Shell Museum User Reviews

Shell Museum: Identify Shells
Shell Museum: Identify Shells
Shell Museum and Educational Foundation, Inc.

Customer Experience

Positive experience23.5% of reviews
Neutral8.8% of reviews
Negative experience67.6% of reviews

~ Based on 34 written reviews from the US App Store.

Is Shell Museum Safe?

Shell Museum: Identify Shells has mixed safety signals based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Shell Museum is 52/100.

This assessment is based on 54 user ratings, with an App Store average of 2.3/5.

Safety Analysis

27.8% of ratings point to a safe experience
5.6% of ratings suggest some concerns
66.7% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 54 App Store ratings for Shell Museum.

Is Shell Museum Legit?

Shell Museum: Identify Shells is no longer available in the App Store. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Shell Museum is 35/100.

Based on 35 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Score capped because this app is no longer listed.

Top reviews

Not good for west coast

I thought I’d give the app a shot since it’s the most talked about for shell identification on the internet but it’s not of much use for the Southern California coast. It couldn’t identify a close up of a living sand dollar… oh well. At least the shell listings might point me in the right direction if the shell here is in the same family….
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Doesn’t work

Won’t open when I click on shell information

Needs more data

Could not identify a Common Nutmeg which has some pretty distinct features….

Use google lens instead

This app should not be used. I showed it a huge variety of shells (conical, bivalve, snail) and it produced the same list of possibilities almost every time. Google lens is actual AI and will always get it right. (Go to regular google and hit the square icon on the right side of the search box.)

Can’t ID anything.

Tried about 5 shells app couldn’t ID any.

Suggestion pictures weren’t even close

Wish it had more

I thought this would be a little more helpful. But since it main only has marine mollusk from Florida…it doesn’t really help for other regions or freshwater mollusk.

But hopefully more improvements adds more functionality.

Not very good

I tried 3 different common shells in Hawaii. Didn’t identify any of them correctly. Oh well, 1.99 not too bad to throw away on this app.

Does not do what it touts

I downloaded this app after I went shelling on Tybee Island. It did not identify one single shell correctly. A total waste of money.

Don’t bother

I live in Florida and collect shells. This app has NEVER identified a shell from my photograph correctly. Even the most common simple shells were not identified correctly. Ridiculous. Don’t bother with this app. Also I could not post this unless I gave it more than 4 star. Ha what a joke.

Doesn’t work at all

Won’t identify anything correctly. Better luck just using google. And google is free unlike this terrible app.

Does not identify

I had better results doing a Google search

Didn’t work

Did not identify the shells. ☹️

I expected more

I have many many shells. This app knows only a very small few

Misses the most common shells fro east coast Florida

2 years ago it was called a work in progress. Well they’ve made little progress

Worst app

Absolutely worthless to pay for this app!!! Every shell I took a pic of was identified wrong and the suggested shells didn’t even come close to how my pic looked. There selection of shells on this app is very little and you shouldn't have to even pay anything for this app. It's a complete rip off!!! 😡
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Super narrow scope

This app covers less than 70 species/shells and only from SW Florida. Definitely not worth the $2.

High hopes, disappointed…

I had such high hopes that this app would help me identify my seashells…. It identified one out of 50+. I wish there were more shells in the Shell Guide, as it was the only thing that provided the most info.

It’s just ok.

I was super excited to try the app after visiting the museum. I found several shells on Sanibel that I needed to identify. The app could not find the shells! Not worth it.

Terrible

This app couldn’t identify any of the shells we had.

Need more Shells More Potential Fails Short

Add Spondylus (Spiny Oysters) Please