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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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
Da geht noch was
Zur Erkennung der Arten im Feld okay.
Erfassung nutze ich nicht in der App, kann ich als nicht beurteilen.
Zur Verwaltung der Beobachtungen (App-Bereich „Aktivitäten“) ist die neue App leider von Beginn an der Classic-Version in Sachen Reaktivität haushoch unterlegen.
Ein Changelog für Updates, statt eines Werbetextes, wäre mal nützlich.
Erfassung nutze ich nicht in der App, kann ich als nicht beurteilen.
Zur Verwaltung der Beobachtungen (App-Bereich „Aktivitäten“) ist die neue App leider von Beginn an der Classic-Version in Sachen Reaktivität haushoch unterlegen.
Ein Changelog für Updates, statt eines Werbetextes, wäre mal nützlich.
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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.
Amazing!
If you want a fun free app that makes a difference this is it. Pictures of anything g from animals, to bugs, to plants. The program is user friendly and very efficient.
Ai garbage
I can’t image anyone would want your new app with new ai features. It destroys the authentic meaning of iNaturalist.
It can’t even get anything right anymore. It keeps telling me my bioluminescent mushrooms are common mushrooms and shows me 30 different pictures of each one of those pictures all being different species 💀💀 it’s not even just that it’s trees to flowers etc 😭
How ridiculous. Never use this bs app only use the old app and if the devs choose to have spite and try in anyway remove the old app to force us into this Ai garbage I already saved the source code and bundle for the old app and will host it server side on a tor server to get the data and put the app for all devices on my GitHub without any restrictions or data collection.
Even better I will just launch my own at that point but leave it a option (or added into mine) to keep using the old app if it ever becomes a issue.
Hope the devs read this review and 1 not pay for fake reviews like everyone else does to cover this up and 2 actual make a change for the better. It’s a shame real research gets thrown away with horrible America language models that deceive the public every single day (Ai). At least use a Russian or Chinese language model that isn’t built for deception and mass surveillance and control by our tyrant country and build off it yourself with open source software on your own infrastructure it’s not that hard and it’s not expensive (unless your a complete idiot only using Ai to build and code 💀💀) then you could actual make this bs app work somewhat decent but that’s a long shot!
Looks like I’m gonna use the old app and use alternatives the old school way and focus on my project that is built for the people without Ai
The new app layout is nice for a standard Ai template 😂 but it’s still garbage. Use real human code and you’ll be respected more in the community and not get dogged.
Hope change comes so I don’t gotta be the one to spend weeks reverse engineering your garbage and building something better. I don’t say any of this with hate I say it with disappointment and truth. Do better.
It can’t even get anything right anymore. It keeps telling me my bioluminescent mushrooms are common mushrooms and shows me 30 different pictures of each one of those pictures all being different species 💀💀 it’s not even just that it’s trees to flowers etc 😭
How ridiculous. Never use this bs app only use the old app and if the devs choose to have spite and try in anyway remove the old app to force us into this Ai garbage I already saved the source code and bundle for the old app and will host it server side on a tor server to get the data and put the app for all devices on my GitHub without any restrictions or data collection.
Even better I will just launch my own at that point but leave it a option (or added into mine) to keep using the old app if it ever becomes a issue.
Hope the devs read this review and 1 not pay for fake reviews like everyone else does to cover this up and 2 actual make a change for the better. It’s a shame real research gets thrown away with horrible America language models that deceive the public every single day (Ai). At least use a Russian or Chinese language model that isn’t built for deception and mass surveillance and control by our tyrant country and build off it yourself with open source software on your own infrastructure it’s not that hard and it’s not expensive (unless your a complete idiot only using Ai to build and code 💀💀) then you could actual make this bs app work somewhat decent but that’s a long shot!
Looks like I’m gonna use the old app and use alternatives the old school way and focus on my project that is built for the people without Ai
The new app layout is nice for a standard Ai template 😂 but it’s still garbage. Use real human code and you’ll be respected more in the community and not get dogged.
Hope change comes so I don’t gotta be the one to spend weeks reverse engineering your garbage and building something better. I don’t say any of this with hate I say it with disappointment and truth. Do better.
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Not very usable but the content is great
I've used this app for years and always have loved it for its usefulness in both AI- and human-generated identifications. However the most recent major update to the user interface made it much less usable -- it is super confusing now to try to navigate through the various menus to figure out how to do simple things like upload an observation or search for a particular species on the map. The app developers clearly wanted to add more functionality to the app but by doing so they made it much less fun, and way more confusing, to use.
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Quick, simple, reliable
Have used this app in multiple states and on plants animals and fungi. Does what it says, and rates its own confidence
this is my social media
this is a fantastic app with so much information to be learned!!! i hope people continue to donate to keep this app running - it’s my favorite thing to do on my phone!!!!
One of the best apps ever made
I don’t normally leave app reviews but I wanted to show my support for this one. It’s totally free unless you wish to donate, it contains an encyclopaedic amount of information, and best of all it works great locally, wherever you are. It is one of the most amazing apps and it is extremely underrated for what it does.
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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.
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