QuestaGame User Reviews

QuestaGame
QuestaGame
Earth Guardians Pty Ltd

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Great

Now I get internet points for my animal photos.

Great app, new update keeps crashing though

I love this app, I’ve been doing the uni BioQuest and it’s great… but I just updated the app and now it crashes every time I try to open it on my phone so I can’t upload any of my new sightings :(

I tried deleting the app and reinstalling it, restarting my phone and a few other things but nothing seems to work so I think it must be a bug in the app itself. It still works on my laptop so I can identify other people’s sightings, but I can’t upload any of my own, so it’d be great if this could be fixed!

I’d love to be able to give QuestaGame a higher rating because it is a great app and it has made me far more observant of the world around me in the short time I’ve been playing, so once this crashing problem is fixed it’ll be great.
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Questa Game

This is a brilliant app and provides the community at large to partake in citizen science and have fun at the same time. Give it a go, and get out there and discover our amazing natural world.

Eye opening & addictive

This app has given me a new sense excitement and discovery every time I step outside the house and see a living creature to photograph and identify. Climbing the rankings appeals to my competitive side and seeing other people’s finds reminds me that I live in a vast, diverse and beautiful country/world.
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Great for kids and adults

Great way for kids to learn and experience what nature has to offer even in your back yard. And as an adult I’m hooked.

Such a fun game - and productive too!

This game has totally changed the way I see nature. It offers a way to find out what the cool things I see are and get extra information about them all while earning points (which appeals to my competitiveness!) and helping science and conservation. I have learned so much more about biodiversity both near me and in the places I visit, it makes me excited to be anywhere to see what I can find, what is the same and what is different. You don’t need to know anything to play this game which also makes is a great equaliser for people of any knowledge or background. Totally recommend!
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Latest version crashing

I love this app in general but the latest version is crashing on my iPhone 11 whenever I try and submit a sighting.

It is also telling me to update but I can’t. I’ve even tried deleting the app and reinstalling it but am still getting the messages.

Hope you get it sorted soon so I can put you back to 5 stars.
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Response from developer

Hi James, we believe these issues are all fixed. Apologies for the bugs. Glad you're enjoying the app and would love the bump to 5 stars! :-)

Great game, app needs improvements

I love this game, the idea and what it does. Also, I really hope it succeeds. I would have a good chance of succeeding if the app made some dramatic improvements- An easy design fix is to make all text readable, some is dark on a dark background. Some explanations could be clearer. App crashes whenever i click to add field notes, which is a crucial part of the game i can’t play because of that. I run iOSX on quite a new phone. When is it available on iPad? kids (who don’t have phones) would love this.
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Response from developer

Thanks for your review. Just letting you know the field notes issue has been fixed. Regarding iPad, are you seeing that it's not available? It should be. Have also noted your point on the text, which we will address. In the app, Menu > Help is probably the best description of how the app works. Thanks again for your feedback and hoping we can get a 4 or 5 star from you next time!

Asked for my inaturalist password

This creeps me out - why not use oauth

Response from developer

Hi there, just noticed this review. (US reviews were not visible to us previously). Please download the latest version, as this issue has not been relevant for quite some time now. We've moved up and upgraded. If you go to our website, you can see we have a very high rating and excellent reputation in Australia and around the world, and even won Australia's top award for citizen science innovation, the Eureka Prize. The US is a very influential market, but at the same time often closed to new ideas. It's too easy for US organisations to tarnish innovations from a non-US entity simply because it doesn't follow the exact practices of US companies, which themselves appear very "creepy" from outside the US (e.g. AI, location tracking, data ownership, etc). It's very important for the US public to be able to see innovations from outside the US, on a level playing field, otherwise the world loses out on potential big impact solutions to real world problems (such as biodiversity loss). Hope this helps.

Totally awesome!

Love this app and I’m now totally addicted! It is my reward time I give myself between work and gets me out and seeing so much beauty in the world. Love the fact you can have a go at identifying what you get, and then when it is identified by the scientists, you get loads of great information! Love it! Thank you!

Only thing I could recommend is that you could use cameras other than the phone, as it is hard to capture many things like birds etc on a phone.
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