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Seek by iNaturalist App User Positive Comments 2024
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✓ Fantastic App: Potential ImprovementI love this app. I’m a big nature guy and being out there is my favorite pastime. I love beefing up my observations with things I know and learning more from things I don’t know. May I suggest a potential feature for a second. I believe the app could do well with a warning system if you are documenting a dangerous species of animal/plant/fungus. I recently documented a Copperhead snake (incredible) but I was shocked to see that the app did not warn me that this snake could do some serious damage if it bit me. This would be exceptionally valuable for plant/fungus species as well, as they could be considered safe or dangerous to eat. Otherwise, I can’t stop using it and look forward to moving up the ranks!.Version: 2.14.0
✓ This is my new favourite appI love this app.Version: 2.14.0
✓ VERY GOOD GAMEVery good game except the thing is I cant identify most bird because they are moving it is also hard to see when I zoom so close. But ... it kinda has bad graphics and recognise thing. Once I took the picture of a koala (not a living thing just a picture in the picture frame) then it said IT was a common squirrel monkey WHAT!? I said to myself confused it MUST be a koala. Then a few days after I scanned the same thing. BUT NOW it said it was a koala!😩😩😩 So what I am saying part of this (only a quarter) is bad. But still ima go rate this a 5 star review !🥳🥳🥳😁😁😁 I LOVE animals this is way better than that horse game (I forgot the name) (also just type horse family if u want to read my review by the way the nickname on that review is “animallover🐴🦄” but I need a new nickname ) From animallover🐴🦄s’secondreview.Version: 2.10.7
✓ One of my favorite apps on my phone!Seek is a great app, I love going outside and scanning plants and insects, it’s incredible how diverse my surroundings are! Especially on a college campus like mine where it’s nice to have something to do while walking between class buildings. I’ve introduced my family to the app and they all love it, too! I’m always on the lookout for new things to find, and as a result I’m appreciating nature a lot more than I used to! One thing I would like to suggest is a change to how the observations are sorted. Right now species are sorted by the date you found them, which is good, but once you find enough species it starts getting difficult to look back on specific entries. Maybe there could be an option to sort the species in each category by genus (As in, within each category the entries are alphabetically ordered according to the genus in their scientific name)? It doesn’t have to be a complete change, but maybe just an option people can toggle on and off. Other than that one thing, though, this app is near perfect for nature lovers like me!.Version: 2.13.2
✓ AmazingI just started using seek. I saw it on Social Media so I wanted to give it a shot. I was happy to see the good reviews and reputation this app was getting. I downloaded it and the first thing I did was test the camera out for its accuracy. I pointed the camera at a red pillow. It’s a winged insect it says! I was very satisfied with the answers I’ve been getting. Bamboo is now identified as an orchid, a laptop is now a human, and my carpet identifies as an Asian small clawed otter! Elephants also now live in Antarctica. I can now see how much work and effort the iNatural team has put into this app and I admire their work. The app runs smoothly as I only run into bugs every other second, the species identification is very accurate, and there are a lot of fun activities to do in the challenge and achievements tab such as take a picture of yourself, a human 15 times to achieve the observer badge. Definitely recommend..Version: 2.14.9
✓ What I would like to seeI love this app but it’s such a hassle to get it to identify a single plant. Sometimes it will just switch between two things and be stubborn. Other times it will identity a photo that is blurry! Tell me how can it identify a slight blurry/fuzzy photo perfectly but not a clear one. Mine constantly says sorry we’re not able to identify this or Seek is still learning. But other wise it’s a good app. A cool feature you can add is the ability to identify feathers. I usually end up pulling out a book of Birds and looking through to find a bird with similar feathers. sense there’s a lot of states where it illegal to collect feathers I half to take a picture. The pictures take up so much storage, and there’s legit 1 feather identification app that has 1 star ratings. So if you added that feature you get more people get this app and get better ratings(if you identify it correctly)..Version: 2.15.3
✓ Amazing app, but not transferrable to new devicesThis is one of my favourite apps, so handy and educational. I really love being able to look through the plants and animals I’ve captured on it. I recently bought a new phone but am unable to transfer my observations onto it. I would really love if this was made possible as I’m going to lose years of observations. I tried making an inaturalist account to post them there, but you can only upload them right as you make a new observation. A bit disappointing but other than that it’s a wonderful app..Version: 2.14.2
✓ Great app but needs a couple extra featuresI use it all the time and it has helped me learn a ton about local plants although there are a couple things that I hope the developers will listen to me on. Biggest thing is some kind of warning when you identify a plant or animal that is poisonous/venomous. I think it would be very important for safety reasons seeing as the nature of going out and touching plants can be hazardous and you won’t really know until you properly identify it. It would go a long way Second I think when you successfully identify something, having some kind of box or link to press that would immediately take you to a google search of said plant/animal would also be very convenient. Also some general QOL features and maybe an overhaul of the observations menu since after you get like 100+ you have a lot to scroll through. All in all, great app and definitely a must have for any outdoorsy people, like i said I learned a ton thanks to this app but there is the danger of a mis-identification every now and then. Mushrooms especially are a bit difficult to identify and it goes without saying you can’t really touch them if you don’t know what they are. Hope the devs have plans to improve.Version: 2.15.7
✓ Plz add thisThis app is awesome but when I try common fruits,it can’t identify. Also plz add a setting where you can type an animal and click add to collection because I have seen a lot of animals I didn’t take a picture of.Version: 2.13.6
✓ A must have app!This app identifies so much more than plants and animals. It identifies fish, insects, birds, fungi and more. Every adult and child should get this because it’s just so informative, educational and has easy to use features and fun challenges. And it’s free with absolutely no annoying no ads. Thanks to the developers, this is one of the best apps I’ve stumbled across..Version: 2.13.0
✓ What an impressive appI have used this app loads to identify plants when out walking. You see a beautiful plant in someone else’s garden or a park and you can just point your phone camera at it and this app identifies it. Brilliant!.Version: 2.13.0
