Bryn
Absolutely love this app. I try to use it as much as possible to record all the species that I see. This is the best app on the App Store!
Great Idea but disappointed :(
My kids and I loved the game and played a lot. It was a great way to get them into photography too. We started setting quests for each other but when we posted pictures they wouldn’t be credited to quests. After several emails I just found out that my camera has to be gps enabled to do quests, even the little ones we set each other. Kids gave up at that point. It’s a real shame.
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Questafun!!!
We are loving this app so much in our house. I am not really an outdoorsy person as a rule but I am finding myself getting up early with my daughter, grabbing a hat and sensible shoes to go and find birds...birds people! It’s such a great buzz when one of your submissions is accepted and my daughter loves collecting gold. The perfect holiday app!
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Crashes
Crashes every time I select an observation synced from my inaturalist account. Only reason I downloaded was bc of the inat partnership so until they fix this, I’m not interested.
Response from developer
Thanks for this and sorry, just seeing this review now (the US reviews weren't visible to us earlier for some reason). Yes, we no longer offer this collaboration with iNaturalist. We tried our best. However, give the new app a try. Our system is quite robust and follows rigorous scientific practices (no group think). The data is now fully exportable with an easy one-click option. All the best.
Fun!
Really enjoying submitting my sightings and learning new species. Mostly common ones but still great fun.
A couple of improvements I would suggest. I have a couple of offline sightings that don’t have a photo with them but I can’t delete them so they are stuck.
In the QLab history the species name is fancy script across the top doesn’t have enough characters visible for most species meaning I can’t see the full name or common name of the identification. Written underneath in normal text would be better and I would be able to learn more stuff.
Overall I’m so excited about this app I’m telling all my friends and family- unusual for me.
A couple of improvements I would suggest. I have a couple of offline sightings that don’t have a photo with them but I can’t delete them so they are stuck.
In the QLab history the species name is fancy script across the top doesn’t have enough characters visible for most species meaning I can’t see the full name or common name of the identification. Written underneath in normal text would be better and I would be able to learn more stuff.
Overall I’m so excited about this app I’m telling all my friends and family- unusual for me.
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Great app.
It’s very interesting game.
Great game
This is a great game. The only thing I have to complain about is that you can only join one clan. Is this for a reason? Please fix this soon.
Great app for discovering!
Love this app. The kids love sighting new animals whilst we are out and about and we have gone on several walks just so we can find animals. We have had so many more conversations about the creatures around us us to the app engaging the kids including my boy on the autism spectrum.
A few issues, but great potential.
First off, I’d like to make clear that you should not be discouraged from downloading and using this app, it has some issues, but with more downloads I hope the creators will further develop QuestaGame.
I haven’t reported too many sightings as of yet, but I like the idea of expert feedback. When I first tried to search species, they weren’t coming up. From what I’ve found it seems that the search works every other time you stop typing. For example: if you type “Canada Goose” fairly quickly without pausing, it will appear and you can chose the correct option. If you type “Can” and pause for a second, a bunch of options will come up, and if you finish writing “Canada Goose” without pausing this time, no options will appear. When I submitted my first few sightings, this made me think that they had very few species in their data, but I did get used to the strange searching. Another thing that I didn’t like was the fact that you can only report a few sightings per day. I understand this is to limit the amount of gold you can get, but 4 a day seems to discourage me from using the app a lot. The gold you receive for rarity seems to be a bit inconsistent, for example: I received 79 gold (in the sighting rarity category) for my report of a Greater White-fronted Goose. This species of goose is expected in Massachusetts USA this time of year, but rare. They are not extremely rare, but the farthest east their normal migration route goes, is to Illinois. Like I said, a few Greater White-fronted Geese are always seen in MA this time of year, but definitely not considered common. The reason that the number of gold received is strange, is because for the same category, (sighting rarity) on my report of a House Finch, I received 95 gold. House Finches are not a bird that I would consider extremely common, but they are very common feeder birds in Massachusetts at any time of year because they are non-migratory. The last (very) small issue I have is formatting, the app isn’t super pleasing to the eye and navigation is a bit difficult at times. The feel of it is a bit underdeveloped, but not that bad, like I said, it’s just a small issue.
If all of these problems were resolved, there is no doubt that this would be a 5 Star app, it has great potential! I love the idea of collecting species, and the fact that experts review them is wonderful, it gets people outside and exploring, and it can teach people so much.
I haven’t reported too many sightings as of yet, but I like the idea of expert feedback. When I first tried to search species, they weren’t coming up. From what I’ve found it seems that the search works every other time you stop typing. For example: if you type “Canada Goose” fairly quickly without pausing, it will appear and you can chose the correct option. If you type “Can” and pause for a second, a bunch of options will come up, and if you finish writing “Canada Goose” without pausing this time, no options will appear. When I submitted my first few sightings, this made me think that they had very few species in their data, but I did get used to the strange searching. Another thing that I didn’t like was the fact that you can only report a few sightings per day. I understand this is to limit the amount of gold you can get, but 4 a day seems to discourage me from using the app a lot. The gold you receive for rarity seems to be a bit inconsistent, for example: I received 79 gold (in the sighting rarity category) for my report of a Greater White-fronted Goose. This species of goose is expected in Massachusetts USA this time of year, but rare. They are not extremely rare, but the farthest east their normal migration route goes, is to Illinois. Like I said, a few Greater White-fronted Geese are always seen in MA this time of year, but definitely not considered common. The reason that the number of gold received is strange, is because for the same category, (sighting rarity) on my report of a House Finch, I received 95 gold. House Finches are not a bird that I would consider extremely common, but they are very common feeder birds in Massachusetts at any time of year because they are non-migratory. The last (very) small issue I have is formatting, the app isn’t super pleasing to the eye and navigation is a bit difficult at times. The feel of it is a bit underdeveloped, but not that bad, like I said, it’s just a small issue.
If all of these problems were resolved, there is no doubt that this would be a 5 Star app, it has great potential! I love the idea of collecting species, and the fact that experts review them is wonderful, it gets people outside and exploring, and it can teach people so much.
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Questagame...
I love this app so much. I find it is a good way to get scientists looking at new species. The only problem I have with it is that you have a limited amount of sightings in 24 hours. I understand that if the scientist get many sightings, they could be overloaded with information. I reckon the daily limit should be 5 or 6 in case you go for a long bush walk. I highly recommend this app for those willing to explore, young or elderly.
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Response from developer
Thank you for your very kind review. A tip: To increase your sightings limit, you can identify sightings in either QuestaGame > Dashboard > QuestaLab, or via Bee.questagame.com. You gain expertise levels for correct IDs, which increases your sightings-per-day limit. Thanks again!
