Comparison

iRecord App vs Atmosphere

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

iRecord App

Contribute species sightings with GPS data and descriptions to aid scientific research and nature conservation. Your observations help gather vital biodiversity information, supporting conservation efforts, planning, research, and education.

Highlights
  • Record species sightings with GPS
  • Offline functionality
  • Supports all UK species
  • Automatic data checks
  • Expert review of sightings
  • Share sightings with community
  • Contribute to science and conservation
Features
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iRecord App enables you to get involved with biological recording. Contribute your species sightings with GPS acquired coordinates, descriptions and other information, thus providing scientists with important new biodiversity information that contributes to nature conservation, planning, research and education. Your data will be kept secure and will be regularly backed up. Automatic checks will be applied to your observations to help spot potential errors, and experts can review your sightings. All wildlife sightings for non-sensitive species are shared with other users and will be made available to National Recording Schemes, Local Record Centres and Vice County Recorders (VCRs). • Works fully offline • Record all the wildlife you see - supports all UK species • Add new records with minimal effort • Benefit from automatic data checks and review by experts • Share your sightings with the recording community • Contribute to science and conservation

About

Atmosphere

Identify cloud types in real-time using your device's camera with AI. Analyze photos, import images, or classify clouds manually. This app processes data locally for privacy and does not require an internet connection.

Highlights
  • Live AI cloud classification
  • Snap, import, or auto-classify clouds
  • Offline processing for privacy
  • Manual classification option
  • No user tracking
Features
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Live, AI Cloudspotter. NOTE: Newer devices are recommended for better performance in using this app. Recently got into the hobby of cloud-spotting? Ever wondered why different clouds have different looks? Atmosphere is the app for you. Leveraging on the latest machine learning and artificial intelligence technologies, Atmosphere classifies and tells you what kind of a cloud you are currently looking at, via your device’s cameras. Atmosphere includes the following features: ◆ LIVE CLASSIFICATION ◆ - Atmosphere processes each image frame from your camera using Artificial Intelligence, providing you with live classification results and confidence levels, of what it believes it is seeing. ◆ SNAP*, IMPORT* OR AUTO CLASSIFY ◆ - Take a picture of a cloud and that picture will be automatically classified according to the type of cloud it belongs to. - You can also import an image from your Photo Library for analysis by the AI. ◆ NO INTERNET CONNECTION NEEDED ◆ - This app processes everything on device, ensuring you all the privacy you deserve, while you spot the clouds. ◆ CLASSIFY IT THE WAY YOU LIKE IT ◆ - Artificial Intelligence can have its flaws at times, and when that happens, you can still take a picture of the cloud, and classify it yourself. ◆ NO TRACKING PRIVACY POLICY ◆ - Atmosphere does not, and will not track you. It’s that simple. Proudly Made in Singapore. Atmosphere is created by me, Vincent Neo, an individual developer. I believe that being curious about nature is amazing, and that this app would be able to tell individuals what cloud they are looking at, in an easy to use manner. Get Atmosphere Today! *In App Purchase is required for the picture taking feature. Prolonged use of app may decrease battery life more than usual, due to the heighten CPU usage when the camera is on, with live AI processing.

Screenshots

iRecord App4 screens
Atmosphere3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: iRecord App at none against Atmosphere's 1. iRecord App also leads on review sentiment (93% vs 67%) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 3 months). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Atmosphere sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. iRecord App asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

iRecord App ships an update every 3 weeks, Atmosphere every 3 months. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
iRecord App versus Atmosphere: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameteriRecord AppAtmosphere
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.1 (73 ratings) — better
Positive reviews93.4% of reviews — better66.7% of reviews
Number of ratings—73 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.014.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size30 MB42 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCentre for Ecology and HydrologyVincent Neo

Customer experience

iRecord App

Written reviews61 reviews
Positive93.4%
Neutral0.0%
Negative6.6%

Atmosphere

All ratings73 ratings
Positive74.0%
Neutral12.3%
Negative13.7%
Written reviews12 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral8.3%
Negative25.0%

Bugs and requests

iRecord App

Reported bugs

12 issues
  • Records vanish
  • Observations have vanished
  • Unable to login since iOS upgrade
  • Edit function on website freezes
  • Map disappears on edit page
Show 7 more
  • Submit button dead on edit page
  • Wrong date/name shown in app after editing
  • Clunky and unwieldy website for editing/deleting entries
  • Past records lost after logging in again
  • Records buffered when submitting for a week
  • Records don't transfer over when updating phones
  • Logging out of the app deletes all records

Requested features

10 requests
  • Add short videos
  • Add an explore function to view nearby records
  • Add species profile for comparison
  • Link across devices/sync records
  • Allow downloading from camera without re-downloading library
Show 5 more
  • Option to go back to previous sites
  • Add video clips for extra ID material
  • Add dark mode option
  • Add species profile to compare what you think the species is to the actual species data
  • Allow editing submitted records from within the app

Atmosphere

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

iRecord App

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Atmosphere

One-time1
  • Full App$1.99

Questions

Is iRecord App free?
iRecord App is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Atmosphere free?
Atmosphere is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do iRecord App or Atmosphere have ads?
Neither iRecord App nor Atmosphere shows ads.
Which is updated more often, iRecord App or Atmosphere?
iRecord App ships an update every 3 weeks, and Atmosphere every 3 months. Most recently, iRecord App was updated on October 24, 2026 and Atmosphere on October 24, 2026.

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