iNaturalist User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience47.4% of reviews
Neutral15.7% of reviews
Negative experience36.9% of reviews

~ Based on 420 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is iNaturalist Safe?

iNaturalist appears mostly safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for iNaturalist is 80/100.

This assessment is based on 639 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4/5.

Safety Analysis

71.0% of ratings point to a safe experience
9.4% of ratings suggest some concerns
19.6% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 639 App Store ratings for iNaturalist.

Is iNaturalist Legit?

iNaturalist appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for iNaturalist is 88/100.

Based on 88 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Спасибо за приложение!

И спасибо подкасту Сперва роди, за то что рассказали про него.

Creates confirmation bias

I recently switched to an iPhone and I'm shocked to find that this app lacks the Compare feature. That feature is critical to avoiding confirmation bias in the Computer Vision model and helping users learn to find distinguishing characteristics. That's why I always preferred iNaturalist over Seek. We should not thoughtlessly feed photos to an AI. We are here to learn with help from the CV model. I'm very disappointed that neither iOS version of the iNaturalist app lives up to the Android version.
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10/10

literally a godsend in its category!

Impossible

Impossible to create a password that is acceptable, even when following the rules. Tried all lengths and combinations and every one was denied. (Again, I followed the rules) And don’t try to system generate a strong one. No way will that work. Will have to find another app

Manque un onglet pour comestible ou toxique

Amelioration

best nature ID app

If you are inexperienced with nature and looking for an app to help identify things this is really the best option out there

An Amazing Tool

iNaturalist is an awesome tool for both the curious observer and researchers alike! I do wish you could add observations directly to projects from the app like you can in iNaturalist Classic.

Best nature app i've ever used

the AI that identifies species is extremely accurate and i've only seen it mess up a few times. tons of observers and users that will help you identify things if you don't know what it is. incredibly useful UI and tons of ways to be involved in your community and bond with others through nature. only complaint i would have is (as far as i've seen) there's no way to turn on notifications and i'd like to be notified when people ID species that i post. other than that it's simply a phenomenal app and i have no other complaints. 😊
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Zero stars what happened to this app? It just told me a mushroom was a paw paw. It’s turned to trash

Title pretty much captures it. Please no generic-“we’ve been using machine learning since 2017” reply, it doesn’t matter, the ID feature completely blows NOW & gives the most random stupid ids. This happens nearly every time I use the app. No one community id’s anything anymore, because people are dropping INaturalist. Also got lots of google & still begs for $ all the time. If u want $, fix the app, the UI is horrendous too. Once loved iNat, oh well
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Research and discovery

This might be my favorite app of all time

Odd behavior

It’s a fun app, helps to identify mysterious things in the yard. But something odd has happened to it in the last year or so: I now seem to get email notifications of observations from just one user. Hundreds of notifications. Many per week. And nothing from anyone else. Nothing! I think I’ve now blocked her, but I’m not sure. The app has become more annoying than helpful.
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AI?

A great app but not using as it uses AI. If you are a naturalist and care about the environment you surely would be anti AI? Look at the effects these data centres are having on the environment. With all this technological advances why not have an opt out button? Convenience is not a good enough reason to screw the planet.
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Response from developer

Thank you for the feedback. iNaturalist has been using machine learning since 2017 to provide the suggestions you see in the app. The in-camera identification suggestions were first introduced in 2019 through our other app, Seek by iNaturalist, and are now in this app. Our identification models are trained on a few small machines under our control, not in a large data center.

Disappointment

My account got suspended, reason? I don’t know maybe because the app development is really bad and everyone complaining about the same things ? Maybe Please fix this app

First time user

Used it for the first time and am quite happy and impressed with the results and accuracy

Can’t submit without photo?

In the new version there’s no option to submit an observation without a photo. The response was not helpful.

Response from developer

Thank you for the feedback. There are a few ways to submit an image from your photo library, here are two. 1: if you open the camera, you should see a photo library icon on the bottom right-hand corner. Tap on that to open your photo library and tap on a photo to import it. 2: press and hold on the camera icon to open up all new observation options, including "Upload photos". See more at https://help.inaturalist.org/en/support/solutions/articles/151000197160-how-to-make-an-observation-with-the-inaturalist-iphone-app#Import-Photos-into-iNaturalist

Neue Funktionen?

Diverse Updates, leider keine Changelogs, stattdessen seit Beginn an der gleiche Werbetext unter „neue Funktionen“. Inhaltlich auch keine Verbesserungen sicht- und spürbar.

Response from developer

Thank you for the feedback, we're continuing to work on improvin the app's speed and stability. Von Google Übersetzer: Vielen Dank für das Feedback, wir arbeiten weiterhin daran, die Geschwindigkeit und Stabilität der App zu verbessern.

Don’t use this app delete your content

They are using your uploaded pictures to train their AI model, google lens, and the defense departments probably anyone else who pays for the data too. I’m not training anyone’s computer program for them. Once a few people identify a species and it gets marked as research grade they start feeding it to the AI. Delete all your content then delete the app.not only that they emailed me to lie about about it. Everything I said is freely available information from their own website.
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Can’t submit without photo?

In the new version there’s no option to submit an observation with taking a photo

Excellent

Plant taxonomy continues to be one of my scientific interests, and a best enjoyed course from my undergraduate days, many, many years ago. This app enables even the casual observer to identify unfamiliar plants and, best of all, to join a large community of nature lovers and citizen scientists. It works well, and I appreciate that other observers confirm or disagree with a suggested identification. It is very much worth having.
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WOUAW

C’est la meilleure appli de reconnaissance naturaliste et pour apprendre des espèces