This app struggled to identify the simplest things. A perfectly clear shot of a blue Jay, that might be a bird. A picture of a squirrel, well, it’s definitely an animal but can’t get anymore detailed than that. A clear image of a racer, well it could be a snake. Also it takes forever to […]
Reviews for Seek by iNaturalist
β Back to Seek by iNaturalist20 reviews
This is still my favorite species identification app, but it seems development is getting a bit stale. It crashes and freezes frequently, tested across three different phones. The achievements max out rapidly without room to grow. Progress is not synced across devices despite being logged into iNaturalist, so if you change your phone you start […]
Take a single picture and often get it identified- plant, bird, toads, slug… great! I love the challenges! A fun game like real pokemon. Could be better: App so far has not done well with trees or spiders. In general, if it can’t identify with single picture there should be an option to have multiple […]
really amazing idea, I love the gaming twist in identifying species, as well as the ability to ID more than plants! on the downside, the AI is rough at best. I was using a different app that wanted $20 a month just to identify plants, and it would immediately recognize some more common plants. This […]
I love a lot about this app. It makes observations simple and seeing the progress as it develops can be informative. That said, it crashes a lot or seems to stop guessing and often you have to restart the app. Most importantly though, there is no way to save your observations if you get a […]
Breaks gestures on Motorola phones. Took me a month to figure out why my flashlight and camera weren’t working properly. Aside from that, the app itself is cool if… finicky, and I want to like it, but it’s not pleasant to use. Would be better if it let you use your cameras macro mode for […]
I love the app, although it is kind of slow sometimes. What prompts a three-star review is the fact that I just returned from a 4-month vacation/camping trip during which I was able to record over 40 new species of plants and where I found them. But now that I have changed phones all that […]
I love this app, and the more I use it, the more family likes it too. What would be a really neat feature is when identifying birds or other animals, it should have an option to hear the sound the bird or animal makes. Im no animal expert, but there should be an option for […]
This app is really fun and addictive when it works. It’s forced me to go outside and get excited when it rains, etc. BUT! There is one major thing that I completely dislike and wish the apps creators would fix. It’s when I take a photo of a species. I get the species name and […]
Horrificly bad, the screen is waaaay zoomed out, I was trying to scam geese and other birds and when I tried to zoom in, it would just focus on a small area, and it took forever scanning a papaya plant. Please fix this, sorry for my rude sounding vocabulary, I’m not usually this mad. But […]
I really like this app. It’s pretty intuitive to use, and has done a good job identifying backyard plants and weeds! I’d love it even more if there was an option to read more information about a particular species. The app pulls an excerpt from Wikipedia, but doesn’t allow you to click on the full […]
It’s great for identifying, but sometimes it takes a few seconds to get the picture, I would just stand there pointing the phone at a cat or lizard… It’s awful when fast insects are involved… I don’t have a professional camera :/ (I like the challanges though). PS: The app appears to be… Horrible… When […]
this app is awesome, its like having a Poke-dex but for real animals and plants! so much fun to use, and i finally get to know the names of the species in the area ive always seen, but never been able to identify. I had to change to 3 stars however, because I frequently scan […]
Edit: It never identifies anything anymore. It was good at first. The overall app is good. It’s easy to navigate, and it seems to work pretty well most of the time. The camera is the worst part. 7/10 times it won’t identify what I’m looking at, but gets stuck at family or genus. If the […]
Sometimes after taking a photo the app seems to get stuck with a spinning buffer symbol and you have to try again, frustrating if you managed to capture a difficult subject. I think the app would benefit from a feature where you can add a sighting from an organism that you have been able to […]
The app has a long standing software bug that is unresolved. Overtime, taking a photo with the app has taken an increasingly long time. Now, the app can no longer use the camera to take a photo, it just hangs. It will still ID things without snapping a photo, but can’t save the observations anymore. […]
It’s a cool app, but it’ll give me the incorrect species 25% of the time. It told me that a bug with a very specific marking that set it apart as something completely different was a paper wasp, which looked nothing alike. The quality of the camera through the app is SO bad that it […]
good but could use improvement in some spots. if I know the genus of a plant I can take a pic of but can NOT input anything with the picture. ex: I know it’s an orchid, but not which type. when I take pics it can’t ID or give me bad suggestions. it’s good if […]
It works pretty well most of the time. We have hundreds of IDs and it’s fun using the app aside some infuriating bugs, though. Half the time it gets an ID, it freezes and fails to secure the ID (but the photo IS taken and in gallery) or you get a random location not applied […]
Works relatively quickly and accurately identifying things in the live view. However, when I go to take a picture to save the observation, the app freezes and does not save. Also works poorly on identifying previously taken pictures in gallery. Last event was winter 2024. Seems like it might not be updated.