✓ GreatThe app works well, identifies it as closely as possible, though sometimes it doesn’t adjust to the lighting of the pace if you point it down. I have used many times, it gives you details on the species, tells you the whole taxidermy and works like a treat!.Version: 2.4.4
✓ Very good. Need to add friendsThis app is a lot of fun and makes walks in the park so much more interesting. It would be great if we could add friends to see their observations!.Version: 2.12.5
✓ Wonderful, but can we have the “share” facility back please?This is one of the most engaging tools to get you outside into nature. It doesn’t always get the identification correct, but it seems to be slightly pessimistic reducing the risk of false positives. I have seen over 500 plant species in the last year. Who knew there was so much biodiversity within three or 4 miles of my house?But, last year a “share” facility was introduced enabling you to share a cropped photograph with the name of the species into either your photo stream or onto Facebook. This wonderful feature seems to have disappeared recently. PLEASE can we have it back? My friend who introduced me to Seek and I are both distraught. Honestly we are..Version: 2.13.0
✓ SeekVery comprehensive, though sometimes misidentifies organisms, probably due to the light.Version: 2.10.7
✓ Fantastic appI think this is a fantastic app. I have been very surprised at the accuracy of the live camera species identification. Nearly without fail the app is always accurate to a species level. To upload your own photo, the app is less accurate but can still provide close matches by family or genus. Having the app iNaturalist as well allows the opportunity to upload photos and have them identified and verified by the wider community. Apart from this, the app provides challenges and badges after discovering (x) many species from different families. I think this is amazing and thoroughly engaging. As a biologist, my only complaint is that if you find yourself enjoying the challenges or a keen “IDist”, the challenges are quick to complete, and once you have found 150 species you reach the highest “level” in achievements. I would love to see this app developed further, with many many more challenges and badges. I think the idea of providing these challenges really inspires you to understand the environment around you, discover species you would have never heard of, and finding yourself amazed by some of the information about these species. 10/10 recommend..Version: 2.3.1
✓ AmazingWhen you think what this does, it’s amazing. From a photo, it identifies most plants, animals, fungi that you may come across. It sometimes has odd problems with examples that you think should be obvious, but generally extremely impressive - and useful. Really engaged the kids (9 & 11) - and me - in finding out what things are. A 45 minute hike took several hours as we found 42 species of fungus! So far, I had good success in both UK and USA (New England), but Icelandic species (perhaps unsurprisingly) not so much. Sometimes the ID is a little temperamental and requires some patience : definitely easier with a better camera (iPhone XR rather than older) and in better light. If it quickly gets to 4/5 ‘dots’ of the 6 (for full id), it’s worth persisting. Avoid multiple species in shot (though it does seem to select the animal not the plant). If you snap the species shortly after the ID, even if it’s disappeared, it still registers. Would be nice to be able to answer a question or two to help it, or to select from a couple of possible suggestions. Options to offer feedback on the ID offered would be sensible. Oddly, slime moulds register, but then don’t appear in “my observations”. Overall, an amazing bit of software, completely free, and simple to use..Version: 2.3.1
✓ Fun app, not always accurateI love this app. Most of the time it seems to work well, identifying insects, plants, frogs, humans, and anything else I think to point my phone at. However, sometimes the IDs are simply inaccurate. For example, it identified a dragonfly in my yard as a type of Indian dragonfly. Looking at the other sitings, mine was the only one in the Western Hemisphere. I think its performance might improve if it took region into account a little more. Also, birding apps I use let you give feedback on its IDs—“This is my bird!” Or “This is not my bird.” I’d like to be able to give feedback, and it might help the program improve. Also, if I tell it that it’s not a wasp spider then it might be able to try again and correctly identify it as a yellow garden spider, but instead it keeps insisting on the same inaccurate identification. I’d also like improvement or at least some clearer instructions on how to ID trees. If I’m in the woods it’s hard to get a top to bottom view of a tree so I try to get both leaves and bark in a shot, but most of the time it doesn’t work. What could I be doing to ID trees more easily?.Version: 2.12.12
✓ Very cool with a few issuesI love this app and have recommended it to a lot of friends. It honestly feels like walking around with a real-life Pokédex. When it works, it’s a super fast, easy way to get to know the species around me that I’m curious about but almost never remember to/take the time to look up after I’ve walked past them. That said, it has some issues and could be better. Like others have said, there’s no way to correct when it mislabels an observation, which is annoying because it means you’re stuck with misidentified observations. There’s also no way (that I’ve found) to upload an old observation to iNaturalist for community verification — if you don’t do it when you first get the observation, you’re out of luck. It’s also not great at IDing bugs, especially small ones. If your camera can’t take macro shots, the image quality just isn’t enough to get down to species. I definitely don’t hold it’s inability to identify a blurry beetle against it, but it’s something to note..Version: 2.14.2
✓ Eye Opener!When you look out and see just grass and trees, try this app. You soon realise that there is so much more! I found 75 species just in my back garden. It got me interested in walking locally and I'm officially obsessed. Its also helped me in losing over five stone in weight!.Version: 2.9.1
✓ Really good but needs geographic improvement.Overall this app is excellent and identifies a lot of things down to species in seconds, with certain things where there are lots of almost identical species it can get stuck at genus for either a long time or it can never get beyond that but that’s usually ok and still very helpful for someone who had no idea what they were looking at. It also struggles sometimes with ornamental and domesticated varieties of plants, but that’s also understandable as they can vary so much. The one weird thing is that it seems to think it’s in America - in the sense that it identified an English Oak as being an Oregon Oak and a French Marigold as a Mexican Marigold. Could do with better geographic adjustments so it knows it’s unlikely to be a species that’s only found in America when I’m in the UK!.Version: 2.12.9
