KEYtoNATURE vs Talking Nat
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
KEYtoNATURE
Access and download interactive guides for identifying plants, animals, and fungi offline. This application acts as a player for identification keys created by Project Dryades, transforming them into standalone mobile apps. Explore a growing archive of guides, filter by language or keywords, and enjoy offline access after downloading.
- Downloadable identification keys
- Offline access
- Interactive guides
- Filter by language
- Search by keywords
- Vascular plant guides
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Project Dryades (Dept. of Life Sciences, University of Trieste) has created more than 600 interactive guides to plants, animals and fungi available online. For some of them stand-alone applications for mobile tools were also developed, but these tend to have a rather ephemeral life, since they do dot always work after updates of the operating systems. For this reason, we have created 'KEYtoNATURE', a player that allows you to download on a mobile device any identification key produced by Project Dryades, transforming it into a stand-alone application. You only have to connect your device online, choose one of the guides from the archive (using, if needed, the 'language' filter, or searching by keywords), and press the download button, after which the app will work without an internet connection. The download time depends on the number of species included in a guide, tending to decrease with the number of downloaded guides. The download of the first guide may take several minutes. The first version of 'KEYtoNATURE' offers 100 guides, large and small, to vascular plants.
Talking Nat
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Un'app per l'ascolto di podcast, anche geolocalizzati, su temi di natura e sostenibilità
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Talking Nat at monthly against KEYtoNATURE's every 3 months. Talking Nat also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.5.0 vs 17.6). On price, 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.
KEYtoNATURE ships an update every 3 months, Talking Nat monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | KEYtoNATURE | Talking Nat |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 15.5.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 53 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Divulgando Srl | Creative Software Lab |
In-app purchases
KEYtoNATURE
No in-app purchases
Talking Nat
No in-app purchases
