Never took the time the time to review an app before but this is one is so cool that I have to. 5 stars because of the concept, keeps me more engaged with real life learning about the thousands of species of insects in the world. I love adding pictures too it and expanding my collection, my younger cousins say it's like pokemon in real life. Only complaint is the in app camera takes a while to load, but if you take pictures with your own camera and upload them in it works amazingly.
Kieran Eustace
The app works well and it great! ... save for one detail. The "begin your free trial of primium," pops up WAY too often and I almost accidentally accept it every time because it genuienley shows up out of nowhere. There should be a "do not show again," button. If someone genuienley wants premium, they'll buy it. But for someone who keeps declining it- take a hint!
Kody Grantham
Didn't realize it wasnt a free app, which is unfortunate because I would keep it downloaded, but no way I'm paying $25/month for this. BUT, it came with a 7 day free trial, and it was able to identify the bug I needed, so it did the job. but am cancelling the subscription before it charges me. 4 stars because of the high price. $5 a month, ok sure. but $25? that's too much.
Krista Brown
I used it for 6 months and it was okay, but now it freezes up when I try to upload a photo, and I am being asked to subscribe to a free trial or "continue with limited version." The "continue with limited version" button does not work It is impossible to initiate a free trial without credit card information being retained. And I don't trust Google. I do not think it is accurate enough to charge $19.95/year. 50% accuracy in my experience.
Heather Lee
Don't call it free if you can't access ANYthing w/o a subscription. Even giving a short trial would give us some idea if your product is worth paying for MONTHLY, (not a reasonable 1 time fee) so we can see if it works, or if its just like your sister app, plant identification. Which, coincidentally, I DID pay for, yet it helped me identify 0% of searched plants. Just take a picture and Google lens it like I did, which was free, easy, and took less time than downloading a waste of time.
Lyndsey Seymour
There must have been some updates bc the app is free to use. I've been using it free and it has correctly identified the 3 spiders I submitted a picture of. Yes, it does pop up an ad to subscribe when I open the app but I just simply hit back and it goes back to the main screen. Also, I saw other people in the reviews saying it's like $25 a month, but on my app it's $3 a week, $6 a month, or $30 for a year (which equals out to $2.5/month) so that price update is excellent.
EJ Wessel
I like the app, but it does tend to be inaccurate. There used to be a cool feature where you could browse insects people around you had found on a map, but theyve removed it. There was also a feature where you could ask everyone for ID help, which was fun. I wish they would come back. A location feature would be nice to check for insects found in your area. I am in Germany and get false IDs for bugs not in europe. I do like the app overall tho.
Kathleen Rossie
The app is very good at its main job of identifying bugs. Sometimes when there are many similar species it doesn't get it exactly right or even have them all in their database, so you have to pull in other sources when a 100% sure ID is important. This would be a 5 star app if they improved the collecting aspect of the interface. I'd love the ability to add notes as well as tags or create albums. Also, ID correction seems to go into a blackhole and does not update the title in your collection.
Nathan Almond
I've used it for years and have accumulated quite the impressive collection. Bugs are usually easily identified, though the more miniscule insects (freckle sized or smaller) are harder for the algorithms to identify unless you have a super good camera. I rate it five stars because it's an incredibly reliable thingy. Though I don't like that it requires wifi, I can understand why.
Keith Komarnicki
Spot on... so far it's identified everything I've thrown at it and it does so pretty dang fast! It also has a pretty impressive amount of amplifying information for each "bug" you identify. It's simple & straightforward; it does everything it says it can do and even a little more. $20 a year is a pittance compared to the knowledge it delivers almost instantly. I love it... Great download! đź‘Ť