✓ Addictive, but…I have taken obvious pictures that won’t connect and many that connect to the wrong species. For instance, I took a picture of an obvious bumblebee from nearly every angle with no luck and an Asian lady beetle pupa was connected to a zigzag ladybird. Bugs aside, I did recognize a few errors with plants. It would be better to have a “this is wrong, let me suggest a correction” option. Also, it is so difficult to focus the camera. It connects a blurry image, but refuses to connect the image when I spend far too much time trying to focus. I end up leaving the app to use the native iPhone app. All that said, I do realize how new this type of matching technology is so I can only deduct one star and continue taking pictures of everything nature brings me. One more thing, it would be nice to have poisonous stuff highlighted. Very cool app. *edit—it should tag photos with what Seek identified them as and have the ability to cycle through photos based on identification. I’m trying to snap pictures at different stages, so I know what is what when it is time to cleanup the yard. It would also be nice to have the pictures document which plants most attract beneficial insects..Version: 2.14.10
✓ 😊I look at lot of plants 🌱 and seek is "professional "..Version: 2.14.2
✓ Great UpdateI’ve been using this app since it was release a year ago. And I’ve been steadily waiting for an update since then. I was so excited to see an update and I immediately downloaded it and started using the app again. Since then I have collected over 400 species and with this new update I was able to collect a few that never went through the old edition. I wanted to make sure that all of my old species make it through to the new app but every time I go to the “My observations” the app freezes and gives me a blank white screen. I thought maybe it needed a minute to download all of the species so I left it on that white screen for hours and nothing changed. Although this doesn’t break the game for me, I would like to see this feature work for me. Thank you for your hard work and I look forward to continuing to use your app to explore the world..Version: 2.0
✓ Fantastic idea to get people involved with our natural world.I really like the idea of this app. It helps people get outside and explore what is out there. People will only save what they love, and if we can get people loving the biodiversity then a hell of a lot more people will want to protect it. I wish there was an access where you could show your findings against other people’s, and also I would like there to be a search part where you can view where other people have viewed certain species, but I understand that this can be troublesome with endangered species etc. I really encourage anyone to download the app and get snapping what you can find, because you can link the app to iNaturalist and then, if this seek is not to sure, then people on iNaturalist can help out with identification. All this also helps with species monitoring, which is extremely beneficial for conservation, as we need to know the distribution of species and to see if any odd patterns are occurring. Have fun with this guys..Version: 2.12.3
✓ Wanna be nature photographerI love this app for what it teaches me about the flora and fauna around me. I have a whole new level of appreciation for nature photographers and videographers and the level of patience required to get a good shot. The app is a little finicky about identifying pics sometimes, but for the most part it’s good fun documenting and learning about my surroundings..Version: 2.14.2
✓ Great but Why have you removed the map feature.Why have you removed the feature that allows you to locate species on the map that others had found?.Version: 2.12.17
✓ MagnifiqueCette application est magnifique precise et très instructif Merci.Version: 2.14.2
✓ SatisfyingCuriosity about the natural world is rewarded with this app. Simple to use, the interface makes good use of your camera and remembers your observations..Version: 2.14.0
✓ Loved the old versionI don’t want to have to use location to save what I find. I have all the apps like this one and have for the past year only used this one because it didn’t make me give my location, well, now it does. Disappointed to say the least..Version: 2.3.2
✓ Best app everI love this app and before you read anymore of this INSTALL THE APP!!! Am I right? Yes. I like how you can identify like all species. Not like plant identifiers that only identifies plants. So I recommend you install this app the moment you see it! Oh, and if you got it I hope you have fun! PS. You can level up and get badges for challenges!.Version: 2.12.19
✓ App is really good, but I can’t sign in with my google.PLEASE fix this issue, I only put 2 stars because of this issue, otherwise 5 stars..Version: 2.14.2
✓ Love it!This app is so amazing for identifying plants animals and everything in between. My one recommendation is if it could identify rocks and crystals that would be helpful but otherwise it’s amazing!.Version: 2.14.2
✓ Love this app!I’ve been using the app for a couple of weeks now and I’ve had lots of fun. I’ve found over 200 organisms and I’m just getting started. I do have some suggestions for the developers. The app is horrible at identifying trees and mushrooms. It hasn’t been able to identify any of the oaks or pines in my neighborhood no matter what angle I use. It also won’t identify a lot of the mushrooms I’ve found. I’m also not sure what the “other” category is for. I wish that there was a way to sort organisms besides the order you found them in. I’ve started a spreadsheet on my own for the 175+ plants I’ve found. Lastly, the species that pop up on the home screen for my area aren’t super accurate. I know for a fact the one of the species lives north of me and I have never found one In my area. I definitely recommend this app for anyone interested in nature..Version: 2.9.1
✓ Fleurs de ciboulette-ail et de basilicQuel plaisir de bénéficier d’une aide si précise et rapide pour l’identification des plantes ! Vous changez ma vie quotidiennement!.Version: 2.14.2
✓ This app is fantastic!Thank you so much iNaturalist for keeping your app free and making it a scientific staple. Unlike many of your competitors your service is 100% free as it should be. Nobody should have to pay for plant and animal identification, especially when our environmental future is at stake. Stupid capitalist mindset limits our true potential as a species, information should be taught and shared for free and not locked behind subscriptions and paywalls. Knowledge is wealth and wealth is pointless if we’re all dead..Version: 2.13.3
✓ GREATIt’s educational and fun I showed this to my science teacher and he might be implementing it into our Biology lessons. though it sometime doesn’t pick up what I’m scanning it’s still a great app and keep working on it. Ps. Thank you WWF for sponsoring this app you are so kind..Version: 2.3.1
✓ Awesome except…My hamster Ginger can’t be scanned and when I go and/or look outside all I see is a white screen so plz fix.Version: 2.13.5
✓ AmazingIt’s so fun getting Seeks! This is real life Pokémon, adding observations to the Pokédex! We learn lots using Seek and have a new appreciation for nature. To improve, please fix the bug that makes the app crash whenever you delete an observation and then click a new observation, thanks!.Version: 2.14.2
✓ You need this app.This is more fun to do than anything I have ever done. Its become my hobby to identify species and read about them with this app. Albeit there is some issues with identification and the camera but nothing is perfect and I’ll give credit where credit is due, the interface is friendly and very well designed. I wish there was more badges and common goals that weren’t limited to seasonal challenges. Having rankings that goes higher than a gold badge for certain species gives more of a goal to going out and observing your environment as a whole. P.S Developers I’m going to college for environmental science and conservation in the fall and would love to work with you ;).Version: 2.14.10
