About iNaturalist
One of the world's most popular nature apps, iNaturalist helps you identify the plants and animals around you. Get connected with a community of over 400,000 scientists and naturalists who can help you learn more about nature! What's more, by recording and sharing your observations, you'll create research quality data for scientists working to better understand and protect nature. iNaturalist is a joint initiative by the California Academy of Sciences and the National Geographic Society.
KEY FEATURES
• Discover species new to you both near and far
• Record your own observations and share them with the community
• Receive suggestions and crowdsourced identifications of what you've seen
• Discuss and help others identify what they've seen
• Follow projects comprised of smaller communities and fellow citizen scientists passionate about a particular place and/or species
For more info, check out http://www.inaturalist.org
iNaturalist details
iNaturalist is a free Education app for Android with 1,000,000+ installs on Google Play and a 4.2/5 average rating from 4,351 ratings. It was released on December 30, 2011 and last updated on June 25, 2020. It's developed by iNaturalist. It requires Android 6.0 or later.
- Category
- Education
- Rating
- 4.2 / 5 (4,351 ratings)
- Installs
- 1,000,000+
- Price
- Free
- In-app purchases
- No
- Ads
- No ads
- Current version
- 1.19.3
- Size
- 24M
- Requires Android
- 6.0 and up
- Content rating
- Everyone
- Released
- December 30, 2011
- Last updated
- June 25, 2020
- Developer
- iNaturalist
What’s new in iNaturalist
* Fixed bug in which observations did not sync after changing photo order * Improved font scaling and performance on My Observations (thanks, Hamilton Turner!) * Several other small bug fixes
Version 1.19.3 · Updated June 25, 2020
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| App | Rating | Price | Installs | Last updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| iNaturalist | 4.2 / 5 | Free | 1,000,000+ | Jun 25, 2020 |
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| NatureID- Plant Identification | 4.3 / 5 | Free | 100,000+ | – |
| PictureThis - Plant Identifier | 4.7 / 5 | Free | 50,000,000+ | Sep 19, 2026 |
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| Merlin Bird ID by Cornell Lab | 4.8 / 5 | Free | 500,000+ | – |
| Picture Bird - Bird Identifier | 4.5 / 5 | Free | 50,000+ | – |
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