App won’t record data!
Signed up for the app so I could take part in the butterfly count. I tried recording the butterflies I’d seen and the app kept giving me errors, e.g. location hadn’t been recorded. Tried to rectify the errors and save but then got a message saying I hadn’t recorded anything!! App now deleted and I will just enjoy watching the butterflies rather than trying to help count them.
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Great idea, not user friendly
This is not an app for the general public, it’s for trained scientists or butterfly experts… who would not need the app, surely? One is expected to identify by choosing between geometrids or fritillaries etc. most people would not know this! Some identification options are in long lists that run off the bottom of the screen. You cannot scroll to the next option below. A disappointment and in a smaller phone at least, unusable.
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Issue.
Hi. Fourth time of reloading this app. Why ? Because it keeps freezing on me. VERY annoying as the only way to sort is delete and reload. After reload all my uploaded record vanish. OK still I assume on iRecord somewhere but…. Please sort !
I GIVE UP !!!
Crashed again so I have now deleted permanently. Will just not bother.
I GIVE UP !!!
Crashed again so I have now deleted permanently. Will just not bother.
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Nov 2022
I have just tried to upload two sightings from September but these have been unsuccessful due to a “network error”. I am also unable to load the app statistics.
All my other apps are currently working and connected to the internet as I write this.
I also tried the image cropping feature and as you zoom in to your butterfly it turns into a giant blob. Not suitable for photos taken at a distance and I would say that it really distorts the image.
Usually the app works quite well.
All my other apps are currently working and connected to the internet as I write this.
I also tried the image cropping feature and as you zoom in to your butterfly it turns into a giant blob. Not suitable for photos taken at a distance and I would say that it really distorts the image.
Usually the app works quite well.
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A really useful App for butterfly fans !
This is a very user-friendly App for rapidly and systematically identifying UK butterflies and recording relevant data, such as the geographical position where the butterfly was seen. You can easily add a mobile phone photo of the butterfly to your record and quickly upload everything to the iRecord website. I strongly recommend this App !
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Helpful and easy to use
This is a great app, very user friendly. It shows the butterflies in your area for the current time of year which makes identification much easier.
I have spent the last year and a half making my garden into a butterfly friendly area. My efforts have paid off and it’s great to be able to record my sightings and make a very small contribution to the national monitoring of these beautiful creatures.
I have spent the last year and a half making my garden into a butterfly friendly area. My efforts have paid off and it’s great to be able to record my sightings and make a very small contribution to the national monitoring of these beautiful creatures.
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Best butterfly app by far!
This superb app has been so useful when out in the field. With the link to the website this app is all the guide you need for identifying butterflies.
Great for identification
Excellent way of identifying butterflies. This is a new interest so it’s helpful to see a selection of the butterflies you are likely to see at that time of year in the area you are in. Thank you
Great app
Currently trying to use it on a survey and the request to write a review comes up. That tells how useful it is, that I’d stop the survey to to say great app and thank you for it!! 😊
Good tool out in the field, could be better
iRecord is great as a tool when out recording butterflies in the field as it gives your OS reference & descriptions for each UK butterfly. The maps & stats section could be developed more & be more interactive & the photos of each butterfly are quite limited.
I record butterflies
This is a marvellous app. It helps to identify and then record butterflies. I like the feature that it tells you what you are likely to see for a particular area. There are quick links to detailed identification.
Very enjoyable
Very satisfying “collecting” the butterflies. Nice to have the statistics to tell you how many species you have identified so far and the “flying now in your area” makes identification a lot quicker.
IRecord app
If you want to get interested in butterflies this is a wonderful app. If you have a camera or phone with you you can then check your finds over a coffee later. Really interesting especially when you see a new one for the first time.
Very useful app
I find the app very useful in helping to confidently identify butterflies. What’s in my area narrows down the search and also prompts me to keep an eye out for species. I haven’t recorded many, but intend to do so going forward.
