’ll give it another try when it’s less frustrating to use..Version: 2.3.0
✓ Hardly Working[18-05-2019] When I first downloaded this app a couple of weeks ago, everything seemed to be working. But today, it’s only partially working - while it tries to identify things, it doesn’t save them in ‘my observations’ or anywhere else. It doesn’t save anything else, either. To continue using this app, would be ridiculous! I’ll wait to see if the problems are fixed, before deleting this app and never trying the developers apps (ever again)..Version: 2.0.2
✓ BugsI want to give 5 stars for a great concept but the flaws ruin the app for me. The fact you can’t change the header photo for a sighting is ridiculous considering the app decided to replace all my observations with the exact same photo. It also doesn’t work in anything less than extremely bright, direct light and the ability to identify fungi is abysmal. Out of six very clear, close up photos only one was correctly identified. It also was unable to identify high pixel images of a dragonfly and multiple frogs. It misread green carpet moss as a white mushroom and I have no way to delete the incorrect observation. I’m considering deleting because it’s so frustrating, especially the cloned photos. EDIT: app deleted. It keeps cloning photos and it’s obvious the developers aren’t responding to criticism, haven’t seen any updates release. it’s a pity they are wasting this app’s potential. And for those saying “you must not have a nice enough phone,” I’m using an iPhone X with the most recent software update. I take images in clear, bright light. No reason the performance should be so poor..Version: 2.4.4
✓ Good ideaGood idea for an app. My 10 year old son enjoys using it. However, the app crashes frequently when we try to take pictures and has difficulty identifying a large number of pictures we take of plants. For example, we took a picture of a cat once and it told us it was an amphibious creature. Will give it 5 stars when these issues are fixed..Version: 2.5.2
✓ Why limit camera use?I used to use this app all the time and the hit rate was variable on recognition. I could also spend the day taking photos and then uploading them to this app. Now unfortunately since the new update, you can only browse a tiny amount of your photos (20?), as opposed to having access to your full camera roll. Also, the app sometimes only recognises animals etc when you zoom in, but now they’ve disabled the zoom! On the plus side, recognition is tons better and quicker. Please let us browse the camera roll again please and let us zoom in again, please!.Version: 2.0.2
✓ Could be better.This app would be 5/5 if it could utilize the full iOS camera array possibly some limited features as well. As it stands now it appears to only use one camera, it also has great difficulty focusing on small or near objects, pretty much impossible to get an identification of anything far away without a binocular adapter. I enjoy the challenges, practicing my taxonomy and for more common species it works great. If nothing else you can use it to identify to family and use a key to get to species. iNaturalist is a good companion app and for some reason has better camera functionality. If the camera gets upgraded this would be an amazing app to just wander around and ID everything, think Pokémon Go, but real life, actually learning, contributing to science, and it doesn’t scrape your data and take your money. Gotta ID ‘em all..Version: 2.13.2
✓ Nice, but…Look, the concept is amazing. This kind of thing has been long overdue on such a scale among apps that works at all. The problem is… Flies, fly. Birds fly. Frogs jump. Spiders skitter away. Some at lightning speed. They all hide as well. Nothing stands still and let’s you get a good angle. Heck, sometimes I knew what it was but the app didn’t. It’s also very difficult for the camera to focus, but that might just be my phone. I took a very good picture of a frog… they couldn’t find out what it was. Thought a striped fly was a tree crab and was standing there an hour. Got an amazingly clear photo of a spider, still only figuring out that it indeed was a spider. Some of my most amazing pictures can’t be deciphered because I am taller than eye level of the animal. I have to stand directly parallel, which could be dangerous. And I have to stand there trying to get a good angle, at least for 15 minutes, and that’s if your lucky. Most times you can’t get the actual species by picture which is a real bummer. A robin is not a groundhog. So please work on that, ok? It would be amazing if I didn’t have to be in an exact position to figure out what animal is in front of me. Other than that, amazing. It’s a huge leap from what we used to do..Version: 2.12.10
✓ Not useful except for absolute beginners.This app is unable to identify basic, clear photos of plants in situ even with obvious visual clues. It often will not even suggest Latin names or proper taxonomy. It can identify plants down to the genus only about 60 percent of the time but won’t attempt to suggest possible specific species level identifications, cutting beginners off from doing their own investigation. Not good at all about IDing bugs or fungi except for the most iconic and basic species IE monarch butterflies, leopard frogs. Does not allow you to suggest your own identification or provide tools for further investigation even to help the app “””learn””” or improve which it does not seem to do. Go to the library and refine your hard field skills via research and then apply the learning in the wild is all I can suggest, this app is a waste of time for all but beginners and children. It won’t even give you leads if it can’t ID something. Remember- the best way to learn is to get out there and use your eyes. Apps can only help so much..Version: 2.15.0
