Critter Lookup vs Naturify
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Critter Lookup
Identify local wildlife by browsing a catalog of mammals, reptiles, insects, and birds. Learn about their habitats and behaviors to understand what's in your backyard.
- Wildlife catalog
- Animal identification
- Habitat information
- Behavioral insights
- Mammal, reptile, insect, and bird entries
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Wondering what is wandering around in your backyard? Use Critter Lookup to figure it out! Browse the catalog of small, medium and large mammals, snakes and reptiles, insects and birds to see pictures and learn more about a critter's habitat and behavior. Find Critter Control on the web: www.crittercontrol.com Follow Critter Control on Facebook: www.facebook.com/CritterControl To find the Critter Lookup app on your iPad, search "Critter Lookup" then click over to the iPhone Apps tab.
Naturify
Identify living organisms in nature using computer vision. Explore detailed information about species encountered, from fish to flowers, with confidence ratings and Wikipedia integration. This completely free app makes nature exploration accessible to everyone.
- Species identification via computer vision
- Confidence ratings for predictions
- Wikipedia integration for detailed information
- Identifies plants, fungi, and animals
- Completely free to use
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NATURIFY Naturify is a completely free app for identifying living organisms that you encounter in the great outdoors! Using computer vision technology, the app identifies species, records the information about everything that you have seen. Naturify works for any kind of living organism that you will encounter in nature, from fish to flowers! LEARN Furthermore, Naturify is connected to Wikipedia, allowing you to browse information, and learn about the organisms that you encounter in the wild. FREE We are dedicated to making our software always completely free, and accessible to all people. We earn money from ads inside the apps, and do not intend to charge money for apps. DESIGN PHILOSOPHY In making our apps, we often like to exemplify an ideology of 'modest innovation'. In other words, we like to innovate, but only in a calculated and reasonable way. Most of my apps use some kind of AI, but not in a way that completely controls the functionality of the app. We don't like to try to reinvent the wheel with every app, but I try to use AI where it can be used to make the wheel better. In the spirit of that idea, we created an app for species identification that focuses on the quality of predictions above all else. A neural net tries to guess what a plant, fungus or animal is, but you have to use your human brain to do some of the work. When the app shows its predictions, unlike other apps, it tells you how confident it is about every prediction. Furthermore, it is connected to the Wikipedia API and gives you information about each species that your picture might contain, and you need to do a little bit of the detective work.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Critter Lookup at none against Naturify's shown. Critter Lookup also leads on monetization model (free vs ad-supported) and iOS requirement (8.1 vs 15.0). Naturify's advantage is update cadence (every 8 days vs every 23 months) and ratings volume (11 vs 2). On price, rating, review sentiment 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 Critter Lookup against 4.9 for Naturify. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Naturify has 11 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Critter Lookup ships an update every 23 months, Naturify every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Critter Lookup | Naturify |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 4.9 (11 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 11 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 23 months | Every 8 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 8.1 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Flight Path Creative LLC | Cameron Ryan |
Customer experience
Critter Lookup
Naturify
In-app purchases
Critter Lookup
No in-app purchases
Naturify
No in-app purchases
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