Mosquito Alert vs Nature's Notebook
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Mosquito Alert
Contribute to global mosquito research by reporting observations, breeding sites, and bites. Help scientists understand mosquito ecology and disease transmission. Validate photos from other users and learn to identify species.
- Report mosquito observations
- Identify breeding sites
- Record mosquito bites
- Validate participant photos
- Learn mosquito identification
- View public observation map
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Join the world's largest mosquito surveillance network. Contribute to the study and monitoring of invasive mosquitoes and mosquitoes of epidemiological interest with the Mosquito Alert app. With it you will be able to report mosquito observations, mosquito breeding sites, and keep a record of mosquito bites. By sharing your observations, you will be providing information that scientists can use in their research to better understand the ecology of mosquitoes, disease transmission, and provide data to improve their management. Mosquito Alert is a citizen science project coordinated by several public research centers, CEAB-CSIC, UPF and CREAF, whose objective is to study, monitor and fight against the spread of disease-carrying mosquitoes. What can you do with the app? -Notify the presence of mosquitoes: -Identify their breeding places in your area -Notify when you receive a bite -Validate the photos of other participants A community of more than 50 international expert entomologists will validate the photos you send to the platform, thus being able to learn to identify the mosquito species of health interest. All observations are made public on the Mosquito Alert map website, where they can be viewed and downloaded, as well as exploring the models developed from the contributions of the participants. Your contributions are very useful for science! The Mosquito Alert app is available in more than 17 European languages: Spanish, Catalan, English, Albanian, German, Bulgarian, Croatian, Dutch, French, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Luxembourgish, Macedonian, Portuguese, Romanian, Serbian, Slovenian, Turkish . ---------------------------------------------- For more information, visit http://www.mosquitoalert.com/en/ or follow us on social networks: Twitter @Mosquito_Alert ----------------------------------------------
Nature's Notebook
Record observations of plant and animal life cycles, such as flowering and migration. Mark observation sites, create species lists, and log seasonal changes in nature.
- Record plant and animal life cycle events
- Mark observation sites
- Create species lists
- Log seasonal observations
- Citizen science program
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Nature's Notebook is a program for observing and recording plant and animal life cycle events, like flowering and bird migration. Use this app to mark your sites, create a list of plants and animals, and going into the field to record observations throughout the seasons. Find out more at www.usanpn.org/nn/guidelines.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Mosquito Alert at 3.7 against Nature's Notebook's 3.1. Nature's Notebook's advantage is review sentiment (40% vs 0%) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
Mosquito Alert holds the better App Store score, 3.7 against 3.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 26 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 0% of Mosquito Alert's written reviews are positive against 40% of Nature's Notebook's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Mosquito Alert ships an update every 2 months, Nature's Notebook every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Mosquito Alert | Nature's Notebook |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (7 ratings) — better | 3.1 (26 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 40.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 7 | 26 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 56 MB | 47 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | John Palmer | National Phenology Network |
Customer experience
Mosquito Alert
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In-app purchases
Mosquito Alert
No in-app purchases
Nature's Notebook
No in-app purchases
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