✓ AmazingIt is fun because I can teach my kids a lot just by them taking a picture and we doing some research . Personally I love it !.Version: 2.12.3
✓ A new hobby discovered!!! Favorite app on my phoneAbsolutely love this app. I’ve gotten to learn so much about the natural world all around me everyday and I am noticing new things I never appreciated about common plants and fungi especially. I’ve been taken long (3+ hours) walks and stopping every few block or so just to learn what a flower or weird bug is. It’s not a perfect identification tool of course. Sometimes the ID isn’t exactly right, which is fine by me because it gets close enough I can look it up on my own or post to INaturalist, which is beautifully streamlined without having to leave the app. Every now and then it can be slightly finicky about making an ID (I scanned a mushroom for awhile but never got the exact specifies, but got most of the way there). This app was recommended by a friend of mine and we love sharing our observations and cool finds with each other. I’ve discovered a new hobby that I absolutely love using this app. One thing I would love to see in future versions of the app is some way to link accounts with someone else. For example, I would love a pop-up on my phone if a friend of mine finds a new species..Version: 2.15.0
✓ Amazing, revolutionary app!I have been a proud user of the iNaturalist app for a few years now. I primarily used it for plant and animal identification, although I did log some of my finds on the map. This app though, is exactly what I am looking for and what I know I want (and need!) First of all, one of my favorite features is that you can see right off the bat the common plant and animal species found in your area. The fact you can sort by species and then click on specific ones you want to learn more about makes it so much better. I love how each page for a certain species of plant or animal is detailed and jam packed with information, such as a line graph of its most common appearances throughout the year. It’s also cool to me that this data comes directly from iNaturalist logs. I hope to use this amazing app more in the future!.Version: 2.14.8
✓ QuestionDoes it work with bugs?.Version: 2.12.9
✓ BEST AP I EVER GOT!From “Black Witch Butter” (fungus) to “Fallfish” to “Parson’s House Spider” to “Wild Sarsaparilla” this ap has helped me ID a WIDE variety of plant, fish, insect, bird, fungus/mushroom, animal and tree species! I’ve used it in 5 states so far and learned so much. I love the Challenges. They make me pay more attention to the nature around me and look for and notice more species and different ecosystems. Best ap I have gotten for terrestrial identification! Paired with the iNaturalist, it is a huge learning, teaching, and cataloging tool. When I report my findings from Seek to Naturalist I feel like I have contributed to the scientific research on wildlife and ecosystems. LOVE IT! I hope that they develop more apps that ID our natural world, hopefully geology, crystals, gemstones and rocks, and sky and weather apps!.Version: 2.12.11
✓ Eyes wide openLove this app makes walking in the city park or hiking a trail so much more interesting in the surrounding area learning all the time. Eyes wide open to our environment found a Drunken stick.Version: 2.13.0
✓ Good but GlitchyThis app works very well and helps identify a lot of things. But, this app is very, very glitchy. When it comes to looking around at different organisms in your area, the “native” and “Introduced” will constantly change for different things. I like this feature alot, helps me learn more about the animals in my area, but I’m not sure what to believe cause it will have different things each time I click on it. Like for example when I clicked on a bee I took a picture of, it will say “native”, then I click on something that says “introduced” and “threatened” then go back to that bee, it’s changed and says the introduced and threatened too. I hope this problem can be fixed but other than that, this app is super cool :)).Version: 2.14.6
✓ Best, best, best gift.This app is the best gift I got in many years. I have learned the names of all that’s around me, and there is so much more richness than I ever realized. I also love being able to read more about each plant or animal, and teach my daughter and grandsons all that we get to see, in backyards, on city streets, parks, woods. This app tells me, so quickly, and with great accuracy. It does it scientifically, so I also know the order, family, genus. And the pictures are recorded so I don’t lose the learning. I am using this to make a collection with my grandsons. To make games, etc. It makes outdoor time even more fun, and we see and notice the richness and plethora of what we have, even on a city street. I used to have to take guidebooks and slow down to look up each one. In just five minutes in a less used part of my backyard I’ve identified 8 plants I wasn’t quite sure of, or learned new. Get this app! Teach your children. Their eyes and love for their rich world will never be the same. It’s like being in a room where you know no one, or being in a room where you know every face and name..Version: 2.12.3
✓ Best ID app out there right nowFirst off, I’ve yet to see any upwelling to premium/payment necessary with no limits on the amount of IDs. This app is awesome. Considering the methods used to ID various life, I can see why a lot of these plant apps are a bit off, but this one is mostly accurate at connecting the correct species, usually when it’s off the correct species will be in the related scroll at the bottom. Here’s my biggest suggestion for this app, just like I’m able to flag when it’s a misidentification I should be able to potentially find/select the correct identification from the similar plants. I’ve used this app for a day and it would be helpful on some of the more petally flowers that seem to confuse the Id aspect..Version: 2.12.2
✓ Great but needs a few more functionsThis is a wonderful App for observing and identifying the nature around us. I’ve learnt so much about plants, even things in my own garden. I also enjoy the challenges and feeling like I’m contributing to citizen science. There are 2 really obvious things to improve: (1) we need to be able to edit and/or delete observations that are incorrectly recorded. Occasionally the identifications are obviously completely wrong (e.g. some daisies identified as fungi) and it would be good to be able to remove those, asI hate the idea they are skewing data, and don’t like them just sitting there wrong in my observations lists! (2) We need the option to post to iNaturalist later on if wished. Often my internet connection is poor & I can’t post while out and about, but it would be nice to be able to do that at home when I’m back on WiFi - but the button is no longer there. Finally it would be nice to have a ‘Contact us’ button so I don’t have to post this very specific feedback in a review! Thanks for the App and I really hope you will consider these simple but important changes..Version: 2.7.0
✓ Great funSeek makes our walks entertaining and informative - we’ve learned a lot. We have occasionally found different identifications on different phones for the same plant, but it does stimulate enquiry. Highly recommended!.Version: 2.5.4
✓ A Great Little AppThis app has been very addictive. It works extremely well (once you get the hang of moving the camera around to make sure all 7 dots are filled - I found starting far away, then moving closer, works best). I have only one criticism & that is the pop up warning message that pops up EVERY time you open the camera & is very annoying, it also delays the camera from opening quickly. Opening the camera quickly is a must if you want to catch fast moving birds and insects. If you could stop the message (once you’ve read it, there is no need to ever see it again) in a future update, I would find this app a great pleasure to use..Version: 2.6.0
