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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It’s growing on me
The old version, why weird in some ways, is still preferred. But they’ve clearly paid attention to feedback and are improving the app continuously, to benefit both the public use and scientific use. Uploading is now much better on this app, as is ID. I still use the old app for viewing my uploaded records (it’s easier to view more records at once cleanly), and definitely prefer the map of the old version. Hopefully the old map functionality is brought to the new one soon!!
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Pointless.
The best I’ve got is essentially “that’s a flower”.
Dicky
A wonderful app, but it routinely crashes. To resolve this I have to dump the app and get it again from the App Store. There it recalls all my data, except when ai’m out in the field and it demands a password I can’t recollect. Once or twice requires a little patience but by the 20th time it wears pretty thin.
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Harsh users and staff
This app could be great if the community rule about being friendly was enforced. There are too many users on iNaturalist who are not pleasant to engage with.
I reported rude and hostile comments from one user to staff and just asked for them to be reminded to be civil. Instead, the staff member who dealt with my query told me off for voting that the observation had multiple species, when it did, and said the rude comments were fine.
I explained that I was considering leaving in an email back to iNat staff and didn’t get a reply.
So, I went from being a user with hundreds of observations and thousands of IDs (along with being an iNat Ambassador and donor to this platform) to shutting my account down and all that work vanishing because iNat staff chose to have a go at me when I asked them for support and didn’t reply when challenged.
The rudeness from users was irritating but I could handle it. Rudeness from staff on top was more than I could handle. Shame.
I reported rude and hostile comments from one user to staff and just asked for them to be reminded to be civil. Instead, the staff member who dealt with my query told me off for voting that the observation had multiple species, when it did, and said the rude comments were fine.
I explained that I was considering leaving in an email back to iNat staff and didn’t get a reply.
So, I went from being a user with hundreds of observations and thousands of IDs (along with being an iNat Ambassador and donor to this platform) to shutting my account down and all that work vanishing because iNat staff chose to have a go at me when I asked them for support and didn’t reply when challenged.
The rudeness from users was irritating but I could handle it. Rudeness from staff on top was more than I could handle. Shame.
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The best of the internet
iNaturalist is absolutely amazing. Of course the AI image analysis and life list functions are nice, but the community is really what makes iNaturalist special. It’s a group of hundreds of thousands of people who all truly care about nature and not only that but want to help others by IDing and providing insight into what they see. Be sure to also check out the website that accompanies the app (or rather vice versa): it’s a detail lover/organization freak’s dream!
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Great Tool
Really great tool for identifying nature! Works well, and the “experts” are always helpful in narrowing down the details if the app doesn’t immediately show you the correct information. Super easy to use.
Get it!
It’s handy, it’s easy, it’s free. I love it!
Don’t waste your time
I have more than 70 observations, but only 18 are uploaded. The 50+ others will not upload. Nothing happens. No error, no upload. It just sits there uploading 1. Their advise? Log out and looses all the observations! Terrible.
