# iRecord App — user reviews > 61 indexed App Store user reviews of iRecord App by Centre for Ecology and Hydrology. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/irecord-app/id1094633183/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/irecord-app/id1094633183.md ## Newest reviews (12 of 61) ### 5/5 — The best way to record wildlife sightings *2021-05-20, version 5.2.0* 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. ### 5/5 — Richard *2021-02-10, version 5.1.4* Easy to use and update sightings and to see what you have seen in the past - a great idea for us amateur nature watchers! ### 5/5 — Great little app for recording observations *2021-02-02, version 5.1.4* Couldn’t be easier to use this app to record casual wildlife observations on-the-fly. Highly recommended ### 5/5 — Clear layout *2021-01-07, version 5.1.4* 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. ### 5/5 — Must use app *2020-12-28, version 5.1.4* The only app for recording all British wildlife that gets your sightings to the various official recording schemes and societies, as well as allowing use of all records by Local Environmental Record Centres. ### 5/5 — Mating Pale Tussock Moth *2020-05-27, version 5.1.3* Always useful to record for future reference. At present I am unable to download from camera due to updating messed up my system. I don’t know how to rectify things without having to re-download my whole library - nuisance because it takes forever. Otherwise the facility is a great idea. ### 5/5 — Karen *2020-04-29, version 5.1.2* Great to record sightings while out. ### 5/5 — Superb! *2020-04-16, version 5.1.2* A brilliant app for recording all one’s natural history sightings and directly contributing to conservation science. ### 5/5 — Easy citizen science! *2020-04-15, version 5.1.2* An easy and efficient app ### 5/5 — Easy recording *2020-04-13, version 5.1.2* Started using the app to record sightings from new moth trap. Easy to use and online site provides plenty of features to analyse data. ### 5/5 — Fantastic App *2020-04-11, version 5.1.2* Best there is out there ! ❤️👍👍👍 ### 5/5 — iRecord App-wonderful *2020-04-10, version 5.1.1* This app is So easy to use, even my child can use it!!! Really loving having the time to record our garden visitors during this #lockdown and this app is fantastic!!! EVERYONE SHOULD HAVE IT! ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Disappointing, slow, records vanish. *2026-06-30, version 6.3.4* Takes months for records to be verified, and verification is often way too conservative. My observations have vanished. ### 1/5 — ID confirmation WAAAY too slow *2025-11-25, version 6.2.2* 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. ### 1/5 — Disappointing *2021-01-27, version 5.1.4* 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! ### 2/5 — Unable to login *2022-09-16, version 5.4.4* Unable to login since iOS upgrade to 16.0 ### 4/5 — Easy to use app *2023-07-23, version 6.0.5* 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. ### 4/5 — At last a one size fits all record centre *2021-09-28, version 5.4.1* Enables you to record everything you find, within great precision and accuracy not just for the location but also for the species identification. ### 4/5 — JC *2021-06-12, version 5.3.0* 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. ### 4/5 — Good fun, but needs to link across devices *2020-08-09, version 5.1.3* I really like iRecord: the fact that you can take part in citizen science is appealing, and having to take an interest in accurate identification before upload is good. One thing: having created an account, to be able to share records across the app on different devices would be useful, so that “the list” would be available whichever was to hand. ### 4/5 — Great app for recording insects etc *2019-07-01, version 4.0.2* Great app that is reasonably intuitive...although if you log out of the app, you have to delete all your records! Also, very few records seem to get verified :-( ### 4/5 — Great species record submission app *2019-06-05, version 4.0.2* Very good in having all UK species available for submission of records, but it would be useful if there was a species profile to compare what you think the species is to the actual species data ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — IRecord *2024-06-25, version 6.1.0* Best app on my phone. Excellent and helpful that scientists check my ID of insects etc. ### 5/5 — Superb! *2024-03-31, version 6.1.0* 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 ### 5/5 — Great app *2024-03-02, version 6.1.0* Really easy to use and intuitive app. Vitally important to provide records of for local ecological records centres. ### 5/5 — Information *2023-07-25, version 6.0.5* Where are the animals & birds shown in the preview?? ### 5/5 — Excellent app *2023-06-29, version 6.0.5* Okay, it’s not 100% perfect, but I blame the photo/photographer not the app. It’s amazing. ### 5/5 — Enthusiastic naturalist *2023-05-08, version 6.0.5* 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 ### 5/5 — User friendly and informative *2023-04-15, version 6.0.3* Great way of keeping records and making sure they actually matter. Highly recommended. ### 5/5 — Quick hassle free recording *2022-10-27, version 5.4.4* 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. ### 5/5 — Great citizen science tool. *2022-03-04, version 5.4.4* So easy to use. I love being part of the citizen science community helping to track the country’s ecosystem. ### 5/5 — Superb app BUT “edit” simply does not work *2021-06-17, version 5.3.0* 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. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-04.*