✓ Excellent appAppstore won’t let me format an easy to read review, but I have tried my best. ***PROS***: 1.) Free, no Ads (donations likely main source of revenue) 2.) Identify Plants/Animals 3.) Participate in community events 4.) Catalog/record observations to app 5.) App contributes to human desire to understand and observe nature ***POTENTIAL IMPROVEMENTS***: 1.) Allow direct download of observations from app 2.) Display “safety pop-up” upon opening the app, not when accessing camera (allows for faster capture of observations) 3.) Add option to toggle phone flashlight while using camera 4.) Allow additional features that are only available to registered users to non-users. Mining personal data should not be required for some of the features that are withheld from non-registered users. ***Additional improvement***: (no clue how viable this is): Optional download of data relating to local wildlife (user location would be required) to the users device. Allowing for the device’s hardware to mitigate the need for a strong internet connection..Version: 2.14.7
✓ Works for me!!I’ve just started using this app and it seems to be working fine sometimes it takes just the right angle to fully identify things but it seems to get there in the end 2x zoom would be good to add also pulling gps from the photo to input the correct location of where the subject was identified would be good. Don’t know what the bad reviews are for? Maybe they have improved it over time..Version: 2.0.2
✓ AmazingWow.Version: 2.14.10
✓ Love the app, hate the delayIt’s great being able to identify new animals, insects, and plants and helps children and adults alike to develop a curiosity about the world around us. The one thing that would make this app better, though, is reducing the lag time between opening the app and being able to scan for identification. When trying to identify animals and insects, in particular, they don’t always hang around long enough to be able to identify them due to this lag time. The app takes time to “load” and then there is a reminder about watching one’s surroundings. Safety is absolutely important, but maybe there could be an option to disable that step/click on an initial “I know to be safe. Don’t show this warning again” option..Version: 2.14.9
✓ AmazingWhen I got this app I was under the impression that I take it out and take a picture then it would identify the organism. But much to my delightful surprise, it was identifying the organisms BEFORE I even took a picture! The scanning feature is AMAZING!!!! We just moved to a new place and have organisms I am not familiar with so this has been so fun and informative to use! This is awesome!!! Everyone should have this in order to being more awe and appreciation to what’s around them! What I love: 1. How it recognizes things quickly and pretty accurately just by holding your camera over it 2. How it gives you details within the app about the organism you identified! That’s wonderful because you can learn right then and there without having to get out of the app and find the info somewhere else which could lead to distraction. 3. IT’S FREE!!! 4. EASY!!! Instead of searching through pages of books for what you might have found, this easily opens the “page” of info for you! Recommend for: - Everyone!! - Gardeners - Homeschoolers - Educators - Homeowners - Animal enthusiasts - Plant enthusiasts - Nature enthusiasts - Camping - Hiking Suggestions for developers: Keep up the great work!.Version: 2.3.1
✓ Finally!I have been hoping for an app like this for so long! I’m surprised with previous 1star ratings and comments because I find the app really useful and helpful! It would be great to include a long distance shot as many birds & fauna get away before you can take an image..Version: 2.0.2
✓ This app got me over my fear of spidersIt can be a little difficult to get the focus on the app sometimes and if something is very small or moving, it doesn’t always get the full identification but other than that it’s wonderful. I look like the weirdo in public, scanning everything in sight, but I’ve identified berry bushes near me that are edible, and I’ve grown so fond of the local spiders that it has helped me manage horrible arachnophobia, to the point I love spiders now. It’s a really useful app and when used responsibly (always get a second opinion on edible mushrooms!) its so handy and fun. Absolutely love this app..Version: 2.15.3
✓ Excellent App but doesn’t use the camera to fill potentialIt’s a great app but the camera functionality could use some work as it doesn’t do a great job of focusing on the subject, if I take a picture I can get a much clearer shot then using the app..Version: 2.14.11
✓ Perfect but for a lack of a few key featuresI love this app. Use it everyday, mostly for botany related identification since I usually can’t tell a cactus from a cattail. The app reliably get most things identified to genus (>90% of the time in my experience) and to species more than I thought it could (~70%). The interface is very user friendly so viewing my species identified isn’t a challenge. However, the species identified are auto sorted by kingdom. I’m unable to sort these species by date or location, which is a pain for when I want to review any new IDs from a particular walk or stroll. Also, why is there no option to use my phone’s built in flashlight? This lack of usability is extremely annoying in low light situations (nighttime, shadows). Overall, I enjoy this app and use it daily. With a few tweaks it’ll be the perfect companion for any budding naturalist. 4/5 stars..Version: 2.5.1
✓ Shazam for nature!This is a brilliant idea and, so far, it hasn’t let me down! Point your camera at a plant or insect and in a flash it tells you what it is... it’s like Shazam for nature. As a keen mountain walker, I’ve had so many questions answered!.Version: 2.6.0
✓ GoodI got this app because my friend (won’t say their name for their privacy) recommend it to me and it is quite cool actually I always scan silly stuff including my family! (Won’t say their names again) cool app by the way my name is Isaac but I am not saying my sir name for my privacy Thank you for understanding Love ya boi Isaac.Version: 2.7.0
✓ Seek and ye shall findWhat a superb app. It’s totally addictive. I’ve recommended this to several people who are ow also completely addicted to it.. it’s informative, phone, and so easy to use. Phone for the whole family..Version: 2.12.11
✓ Had to start over when I got a new phoneThis is an amazing app, but I have two major complaints, both of them similar. There is no way for users to back up their data, so when I got a new phone I lost all the hundreds of observations I’d made and many badges and achievements. They really need to add the ability to back up your account progress in iCloud or something like that. The second complaint is that when you make an observation but the app can’t identify it, and then upload the photo to iNaturalist where it is later identified positively, you don’t get credit for that in either your observations or your challenges/achievements. Adding a sync ability between your Seek account and your iNat account would be a huge incentive to upload observations and it could also potentially solve the first problem I mentioned as well and eliminate the need for an iCloud save option. Again, I love this app, but making these changes would drastically improve the user’s experience and motivate people to continue using the app after upgrading to a new phone when many might give up on it upon learning they have to start from zero again..Version: 2.12.6