✓ It’s improved but still needs workI’ve had this app for about a year and there has been some improvements in the past year. However, there are still a lot of issues on identifying a lot of species. I seem to have the hardest time with arachnids and fungi. This is especially frustrating when trying to complete the monthly challenges. For example, yesterday I had a perfect, in focus picture of a silk moth (identified through a quick google search) and the app simply wouldn’t recognize it. I’ve had other pics taken on a Nikon d750 which are professional level pics it wouldn’t identity. Another reviewer suggested maybe some questions or possibly something user based to help identify specimens the app otherwise has issues with. Allowing zoom will help as well. Personally I don’t want to get inches away from a fast moving spider to get its information. Overall the app has been mostly enjoyable and I hope it continues to evolve..Version: 2.0.2
✓ Cannot Log InSigned in to the iNaturalist app using Facebook. No such option to log in to Seek with Facebook. When I go to create a new account to use the Seek app, it is saying my email is already taken so I cannot even create a new account. Frustrating to say the least!.Version: 2.2.2
✓ Doesn’t work.After update it crashes upon entering the app..Version: 2.15.3
✓ Not workingI downloaded it, and when I clicked on the app, it goes to it for a second, and then goes back to my home screen. Please fix it. Thank you.Version: 2.15.5
✓ I have an iNaturalist accountThat I created with my Apple ID. This app allows you to sign in with your iNaturalist account, yet there is no option to use the Apple ID credentials to sign in just email and password, guess the developers don’t quite understand how Apple ID works….Version: 2.14.0
✓ Not workingThe app just crashes every time I open the camera….Version: 2.15.7
✓ Bat app!!😠I don’t even give it one star ⭐️ I give it 0 I scanned a plant and it said it was a bird I scanned my dog it said she was a bat 🦇. don’t get this app it is bad. I scanned my frogs 🐸 it said they were trees 🌲 I scanned my cats 🐈 it said they only eat meat 🥩 which my cats eat meat and veggies 🍅 I Scanned my purple plant I don’t know what it is called but the app said it was an animal 🦒 I scanned a Spider 🕷 The app said it was an mammal.Version: 2.14.0
✓ Does not handle the larger text display zoom setting wellCauses layout issues like the camera close button being partialled obscured by the time..Version: 2.15.0
✓ This used to be more useful to meI actually love this app and have been using it for many years, I find it more user friendly than inaturalist, bc I don’t necessarily want to share all my observations or my location. Plus, Seek is just more fun. What I’ve found in the past 6 months or so are 3 problems. 1. The app doesn’t arrive at identifications as much as it used to. It gets to one step away, regardless of the angle of the photo, making it extremely frustrating to use. This is especially so for tiny insects. 2. I used to be able to get identification from pictures I took with my native camera, and it seems that they are never identified anymore. This actually used to be my back up method when Seek wouldn’t ID something. Now it doesn’t seem to work at all anymore. 3. There’s no way to disagree with a misidentification. There are things I know are not correctly identified, but no way to correct it. If I wrote this a year ago, I would have given it more stars, but I’m frustrated. That said, I still use it almost daily..Version: 2.14.12
✓ Not very good, except for as a laugh.This app thought a cat was an owl, and a rabbit eating a bright orange pointy carrot was a puffin..Version: 2.12.15
✓ Differences between Platform versionsThe website has good identifiers but when it comes to identification on individual platforms it’s extremely lacking some plants and animals can be identified on one platform but not on another the platforms don’t share your sighting with your profiles on other platforms and when you post to the website it doesn’t update your sightings on that platform of which you post it from and when you try it again to see if it worked it still can’t find the species that you observed so id give this a 3 star nothing more.Version: 2.10.4
✓ Best app on the App StoreMy positive reviews kept disappearing, so here are some negatives. Please enable manual entry, tired of trying and trying for hours to identify things I already know. I am in Australia, stop identifying Australian creatures as North American or European. Many of the things the App tells me do not exist here..Version: 2.14.8
✓ Needs improvementIts fun but honestly you can learn more with an actual guide. This can ID some animals and plants but it has a hard time with some like Red-Tailed Hawks because of the overlap in other buteo species. Also, if you need to change your phone your entries do NOT stay with your account and you have to start all over again. It’s annoying if you are trying to list species or want to keep track and remember what youve seen. I only would recommend this app to help you ID something you have no clue about and cant find it in a book..Version: 2.13.5