Terrible
I love butterflies and take part every year in the butterfly count. I was pleased to see a year round count/app and downloaded it at first sight. The app has a super identifier section but when it comes to recording things start to go terribly wrong. In short the app point blank refuses to accept the location of the sighting rendering the whole point of the thing as useless. What is wrong with you app people? If we can’t record sightings what is the point of a recording app?…
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Problems putting in location
I really enjoy submitting my sightings. I’m on the updated app. I may be doing something wrong, but when I want to submit a sighting once I arrive home, I have to google the location I was at to find the grid reference. There must be an easier way of doing this.
Good until they changed it
This was a wonderful simple app, which I could use despite being both visit visually impaired and dyspraxic.
Now, instead of having three simple large buttons, you have to navigate using tiny menu buttons at the bottom of the screen, the list view in the butterfly guide has been turned into a grid (which adds a considerable difficulty for my particular sight problem of having to track sideways as well as down to find anything) and they have taken the Latin name off the list page which used to have, so you have to go to an individual butterfly’s page to find out what it actually is (matters a lot with some species where the common names are a complete muddle, like some of the whites).
When you go into “select species” from the record page the identification pictures of species (which are no longer photos of how the butterfly looks against its environment but are specimen pictures against a white background) are just under a quarter covered by an information button. The background contrast has been lowered, there is a lot of orange and green text, and on the record page you now have to click tiny plus and minus buttons rather than simply being able to type a number in or click on a tick box for an approximation.
Basically everything has been made tiny and awkward. There are some useful additions like being able to record caterpillars as well as butterflies, which is nice but it didn’t require such a massive change of the interface. I am really upset because I was enjoying recording the butterflies in my garden with an app I could actually use, and I think it’s quite possible the process will now be too difficult for it to be practical.
I appreciate most people don’t have these particular problems, but seriously, is it really necessary to mess around so much with the way things look and work? Having to learn to use apps again and again because they’ve been changed is an awful waste of anyone’s time and energy. It would be nice to learn to use an app and find that I could actually continue to use it long term, rather than finding after a few months that it’s been ‘improved’ such that the accessibility is seriously lessened.
Now, instead of having three simple large buttons, you have to navigate using tiny menu buttons at the bottom of the screen, the list view in the butterfly guide has been turned into a grid (which adds a considerable difficulty for my particular sight problem of having to track sideways as well as down to find anything) and they have taken the Latin name off the list page which used to have, so you have to go to an individual butterfly’s page to find out what it actually is (matters a lot with some species where the common names are a complete muddle, like some of the whites).
When you go into “select species” from the record page the identification pictures of species (which are no longer photos of how the butterfly looks against its environment but are specimen pictures against a white background) are just under a quarter covered by an information button. The background contrast has been lowered, there is a lot of orange and green text, and on the record page you now have to click tiny plus and minus buttons rather than simply being able to type a number in or click on a tick box for an approximation.
Basically everything has been made tiny and awkward. There are some useful additions like being able to record caterpillars as well as butterflies, which is nice but it didn’t require such a massive change of the interface. I am really upset because I was enjoying recording the butterflies in my garden with an app I could actually use, and I think it’s quite possible the process will now be too difficult for it to be practical.
I appreciate most people don’t have these particular problems, but seriously, is it really necessary to mess around so much with the way things look and work? Having to learn to use apps again and again because they’ve been changed is an awful waste of anyone’s time and energy. It would be nice to learn to use an app and find that I could actually continue to use it long term, rather than finding after a few months that it’s been ‘improved’ such that the accessibility is seriously lessened.
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Password problems
Loved using this till I had to re enter my password. By this time I had changed my e mail address and was not sure which address to use to gain access. It did not matter which of the two addresses I used it told me I was already registered and would not let me in. I emailed for help and received a reply that they would look into it and then never heard from them again
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Great App for ID in the field
Strange that some reviews negative as it works perfectly for me with my iPhone even in remote areas. Like the fact you keep a historical record with photos on your phone.
No longer fit for purpose
What was a useful app has become irritating. It crashes for no good reason. It freezes. It loses your sightings and it loses your favourites, thus negating the usefulness of these features. It asks you repeatedly to login to submit the sightings. It is virtually unusable in its current form. Existing users like me may persevere but new users would soon drop it. It desperately needs updating.
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