✓ Excellent companion app to iNaturalistIn this day and age where funding for science is thrown on the back burner, citizen science has never been more important! I used this app when it first came out and it was buggy but I loved the concept! Fast forward a couple years later and it’s really really good! I don’t like the auto pic when it IDs as the picture comes out blurry but it’s easily disabled. Great app! As a hobbyist naturalist I really enjoy it..Version: 2.14.0
✓ Works really well!This app works much better than a lot of reviews say. It’s able to identify lots of different plants and animals in my area... and at no cost! Great app and highly recommend it for discovering new species..Version: 2.6.1
✓ Perfect plant ID pocket guide for field workI use this app for field work in New Zealand. It’s helped me quickly and very accurately identify both native and introduced species and had been a fantastic learning tool for myself and my team..Version: 2.11.3
✓ Works great!Works surprisingly well, not great with Australian stuff but it’s good to get a general guess. Don’t rely on it to eat stuff of course.Version: 2.10.6
✓ Great app ! 🐸I love this app and use it all the time for identifying organisms. love the challenges too :) my only issues with it right now are 1. i’d prefer if, when you go into the details of an observation, it doesn’t put you back at the top of the list when you go back to all your observations. it’d be a lot easier if it just put you back where you were on the list. 2. would it be possible for the app to take range into account when identifying species ? i’ve run into a situation a couple times where a creature is the only one of it’s genus or family in the area, but the app still can’t identify it. 3. it’d be cool if your observations on iNaturalist could transfer over to Seek !! so that anything the app can’t identify, i can just log myself. Overall it’s a great app, i use it all the time and love it !! 🐸.Version: 2.3.0
✓ Amazing but a Couple SuggestionsUPDATE: With one of the latest app updates, all my challenges that I’ve already completed have been reset to 0%!! 😢 This app is amazing, but I have a couple suggestions to make it even better. • Add a search feature under My Observations. After observing many different species, sometimes I want to go back and look at one but have to scroll through dozens of observations just to find it. • Reduce the time spent on the intro splash screen that appears when you open the app as well as the screen that comes up when you open the camera feature. When my phone is low on battery or storage and I just need to go straight to the camera ID feature to ID something quickly, it can take a long time to wait for the opening splash screen to disappear, the app to load and be ready to use, and then the camera warning to go away before I can use the app for what I need it for quickly..Version: 2.15.2
✓ Like Pokemon Go but for plantsTotally free, easy to use, lots of information including native and endangered levels, only thing is it can use a lot of battery quickly. The iNaturalist forum is great as well for bringing up problems or wanted features.Version: 2.14.2
✓ Best app I’ve ever downloadedThis is just perfect, all I could ever ask for, I’ve always loved animals and plants and all things nature and have wanted to make it a hobby of mine to go outside more and see all the things around me, been playing a lot of Pokémon go and this app is like that but real life. So cool, I don’t have anything bad to say about this except maybe how it goes through battery pretty fast (ik there’s is like bearly anything you can do about that) but also it does that tend to crash and close itself out a little bit, not enough to be annoying to me idk if I’m the only one that hat happens to of if it maybe my service, but anyway, I’m thanks for such a great app and keep up the fantastic work.Version: 2.14.2
✓ It’s MEEEEELove it but it identified my sister as a tulip and my guinea pig as a skunk but it still is a good app..Version: 2.14.2
✓ Love it 😂I love this app 😂 it thought my standard poodle was an alpaca numerous times, a camel a few times, my Himalayan cat a domestic Guinea pig then later a giant panda 😂😂😂😂 it did get my other cat a domestic cat tho 👍🏻 and it was real quick to identify plants! It’s just entertaining 😂.Version: 2.14.1
✓ Looks AmazingLiterally only downloaded 5 minutes ago so I can't really have a proper opinion but this looks like an amazing, useful app. Also, looking at other people's comments, you seem to have listened to there ideas and added them in to the app. I love all the features and can't wait to explore more! Looking forward to fully exploring this app..Version: 2.3.1
✓ Really love the app but I have issues sometimesSometimes the app auto scans things while I'm trying to scan something else and by the time I get whatever pop-up out of the way (same observation or challenge complete, etc) the thing I was actually trying to scan goes away into the wild :( other times I try to scan something 1ft from me, getting multiple angles and still no scan, it just stays on the second to last bubble never able to get the final result. I know what the species is too because I see it on the home page at the location I'm at. It would be nice to just go "okay you can't scan this, I'll just upload the picture I got and set it to this species" or at least have a way to let you pick it if it looks similar to one you're labeling it as. The species I've had that issue with is the Great-Tailed Grackle. I've been scanning different ones for 4 days now and still haven't been able to get Seek to get it but have the most clear picture of one. Sometimes the animals are super well camouflaged too and Seek just can't see them at all. It's frustrating sometimes but overall the app has been working fine and has had no problems. Plants work more compared to animals it seems. Can't really get bugs like ticks and mosquitos, but I guess I can blame my camera for that one. iPhone 12. This review would be 5 stars if it wasn't for those small issues I have. All in all amazing app and I use it all the time now..Version: 2.15.3
✓ Possibly the absolute best identification app available in AustraliaWould not recommend another.Version: 2.5.1
✓ Good gameBecause my kids are always so curious about things and get to know what they are!.Version: 2.14.5
✓ Great app, not perfect but nor am I!I love this app. Ok it can’t ID everything- camera angle etc sometimes a struggle, sometimes it tells me I’ve found a species only found in the US and it does drain battery and it’s a huge distraction from gardening (as I try to identify every bug and weed!). But to be honest compared to googling and pouring through ID books this is amazing..Version: 2.3.1
