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 hone in to the point of identifying a creature. I'd rather just use the Google camera search. It can at least tell that I'm looking at a turtle.
Ronak Shah
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 over. Would love to see some updates, like breaking the plants observations out into more specific categories, like arachnids and mollusks are.
Kate Parr
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 pictures work to identifying single thing. This is handled on other applications better. Still, I use it frequently and have found the challenges fun, though difficult due to app limitations
Zoli Marosan
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 app on the other hand, can't get past "Dicots" on a spearmint...
Tom Slusher (pupslush)
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 new device. If you do not upload to inaturalist at the time of the observation, you cannot do it later. There is no export feature. New device means you lose everything, incl achievements.
GlyphGryph
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 close up pictures, but since it doesn't it can't identify anything small.
Jerry Spencer
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 great information has gone away. I read now that there is no way to move your observations from one phone to another when you upgrade. That's too bad because I really would like to track all observations
Shanila Gooray
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 when there's a wrong identification so it doesn't save my observation incorrectly. I had one bird be identified and I knew just by looking at it, it was not correct.
Rosabelle Kathary
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 then I take the photo. It'll change from the species name, into the species family even though I was shown the name of the species (ex. Long bodied cellar spider, I took a photo and now they believe it could be an arachnid)
John Poopington
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 man it really pressed my buttons, thanks for trying to help fix bugs. Have a good day.