✓ Too many bugs (and I don’t mean insects)This app is a great idea, my kids are always catching insects in the back garden and it would be amazing to identify them. Unfortunately in most cases the camera is only able to tell me the family not the actual species. I also have an inaturalist account but for some reason the app won’t let me sign in with it. This app really needs a lot of development to fulfil the potential it has, once it does it will be an essential for any outdoorsy family..Version: 2.2.2
✓ Ok, but needs improvementThis app is pretty good, but it does need a lot of work. I downloaded Seek after iNaturalist, because I wanted an app that immediately identifies the species for you instead of having to wait for others on the app to do it. I really like the concept, but it does have some bugs that need fixing. First, the database that identifies species needs to be cleaned up. The picture has to be very clear for it to be identified, otherwise it won’t work. Once when I took a picture of a moth in bad lighting, it identified it as a species I knew it very clearly wasn’t, and there was no way for me to change it. Also the camera in the app won’t let you zoom in, so I have to take a picture with my phone’s camera and then input the picture in the app. Lastly, I wish the app tracked specifically how many of each kind of organism you find (reptiles, mammals, etc). It will reward you when you reach a milestone of 5, 15, etc. finds, but it doesn’t tell you anywhere how many of each you have. It has the overall total of organisms, but it doesn’t list something like, “you have 11 mammals, only 4 more to go till your next achievement!” But despite all the bugs, it is a pretty cool app in theory. I like how it awards badges for certain numbers of organisms found, that’s a fun idea. I do get annoyed when it won’t accurately identify species sometimes, but I’ll keep using it and hopefully it will improve..Version: 1.0.1
✓ Extremely poor camera integration renders the app unusable almost all of the timeI love Seek, when I can get the camera to work, which is almost never. Seriously, I don’t know how you’ve implemented having the application access my phone’s camera, but the camera is completely incapable of focussing when trying to observe things through Seek. It’s obviously not a problem with my phone’s hardware because I can use the camera outside of Seek fine (well, it’s an iPhone XS, so the camera is very disappointing after a decade of owning Samsung Galaxy phones. But I don’t have problems getting it to focus outside of Seek)..Version: 2.13.1
✓ Wrong identificationI am living in Quebec (Canada) and from the 6 plants wild plants I presented to it, none of them where rightly identified..Version: 2.14.9
✓ First app in 10 years to render my phone inoperableI should have known better than to download something iNaturalist was involved with after using that app, but Seek was highly recommended by my employer. The app is beyond buggy. It obviously struggles w/ location services. I have to click and drag the locator to the correct spot as it thinks I am in CO (not UT). Even w/ 2 bars LTE it was telling me blackbrush was African Buckthorn and Buffaloberry was endemic of New Zealand. If that wasn't bad enough today its turn on location services dialogue box rendered my phone inoperable. I couldn't click out of it, power cycle my phone off, make or receive phone calls (for work), receive texts... Anyway if your in this situation in a remote area your screwed. So drive to town and get on wifi and back up your phone. Once the phone backs up the dialogue box is gone... then promptly delete the app!!! Got to give to the developers of this one for an app that not only doesn't function properly but gives you the added benefit of an inoperable phone. Thats iPhone 8 IOS 14.6!.Version: 2.12.7
✓ Its good, but classification/camera problemsIts a very good app to identify any other species that isn’t an insect. I’ve taken 7 insect pictures and out of them only two were the right classification while the rest got completely wrong identifications (it classified a wasp as a moth as an example of mine). Plus, inside the app, the camera is unable to focus, meaning that the insect pictures come out even worst. Plus, if transported from my photos, the app is unable to identify even the clearest of pictures of mine..Version: 2.14.7
✓ TestI did two simple tests to see if it worked. Test no.1 Chicken - What seek thought it was = jungle fowl. Test no.2 Mushroom - What seek though it was = A species in the animal category. Conclusion = SEEK DOES NOT WORK!.Version: 2.8.0
✓ Seek AppApp doesnt work with photos.Version: 2.14.2
✓ Can’t upload photos anymore.This app used to be good but recently I can’t choose one of my photos from my library to upload. When I go to the camera in app and choose library the screen goes blank. I can’t get out of this screen and have to force close the app. This is extremely frustrating. Please fix this..Version: 2.15.0
✓ Wouldn’t workEvery single photo I tried didn’t work it said they couldn’t identify any of the photos even when I did different angles and different shots..Version: 2.14.3
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