✓ One step closer to a Star Trek TricorderIt’s pretty awesome being able to ID organisms by just holding them in the frame of a camera! Moving critters are tricky to get. But it’s still rewarding to “collect” as many images from all the branches of the tree of life as you can. I have only 2 complaints: 1. The relationship between this app and iNaturalist needs more explanation. Yes, I know Seek “gets its data” from iNaturalist. But although I logged into my iNaturalist account in Seek, it’s not at all obvious if, how, or when my observations are shared with the greater iNaturalist online community. 2. Photos taken in Seek do not have any camera metadata attached to them! Seek makes it optional whether to include observations in the Photos app. I like to. But there is no way for me to filter observations taken on my older iPhone vs. my new iPhone, because there is no metadata on the phone/camera model on Seek photos. (If any devs are reading this, please add this feature! BONUS POINTS: Allow me to designate an album in Photos for my Seek observations.) Despite these things, this is a pretty phenomenal app. If you have any interest in the natural world, this is a fantastic example of how technology can support curiosity and exploration, and allow personally-driven learning..Version: 2.9.1
✓ I’ve never written a review, BUT this app deserves it!!Super cool concept and well implemented! Yes, it can be a little slow to identify a species, but I appreciate the fact that it will tell you what stage it is on in identification being the kingdom, class, species etc... The interface is beautiful and easy to use. Of course there are minor details out there that could improve the app, but I would say it’s executed far more beautifully in terms of being user friendly and its interface design than most apps out there. As I said in the title of my review, I have never reviewed an app ever, but I love the concept of this app so much, I felt it deserved it. I have already suggested it to many of my nature-loving friends and can’t wait to keep identifying and learning about more species!.Version: 2.3.1
✓ RecommendedGreat app. Has been working really well, though of course with expected difficulties with identifying incorrect species on occasions. With the new update, I miss the ability to zoom in on already taken photos within the app so as to improve the ability to identify. Instead, I now have to edit it with my photo app, where going between the two apps can be a bit cumbersome. Additionally, the new update came with a glitch. The app will close when I attempt to look at my observations. Plan to delete and redownload, hopefully that fixes the problem. Update - I deleted and redownloaded, now all of my observations have been deleted and I don’t know if there is any way of getting them back. I’m pretty disappointed by this..Version: 2.0
✓ Great! But needs a few extra things.This is an amazing and very useful app, however, when it misidentifies something, there is no option to correct the result. It kept calling bl my b.hamorii a b.emilia, they are similar but there are major differences that the app could not ‘see’, it does have a good potential though..Version: 2.12.18
✓ This app is so smart!I recently purchased a stuffed animal toy and only downloaded this app to see if it could identify what species it was based off, and I was amazed to see the app name the exact species it was!.Version: 2.14.12
✓ Would be better if it showed common and scientific names at the same timeThis identifies most of the flowers and trees in our garden. I would give it 5 stars if it would show scientific and common names together, instead of having to go to the settings and select one or the other..Version: 2.12.6
✓ Incredible appThis app is fantastic. Identifies almost everything it’s pointed at. My children hugely enjoy the challenges. Would be 5 stars if there was some way to transfer progress when changing phones. Just the option to save a file on iCloud would do..Version: 2.14.12
✓ Good ummm butI scanned my golden retriever dog and it thought my dog was a giant panda it’s really well weird fix it please?.Version: 2.5.4
✓ Absolutely love itThis app is brilliant, not only is it totally free and just as good as other apps for identifying species we run across in the natural world, but it also integrates with iNaturalist, meaning we can post our observations automatically to it and scientists might end up using what we spot for conservation and biodiversity work. Best app ever!.Version: 2.12.7
✓ Best app everI love this app I play this app every day. I not only learn but I get to play with it. It like Pokémon go but you can see the Pokémon in real life. I suggest getting this app. There only one thing I think they should add. I took a picture of a frozen mammoth and It didn’t go though. So if anyone developer can hear this this is what you should add. I think I should be able to take pictures of fossils and be able to learn about them. Some animals that gone exstinct. And one more thing I think I should be able to take pictures of microscopic organisms. I think that be cool. Imagin taking a picture through a microscope and see what you found that be cool. Or at least let me be able to take a photo of a flea for some reason that doesn’t work. And you don’t have to add this it just a cool thought I had..Version: 2.10.4
✓ Great appExcellent app! Keen to start documenting everything I can! One bug though, if you use an existing photo rather than the camera, then the location recorded is your current location rather than the location the image was taken. Could be easily solved by pulling the gps coordinates from the image metadata ;).Version: 2.0.2
✓ Brilliant appIf your curious and don’t know what it is then use this app it’s brilliant. Sometimes it doesn’t give the answer and asks for another photo but most of the time it’s spot on.Version: 2.13.0
✓ Great appUse this all the time for the “what is it” questions. Could do with a rarity rating or help a study feature on each ID so I know whether to upload or not..Version: 2.5.4
✓ Identification ErrorsApp is pretty good at identifying species but does make errors even when you have a clear photo. Unfortunately there is no way to correct the identification in the app - if there was I would give the App 5 stars.Version: 2.14.1
✓ One of my favorite apps.Last time I got a new phone, the data didn’t transfer from my old phone to the new one, and I lost all of the observations I’d recorded in Seek, and gave it a bad review. I kept that phone for a few years, but just recently got a new one. I was very relieved when my seek data transferred seamlessly this time. I’m not sure if it’s because they fixed in in the app, or if apple has improved the way data is transferred when you get a new phone (because it seems other apps that had problems before did a better job transitioning as well). But either way I’m happy to have all my old observations, and they’ve also made some other great improvements such as the camera automatically snapping a pic when it gets to species— so many times after anguishing to get just the right angle, I would get species only to loose it just from the slight nudge of pressing the camera button to take a picture. So that’s no longer a problem. Good job guys!.Version: 2.14.3
✓ Superb when walking and with kids to add a huge learning dimension to thingsFantastic app. I suppose I need to say more! This is really great for when out and about and looking at what growing and creeping, flying or walking about. Good at differentiating between different species that look nearly identical. We have sycamores. I thought. But actually we have sycamore maple and Norway sycamore and we have oaks, different types of oak! On walks now (in May) it opens your eyes to all the different types of wildflowers around. Very much recommended for walkers, gardeners and the generally curious if all ages..Version: 2.5.4
✓ Too damn addictingThis app is just too addicting. It’s like geocaching, except you’re trynna find little fuzzy or scaly dudes. And there’s no plastic waste. Maybe a better example is Pokémon Go, except the Pokémon are real. If you want to ID everything, this is the app for you..Version: 2.14.8
