Explore The Cell vs Nature Identifier
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Explore The Cell
This app serves as a basic reference for understanding the structure of cells. Future updates plan to expand the variety of cells and provide deeper insights into their components.
- Cell reference guide
- Basic cell analysis
- Future expansion planned
- Educational content
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Explore The Cell is a simple reference for the cell. Future releases will includes a more diverse array of cells, as well as a more detailed analysis of the organelles that compose the cell. Made by Brett Joseph Owers.
Nature Identifier
Identify plants, animals, fungi, rocks, and more from a photo. Get detailed field-guide-style information, save your discoveries to a personal journal, and explore what others are finding.
- Identify nature from photos
- Detailed field-guide entries
- Personal discovery journal
- Browse community discoveries
- Add personal notes to photos
- Share entries easily
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Curious about something you saw on a walk? Nature Identifier turns any photo into a clear, plain-English entry about the world around you. Take a photo — or pick one from your library — and our AI gives you a clean field-guide-style breakdown: what it is, where it lives, when to look for it, what it's often confused with, and a few things you probably didn't know. Plants, trees, mushrooms, mammals, birds, reptiles, insects, fish, rocks, shells, weather, even tracks and landforms — if it's outside, you can ask. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Identify almost anything in nature from a single photo • Read a clear entry: about, key features, habitat, season, role in nature, look-alikes, tips for spotting it, fun facts • Save every photo to your personal journal — automatically dated and categorized • Browse Discover to see what other people are finding • Add your own note to any photo (where you saw it, what was happening) • Share any entry with a friend with a single tap DESIGNED FOR THE OUTDOORS • Dark editorial design that's easy on the eyes in the woods • Works on plants, animals, fungi, geology, weather, and more • Built so a quick capture takes seconds — the app stays out of your way A NOTE ON AI Identifications are made by an AI model and can be wrong. Don't eat, touch, handle, or make any safety, foraging, or medical decision based on an AI identification alone — always double-check with a local expert, ranger, or trusted field guide first. Get outside. See more.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Explore The Cell at every 3 days against Nature Identifier's every 8 months. Explore The Cell also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 17). Nature Identifier's advantage is ratings volume (5 vs 1). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Explore The Cell against 5.0 for Nature Identifier. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Nature Identifier has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Explore The Cell ships an update every 3 days, Nature Identifier every 8 months. The most recent releases landed on June 4, 2026 and September 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Explore The Cell | Nature Identifier |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 5 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Every 8 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 17 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 41 MB | 17 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Brett Owers | Kawaii |
Customer experience
Explore The Cell
Nature Identifier
In-app purchases
Explore The Cell
No in-app purchases
Nature Identifier
No in-app purchases
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