ID confirmation WAAAY too slow
This app is a great idea but fails to keep users engaged and is a dispiriting experience for many as ID confirmation can take many months or longer.
Alternative apps, like iNaturalist, that allow community input provide confirmation within days, often hours. I uploaded two correct IDs to iRecord. Months later only one has been confirmed. It doesn’t encourage you to keep using it. I’ve decided not to bother any more, which is a shame as I manage a lot of ecological gardens with tons of creatures I frequently photograph. If people like me are being put off, something is wrong.
This system could only work well if the network of people who confirm IDs is hugely expanded from the tiny number who are currently allowed to.
Alternative apps, like iNaturalist, that allow community input provide confirmation within days, often hours. I uploaded two correct IDs to iRecord. Months later only one has been confirmed. It doesn’t encourage you to keep using it. I’ve decided not to bother any more, which is a shame as I manage a lot of ecological gardens with tons of creatures I frequently photograph. If people like me are being put off, something is wrong.
This system could only work well if the network of people who confirm IDs is hugely expanded from the tiny number who are currently allowed to.
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IRecord
Best app on my phone. Excellent and helpful that scientists check my ID of insects etc.
Superb!
This app is very easy to use, I highly recommend it. It’s very important to record common and uncommon flora and fauna. 🐝💚🌸 greenpauline.co.uk
Great app
Really easy to use and intuitive app. Vitally important to provide records of for local ecological records centres.
Information
Where are the animals & birds shown in the preview??
Easy to use app
This is a great app, simple to use to record the natural environment. Knowing that this is helping to catalogue nature is a good feeling.
Be really handy if could up load short videos.
Be really handy if could up load short videos.
Excellent app
Okay, it’s not 100% perfect, but I blame the photo/photographer not the app. It’s amazing.
Enthusiastic naturalist
I’ve just started using this a couple of weeks ago and I’m hooked! Very easy to use, great that there is photo recognition built in, helps build my confidence. Would recommend
User friendly and informative
Great way of keeping records and making sure they actually matter. Highly recommended.
Quick hassle free recording
This is so quick and simple to use. Definitely encourages me to submit records. Great that I can lock the settings to send in multiple records for a site.
Unable to login
Unable to login since iOS upgrade to 16.0
Great citizen science tool.
So easy to use. I love being part of the citizen science community helping to track the country’s ecosystem.
At last a one size fits all record centre
Enables you to record everything you find, within great precision and accuracy not just for the location but also for the species identification.
Superb app BUT “edit” simply does not work
Great app in as far as, quick look up, lots of choice of status and clear layout. BUT… if you make a simple mistake and you hit upload already, you’re in a world of pain because then you have to go to the website in a browser and when you click “edit this entry”, the next page freezes, the map disappears and if you do get to eventually change the entry, the submit button is completely dead (sometimes a refresh page works) When I managed to finally edit a spotted date, it still shows the wrong date in the app. When I finally managed to change a bird name, it still shows the wrong name in the app. If it’s doing the same at the collation end, I worry the wrong data is getting collected. The app is great, superb, but let us edit a mistake from within the app please.
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JC
Good App for citizen scientists to add data but very clunky and unwieldy when it comes to finding, editing and deleting your own entries on the website.
The best way to record wildlife sightings
It’s simple and easy to use, and you have the satisfaction of knowing your observations go to experts for verification and feed through to all the right organisations so they can be used in science. I love how, with this app, a simple wildlife sighting becomes part of a powerful tool for nature conservation.
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Richard
Easy to use and update sightings and to see what you have seen in the past - a great idea for us amateur nature watchers!
Great little app for recording observations
Couldn’t be easier to use this app to record casual wildlife observations on-the-fly. Highly recommended
Disappointing
Considering the importance of recording this is very disappointing. I use this regularly and I’ve just had to login again and all my past records are lost!
Get it right folks or people won’t bother!
Get it right folks or people won’t bother!
Clear layout
This provides that the biodiversity in the UK can be easily kept on a record system. The app is easy to navigate and records are kept where you can keep track of what you have recorded. Uploading is simple to complete.
The only disadvantage is that when you upload to a site, I wish it would have an option which allows you to go back to previous sites so you don’t have to find the particular same site again.
It’s all good though. Great app which helps to maintain records of our biodiversity. I would recommend.
The only disadvantage is that when you upload to a site, I wish it would have an option which allows you to go back to previous sites so you don’t have to find the particular same site again.
It’s all good though. Great app which helps to maintain records of our biodiversity. I would recommend.
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