✓ Great upgradeThe new functionality is impressive! Thanks iNaturalist.Version: 2.0
✓ An issueThe app works pretty well; it has good identification and documentation skills that link to my iNaturalist. The main issue is that there is no option to sign in with google or Facebook. I use my google account for the normal iNaturalist app, but there is no option on seek to sign in with my google account. I try to use my google account details with the normal login engine but it doesn’t work, even when I try to change my password and redownload the app and restart my device. This annoying issue means I cannot access my preexisting iNaturalist account..Version: 2.10.1
✓ It’s like real life animal crossingThis app is fantastic and really helping my 2 young boys connect and understand nature. Have to take my phone with me now whenever we go on a walk as they want to try and identify things they’re not sure about. There are a few things that would make it better and hopefully some extra features can get added over time. A couple of suggestions to the developers, 1. Connect with friends on the app so you can compare your discoveries, compete on challenges etc.. 2. The option to delete/cancel a new species. Occasionally you’ll find a new species that is definitely wrong but there is no way to undo it. Maybe add a “confirm new species” button before its added to your library.Version: 2.8.0
✓ Great app but recent problem with camera functionI’ve been really enjoying this app finding species, getting badges and love finding out about the world around me. The last couple of days the camera function does not allow me to save anything to my observations. I scan the environment it tells me happily what species it is but when I take a photo to link to my observations the screen just goes blank and freezes. I’ve updated the app and noticed you’ve changed something in the camera setting. Do I have to change anything on my iPhone? I’ve turned the phone off and on a number of times to refresh but still not working. It’s frustrating as I’m just one species away from my next badge and found 3 new ones this morning I can’t record. Other than this a fantastic app I’ve recommended to friends and family ..Version: 2.8.0
✓ Excellent App, just has an annoying pop up.Great app, works incredibly well a lot of the time. It is however annoying having the Remember safety warning pop up every time you go to take a photo. Would be more usable if it only appeared once per user or had an option to disable it in the settings. It’s not useful. Thanks team overall great app!.Version: 2.8.3
✓ ObserverExcellent Thanks Peter.Version: 2.13.6
✓ AmazingThe quality of the photos and the accuracy of the detection is awesome! Love going out and taking photos of the wildlife and plants and finding out what they are 🥰.Version: 2.14.3
✓ Excellent for identifying; poor on facts (Wikipedia)I used this app to identify over 100 plants on some vacant land that we were purchasing. I wanted to know what was native and what was introduced and Seek very rarely failed to give results. It only had trouble with tall trees, as it cannot identify well with only bark or only a piece that has fallen on the ground. Understandable. - one star because I do not like that Wikipedia is given as the source of “facts” on a plant. As every college professor knows, Wikipedia is hardly an accurate source. For example, today I identified American Grass Mantis in Alabama. Wikipedia says “found in Georgia and Florida.” Yet you can see on the Seek app that many Alabaman and Mississippians are identifying it in our locations as well. Because Wikipedia is not good at facts, I copy the scientific name of a plant or insect and run it through a reputable botany or entomology site. But other than that, Seek is a wonderful app and I recommend it often to others. I’ve even posted about it on my homeschooling site - it’s excellent for studying plants..Version: 2.12.6
✓ Fantastic for nature loversI never rate apps, but this deserved a good one. I simply loved this app. It’s interesting, engaging, and educative at the same time. Also it keep your findings stored. It has some minor issues but are irrelevant compared with the benefits, also I’m sure they will improve the app as we continue sending them feedback. Top!.Version: 2.0.2
✓ My favourite appLots of negative reviews on here are outdated, I think. This app has improved greatly over the years. I like the link to the iNaturalist app (my other favourite app) any thought of linking them further. For the rare time it’s difficult to scan something, it would be nice if after loading to iNat and species confirmed by a few people that it would be added to my observations list in seek. Would help for something that has species that look very similar (like gulls).Version: 2.14.8
✓ Needs this feature!This is a great app. My whole family loves it! I cannot say how mush fun we all have seeking for new species, identifying things we see along the way, etc. I understand that the identification is not perfect (trouble identifying, mis-identifying) but I expect it to improve, and compared to my brain’s knowledge and skill, this is amazing! I want to ask for one feature to help with one of the most annoying parts of this app. Nothing is more frustrating when trying to identify species is when another species is also in the picture. For example, I’m trying to get that bird or insect, and the app only sees that plant instead. I think some sort of “lock” by tapping on the identification level would really help. Then the app knows that yes, I’m looking for that class insecta and not that dicot, and it won’t backtrack. (This could be done at any identification level and help with identification backtracking in general.).Version: 2.14.1
✓ Thank you!What a helpful app. It works so well and we had a lot of fun using it while camping..Version: 2.14.11
✓ Fantastic, needs QOLAbsolutely love this app. So much fun identifying and learning all about the life around me I never would have known about otherwise, seems to be pretty accurate most of the time too. My only complaint is I want the ability to reject/delete an identification on the identification screen so when it does misidentify them it’s easy to say so..Version: 2.14.2
✓ UsefulDoesn’t get everything, can’t remember what failed, but very useful. What I thought was privet is euonymus! I would never have known without this app. Brilliant!.Version: 2.12.7
✓ Fix mis-identification?Fun app. Issue is I can’t find a way to fix it when it gets it wrong?.Version: 2.13.3
✓ Seek is the bestSeek is the best.Version: 2.14.2
✓ FantasticThis app is a great tool to have if you want to learn more about the environment near you. Though often times inaccurate, it is reliable if you get good lighting and a focused picture. I do think this app should have a feature telling you the danger level of the animal/planr you observed. For instance, if you scan a species of snake it would be useful to know if the species is venomous without having to read through the source article. It could also let you if an animal tends to be feral or not. For plants it could tell you if the berries are safe to eat, the leaves have the oil similar to poison ivy, etc. This would just specifically be for safety reasons so once users recognize the animal they know to stay away. Otherwise fantastic app and I have inspired others to download and scan the environment around them..Version: 2.14.1
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