# Natural Neighbours — Healthy nature, healthy lives > Healthy nature, healthy lives (iPhone/iPad app by EcosocialNet.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/natural-neighbours/id6745800760 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [EcosocialNet](https://appshunter.io/developer/1887114574) - Category: Lifestyle - Price: Free - Age rating: 17+ - Requires: iOS 14.0 · 148 MB - Languages: American English - Released: 2025-08-04 - Data updated: 2026-07-17 - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/natural-neighbours/id6745800760/reviews.md ## What is Natural Neighbours? Transform your neighbourhood into a thriving haven for wildlife! Natural Neighbours is the innovative app that helps you and your community turn urban spaces into corridors of life where animals can "buzz, bloom, and sing. Whether you have a sprawling garden, a shared housing estate, or just a window box, your space is a vital piece of the puzzle. Our AI-powered platform gives you the tools to bridge the gaps in urban nature, connecting fragmented habitats to support hedgehogs, bumblebees, frogs, and song thrushes. Why Natural Neighbours? Nature in our cities is under threat because habitats are disconnected. A hedgehog can’t find a mate if it can’t cross the street, and a bee can’t survive without a continuous path of flowers. Natural Neighbours connects your efforts with your neighbours' to create "Nature Highways" across your entire community. Key Features: Personalised Habitat Advice: Tell us about your space, from balconies to schools, and get expert, site-specific tips on how to support your favourite species. AI-Powered Nature Mapping: Use our advanced AI to identify species and assess habitat health just by taking a photo. Map your bird feeders, log piles, and wildflower patches in seconds. See the Big Picture: Explore our interactive "Internet of Living Things" map. See what your neighbours are doing and identify what’s missing in your local area to create a complete wildlife corridor. Spotlight Species: Choose a species you love, like the Common Frog or the Painted Lady butterfly, and follow guided projects to provide exactly what they need to thrive year-round. Community Collaboration: Work together with neighbours, local councils, and environmental experts to coordinate large-scale greening projects that make a real impact. Track Your Impact: Watch your neighbourhood transform in real-time as your collective efforts improve biodiversity scores and local ecosystem health. Health & Wellbeing Nature isn't just good for the planet - it’s good for you. Studies show that daily connection with nature reduces stress, boosts immunity, and improves mental health. Natural Neighbours makes it easy to bring the joy of the wild to your doorstep. Join the Movement Supported by local governments and environmental experts, Natural Neighbours is more than an app - it's a community mission to ensure everyone has the right to live in a healthy, nature-rich environment. Download Natural Neighbours today and start connecting your neighbourhood! ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 2.6.1 — 2026-07-05 Faster, clearer, more helpful • Wildlife identification is now dramatically faster — take a photo and see what habitat you've found in seconds, not the long wait it used to be. • Your home screen now leads with the latest photos from around you. • Tidier photo cards, with a personal badge for each neighbour who's contributed. • Clearer privacy: choose whether a photo is public or private, and the app remembers your choice for the next one. • More Ways to help near you — including bigger, area-wide efforts you can join even when you're not right at the centre. • The habitat map on each step now focuses on your neighbourhood and updates as you explore it. • Smoother map browsing, with no more flicker when you're zoomed right out. • Friendlier permission requests that explain why we're asking — and pick up straight away when you enable something in Settings. • A warmer welcome for new members, and invite links that open right into the app if you already have it. • Plenty of smaller fixes and polish throughout. Thank you for helping your neighbourhood's nature thrive. ### 2.5.1 — 2026-06-27 Bring your neighbours in Nature recovers fastest when a whole street gets involved. You can now invite the people around you — and the people you live with — to help map and improve your shared patch of nature. Know what you're looking for Each way to help now shows you the habitat features to look out for and the wildlife they support, so you head out knowing what matters and why. Pick up where you left off The things you've already started stay close to hand, and there's always a clear next step — or a moment to enjoy how far you've come. Plus plenty of smaller refinements throughout. ### 2.4.4 — 2026-06-23 Faster and more reliable • Faster, more reliable startup — the app opens quicker, recovers gracefully if something goes wrong, and now stays signed in even when you launch offline. • Fixed the launch screen briefly flashing white on startup. • A new branded launch screen and tagline: Connecting People, Connecting Nature. • Refreshed onboarding that welcomes every kind of outdoor space. • Added a new Licenses & Attributions page in your profile. • More dependable push notifications. • Improved privacy. • Various stability fixes and behind-the-scenes improvements. ### 2.3.2 — 2026-05-27 A big update focused on a smoother first run, more celebration along the way, and faster feedback loops. Onboarding & first experience • Brand-new anonymous flow — start spotting wildlife before signing up • Full-screen celebrations for your first photo, first observation, and first spotlight species • Numbered action cards on Home guide you through the early journey • Clearer observation intro and post-spotlight prompts on each species Home & map • New "Improve the map" call-to-action to feature the map-home project • Heatmap preview appears as soon as you've completed the EcoNet intro • Pending-review banner now caps at 5 with a "View all" overflow • Hidden "Observations nearby" when there aren't any, and clearer species selector affordance on the map Feedback • Shake your phone to send feedback — now with a local-first save and a history screen so you can see what you've sent • Screenshot detection automatically offers to attach the screenshot to feedback • New beta tester survey Fixes • Heatmap now renders reliably for brand-new users • Default species no longer leaks from the EcoNet map into Home or spotlight • Camera hint stays visible long enough to read • Onboarding reset now works correctly for existing users on 2.3 • Anonymous observations get their classification status backfilled on sign-up • Quieter crash reporting for transient image-loading errors Thanks for the feedback — keep it coming. ### 2.2.2 — 2026-05-02 A lot has changed since you last updated — here are the highlights across our recent releases. Your home, your wildlife - You can now define the boundary of your home site and see exactly which wildlife has been spotted within it. Photos taken at home can be kept private, visible only to you — so you can record what's living in your garden without sharing it publicly. Give your neighbourhood a name - Put a name to the patch of nature you're helping to look after. It's yours. Redesigned projects - Projects now lead with tasks, making it much clearer what you can do and what's still to discover in your area. Smarter observations - The camera and observation flow has been rebuilt from the ground up — full-screen photos, portrait and landscape support, and faster AI identification. After you take a photo, the app tells you what it found and asks if you want to know more. Tap for a deeper look at the species and its needs. Habitat elements - Each species and habitat feature now shows which ecological elements it contributes — a quick way to see how the different pieces of your neighbourhood's wildlife fit together. Illustrated species - Wildlife species now have their own illustrated avatars, making the app feel more alive and easier to scan at a glance. Push notifications - Get notified when someone starts a new chat thread in your community, when a task is completed in your project, or when there's activity near your home area. Send feedback with a screenshot - Take a screenshot anywhere in the app and you'll be prompted to send it as feedback — no hunting for the feedback button. Account controls - You can now delete your account from the app. Your data is anonymised immediately, with a 30-day window to change your mind. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. 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